76 Friday, September 9, 1977 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
During the Ten Days of
Penitence, the idea of God's
sovereignty finds greater
emphasis in the liturgy.
Warner Role in Motion Picture Development Recalled
By HERBERT G. LUFT
(Copyright 1977. JTA, Inc.
Jerry & Irma Starr
Gayle, Laura &
Todd
wish all their friends
and relatives a happy,
healthy New Year
MR. & MRS. LLOYD
STARR AND FAMILY
send best wishes to all for
a happy and healthy
New Year
Best wishes for the
New Year from our
house to yours
VAL and ROSE
VALENSKY
Best wishes to our friends
and relatives for the
holidays
MR. & MRS. TED
WEISS
HOLLYWOOD—Jack L.
Warner, the only survivor
of his clan, has been named
honorary chairman of the
motion picture industry's
celebration of talking pic-
tures set for Oct. 6, as an-
nounced by Jack Valenti,
president of the MPPA of
America, which is sponsor-
ing the celebration.
Among events scheduled
for October 6 is the official
Postal Service cememony
for the first day issue of a
commemorative postage
stamp honoring talking pic-
tures to be held at radio sta-
tion KTLA, which 50 years
ago was the home of Warn-
er's film studios.
Although Oct. 6 is the an-
niversary of the Broadway
opening of "The Jazz Sing-
er," the first feature with
synchronized dialogue,
Thomas Edison himself had
made short "talking" pic-
tures by combining the film
strip with gramophone re-
cordings as early as 1889,
PHIL & ROSE
FREEDMAN
of Orlando, Florida
wish all their relatives and
friends a healthy and happy
NEW YEAR
Mr. and MRS.
EARL M. FRIEDMAN
Farmington Hills
L
wish all their family and friends
a year of health and happiness
Lillian & Seymour Gallant
Wish All Their Relatives & Friends
A Year Of
Health, Happiness & Prosperity
May the New bring
good health and happiness
to all our family and friends
DR. and MRS. G. GOTMAN and FAMILY
West Bloomfield
•
SARAH and LOUIS GOULD
and Fan*
wish all their friends and relatives
a happy and healthy New Year
Our best wishes for a year of peace,
good health, happiness and
the joy of lasting frienships
THE GURVITEZS
Ben, Sara and carol
MR. & MRS. HOWARD JAY GREEN
FRED & ROSS
wish all their family and friends a happy
and healthy NEW YEAR
MR. & MRS.
HYMEN S. IiIIAMER
AND FAMILY
extend best wishes to all for a year of good
health and happiness
Best wishes to all
relatives and friends for
good health, happiness
and peace in the New Year
MR. & MRS. NORMAN tEVINE
Southfield
but never captured 'the
imagination of the public.
The Warner Brothers orig-
inally became interested in
talking pictures in 1924,
when Western Electric in-
stalled station KFWB at the
Warner studios in Holly-
wood. Subsequently, Sam
Warner, on a trip to New
York in 1925, attended an
exhibition of talking pic-
tures at the Bell Telephone
Laboratories.
Enthusiastic about what
he'd heard, he assembled a
production crew to experi-
ment with talking pictures
in the Vitagraph studio in
Brooklyn in late summer of
1925. By the spring of 1926,
Sam and his brothers
agreed that talking pictures
were sufficiently advanced
to make definite plans for
theatrical release.
Meanwhile, Jack Warner
had completed the produc-
tion of "Don Juan," a silent
feature starring John Barry-
more. The brothers held up
its release so that it could
be provided with a synchro-
nized symphonic score.
The late William Fox con-
centrated on movietone
newsreels and short subject
programs developing his
own process, the Fox-case
movietone method with op-
tical sound tracks on film.
He exhibited the result of
the Fox Studios experi-
ments as early as 1927.
A year later, three giants
of the movie industry, Para-
mount, headed 'by Adolph
Zukor, MGM with Louis B.
Mayer at the helm, and the
multi-headed United Artists
Corp. applied for licenses of
Western Electric sound re-
cordings. Most of the other
studios followed, building
sound stages and adding dia-
logue, effects and a musical
score to their productions.
In a few months' time,
motion pictures achieved
one of the most complete
and spectacular transforma-
tions in technique ever un-
dertaken by a major in-
dustry.
During the past 50 years
a great number of Jewish
artists, scientists, tech-
nicians and executives con-
tributed their talent and
skill to the development of
the cinema in Hollywood.
There were such produc-
ers as David 0. Selznick, Ir-
ving Thalberg, Jesse L. Las-
ky, Harry Cohn, Jerry
Wald, Walter Wanger, Wal-
ter Mirisch, Dore Schary,
Sol C. Siegel, Hal B. Wallis,
Sam Spiegel, Sidney Frank-
lin and Samuel Goldwyn—
the latter especially inter-
ested in the development of
high precision sound record-
ings.
There were such direc-
tors as William Wyler, Mer-
vyn Leroy, Anatole Litvak,
Stanley Kramer, George Cu-
kor, Samuel Fuller, Henry
Koster, Billy Wilder, Alex-
ander Korda, Joseph Man-
kiewicz, Fred Zinneman and
Josef von Sternberg;
writers, George Froeschel,
Julius J. Epstein and Philip
G. Epstein, Moss Hart, Ed-
na and Edward Anhalt,
S.N. Uehrman, Michael
Blankfort, Helen Deutsch,
Howard Koch, Samson
Raphaelson, and Stewart
Stem; and camera aces as
Karl Freund, Rudy Mate
anu Stanley Cortez.
A nong the actors, a list
too numerous for selec-
tions, we point out such
unique comedians as Danny
Kaye, the Marx Brothers,
Zero Mostel, Carl Reiner,
Alan Arkin and Eddie Can-
tor.
