THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS `Voyage' Movie Depicts Fateful Journey of St. Louis Aid Ship By HERBERT G. LUFT (Copyright 1975, JTA, Inc.) "Voyage" is the title of a star-studded, multi-million dollar feature from the book, "Voyage of the Damned," by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan Witts, and a screenplay by Steve Shagan and David Butler, which deals with the conscience of the world or rather with the lack of con- science when the lives of millions of innocent civil- ians were at stake in 1939. The trek of the M/S St. Louis from Hamburg to Havana in early May 1939 was only one example of man's inhumanity to man, but it is a pointed example. There were 937 Jews, men, women and children; some of them had been in concentration camps; others threatened to be impris- oned. All had bought semi- official passport visas at Cu- ban consulates in Germany to escape further persecu- tion and ultimate death. 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"The Front," the Colum- bia film currently in pro- duction, with Woody Allen, Zero Mostel and Herschel Bernardi in leading roles, reflects another dark chap- ter of recent history, this one with a direct focus on Hollywood. Some 25 years ago, ac- tor-director Martin Ritt, who is co-producing and directing the current film, and Walter Bernstein (author of "The Front") were among the most ac- claimed contributors to "The Golden Age of Live Television." Among their collaborative efforts was "The Paper Box Kid," written by Bernstein and starring Ritt, a veteran of the Group Theater. Within a few months after airing of that show, both Ritt and Bernstein were blackl- isted. Ritt returned to the "live" theater where the blacklist had been less effective than in the cinema, while Bern- stein wrote teleplays under a variety of pseudonyms, with the assistance of var- ious "fronts" — of names of people who had remained untarnished. Ritt and Bernstein have always wanted to make a film of the dark period of the 1950s era that impeded their own careers and de- stroyed many of their friends. AN CHOPPED SIRLOIN With Potato, cepted the immigrants upon presentation of the some- what dubious papers for which the Jews had paid large sums of money. When the St. Louis ar- rived on May 27, the pas- sengers learned that there had been a change of pol- icy. They were refused landing and also denied sanctuary anywhere else in the Western hemis- phere. The ship went back to Europe. Only one-fourth of the emigrants survived in England. The balance were dropped off in Hol- land, Belgium and France where, a year later, they perished during the "blitzkrieg," or were shipped off to extermina- tion centers in the east. They had been off the coast of Florida, had smelled the air of freedom but were condemned to return. Among the stars portray- ing Jewish refugees are a number of non-Jewish per- formers, evidently chosen for audience identification and to prove that there is no creed-and-color deviding line when human survival is the issue today. There are Faye Dunaway, Oscar Ber- ner, Julie Harris, Wendy Hiller, Katherine Ross and Maria Schell. Ben Gazzara, the Leon Uris character in "QB VII," now essays the role of Morris Troper, head of the Jewish Agency in Europe. Jewish actors portraying refugees on board ship are Lee Grant, Victor Spinette, Luther Adler, Janet Suz- man and Nehemia Persoff. From the British screen December 12, 1975 31 New York's Lower East Side was a proving ground — a place where "green- horns" proved they could survive in America. "Hester Street," an enter- taining new film about turn-of-the-century Jewish life in New York, emphas- izes that newly arrived im- migrants are not as naive as one may think. The film will be shown beginning Dec. 19 at the Somerset Cinema I Theater. A delightful film, "Hester Street" is based on Abra- ham Cahan's "Yekl" and focuses on a Jewish sweat shop employe, Jake, who became "a real Yankee" in his three years in America. - Since he came from Russia, he attained the accoutre- ments of a true American — stylish mustache without the traditional beard, styl- ish clothes and a girlfriend, toward whom his affections are directed while his wife and son remain in Russia. Yet, he is still very much a Jew. The black and white film details Jake's mean- dering, while his wife and child remain under his father's care in the old country. When the father dies, Jake sends for his wife, Gitl, and son, Yos- sele. Upon their arrival her old-country ways come in conflict with Jake's American lifestyle. Jake berates his wife for her East European dress, the wig required for mar- ried women by Jewish law and her Yiddish, and tries to impress upon her that in America she must speak and dress like an American. When a neighbor speaks to her in Yiddish, Jake yells, "You want she should be green always?" When Jake's girlfriend, Mamie Fein, makes an ap- pearance at the house, Gitl is awed by her stylishness and calls her a noblewoman. However, Gitl isn't dis- mayed by her and proves she is not so "green" after all. Bernstein, the yeshiva- bokher boarder, provides a sympathetic ear for the cuckolded housewife. Dur- ing their conversations a relationship builds, lead- ing to an expected, but happy ending to the movie. The Gentile actors' skills are notable, as evidenced in the hard work put forth in having to learn the Yiddish language and dialect which come across as convincing in the film. An enjoyable film, fla- vored with Yiddish language and humor, "Hester Street" is a delight for those who appreciate Jewish humor and find an interest in the Jewish experience in Amer- ica. —H.P. SUNDAY MORNING BREAKFAST at the 19460 W. 10 MILE RD. (1 BIk. 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