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THE WISCONSIN JEWISH CHRONICLE October 11, 1935 WARNER THEATRE JUNIOR HADASSAH JULIUS HUEHN GUEST SOLOIST ON FORD HOUR Survey Shows Jews Don't "Talk With Their Hands" LIGHTS from SHADOWLAND tough days when he first landed in Hollywood. As he recalls them now he tells a gruelling tale of his privations. "In fact," he invariably says, "I was so hard up I was starting to run out of Eddie's money." Interesting Facts About Interesting People Lupita Tovar is being starred by Universal in Spanish-English versions of some of their films. She is the wife of Paul Koerner, Jewish associate Producer at the same studios Nathaniel W. Finston, music department director at Paramount, is a brother-in-law of Nat Shilkret and a cousin of Joseph Gollomb and Zoe Beckley, a trio well known in American music circles.

Finston is a native son of New York. His brilliant career included service with the Russian Symphony Orchestra, New York Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, two and a half years as assistant conductor at the Rialto theatre in New York, conductor of the Capitol theatre's 74-piece orchestra in that city, five years with Balaban and Katz in Chicago which led to him being placed in charge of all music for the great Publix Theatre chain in the U.S.A. In millions of homes his music is also familiar through the medium of orchestral records made for Victor, Columbia and Pathe David Diamond, another New Yorker, was the first in the motion picture little-theatre movement in the United States Sally Eileis correct name is Dorothea Sally Eilers and she was born in 1909, the only daughter of Peter and Pauline (Schoenberger) Eilers June Clayworth (yes, she's Jewish) first saw the light of day at Wilkesbarre, Pa. While studying at the Emerson College of Oratory in Boston she too, dreamed of a career on the stage. Her friends describe her as a linguist speaking French, Italian and Spanish, and say she is one of the smartest dressed actresses the New York stage ever yielded to the motion pictures.

New York. (WNS) Contrary to the popular idea the Jew does not and cannot "talk with his That's the conclusion reached by Prof. Franz Boas, professor of anthropology at Columbia University; Dr. David Ef-ron, psychologist of the University of Buenos Aires; and Stuyvesant Van Veen, American artist, following an exhaustive study of commonplace gestures employed in "Little the East Side of New York and on the campuses of various colleges in New York City. This unique study revealed that the Jew's gestures are seldom pictorial and never symbolic, except in religious ritual.

Removed from his speech, the gesticulation of the Jew is practically meaningless, for "instead of using hand and arm to describe, in space, the form of his ideas, the Jew uses them rather as a baton to relate one idea to another, or to trace the pattern of his thought." The study further showed that racial gestures tend to disappear under the influence of American environment. Reinhardt to Become American Citizen New York. (WNS) Max Reinhardt will become an American citizen and settle permanently in California, the world-famous theatrical director announced on his return from Europe to assume full charge of Meyer W. Weisgal's production of Franz Wer-fel's mammoth Biblical spectacle, "The Road of Promise." Reinhardt revealed that this work will have a cast of 300 and a ckorus of 100, all of whom will be Americans, except the heroine, who will be Frau Reinhardt. The noted director also disclosed plans for establishing an academy to train young actors, dancers and singers, both for the movies and the legitimate stage, because of the invasion of Hollywood by the stars of Broadway.

Soviet Press Marks 30th Birthday of Einstein Theory Moscow. (JTA) The entire Soviet press is running special articles to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the publication of Prof. Einstein's relativity theory. Pointing out that Einstein's article "Relativity Special and General Theory," which first appeared in a German-language scientific publication in 1905, was one of the greatest contributions to the scientific knowledge of humanity, the papers strongly emphasize the barbarity of the Nazis in Germany who drive Einstein into exile. The members of Junior Hadassah are.

eagerly looking forward to the next meeting of the group which takes place on Monday night, Oct. 14. The first meeting of this month will be dedicated to dramatics and music. Arline Kaiser, a well-known reader, will read from the Symphony of Six Million and Mildred Zetley, contralto, will sing an aria from Bizet's Carmen. Announcements of the clubs' many activites in dramatics, debate, music, and athletics will also be made at this meeting.

October is being named Hadassah tea month, for on each Sunday of the month, a tea is being given for members and their friends. These teas are to be held at the homes of Junior. Hadassah sponsors. On Nov. 24, Junior Hadassah will hold its annual winter dinner dance at the Schroeder.

The grand dining room will be arranged in cabaret style for the affair. A second edition of the Spy Glass, the club's scandal sheet, is being edited for distribution the last meeting of the month. This tiny newspaper, whose editors are anonymous, supplies the club members with news. SOCIOLOGIST TO SPEAK ON SOVIET RUSSIA TO COUNCIL JEWISH JUNIORS The Milwaukee section of the National Council of Jewish Juniors will hold its general meeting of the month Sunday afternoon, Oct. 13, at Temple Emanu-El B'ne Jeshurun.