After the
"Entebbe"
films have come to a con-
clusion with the Israeli-
made "Operation Thunder-
bolt," the Jewish craftsmen
in Hollywood basically turn
to comedies or light enter-
tainment. Here are some
highlights from the Jewish
year in the film capital.
There are two farcial
films to lampoon classics of
the cinema. Marty Fel-
dman, the starry-eyed Brit-
ish comedian who has here-
tofore appeared in such
American films as "Young
Frankenstein," "The Adven-
tures of Sherlock Holmes'
Smarter Brother" and "Si-
lent Movie," now has co-
written, directed and por-
trayed a leading role in
"The Last Remake of Beau
Geste," a broad slapstick
comedy dealing with the
Gary Cooper movie of yeste-
ryear whiCh takes us to
England and Morocco of
1906, with the North African
desert scenes involving the
French Foreign Legion
being photographed in
Spain.
For a gag, Feldman inter-
cut his filmic footage with
shots showing Gary Cooper
in the original movie. Even
Rudolph Valentino appears
from nowhere during a
sand storm. Feldman plays
a character named Digby
Geste, twin brother to Beau
depicted by Michael York,
with Ann-Margret as the
bad but beautiful step-
mother and Peter Ustinov a
wicked one-legged sergeant.
Neil Simon's "The Cheap
Detective," is an affec-
tionate parody of the legend-
ary private-eye movies of
Hollywood in the 30s and
40s. Peter Falk in the cen-
tral title role switches to
the character of Humphrey
Bogart in "Casablanca."
The film also features
Louise Fletcher, Fernando
Lamas, Madeline Kahn,
John Houseman, Sid Caesar
and Ann-Margret.
Poking fun at Hollywood
cliches is still another pic-
ture, now before the cam-
eras in Hollywood under
Mel Brooks' direction,
"High Anxiety," with the
many-talented Mr. Brooks
also acting as writer produc-
er and star, surrounded by
Madeline Kahn, Cloris_
Leachman and Harvey Korf 1/4
man.
"The
Gene
Wilder's
World's Greatest Lover,"
which he also wrote, co-pro-
duced and directed, is a
spoof of the Valentino
myth, with Carol Kane.
Paul Mazursky comes
with still another light-
hearted picture, "An Un-
married Woman," a com-
edy-drama about a contem-
porary female urban dwel-
ler's loneliness and
vulnerability, with Jill
Clayburgh, Alan Bates and
Cliff Gorman. Mazursky
wrote the picture directing
most of it on location in
New York City.
David Merrick's satirical
comedy about football,
"Semi-Tough," • with Burt
Reynolds, Jill Clayburgh
and Bert Convy under Mi-
chael Ritchie's direction,
has been completed.
Richard Dreyfus is paired
with Marsha Mason (Mrs.
Neil Simon) in Simon's do-
mestic comedy "The
Goodbye Girl," directed by
Herbert Ross for Ray
Stark. Dreyfus also por-
trays the central character
in the serious picture,
"Close Encounters of the
Third Kind." Twenty-eight-
year-old Steven Spielberg
(of "Jaws") directs.
James Caan co-stars with
Jane Fonda in "Comes a
Horseman," directed by
Alan J. Pakula (of "All the
President's Men") for Rob-
ert Chartoff and Irwin Win-
kler who made a mint with
"Rocky."
George Burns and John
Denver share top billing in
"Oh, God," written and di-
rected by Carl Reiner for
producer Jerry Weintraub.
Dustin Hoffman portrays
the lead in "Straight
Time," a contemporary
prison drama filmed at Fol-
som.
Billy Wilder is high on
AUBIE & ROSELLA
COOPERMAN
the list of those who left
Germany at the advent of
Nazism. He is now back in
Munich producing and di-
recting an English-language
melodrama, "Fedora,"
from a screenplay by him-
self and his long-time collab-
orator L.A.L.(Iz) Diamond.
MR. & MRS. CARL R.
LICHTENSTEIN
AND FAMILY
wish all their friends
and relatives a happy,
healthy Year
Stuart, Sharon, Howard
Natalie & Robert Mills
wish all their friends
and relatives a
happy New Year
MR. & MRS. MAURICE
NEEMAN AND FAMILY
wish all their family and
friends a healthy New Year
Best wishes for
a happy, healthy '
New Year to All
wish all their family and
friends a happy, healthy
New Year
MICHAEL & MARILYN RICE
ERICA, MEREDITH & EVAN
May the New Year Bring
health and happiness to
all our relatives & friends
Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Rubin
and Family
,BEN & BESS
FRIEDMAN
We wish all our
family and friends a
happy, healthy New
Year
ANTAL & HERMINE
GRUBER and MARY
wish all their family and
friends good health in
the coming year
Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Sinai and Sandy
Southfield
wish all their friends
and family a healthy
New Year
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BYRON, REBECCA & JANICE LIEBERWITZ
wish all their friends and relatives
A Happy, Healthy New Year
To all our friends and relatives, we wish good
health
and a happy and successful NEW YEAR
Larry, Beverly and Micahel
MRS. ESTHER TEMCHIN
wishes all her children, grandchildren, relatives
and friends a year full of peace, health and
happiness
MR. & MRS. LEO WEBWE
AND FAMILY
wish all their friends and family
a happy and_healthy
NEW YEAR
RON & FRAN WHITE
MICHELLE and VICKI
wish all their family and friends
and healthy and happy New Year
MR. AND MRS. NATHAN WOLOK
wish their entire family, members of the Radom er
Aid Society, officers and board members of the
Hebrew Benevolent Society and all their friends and
relatives a happy, healthy and prosperous New
Year.