A Variety of Anecdotes Elizabeth Bergner's Successes; Iler Flight From Naza Terror THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 36—Friday, February 13, 1970 50.000 came to California during By DAVID SCHWARTZ Rabbi Tobias Geffen (Copyright 19:0, JTA, Inc.) I that era. went before the cameras at Film- By HERBERT G. LUFT The French press continues to No gold has been f ound in (Copyright 1970, JTA, Inc.) ways Studios in Upper Manhattan of Atlanta; Believed enjoy the little incident of the Israel, but Sapir, Israel's finance HOLLYWOOD—Elizabeth Berg- early in January. David Greene is gunboats and Israel's admiral, , minister, speaking at the meeting ner, whose fame once rivaled that directing, and Eli Wallach, Julie Oldest in Rabbinate "Mokka" Limon. His nickname' of the board of governors of Israel ATLANTA (JTA)—Rabbi Tobias Harris, Hal Holbrook and Cloris seems to lend itself to the purpose. Bonds in New York, said that more I of Greta Garbo, at the age of 69 Leachman are in starring roles. Geffen, believed to have been the is making a screen comeback in Admiral Limon's first name is than 60,000 immigrants are expect- a horror movie, "Cry of the Ban- Based on the Emmy Award-win- oldest Orthodox rabbi in the Mordecai, but his friends call him ed to settle in Israel during 1970. Mordecai, ning television play by J. P. Mil- United States, died here Tuesday. In early America, it was not shee," produced by American- for short and a French pa- International on location in Eng- ler, the story deals with the time- He would have been 100 years old per on his departure ran an edi- easy to get immigrants. When land. Co-starring with Vincent ly subject of dope addiction. The in July. torial captioned "Goodby, Mokka." Texas was an independent repub- Price, Miss Bergner portrays the safety of a middle-class world is Rabbi Geffen was a founder of Incidentally, no admiral in the he prior to its annexation to the high priestess of a pagan cult in disrupted in the almost documen- the Shearith Israel Congregation world has fittin g a name. Limon United States, a Mexican Jew who 17th Century Britain under 38- tary film, by the spread of hallu- here, which he had served as in Hebrew means port or harbor. had settled there, Henry Castro, year-old Gordon Hessler's direc- cinatory drugs to the point where spiritual leader for more than 60 The most often used Hebrew word went to Europe and brought five ti the average teen-ager next door years. He had continued as rabbi °n• for port is "namal" but limon is thousand settlers to Texas. It was could be a user or dealer. Much also used. It is one of those Greek considered a phenomenal achieve- Born in Vienna, Elizabeth Berg- in the same way as J. P. Miller's and as teacher of a class at the words that crept into the Hebrew ment. Castro County in Texas is ner rose to fame on the Max Rein- synagogue until recently when he hardt stage in Berlin in 1923, earlier, "Days of Wine and Roses," became ill. named after him. language. in which the author castigated the essaying the title role of George If it is not gold that is attract- • • • He was a founder of the Union ing immigrants to Israel, what is B. Shaw's "Saint Joan." A year misuse of alcohol, "The People of Orthodox Rabbis of the United Look For Bus Driver it? The Jewish Kemfer tells the later she made her film debut in Next Door" cuts through to the There are some things which story of a wealthy European Jew Ossip Dymov's "Nju," opposite underlying social problems of our States and Canada, which he had served as Southern District chair- can only happen in Israel. Where whose daughter went to Israel for Emil Jannings and Conrad Veidt, time. • man for nearly 60 years. He also else will they hold up a wedding a visit. She went to a kibutz and under Dr. Paul Czinner's direction. MARVIN HAMLISCH, 25-year- had been president of the Mizrachi to look for a bus driver? could not be induced to return Czinner became her husband and Last week, there was commotion home. Her sister was sent to bring was to guide all of her motion pic- old New Yorker, was signed by Religious Zionist Organization of in the Haifa bus station. They , her back and she came there and tures for a period of 15 years. producer Jerry Adler to write the Atlanta. Born in Kovno, Lithuania, were looking for a certain bus also decided to remain. So now Among her noteworthy German- musical score for "Nobody Loves he came to the United States in driver. the parents are moving their fac- made films of the silent era were Flapping Eagle," the Anthony 1903. He is survived by four sons and "Der Geiger von Florenz," "Dona Quinn starrer which was recently It seems that a young woman tory to Israel. We asked a knowing friend how Juana" and Schnitzler's "Fraulein completed at Warner Bros. Stu- four daughters. Two of his sons, from Ireland moved to Israel. On a bus ride to Haifa, she met he