Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 August 1939 — Page 6

Friday, August 18, 1939

THE JEWISH POST

PAGE SEVEN

DEFINITION “W'hat,” one refugee asked his brother refugee, “is the difference between an optimist and a pessimist?” Said the brother without a moment’s hesitation: “A pessimist is a German Jew now living in the United States; an optimist is a German Jew in a Nazi concentration camp.” * * * + EXPANSION The American Jewish Committee will shortly open an office in Boston. Henry (Hank) Levy, member of the New York staff and a former J. T. A. man, will be in charge. • * * * PICTURES * Keep your peepers peeled for “Underground,” Warner Brothers anti-Nazi film soon to be put in production. A friend who has read the script thinks it’s just about the hottest thing that has yet been screened in Hollywood’s war on Totalitaria. Its theme is based on the secret radio broadcasts that have baffled the Nazis for years. John Garfield will have the leading role. . . . Another film to look forward to is the one depicting the tragedy of the refugee ships. Based on the “St. Louis” episode, the film is tentatively titled “Bound for Now’heres.” It was produced in the Paramount studios in Paris and incorporates some actual scenes aboard the “St. Louis.” The J. D. C., as this column reported last week, will use it in its campaign. Boris Smolar, J. T. A.’s chief European correspondent, had a hand in preparation of the film. * * * * LUCK M. J. Merlin, Atlanta merchant and father of J. T. A. employe Edith, recently returned from an extended trip abroad during which he visited many European countries and Palestine. Back in Atlanta, he invested two bits in a raffle ticket and won—a round trip to the New York World’s Fair. * * * * HEADLINE The Jewish Daily Forward published a London story 7 reporting Julius Streicher, pornographer extraordinary and high priest of Nazi anti-Semitism, ill. Under this headline: “Nothing trivial, we hope.” * * * * COURTESY The Old Masters Arts Building at the World’s Fair was selling prints of the old masters reproduced on postcards. Among them were prints of German origin. A spokesman for the Anti-Nazi League called the matter to the attention of Robert Washburn, an exhibit official, explaining to him the reason for the boycott on Nazi products, with the result that the cards are now no longer for sale. * * * * MISH-MASH The late Abraham H. Friedland, poet and educator, was an infant prodigy. At the age of 12 he knew by heart seven tracts of the Gemorrah. . . . Joseph J. Schwartz, president of the Jewish Social Welfare Conference and former director of the Brooklyn Federation, is now assistant secretary to the J. D. C. He is acting executive director during the absence in Europe of Joseph C. Hyman. . . . Nat Belth, J. D. C. publicity director, is enjoying a two weeks’ rest at his summer cottage in Peekskill, N. Y., and Fanny Alderstein, also of the J. D. C. staff, has just returned from a vacation in the Adirondacks. . . . Vic Bienstock, J. T. A. foreign news chief, returned to Europe after a month’s furlough here. On the boat to New York, Vic met William Saroyan, the playwright and author. Saroyan thought Vic should be “put in a cage” as thf only European correspondent not writing a book. . . . S. J. Woolf, the famous artist-interviewer of the New York Times, has sketched and interviewed nearly three hundred notables for the Times in the past dozen years. His first noted subject was the redoubtable G. B. Shaw, who at first wanted to charge W’oolf $3,760 an hour for posing as an artist’s model. . . . TJy> American Hebrew recently put out a mystery issue. The mystery was to find an article by Arthur T. W’eil on Senator Robert Reynolds, which was advertised on the cover but was nowhere to be seen on the inside. . . . Did you know that the first swastika was the Hebrew letter “aleph,” known as the Big Aleph. . . . Books you’ll want to read when they come out next month: “Tommy Gallagher—American Storm Trooper.” byJames T. Farrell, and “You’re Next—Anti-Semitism in the United States,” by Heywood Broun and George Britt, authors of the wellknown “Christians Only” of several years back.

Mrs. Henry Rothschild and son 1 Charles Brenner and daughter Leonard of Franklin, Ind., have re- Eunice spent last week-end in Cinturned home after spending two cinnati visiting with relatives, weeks in New York City. While ; * * * there they visited Arv Rothschild, Miss Lois Fried, niece of Mr. and formerly of this city. Mrs. Andrew Fried of Lafayette, * * * has returned to her home in ChiMrs. Adolph Feibel has been vis- cago after attending the Purdue iting her mother, Mrs. H. Benjamin University summer session. Marks. Mrs. Marks entertained * * * with a dinner party last week in j Mr. and Mrs. Bert Sicanoff visither honor. ed in Terre Haute last week-end.