Dr. Philip H. Person, associate professor of Sociology and chairman of the Sociology department of the University of Wisconsin Extention division, will speak on "Women in Soviet Dr. Person has traveled extensively and has made a thorough study of Russia. Included on this program will be Hungarian and Russian melodies played by a string trio from the Wisconsin College of Music, under the direction of Arthur Griebling.

Miss Irene Broude, program chairman and her committee have worked arduously to make this program an outstanding event. Members are urged to attend this meeting promptly at 2:30 p. m. The membership committee headed by Betty Rosen and Sera Domnifcz have been campaigning strenuously to swell the list of members. Prizes are offered the girls bringing in the most members.

The first group meeting of the season took place at the home of Evelyn Margoles, N. Seventh street, Tuesday, Oct. 8 when members turned out to hear interesting discussions concerning the work of this new civics, peace and government group. Sona Schier, drama chairman, has secured the studios of the West Side College of Music at 4533 W. North avenue for Monday night, Oct.

21. Novel suggestions for the November peace program will be welcomed. The meaning of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur will be explained Tuesday, Oct. 15 at the home of Ida Mart, religion chairman at 2169 Forty-seventh street. This group hopes to further its project begun last year to provide a Jewish education for one child.

"Now in November" by Josephine Johnson, Pulitzer prize novel, will be reviewed at Chairman Sonia Milav-sky's home, 5010 W. Burleigh street, Monday evening, Oct. 28. The first meeting of the philanthropy group will be held at the home of Helen Kreilsheimer, 2443 N. Cramer street, Tuesday, Oct.

22. Georges Bizet's famous opera "Carmen" will be outlined and discussed in preparation for scenes of the production which the music group plans to present at some later date under the direction of Mildred Zetley and Fannie Bindler. The first meeting will be held Sunday afternoon at 4215 W. Highland avenue. The horseback riding crowd will go out to Joy Farms every Thursday evening.

The first outing for hikers under the leadership of Esther Spero, athletic chairman, will take place Sunday, Oct. 27, weather permitting. Everybody will meet on E. Locust and N. Oakland avenue at 10:15 p.

m. The walk will commence from the end of the Oakland street car line at Fox Point and continue to Doctor's Park. Among those leaving for the Ninth Biennial convention of the National Council of Jewish Juniors at Washington, D. Oct. 20-24 are Elinore Rosenthal, president, Rose J.

Czech, honorary president and S. Bernice Wol-pert, national program chairman. Two Rabbis Join Italian Army in Eritrea Rome. (JTA) Two rabbis have joined the. Italian army in Eritrea to minister to the large number of Jewish volunteers, it was announced here last week.

Julius Huehn, the brilliant young bass-baritone who made his operatic debut with the Metropolitan last season and his radio debut in the Ford Sunday Evenng Hour broadcast of 1' A i JULIUS HUEHN June 23, will return to the Ford Sunday Evening Hour as guest soloist Oct. 13. The program, which presents also the music of the Ford Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, under Victor Kolar, is heard from 9 to 10 o'clock, Eastern Standard Time, over the complete coast-to-coast network of the Columbia Broadcasting System. Rabbi Brickner Asks Pope Lead Religious Crusade For Peace to Cleveland. (WNS) Citing war, poverty and dictatorship as mankind's three major sins, Rabbi Barnett R.

Brickner of Euclid Avenue Temple, in a Yom Kippur message broadcast over a nation-wide hook-up urged Pope Pius to take the initiatve in mobilizing world public opinion for an international crusade against war. Emphasizing that "it behooves religiously-minded people, whether Jews, Christians or Mohammedans, to unite and rouse public opinion the world over against war," Rabbi Brickner expressed the hope that Pope Pius, "whose interest in the accord of peace has frequently been expressed, will see fit to lead the religious forces of the world in this crusade for world peace." FRIDAY EVENING Nov. 8, 1935 8:15 O'CLOCK BETTE i to 6 P. M. i 40C to Close HARRY SANDERS Presents THE DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN XEGRO BARITONE IPAUJIL mdDDBIE SdDM IN CONCERT FIRST ABEARANCE IN THREE YEARS By LOUIS PEKARSKY (Seven Arts Hollywood Correspondent Marta Eggerth Arrives That vivacious blonde Hungarian-Jewish star of grand opera, concert and the cinema, Marta Eggerth, joined Hollywood's fast growing ranks of musical "greats" this week when she arrived here to accept a long term contract with Universal Pictures and to begin work on her first picture for this studio in another week.

