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November 22, 1957 6 THE WISCONSIN JEWISH IHKUNH-LC I a I Willises ON THE SCREEN of aggravated despoliation is presumed to have known, already at the time of acquisition, that no legal validity attaches to such a purchase." Expenditures by the "aryanizer" were made at his own risk, continues the verdict, and it is not incumbent upon the rightful Jewish owner to provide By HUBERT C. LUFT (Copyright, 1957. JTA tTOO N. MURRAY A KTK EDfrwooJ t-ty 1-89 -77 We Call Tor and IVllrer Tour Prescription No Addition! Chart. WJC Names Dr.

Riegner LONDON (JTA) Appointment of Dr. Gerhard Riegner as director of coordination of the World Jewish Congress was announced here following the three-day quarterly meeting of the congress coordinating committee here. Dr. Riegner will also continue in his capacity as Congress representatives at the European office of the United Nations. His appointment was described as a measure to improve the effectiveness of the internal administration of the organization.

Producer George Stevens Preparing "Anne Frank" For the Cinema; Conducting Search for Actress PL. there are still Jews left when it is over," she wrote in her diary, "the Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example." Goodrich and Haekctt, in their dramatization, now in the process of being transposed to the screen, never hold up the Jews as an example. On the contrary, they over-emphasized the dreary unpleasantness of a forced collective life. On the stage, the terrible plight of the Jews who live in constant fear of deportation and a fate worse than death, does not crystallize. Hear Little of Brave Resistance We hear little of the many air raids, not feared but prayed for by the oppressed and seen as a dim ray of hope.

The brave resistance of the Dutch. Christians and Jews alike, so much admired by ft IhJ. '-viaJ MILWAUKEE Orders Return of Improved Property NUREMBERG (JTA) The Supreme Restitution Courts mixed German-American Division, which is located in this city, has ruled that in cases of aggravated "Ar-yanization" falling under the Allied Restitution Law, the property must be given back to the original Jewish owner irrespective of any improvements that have in the meantime been affected. The division's verdict in the suit at issue provided for the return to the Jewish claimant, former hotel owner Julius Schuster, of a vacant lot which he had been forced to sell in 1938 while he was a pris THE TRIBUTE OF Through the years service and thoughtfulness have Chemist Who Fled Czechoslovakia Comes to U. S.

DAVID SZAVNZVCIIT. 50-YEAR-OLD CHEMIST, AND HIS WIFE, IV ETA, 38, as they arrived in the I'nited States under the provisions of the Refugee Relief Act, with the assistance of United Ilia Service, the Jewish international migration agency. According to I'nited llias officials, Szaynzycht, who was born In Poland, lost his first wife, child, mother and sister when the family was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Upon liberation, he went to Prague, zechoslovakia, where he worked as a mechanic. When the new reeime came to ower.

he fled to Austria, where he made his wav in 1954 and. having remarried, applied to United llias to assist him in immigration to the United Stales. The Jewish Social Service Association of Cleveland has arranged housing and employment for the family. Anne, is almost ignored. Instead, we are confronted with discontent and petty thievery.

The attitude of the diary has been shifted and father Otto Frank elevated to the sole hero of the drama, thereby sacrificing the dignity of Van Daan, a Dutch Jew who originally oner in a Nazi concentration camp. The lot, located in the resort town of Bad Brueckenau, was purchased from the Nazi Party by a made (he Weiss tradition SPORTS WORLD saved the Franks, later vanished in a Nazi concentration camp and no longer can defend himst'If against the accusation of cowardice. While Anne hated the Germans for the crimes they then were committing against civilization, 'he play ends on a note of noble forgiveness. In our postwar world which, altogether, has forgotten the monstrous atrocities of our former enemies, there is no need for such an attitude. With tiie chauvinistic reawakening of Germany in mind, we should zBy Harold U.

Ribalow. German veterinarian, who built a two family house on it. During the past eight years the courts habitually held that, where so substantial an increase in value had occurred due to investments by the "aryanizer," the erstwhile Jewish owner is entitled merely to reimbursement of the market price of his property at the time it was taken. The Nuremburg tribunal reversed that judicial interpretation in an important decision several weeks ago. "By virtue of the generally recognized principles of law," argued the five judges, "he who acquired an object by means More on Bobby Fischer, the U.

