Miss Carol Lu Schmier, Dr. Jo Isaacson to Marry Stars and Themes on Film Set By HERBERT G. LUFT stay in the British capital, the moving electric news sign at Pic- cadilly Circus repeated every 20 minutes "Welcome Barbra Steis- and" as a good-will gesture from the city of London. (Copyright 1969, JTA. Inc.) MISS CAROL SCHMIER Mr. and Mrs. Abe Schmier of Camden Sq., Southfield, announce the engagement of their daughter Carol Lu to Dr. Jo D. Isaacson. Dr. Isaacson is the son of Mrs. Wilma Kirschbaum of Huntington Rd., Huntington Woods, and the late Mr. J. Harry Isaacson. Hebrew U. Research Aids Planners of Possible New Atlantic-Pacific Canal HOLLYWOOD — Franz Werfel's classic, "The Forty Days of Musa Dagh," dealing with the extermin- ation of the Armenian minority in the war-torn Turkish empire of 1915, will be brought to the screen by Elliott Kastner and Jerry Gersh- win for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer — a studio owning the literary prop- erty since 1935 when the late Irv- ing Thalberg first initiated the project. Written by Werfel at the eve of Hitler's rise to power, it foreshadows the scheme of geno- cide then already contemplated by the Nazis. The young team of Kastner and Gershwin plan to shoot the Werfel epic early in 1970 — exactly 35 years after a first attempt failed. TORONTO (JTA) — A left-wing Yiddish weekly published here is feuding with two other leftist per- iodicals on the issue of anti-Semi- tism. The focus of the polemics be- tween Joshua Gershman, editor of Vochenblatt, and Dyson Carter, who edits the Northern Neighbor, is not the current situation of Jews in Russia but whether Jews sup- ported or opposed Lenin, leader of the Bolshevik Revolution. Gershman also has taken issue with the Russian-language left- wing organ, Vestnik, which sug- gested recently that Jews think they are beyond criticism because they suffered at the hands of Hit- ler. The Vocbenblatt editor ob- jected to Carter's reaction to his criticism of an advertisement for a new edition of a book by Lenin. The advertisement, published in the Northern Neighbor, claimed that Jews fought against Lenin and the Revolution and that "Jewish nationalist poisons" like Zionism and Bundism were res- ponsible for anti-Semitism in Russia. "Why pick out the Jews who op- posed Lenin? What about the tre- mendous number of Jews who went hand in hand with Lenin in all his struggles until after the establish- ment of the world's first Socialist state?" Gershman wrote. In reply to Vestnik, he declared that no 'Jewish society ever ac- cepted the idea that a Jewish of- fender should go unpunished be- cause of Jewish suffering. movie• "Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon," based on Mar- jorie Kellogg's best selling novel which has been acclaimed by crit- ics here and abroad. Joseph L. Mankiewicz, producer- director of the forthcoming Kirk Douglas starred. "There Was a Crooked Man," terms the picture "a cynical western, based on the proposition there's a little bit of bad in every good man." Kirk Douglas is Paris Pitman, the wily head of a gang of robbers who has been sent to prison after successfully hiding the 9500,000 loot. He lives only to escape, and central to his plan is the corrup- tion of the warden played by Hen- ry Fonda. • , • When Barbra Streisand stepped off the plane at London Airport upon arrival from Hollywood for location shooting in the histric location shooting in the historic Royal Paramount's "On A Clear Day You Can See Forever." she be- came the center of one of the lar- gest mob of fans and photograph- JERUSALEM—Part of the stu- dies preceding the possible con- struction of a new canal across Central America linking the Atlan- tic and Pacific oceans is being made by scientists of the Hebrew University in a research of marine! life traffic between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean through the Suez Canal. The research is partly being conducted at the Hebrew Univer- sity's marine biological laboratory ers ever seen for a star's reception. in Eilat. Her biggest surprise came when For two years, beginning is 1167, Prof. Heinz Steinitz, of the she arrived at her suite in Cla- ridges and found an official offer university's department of zoo- logy, has received a grant of from J. Arthur Rank guaranteeing $125,000 annually through the her $1,500,000 against 5 per cent Smithsonian Institution in the of the world gross if she would star in the title role of "Sarah U.S. for this purpose. Bernhardt," a character she would The visiting U.S. scientists are I love to portray as she told the interested in determining whether press here most recently. any part of the Israeli study can Rank's offer is being discussed be put to use in case a level canal with the studio by Barbra's man- will be constructed in Central ager, Marty Erlichman. who has America, in contrast to the split- accompanied her to England. level Panama Canal which is main- During the first night of the cap- tained by a series of locks. ricious Academy Award winner's Canadian Leftist Papers Feud Over Jews, Lenin * * * Mark Robson will direct Irving Wallace's "The Plot," best-selling novel dealing with the assassination of a president, with the United Na- tions, and the threat of a nuclear war involving Red China. "The Plot" is slated to go before the cameras in Europe the first week of June. La'Isha, Ltd. of Tel Aviv has announced a Hebrew edition. • * Otto Preminger has signed Liza Minnelli (daughter of Jud3:, Gar- land) for the title role of his next Sunday ! • EVERY PURE SILK Spring Costume were $90 to $145 NOW EXACTLY 1 2 Price SATURDAY ! 09 ' 11;•;, •• 1.• Very Famous Label KNIT SALE! the couture look Tunic Dress Double Wool Knit Mini Dress Without Skirt Regularly $60 SUNDAY! ?-01 SATURDAY! ti I SA 30 ww, sr.,: NOW EXACTLY 1/ 2 Price were CHARGE IT Mich. Rinaard Security Juliet $60 to $200 SUNDAY! SUNDAY! SATURDAY 9:30 TO 9 ! EVERY Saturday ! Very Famous Label SHOP SUNDAY 12 TO 5 Saturday ! Spring Suit DRESSES Green-8 Center Only ! Hospital In NYC Chosen to Train Blind Workers Sunday! DESIRE et i Suburban Stuart Rosenberg is directing. "A Hall of Mirrors" from a novel and screenplay by Robert Stone, with Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward co-starring. NEW YORK (JTA)—Beti Israel Hospital has been chosen by the American Foundation for the Blind to conduct a three-year demon- stration project to train blind peo- ple for jobs in hospitals. The pro- ject, funded by the social and re- habilitation service of the Depart- ment of Health, Education and Welfare, will seek not only to train and place students but also to develop training techniques for use generally by hospitals and state rehabilitation agencies. Friday, April 25, 1969-31 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS SATURDAY! GREEN-8 CENTER ONLY ! GREENFIELD-8 MILE RDS.