Star of 20 European pictures made in five different languages, Miss Eggerth has advantages over her operatic screen rivals in that she is younger in years and older in screen experience. Miss Eggerth made her debut on the concert stage at the age of 10. Two years later she toured the Scandinavian countries singing in eight languages. At 13 she appeared with the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra and at 14 she was prima donna with a Budapest light opera company in an opera written expressly for her by a famous Hungarian composer. When she was 16 Marta took part in 260 performances of grand opera and also began her career as a motion picture player.

Carl Laemmle met Miss Eggerth in Europe two years ago and her arrival in the world's film capital is the result of negotiations begun shortly after the Universal chief first talked with her. One film in which Miss Eggerth appeared and which was made in Rome last season has just been awarded the Mussolini Medal for outstanding artistic achievement. Two other lEggerth films have run for more than a year in Paris and Berlin. Radio appearances, operatic performances and phonographic recordings have also made this, young star one of Europe's favorites. He Is Still Tops Eddie Cantor still rates billing as pubic entertainer No.

1, as the Emanu-El of San Francisco suggests, is shown by the fact that he performed with parkyakakas and Rubin-off before 15,000 persons per day for seven days for the record-breaking sum of $15,000 for that engagement at a local theatre. People stood in line for two blocks waiting to get into the theatre. Did you say there was a depression Not Musically Inclined A secretary who was not up on her music upset the equilibrium of the entire music department at Paramount recently. As an 80-piece orchestra prepared to record background music for Cecil B. DeMille's newest picture, a memorandum from the great director was received.

It stated: "Be sure the music is not Unable to understand the message, the orchestra leader called DeMille, who explained that he had dictated to the secretary: "Be" sure the music is not too Fast Songwriters Give Mack Gordon and Harry Revel a popular phrase and in about half an hour they'll turn out a hit song. This famous songwriting team wrote four songs for a new picture, all based on a common and often-used phrase such as "From the top of your head to the tip of your toes," "It takes two to make a bargain," "Without a woi'd of If you think song-writing doesn't pay, just let us remind you that last year these two Jewish boys wrote nine songs, the sales of which exceeded more than 100,000 copies each Gordon and Revel writ 26 per cent of the nation's most popular song hits That's something to try out on your piano A 4-Letter Man Phillip Reed (his real name is Milton Le Roy) was a 4-letter-man at Erasmus Hall in Brooklyn, N. Y. He displayed great prowess as a football, tennis, basketball and soccer player. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Phi.

Phil also played the violin in the school orchestra, sang in the glee club and took part in dramatics After a year at Cornell University, studying engineering, Reed decided his future was in the theatre and not in engineering. When he left Cornell to seek a stage job he went to work for a stock company in Hoboken, N. where, as he tells us, he was "overpaid to the extent of $10 per week" But let any Hollywood producer try to get him for that amount nowadays Financially Embarrassed Benny Baker, young funmaker in Paramount Pictures, has for a chum Eddie Rubin, brother of Benny Rubin, also a laugh provoker. Though he holds some sort of record for having played 12 consecutive weeks at the Palace in New York, young Baker had 'it 1 1 "Special Agent" and "Jalna" Bette Davis and Gearge Brent, are again paired as screen lovers in the new Cosmopolitan production, "Special Agent," a Warner Bros, picture, now showing at the Warner theatre. The picture reveals the inner workings of the U.S.

Treasury Department, showing an entirely new angle of the government's activities in wiping out the nation's public enemies. Brent, in the role of a newspaper reporter on a New York daily, also Bette Davis allied with the government as an undercover man, is trying to get evidence against the crooks and at the same time prevent the murder of Miss Davis, his sweetheart, who unwittingly has taken a job as the personal secretary to the head of the band. Others in the cast include, Ricardo Cortez, Jack LaRue, Henry O'Neill, Robert Strange, Joseph Crehan, J1. Carroll Naish and Robert Barrat. The picture was directed by William Keighley from the screen play by Laird Doyle and Abem Finkel, based on the story idea by Martin Mooney.

Also on the program is the RKO Radio picture "Jalna." Conflicts between family loyalty and marital loyalty which threaten clan ties are dramatically pictured in the screen version of the famous novel, which features a cast headed by Kay Johnson and Ian Hunter. With all parties to the cross fire of conflicting romances living under the. same roof, a situation fraught with drama and danger arises when one bride is neglected by her husband who fancies another woman, and his older brother is attracted to the new family addition. Appearing with Miss Johnson and Hunter is a cast of international favorites including Peggy Wood, David Manners, Molly Lamont, Theodore Ralph, Nigel Bruce and others. John Cromwell directed.

ANNOUNCE PRIZES IN FOOD SHOW CONTESTS Clever housewives have the opportunity to share the $111.50 in cash awards to be given at the Food Show at the Auditorium, Oct. 21-26, by the Milwaukee Retail Grocers' Association. Various contests will be held in which women can display their skill in design and originality decorating tables and preparing baskets. Contest entries are being accepted now at the Retail Grocers' Association office, 342 N. Water street.