Fight Nazis In Raids By Jewloh Telegraphic Agency VIENNA—Two practice airraid “black-outs” scheduled by the Nazi authorities have been cancelled rfter opponents of the regime had utilized a recent “black-out” to put up anti-Nazi posters and scatter leaflets. Huge red posters appeared in the streets hearing the inscriptions, “Gone is the Jew; we are in a stew!” Thousands of illegal leaflets were also found strewn about the streets when Vienna’s lights were turned on again.

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-By HELEN ZIGMOND-

Refugee Factories Give 38,000 Jobs, Survey Reveals By Jewish Telegraphic Agency GENEVA—New industries established by refugees in four nations have given employment to approximately 38,000 persons, it was revealed in a report submitted to a session of the administrative committee of the World Jewish Congress. The report, embodying the results of a detailed investigation, j refutes the contention that refugees are a liability 7 to countries which admit them. The report discloses that 15,000 English workers have been removed from the ranks of the unemployed in enterprises established by refugees in Britain. Similarly, France has seen 10,000 unemployed obtain jobs in undertakings founded by exiles; Holland another 10,000 and Belgium 3,000. Smaller nations, such as the Scandinavian and the Baltic state-:, have had similar experiences. In the majority of cases, the enterprises established by the refugees are of a type never before developed in the respective countries. France, for example, now has a number of companies producing textile articles for export, fur, glassware, artificial flowers and fruit juices. Raw materials from French colonies aro used in the production of the goods. Belgian records show that 105 large industrial firms have been established by the refugees. For the most part, they are in the metallurgical, chemical and electrical fields. Three hundred enterprises were founded by refugees in Holland.

Misses Rose and Ruth Klein have left on a motor trip to Yellowstone National Park; Denver, Col.; Salt Lake City, Utah, and other western points. They will return in ten days.

“HOLLYWOOD—Leon Schlesinger, producer of “Merrie Melodic” cartoons reminds me somehow of “Diamond” Jim Brady . . . not that he w 7 ears flashy rocks . . . it’s his jovial air, his radiant joy of living. He came to Hollywood in 1922 . . . supplied art titles to film producers . . . got interested in cartoons through Jack Warner’s suggestion to parody hit tunes. In 1930, with a staff of 36, he made the first “Looney Tune.” . . . Now employs more than 200 people. His studio is perhaps the only one in Hollywood where everybody knows the boss, and the boss knows everybody, down to the least important. He makes a practice of handing out the salary checks personally and speaking w 7 ith each employe. His studio has just discovered a new 7 method of producing extraordinarily beautiful backgrounds by use of oils instead of water colors. The pride of his pen and ink actors is Porky, the stuttering pig. Schlesinger is a business man, not an artist . . . says the only line he can draw is under a column of figures. Claims one Hollywood record ... is married 30 years to the same wife! * * * A torrid ruby without a setting is Hedy LaMarr. Having zoomed to stardom in an equatorial atmosphere, she’s henceforth typed to the exotic. “Lady of the Tropics,” her current vehicle, is appropriate enough, but somehow she’s become too “civilized” to be primitive. She’s sur-

passingly beautiful, but acting honors go to Joseph Schildkraut, the villain ... a polished Oriential villain, so much in character that we looked twice at the credit sheet to check his identity. It’s time producers gave more serious consideration to this actor . . . having long ago left behind his juvenile leads, he is more and more coming into the Muni class for characterizations, plays as many different people as he plays parts. * * * Maxie Rosenbloom appeared on the set the other day wearing goggles. When asked why the specs, he answered, “I got antagonism!” * * * A line o’ type or two: Fritz Feld will have a meaty role in “A Day at the Circus.” Irving Sindler, prop man, famous for getting his name in pictures, has scored his latest screen credit ... in “Intermezzo,” with Swedish setting, a store sign will herald, “Irving Sindler & Son.” The last song w ritten by the team of Gordon and Revel before they parted was “This Is the Beginning of the End” . . . they’ve (Continued on page 8)

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* + * Mr.s Sam Mandell of Chicago, formerly of Indianapolis, is in New York to attend the wedding of her sister-in-law. Miss Sara Mandell, to Abraham Beitel. While there she also will visit the W’orlds’ Fair. * * * Miss Eva Levinsky is spending a week in St. Louis, Mo.

CHEMICAL SOCIETY (Continued from Page 2) name of Priestley is the most famous one upon the list of chemists who came to America to escape persecution. The disturbances in Germany following the troublss of 1848 brought a large number of German chemists to America whose contributions had much to do with the advancement of chemistry in the United States before the Civil War. A mo.dern parallel of this movement is found in the exodus of chemists and other scientists from Germany to the United States as a resqlt of the recent persecutions by The national socialistic government.”

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