THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, May 23, 1969-21

Malamud's `Assists lit' Set for Screen

By HERBERT G. LUFT

(copyright, 1969, JTA, Inc.)

bery" and now starring in Kadar's
very first U.S. movie, "The Angel

HOLLYWOOD — Bernard Mala- Levine."

mud, author of "The Fixer," now
has contributed to the movies a
second novel. "The Assistant," this
one with a New York Lower-East-
side background is scheduled to go
before the cameras as soon as he
completes his own screen play—tha
Pulitzer prize-winning writer's very
first.
In the meantime, Malamud's
"The Angel Levine," from the col-
lection "The Magic Barrel," has
been adapted for' the cinema by
William Gunn and Ronald Ribman
and is being produced by United
Artists, with Harry Belafonte in the
title role of a most unusual dark
Jewish angel who hails from some-
where between Heaven and Har-
lem. Like the best of Malamud's
writing, "The Angel Levine" is
warm, witty and tragic, and though
it frequently blends reality with
fantasy, it remains true to hu-
manity.

"The angel Levine - re-unites
in their first American film 65-
year-old Polish-Jewish actress
Ida liaminska with Czech direc-
tor Jan Hadar of The Shop On
Main Street . ' fame. Zero Mostel,
who was Tevya on the stage in
"Fiddler On The Roof." appears
as the central character of Mor-
ris Mishkin, an old tailor from
a Yiddish environment. One day.
praying for help for his ailing
wife (Miss Kaminska) and for
himself in their com mon misfor-
tune, he is confronted by the
black Jewish angel Alexander
Levine, who happens to be a
hustler and doesn't appear to
provide any conventional assur-
ance of angelic assistance. Tailor
Mishkin, already weak on belief.
grows even more skeptical of
the miracle promised by his mys-
terious benefactor. Only in ab-
solute desperation. Mishkin over-
comes his doubt and asks the
Angel Ler-ine to help him—but
by then it is almost too late.

Zero Mostel is a show business
phenomenon equally adept at com-
edy and drama as witness his three
"Tony" awards for performances
In "Rhinoceros," "A Funny Thing
Happened On the Way to the
Forum" and the much acclaimed
"Fiddler On the Roof." Yet, he
shouldn't have knocked the "Os-
cars" as he did when presenting
the "Best Musical" award during
the 1969 New York Tony presenta-
tion, especially since Mel Brooks
had warmly acknowledged Zero's
contribution to his winning this
year's Academy Award for "The
Producers." Perhaps Mostel is sore
that the Mirisch Company is giving
the much coveted role of "Tevya"
in the forthcoming "Fiddler"
movie to Israeli thespian Haim
Topol. But Zero Mostel needn't
complain, having most recently
completed his fat assignment in
the picture "The Great Bank Rob-

Warsaw Cemetery
Desecrated Days After
Crakow Vandalism

LONDON (JTA) — Reports re-
ceived here of the desecration of

the Warsaw Jewish cemetery, fol-

lowing by a matter of days van-
dalization of the Jewish cemetery
at Crakow, Poland, prompted the
World Jewish Congress Tuesday
to urge the Polish government to
take all necessary measures to
arrest and punish those guilty
of the outrages and "to prevent a
recurrence of such monstrous
crimes against the dead."
The chairman of the Association
of Jewish Ex-Servicemen, Dr.
Simon Friesner, charged that
"these despicable acts are an ob-
vious result of the anti-Semitic
campaign in Poland." He said it
was a "bitter irony" that the
news of the desecration of the
Warsaw Jewish cemetery was re-
ceived on the anniversary of the
battle of Monte Cassino in which
'Toles and Jews died together

Harry Belafonte, whose com-
pany produces the epic for UA, has
not -made a film since "Odds
Against Tomorrow" in 1959. In
"The Angel Levine," the popular
entertainer and folk singer has his
best role to date in the media, a
heavenly messenger who has a
singular task to perform against
overwhelming odds. Also in the
cast is Ireland's Milo O'Shea who
portrayed the tragic Jewish busi-
nessman from Dublin in the filmiz-
ation of James Joyce's "Ulysses,"
a characterization that netted him
,both
both praise and a great deal of
criticism.
Rounding out the cast of "The
Angel Levine" are the husband and
wife acting team of Eli Wallach
and Anne Jackson.

