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 tIzrizn rime 17w5 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.