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THE WISCONSIN JEWISH CHRONICLE 9 June 10, 1938 Untermyer at 80 "Much Improved" In Health I TWO EXCELLENT FILMS NOW AT THE WARNER 0ur Film Folk By jf IS si A SURVEY OF PEOPLE AND IDEAS Italian Spokesman Hits 'Jewish Agitation' In America Rome (JTA) Virginio Gayda, writing in Giornale d'ltalia, listed six causes for what he called an anti-Italian attitude of a large part of American public opinion. Among these points were: "Suicidal agitation of the Jews, who are doing everything possible to arouse anti-Semitic fury, even in Italy," and nascent struggle among races which, he said, seems to be developing in the United States. I5AAC GvJLDbtKvj indulge in the obvious catharsis of pistol-shots, pious piffle, propaganda, panaceas and parades. He is no Messiah with a Cure-All. He is not a melodramatist.

He is not a columnist. Even his laughter has wrinkles under the eyes. The man, confound him, has wisdom, and that is something few of us can ever forgive. He is the line of Wilde and Shaw, insofar as he is willing to depend so largely upon the qualities of conversation. Is drama nothing but pantomime? Is not dialogue, speech, talk, conversation, or whatever else you choose to call it, the fundamental way in which characters communicate with themselves and with us in the audience? Why this indiscriminate aversion to talk on the stage, as if drama were some rite in which conversation is an intrusion? Behrman is more honest than Wilde was; he is far less propagandistic than Shaw.

He is, in a word, very much himself. And I do not think that he is the' kind of man who is going to make himself over in the image of his less intelligent auditors. Or, for that matter, in the image of his less intelligent critics. A DELICIOUS MILCHIG RECIPE (Presented to the readers of this paper hy Miss Trances Peck of the Heinz Home Inntltute.) For those who like the taste of mushrooms (and who doesn't?) here is a dish to tempt the family's appetite. It is for dairy meals only as it calls for butter as well as a can of Heinz Cream of Mushroom Soup, which, being a cream soup, is naturally a milchig product (endorsed, by the way, by the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America).

We call this dish Fish Croquettes. It is very easy to prepare: FISH CnOQUETTES Melt 2 tablespoon! nis batter, add 5 tablespoonfols flour and blend well. Cook until then add 1 10-ounce can Cream of Mushroom Soap and cook, stirring constantly, until 1 capful flaked tana fish and 1 capful dry bread crumbs, then cool. Form into croquettes, dip into slightly beaten egg, then roll in dry cracker crumbs. Fry in deep hot fat until a golden brown in color.

Serve with Mushroom Sauce (recipe below) MUSHROOM SAUCE Melt 2 tablespoonfalt butter, add 3 tablespoonfnls flour and blend well. Cook until bubbling, then add 1 16-ounce can Cream of Mnshroom Soup and cook, stirring constantly, untU One-half teaspoonfol Worcestershire Sauce. Serve over croquettes. 1 l' Those sensational kids who gave "Dead End" its dramatic intensity are back again, this time in "Crime School," now featured at the Warner theatre. Depicting the squalor and filth of the big city sidewalks, the picture shows how criminals are made by the forces which surround them.

Where yesterday the kids were playmates looking for trouble, today they are cell mates in trouble. 1 lr-: I Merle Oberon Humphrey Bogart, famous as the bad man of the screen is shown in another hard-hitting dramatic role. Also on the same big program is a sensational comedy in technicolor, "The Divorce of Lady starring lovely Merle Oberon in a surprise role as a comedienne who stole a man's pajamas because he stole her heart. Suporting Miss Oberon are Laurence Olivier, Binnie Barnes and Ralph Richardson. An added attraction is the latest release of "The March of Time." Orthodox Jews Form Company to Promote Trade On Religious Lines London (WNS) To promote new commercial enterprises in Palestine and elsewhere committed to the observance of the laws of the Torah and the employment of Sabbath observers, a group of Orthodox Jews organized Haozar, with a paid up capital of $15,000.

Dr. A. Pacifici, former president of the Italian Zionist Organization, is manager of the firm. Other directors are H. A.

Goodman and Dr. Duchinsky. tallized into a firm resolve. For two years he studied beting Jvith the stage director, Bulgakov, and was finally rewarded with a small part in the Provincetown theatre production of "Princess Turandot." This broke the ice for him, but not deeply enough. He joined the student group of Eva LeGallienne's Civic Repertory group on 14th street.