Reconstructionist College Adopts Bylaws Granting Students Role in Policy

PHILADELPHIA — The incor-
porators of the Reconstructionist
Rabbinical College, now complet-
ing its first year in Philadelphia,
has adopted bylaws that follow a
trend in higher education to con-
sult students and faculty in acad-
emic affairs.
The bylaws establish a college

council which "shall be consulted
on all educational matters; in the
establishment of academic policies,
including determination of the
academic curriculum; in the set-
ting of standards of admission of
students; and in the maintenance

of academic freedom."
One student, representing each
class of the rabbinical college; two
faculty elected by its member-
ship, the dean and president; the
chairman of each academic de-
partment; and the chairman of the
college committee of the (lay)
board of directors will comprise
the college council.
In addition, a student represen-
tative will be include on a com-
mittee appointed by the president
to interview candidates for the
position of dean of the college,
whenever such a need will arise.

Final authority is vested in a
board of directors which will gov-
ern the college.

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NEW YORK (JTA)—A one-year
$125,000 grant for tuition-free edu-
cation for more than 400 junior and
senior high school mathematics
and science teachers has been
awarded by the National Science
Foundation to Yeshiva University's
Belfer graduate school of science.
The grant is in support of an in-
service institute in mathematics
and science for such teachers, ac-
cording to Dr. Arthur Komar, act-
ing dean.
The foundation's program en-
courages universities to condtict
such institutes so that such teach-
ers can be brought up to date with
the latest knowledge and teaching
methods in their fields. Dr. Komar
said many of the teachers may
have some of the costs of books
and travel reimbursed under pro-
visions of the grant.
Institute courses also may be
applied toward a master of science
degree by participating teachers
later admitted as students at the
Belfer school.

N.J. Senate Approves
`Silent Prayer' Bill

On the occasion of the establishment of the

IRWIN I. AND SADIE COHN FOREST

the Metropolitan Detroit Community and the

Jewish National Fund

will honor

TRENTON, N.J. (JTA) — The
New Jersey Senate approved 30-4
a controversial "silent prayer" bill
following a hot debate. The state
assembly had previously passed
the measure. It went to Gov.
Richard J. Hughes who was ex-
pected to veto it. He had vetoed
similar legislation in 1968.
The measure, which would re-
quire all public school pupils to
participate in a daily period of
silent prayer, was opposed by Jew-
ish community councils and national
Jewish community relations agen-
in4awar. against a *mimeo eneiny." cies in the state.

IRWIN I. COHN

with a

TESTIMONIAL DINNER

On Wednesday evening, June eleventh

nineteen hundred and sixty nine

Cocktails 6:30 p.m., Dinner 7:00 p.m.

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Harry Golden

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Scheduled for Jerusalem

JERUSALEM — An international
conference to evaluate the ex-
perience of Youth Aliya, a move-
ment which has successfully re-
habilitated and educated socially
and culturally deprived children,
will be held here June 1-June 13.
The conference is being sponsored
by Hadassah and the Youth Aliya
department of the Jewish Agency.
Youth Aliya is the International
child welfare movement which
saves Jewish children around the
world and rehabilitates them in
children's villages, agricultural
settlements and educational insti-
tutions in Israel. Hadassah is the
principal supporter of the move-
ment.
A permanent international re-
search committee of leading social
scientists in education, social wel-
fare, psychiatry, psychology and
sociology is expected to result
from the conference.
Participants will examine data
on children who have experienced
the ravages of war, persecution
and deprivation, and findings on
perr-group care.
Henrietta Szold, founder of
Hadassah. assumed leadership of
the movement after it was founded
in 1934 by Recha Freier.

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Judge Theodore Levin

Dinner Chairman

for information and reservations call:

JEWISH NATIONAL FUND
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