Ingenuity and skill will win awards amounting to $35,50 in a shadow box contest. Shadow boxes may be used to brighten up corners in the home by placing the boxes in wall niches. They are made by cutting one side away from any box, covering the back with a material that has good background possibilities, and arranging inside, a display of fruit or vegetables. Prizes to be earned by entries in a "cheer-up" basket contest will total $20. Baskets or boxes for sick friends are to be filled with fruit, candy, and vegetables edible in their raw state.

Contest entries will be on display in the man arena where the principal exhibitors in the food division will have their space. The combined Food and Radio Show will occupy the entire main floor of the Auditorium. At least 200 exhibitors will participate in the show. Attorney General's Ruling Aids Needy Jewish and Catholic Children Albany, N. Y.

(WNS) Needy children attending Jewish and Catholic parochial schools in this state must not be discriminated against by public welfare officials in providing "necessaries specified to enable them to attend John J. Bennett, ruled. Ths opinion places indigent children enrolled in parochial schools within the scope of last year's law making it the duty of public welfare officials to "furnish indigent children with suitable clothing, shoes, books, food and other necessaries to enable them to attend upon instruction as hereinbefore required by law." Seven Anti-Semites Face Trial In Montreal Montreal. (WNS) Seven youthful anti-Semites are awaiting trial here on charges of having posted anti-Jewish signs in the Jewish district of Montreal. Caught removing election posters and replacing them with anti-Semitic billboards, the seven anti-Semites were taken into custody by the police and brought before Magistrate Maurice Metraux who ordered them held for trial.

FROM THE TALMUD He who gives charity in secret is greater even than Moses. There are three crowns: the crown of the law, of the priesthood, and of royalty; but the crown of a good name excels them all. Iron breaks stone, fire melts iron, water extinguishes fire, the clouds drink up water, a storm dispels clouds, man withstands the storm, fear unmans man, wine removes fear, sleep overcomes wine, and death conquers all, even sleep; but Solomon the wise says: Charity saves from Death. I "it' mm ft C.1 FIRST ROUMANIAN SICK BENEFIT SOCIETY BALL OCT. 13, AT O.K.U.V.

A social event of more than unusual interest to the community is the 20th anniversary ball to be given by the First Roumanian Sick Benefit Society on Sunday evening, Oct. 13, at the O.K.U.V. ballroom, Twelfth and North avenue. Joe Smith's orchestra will play. B.

Mendelsohn, chairman of the ball, assures those attending a truly enjoyable time. He pointed out that attendance at this affair will be of double benefit socially to those who attend and financially to the society which is doing a constructive work in the community. The society is sparing no efforts to make the dance one of the highlights of the social season. A cordial invitation is extended to all. PAUL ROBESON CONCERT AT AUDITORIUM, NOV.

8 After a season abroad, Paul Robeson, the Negro singer, has returned for a concert tour in America, the scene of his first sensational successes as the superb of Negro spirituals and classic song literature and as an actor of the highest rank. Mr. Robeson will be heard at Milwaukee Auditorium on Friday, Nov. 8. To follow the career of Paul Robeson is to read of meteoric achievement not in one field of endeavor but in PAUL ROBESON many.

Acclaimed as a football hero while at Rutgers College where he gained his letter in four sports football, baseball, basketball and track Mr. Robeson was picked as All American end by the sports writers for 1917. Upon his graduation, the proud possessor of a Phi Beta Kappa key, he entered Columbia University to study law only to leave with his degree attained to accept a role in Eugene O'Neill's "Emperor Jones" which the famous playwright had persuaded him to play. His success as an actor was instantatneous and due to his dynamic personality and extraordinarily superb diction, Robeson was further acclaimed in "All God's Chillun," "Por-gy," and "Black Boy," a play written especially for his creation. With all Mr.

Robeson's success on the stage, however, he has centered his attention upon the interpretation of the songs of his people. The Evening Post New York states that "this Negro is a person. He is a man of power with a beautiful voice, warm and rich, capable of great variety of shading from a biting hardness to the softest racial mellowness and with the gift of singing. A sort of basso, big like himself, he is a tremendous fellow, with a timbre distinctive of his people." Those planning to attend the concert are urged to make their reservations early because of the fact that many seats will be taken by visiting teachers who will be in the city at that time for their annual convention. Oldest Palestine Jew, 116, Dies in Haifa Haifa.

(JTA) Believed to be the oldest Jew in Palestine, Ephraim Aaroni, 116 years old, is dead here. 1 Milwaukee Auditorium PRICES 40c. 55c. 85c. $1.10 and $1.65: Box Seats.

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