Then came the inevitable break which comes to all men, and he got the part. On Legitimate Stage That started five unbroken years of work with the Civic Repertory and other legitimate groups, during which he appeared in such plays as "Romeo and Juliet," "The House of Connelly," "Night Over Taos," "1931," "Awake and Sing," "Waiting for Lefty," "Gold Eagle Guy," and finally, "Weep for the Virgins," one of the rare floppos in his career. During the early part of his stage career, in 1927, Bromberg married Goldie Doberman, a non-professional. They have two children, Marcia, 9, and Conrad, 7. Outside of the theatre he has but two activities which come close to exciting him: Chess is his great passion, and he plays whenever and wherever possible, reading every book on the subject he can lay his hands on.

He also is keenly interested in the progressive movement, takes a positive interest in Hollywood anti-Nazi League affairs, is prominent in screen guild doings. His favorite exercise is fencing; swimming next. Favorite reading matter next to chess sociology, politics and economics. His hobby is one of the rarest in town he collects unusual shoes, slippers and sandals. He is a lover of classical music, rates Giotto as his favorite classical painter, Cezanne among the moderns.

Reads Dostoyevsky and Ro-maine Roland, likes Shakespeare and Clifford Odets, goes into ecstacies over a dish of frog legs, calls red his favorite color and hopes someday to take a world cruise. The last vital statistic, next to the invaluable bit of information that he detests superstition, is that his greatest ambition is to act in the theatre without it's being also an economic necessity. Oh, yes to intimates, he responds to the greeting "Joe" which takes care of that cryptic (Copyright, 1938) mmm, inn, Venezuela and Santo Domingo Offer Land for European Farm Settlers Geneva (WNS) Extensive tracts of land available for the settlement of European settlers who want to become farmers were offered to the In-terantional Labor Office's international conference of experts to further agricultural colonization in Latin America when the representatives of Santo Domingo and Venezuela stated that their countries would offer land. Santo Domingo offered area of hectacres and Venezuela said it would throw open 30,000 square kilometres. Will Provides $223,000 to Aid Refugees New York (JTA) A fund of $223,479 has been provided by the estate of Jacob Fox, who died December 17, 1935, for assistance to German Jewish refugees, according to a transfer tax appraisal.

Distribution of the fund was left to the discretion of trustees named by Mr. Fox in his will. Of the fund, $100,000 has already been paid by the trustees to the Joint Distribution Committee and the National Co-ordinating Committee for Aid to Refugees and Emigrants Coming from Germany. Ml. wm 'mm any.

'sasa? tuaasn I II li rl 1 1 1 11 n.Sti 'Voir, Also On the Same Outstanding Program His Sensational Comedy TECHNICOLOR 4 i yU. i mmm Vi mi VJ By HELEN ZIGMOND (Copyright. 1938. J. T.

Hollywood 'Twas a gala affair the Press Preview of "Alexander's Rag-Time Band" the "press" being cosily shelved on the balcony, while the crush of orchids-'n-ermine below was suffocating. The picture concerns a band-leader (What again? Aren't there any other characters in the world and cleverly through the celluloid runs a sparkling cavalcade of Irving Berlin's music, beginning with the 1910 "Rag-Time" tune and ending with it in swing-time. Berlin's melodies he wrote six hundred remain singularly alive and vigorous. A pity some of his own life-struggle wasn't injected into the story. He wrote "Alexander's Rag-Time Band" when a $15-a-week piano-pounder in a New York music house.

It was met with dubious head-shakes the chorus was too long 32 bars instead of his usual 16 range too big for an average singer just not "hit" stuff. In 1911 it was introduced in vaudeville by Emma Carus, headliner it spread across the world was printed in many languages has sold more than two million copies is still a favorite. And if Ethel Merman, featured in the film, isn't a blue-ribbon candidate for our "Mispoche," we lose a bet. Her native tag is Zimmerman. Lionel Stander, known for his active interest in labor unions, walked into the studio commissary for lunch cracked, "Oh, we poor wage slaves have to eat beef-steak and mayonnaise!" George Burns consented to appear at a benefit.

Arriving he found a long line of performers ahead. Af ter an interminable wait he yawned, Hope they let me go on before this suit goes out of style!" Execs may come and bosses may go, but Sara goes on forever, bara Swartz is a bit player at Universal has been on the lot for twenty one years joined as a child actress. During the Laemmle regime she once risked her life to save a batch of valuable film from fire. "Uncle" Carl never forgot. But even thru Laemmle retirement and Uni versal's numerous earthquakes, staunch Sara remains the hardy perennial.

