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Bedtime on Bet Shean Kibutz: Deep Underground

Friday, May 23, 1969-39

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Ernest Weekley's Etymological Dictionary

If Ernest Weekley had prepared
his splendid two-volume "An Ety-
mological Dictionary of Modern
English" in this generation he un-
doubtedly would have made many
changes.
For instance, in explaining "He-
brew" he wrote more than half a
century ago: "As vernacular lan-
guage Hebrew became extinct
three of four centuries BC, being
replaced by kindred Aramaic or
Syriac, It survived, like Sanskrit,
as liturgical language."
The fact is that scholars still
used Hebrew as their language and
only the masses resorted to Ara-
maic.
In our time Hebrew became a
living language again and Week-
ley would surely have noted it.

A child waits in front of a bomb shelter at one of the beleaguered kibutzim in the Bet Shean Valley.
Inside the shelter, parents prepare the cribs in which children will, once again, spend the night. Children
in settlements throughout the valley have been sleeping deep underground since the end of Six-Day War.

Hollywood Nuggets

By HERBERT G. LUFT

"Exodus" and "Mila 18." We re-
Bret that the later has been shelved
Sidney Lumet reflects the same .
period of Victorian prudishness in Indefinitely. A film dealing with
his film of Anton Chekhov's "The the suffering of the Jews in Nazi-
Seagull," the tragic Russian play occupied Poland is not regarded
from the repertoire of Stanislaysky. as timely by Hollywood.
Lumet produced the film for War-
ner-7 Arts entirely on location in
Mike Nichols directs Alan Arkin,
Sweden, with a British cast headed Richard Benjamin, Orson Welles,,
by David Warner as the youthful, Paula Prentiss, Art Garfunkel and
poet Konstantin, James Mason, Jack Gilford in "Catch-22," now I
Vanessa ,Redgrave and Harry An- 1 filming in Mexico. Buck Henry,
drews, the latter contributing a , who also portrays a role in the
mellow character study of the al- I anti-war film, has adapted the
most senile uncle, Sorin. Simone Joseph Heller best-seller about a
Signoret, as the capricious actress- F group of young flyers, produced
mother Princess Arkadina was out for Paramount by Martin Ranso-
of-place in the ensemble. Artistic- hoff.
ally, "The Seagull," is deemed to I
become a triumph; at the box office,
Barbra Streisa nd will play her
the success seems more than du- first "straight" dramatic role in
bious.
"The Owl and the Pussycat" fix
Lumet, the 44-year-old son of Ray Stark and Columbia Pictures.
Yiddish playwright-actor Baruch This teaming reunites star, pro-
Lumet, shuns commercialism, has ducer and studio of Miss Streis-
refused to make pictures in Holly- and's very first film, "Funny
wood, basically working on actual Girl." The scenario is being writ-
locations, in the case of "The Sea- ten by Bruce Jay Friedman from
gull" duplicating the landscape of the Broadway play by William
Northern Russia at the lake country Manhoff.
* * *
of Sweden. He made his debut as
a child actor on the stage with Max
Joseph L. Mankiewicz directs for
Reinhardt in New York, appeared , Warner-Seven Arts filmization of
on Broadway in "Dead End" and "Will," a motion picture dealing
has become one of the earliest' with the life and times of William
articulate television directors of Shakespeare. A cool $15 million
dramatic segments. He has guided has been allocated for the movie, a
prestige features for producers Ely bit more money than Shakespeare
Landau, Joseph E. Levine and Ken- saw during his lifetime at the
neth .Heyman, money-making pros Globe Theater in London.
* * *
who all lost dough when assigning
Lumet to direct his own projects.
Bob Aliza, American-born son of
Among his films are, "12 Angry a "Sabra" couple, who has spec-
Men," "A View from the Bridge," liazed in portraying Israelis on the
"Long Day's Journey Into Night," stage, now makes his motion pic-
"The Pawnbroker," "Fail-Safe" ture debut in the Zero Mostel
and "The Hill." Only his very first, screen comedy, "The Great Bank
starring Lee J. Cobb, was a finan- Robbery," directed by Ev Aver-
cial success. From the world of back for Warners.
Tennessee Williams and O'Neill, he
turns to the Europe of yesteryear
of Chekhov to come up with a state- Soviet Wire Agency Casts
ment of universal validity. The Doubts on Nasser's Word,
films of Sidney Lumet are the dis- Confirms Israel Report
turbing and deeply probing works
NEW YORK (ZINS) — An ar-
of a sincere craftsman. His pro-
ticle by the Soviet news agency
ducers have been contented to lose
Novosti has confirmed the com-
money—as long as he makes good
munication issued by the Israel
pictures.
General Staff regarding the Is-
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raeli commando action in Egypt
Leon Uris' best-selling novel, April 29. Novosti states that "An
"Topaz," now in its fourth month Israeli commando unit has car-
before the cameras under Alfred ried out a diversionary attack in
Hitchcock's direction, moved from the vicinity of the upper Nile, des-
European locations to the Univer- troying nine bridges and power
sal Studios in Hollywood and will installations. The action took
go soon for completion to Mexico place only 120 miles from the As-
where the Cuban setting will be wan Dam. It is a well-known fact
duplicated. It is impossible to that Nasser denied all damages
photograph in Havana an anti- inflicted by the Israeli commandos
Communist spy and intrigue thril- during this attack."
ler.
Nasser has attempted to create
"Topaz" is made strctly for en- the impression that the communi-
tertainment and has none of the cations issued by the Israel Gen-
attributes and human qualities of eral Staff are not factuaL
,
.

(Copyrig h t 1969, JTA. Inc.)

The Weekley volumes remain
among the classics in their field
and in considering dictionaries and
the origin of words there are few
studies as valuable as this.
An introductory biographical me-
moir by Montague Weekley, son of
Ernest Weekley, adds value to an
understanding of the significant
work issued by paperbacks by
Dover Publications.

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It is well to indicate, however,
that in its entirely the Weekley
etymological dictionary is high-
ly scholarly and in its treatment
of many Hebrew, Aramaic and
other terms of special interest to
Jews the basic values of their
origin and usage have been

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