accounted for the rush to Else." Among her sound films dios. Hamlisch is the composer of Joel and Samuel, are rabbis, as were the famous, "Der Traeu- the stage musical, "Minnie's are three of his grandchildren. a young Israeli and the acquaint- Israel. "Well," he said, "everybody iS mende Mund" and "Ariane." The Boys," forthcoming Broadway at- ance ripened into love and now they were going to wed. But they moving to the suburbs, aren't former was remade with her in traction dealing with the earlier Religious Leaders to Air England under the title of "Dream- days of the Marx Brothers. insisted that the bus driver must they?" • • • • ing Lips." The second was remade be at the wedding. No "hupa" Morality in Science in Hollywood as "Love in the Sands of the Negev JERRY LEWIS signed Kaye without the bus driver. Afternoon" with Audrey Hepburn NEW YORK—A three-day con- Ballard for a cameo role in Finally, after some effort, he There is no gold in Israel, but "Which Way to the Front?" Jan sultation between Presbyterians was found, and he will be a chief Prof. Moshe Tendler of Bar-Ilan as "Ariane." When Hitler rose to power in Murray who in the same movie and Jews that will examine the attraction at the wedding. University thinks there is some • • • thing more precious in the sands 1933, Miss Bergner and her portrays an American officer pos- moral role of religious leadership Israeli "Gold Rush" of the Negev. While some sci- director-husband fled to England ing as a member of the dreaded in shaping such scientific develop- Suppose the papers carried a entists have been studying the where she appeared in a not-too SS elite corps in World War II, ments as the breaking of the gene- story about a gold strike in Israel. cold sands of the moon, Dr. Tend- successful screen version of tells this columnist that he tic code, manipulation of human Imagine the Gold Rush. It would ler has been experimenting with Shakespeare's "As You Like It" frightened a Jewish woman who behavior through drugs and sub- probably be like the California the sun-heated sands of the Negev with a youngish Laurence Olivier wandered by mistake onto the lo- liminal suggestion and the test and his experiments lead him to at her side. When Alexander caton set. The elderly lady, a na- tube creation of life opened Sunday Gold Rush of 1848. Every school child knows about believe they have valuable anti- Hordes epic, "Catherine The tive of Hamburg and in Hollywood at the Nassau Inn, Princeton, N.J. that Gold Rush, yet only about biotic qualities which may be of Great" opened in Berlin in the only a few days, saw in the antics value in treating cancer and other spring of 1934, the British-made of the comedian a glimpse of her Long John Silver film was greeted with govern. •wn past. diseases. We Repair, Restyle, Re- Found Gold In When children play in the sands, ment-organized riots — because model any LAMP or Ceil- Michigan's January traffic deaths maybe they know what they are Miss Bergner was Jewish. Lead- ing FIXTURE. Prices Right. ing the mob then was one Grup- numbered 151 —10 per cent more doing. Work Guaranteed. penfuehrer Ernst Boehm who than the 137 in the same month a I remember my youth and the less then three months later him- year ago, according to state police LI 34706 Lighting & Wall feeling that will never come back self became a victim of Hitler's provisional figures. Decor Gallery any more—the feeling that I could insanity during the abortive 24711 Coolidge, Oak Park last forever, outlast the sea, the Boehm Putsch. Elizabeth Berg- EXCEPTING OUT OF TOWN GUEST ner's last pre-World War II film Hours Daily 10 a.m.-7 p.m. earth, and all men. 6 p.m. Sun. Noon — Joseph Conrad. was "Stolen Life," shot at Pine- FOR A WEDDING OR A BAR MITZVA? wood in 1939. From 1940 to 1950, Miss Bergner worked in the U.S., Australia and Michigan Bankard on the continent. 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Today, she and her director-husband, Paul Czinner, live in the Belgravia area "Red Hot" over the J.T.A. our of London. In recent years, Czin- ner, now 75, has been guiding cine- comes the latest news of the WINTER matic versions of famed opera and Jewish World. "Hot Type" means ballet productions, such as "The "hot news" in your home every CLEARANCE Bolshoi Ballet" in a motion pic- Friday. The Jewish News ture made in England for Joseph needs PAK mechanics who can E. Levine. back up brilliant writing. Why, after a 25-year absence from -the American screen, did one of the great actresses of our time still in progress! Printers of The Jewish News for over a Quarter Century select a horror picture for her Come in and save! come-back? "Because," says Miss Bergner, •IITR•I• "I wanted to be seen. Everybody these days goes to see horror movies, especially the young people. And I want to be seen by the young people." 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