Harpo won't talk in "Room Service." Phil Loeb, who acted in the stage version, comes coastwaTd to teach the mum Marx how to be silent ly loquacious. When "Thin Ice" played a certain neighborhood house in Chicago, largest marquee bulbs blazoned the name of Director Sidney Lanfield over the star and title. Reason for such dis crimination goes back twenty years when two youngsters worked their way through school ushering at the Bijou theatre. One was Sidney Lanfield, today a front rank director the other, Mort Arthur, present manager of the theatre now occupying the same spot as the old Bijou. Top billing was Arthur way of saluting an old pal.

Picture Perils or Hollywood Hazards in four parts: All the fun the Ritzes created in "Kentucky Moonshine" had an agon izing aftermath. The hill-billy beards caused an acute skin poisoning which lasted two months. On the other hand, a thick pompous wig saved Joseph Schlidkraut from serious injury when a "gobo" fell from a camera, struck him on the head. A bulge of the cranium was his only hurt. Luise Rainer's mother and cousin, Kurt Simon, were engrossed observers on the set when stampeding cav alry horses charged down upon them An actor standing by fortunately shoved them roughly but safely out of harm way.

Dieting, Edward Bromberg lost thirty-five of his two hundred pounds decided to call a halt, but Nature hadn signed a contract he con tinues to get lighter. His next part is a fat erormandizing prince and he'll have to pad. Louis Zangwill, Brother of Israel, Dead London (WNS) Louis Zangwill brother of the late Israel Zangwill, and a prominent author and journal ist in his own right, is dead here at the age of 68. He was the author of a number of books and also many short stories. SCHUCH'S A Wonderful Place to Dine DINNERS Featuring-Duck Steak Chicken.

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Behrman, Or the Importance of Being Unpopular I doubt that there are many persons who really like to be unpopular. In most of us, even the most intelect-ual and I don't care just how you interpret that last word there is a desire to "belong." O'Neill's Hairy Ape felt it, but he felt it not much more powerfully than does the least simian of us. I don't mean by this that we spend nights trying to assimilate the legislative niceties of Emily Post, which to me are not so nice. Or that we waste days reading the tribal absurdities of Dale Carnegie, and all that brood of professional success-men. No matter how loud you hear some people sing, there is no such thing as a self-made man, although there are many selfishly-made men.

We all owe too much to those who went before, and to those who live side by side with us, to go around boasting of the splendid job we have done on ourselves. On the other hand, it is as important to belong to one's self as to one's community. And often very often, indeed one may best serve that community by resisting it. Thisi makes for unpopularity, for "not belonging." Dale Carnegie wouldn't like it. Emily Post would frown.

And sensible people rejoice. What has all this to do with Sam N. Behrman and his plays? Behrman is one of the finest of living playwrights, and, overlooking such a piece as "Biography," one of the least popular. "Biography" had a number of elements that appealed to what might be called the not characteristically Behrmaniac audience; it smacked of scandal, of a "loose" woman's revelations. Most of Behr-man's plays lack this sensational appeal.

They are, for all their occasional banter, serious. They lack that visible physical movement which so many spectators mistake for "action." They, indulge in much talk, and there is a superstition, even among critics, that talk on the stage is a dangerous commodity that talk is dull, that talk is not drama, that talk is merely a succession of words. But Behrman is even in worse case than these traits would seem to suggest. In a day when the world threatens to go under, when it is an emo-tional relief to make quick decisions, act upon them, and only then subject one's actions to thought, he insists upon talking and thinking out his problem before he acts. He even dares to refrain from acting.

In a day when sides are taken passionately in the heat of emotional explosion he appears not to take sides at all. In reality, of course, he sees around all the sides. Behrman, then, in such plays as "End of Summer," and in his latest piece, "Wine of Choice," offends more than one group of even his typical, intellectual audience. He has a formula, they say, because most of his stories take place in an atmosphere of culture and financial security, and because he usually confronts liberalism with dogmatism in an unresolved debate. This lack of a solution, or of a ready-made solution that one can take or leave, is not to be confused with irresolution.

Behrman is a resolute man. It has been brought against him that some of his plays could end in any of a number of ways, and at any number of points in their final acts. I am not perverse, but it is this very quality that I admire highly in his mind and in his plays. This is not the only way to write a play. Is there an only way? But it is Behrman's way, or, at least, has been his way up to now.

There are pictures that form neat entities; there are other pictures that seem, however definite the frame that contains them, frameless. They are continuous with their surroundings, regardless of how we attempt to close them in. There are plays of this sort, too, and Behrman's plays are among them. This continuousness with life is one of their outstanding distinctions. Behrman's talk lives, and it lives, in its own sphere, just as the gangster talk of our films one of the few artistic elements in our movies lives in its own sphere.

It is no more phonographic than the art of a painting is photographic. You don't hear such talk in every parlor. It is conversation raised to the pitch of vitality. It is the evidence of drama taking place in the mind. It is as much drama as a night-club singer being shot on the floor of a Broadway brothel, to the accompaniment of whining sirens.

As much? I understate. Behrman's pieces are not geared to the timing of wisecracks, and to the neurotic wish-fulfillment needs of our contemporary impatience. He does not retreat from reason. He does not Reformed Churches Continue Hebrew Study In Theological Seminaries Asbury Park, N. J.

(WNS) Hebrew will continue to be a required course of study in the theological seminaries of the Reformed Churches of America as a result of a decision reached by the 132nd general synod. The synod adopted a report of a special committee which stated that ministers polled during the year favored the continuance of Hebrew. De la Rocque, French Fascist, Warns Against Anti-Semitism Casablanca, Morocco (WNS) Col. Francis de la Rocque, long regarded as an anti-Semite and for-merly the number one Fascist of France, issued a warning against anti-Semitism at a meeting of the outlawed French Social party here. De la Rocque is the founder of the Fascist CT.oix de Feu which has also been proscribed.

mm' The play was "Ici On Parle Fran-cais." The time, Christmas 18 or 20 years ago. The troupe, members of a New York high school. In a prologue, the hero of this episode appeared through the curtain garbed as Santa Claus and proceeded to "bestow" upon the audience as a Christmas gift the forthcoming performance. The presentation was pretty much a flop, however, for Santa Claus froze his lines and the audience laughed him off the stage. That was the first time J.

Edward Bromberg muffed his lines. The last time is a matter of recent but very recent history. It was just the other late-afternoon. Bromberg stood face to face with Peter Loire on a set on 20th Century-Fox's stage 8. Bromberg with easy assurance strode into his lines, began to berate Loire, whose makeup was that of an unkempt tramp garbed in a sodden swallow-tail evening suit several times extravagant.

The effect of Lorre's appearance so overpowered him he burst through repressed laughter into a derisive guffaw. Director Walter Lang joined fulsomely in the gag, cried "Cut!" Made 16 Pictures "I'll Give a Million" is J. Edward Bromberg's 16th picture since he deserted Broadway three years ago to accept a 20th Century-Fox contract as featured player. At 34 he has played every type of character in pictures from gray-haired old scientist to dashing young go-getter, and unless you watch out for him, it's hard to spot him from one picture to another. Although he admits that celluloid is still a somewhat unfamiliar medium for self-expression to him he ap proached Hollywood and the new life which only filmland's fabulous fantasies could evoke.

The generous young Santa Claus who forgot his lines was born on Christmas Day (which is fair enough) in the city of Temesvar, Hungary, the son of Herman Bromberg and Josephine Roth. And just two years later the family moved to America, settling immediately in New York city. Herman Bromberg partook of that middle class social strata which held it undignified to work, in much the same way that columnists and Southerners regard the hallowed dignity of labor. So the little family, consisting of Herman and Josephine and Edward and his two sisters, subsisted variously on what Bromberg pere was able to provide through odd jobs, and more substantially on what Bromberg pere provided as purveyor of fancy needlework. After graduation from public school No.

10 in the Bronx and Stuyvesant high school, he spent two years at C. C. N. Y. before getting out into the world to earn his livelihood.

The first eight years as a breadwinner he spent as a silk salesman, candy manufacturer and laundry worker. With each succeeding job his distaste for this kind of work deepened, and his desire to become an actor crys "He stale my hecrt so I stale his pajamas' on the Green Bar ltd. with LAURENCE OLIVIER and turns eJWNES ralph Richardson 3 Miles North of Capitol Drire DANCING EVERY NITE Music by FRAIIX mm NO SSiTSSr." AMY TIME GRID'S ORCHESTRA DELICIOUS HILLTOP FOOD 9937 for Weddings and Parties mm GIN BUCKS HI BALLS Club Available.