S. Chess Marvel Philip J. Welti, Inc. FUNERAL DIRECTORS HOLLYWOOD Producer-director George Stevens, responsible for such motion pictures as "Shane" and "Giant," currently is preparing his cinema version of "The Diary of Anne Frank." During a recent press luncheon at Twentieth Century-Fox studios, Stevens told this columnist that to the subject matter of "The Diary" is extremely challenging. The veteran movie maker has seen the horrors of Nazism when he went into Germany after defeat, one of the first to enter the concentration camps of Dachau, Buehcnwalri and Sachsenhausen with the photographic unit of the Army S.rfnal Corps.

Mr. Stevens presently is concerned with the casting of the picture. Only one part (the one of Mr. Van Daan) has been definitely set with Lou Jacobi who created the role on Broadway and also portrayed it locally earlier this year. A world-wide search is on to find an unknown to play Anne Frank.

The movie maker has received several thousand letters from abroad, among the, hundreds from Germany, where aspiring young actresses claim they want nothing more than to redeem their 'ather-land by portraying the tortured Jewish girl on the screen, though their own parents and brothers helped to kill her. Of course, Stevens discarded such strange notions. He hoX's to find his Anne either in Amsterdam where the Frank family spent 20 months in hiding, or in Israel where she wanted to grow up and live on. Casting representative Owen Mc-Iean, now conducting auditions in New York, soon will leave for Europe to broaden the search to the other side of the Atlantic. Mar Expand Scope of Drama Concerned about the essence of the stage presentation on which the film will lean heavily, we asked the play wrighting husband-wife team of Francis GiHidrich and Albert Haekctt, who attended the press luncheon, whether or not the mental scope of the drama would be enlarged for the screen.

While we agreed with them that the motion picture should end with the arrest of the Frank and no atrocity reportage should be added, we strongly feel the background of the tragedy should be made clear in the opening sequence. The tage adaptation narrow's the plight of humanity to toe personal experience of an adolescent girl, not at all in keeping with the true spirit of Anne Frank who broke through the walls of the secret hiding place to embrace the wonders of the world. The heartbreaking entries in her diary reveal to us the opening chapters of a life that vanished without fulfillment. She was a flame, ruthlessly blown out by those responsible for the slaughter of two million Jewish children. To non-Jew Creorgc Stevens, Anne Frank and the massacres of llitlerism are svnonvmous.

He knows what the has some interesting comments to Wht 14-year-old Bobby won the United States Open Chess Championsh ip, many NORTH PARWB1 AVENUE, AT IAST KANE PLACI make: "The decline of the New York Giants began," he writes, "when Jacob Ruppert brought Babe Ruth to New York and built the Yankee Stadium. But it went even beyond that. The Irish and the Jews were warn the world never again to allow these things to happen. We discussed our deep concern with authors Goodrich and Hackett in entering the American Middle Class and the Giants were no longer fancy enough." Mr. Golden adds on observation which may not sit well with the pious, but a private conversation and hope they will see our point and bring to the screen more of the depth of "The Diary." than they had done on the stage.

"The film will be a living thing." Stevens assured us once more. In order to get a feeling of authen does illuminate the customs of the ticity, the filmmaker recently went Aimncan newspapers and maga-ztnes that pay no attention at all to chess suddenly got busy and began to check up on the young master of the chessboard. "Life" magazine devoted a picture spread to him and the "New Yorker," under the title of "Prodigy" yielded him a couple of pages. And from all these stories we learn the following: Nobody ever won a major title at so early an age as 14-year-old Bobby. He will, as a result of his new fame, participate in the Hastings, England tournament, always a top in the chess world, and, finally, he is expected to visit the Soviet Union to show off hi.s wizardry to a people even more farther advanced in chess than they are in space satellites.

Taught by Older Sister And there is a great deal more: Bobby was 6 when he first was taught the game by his older sister and at 9 he entered his first tournament, twice winning the U. S. Junior Chess Championship. A you'll appreciate Jews and others in that time: "The two biggest crowds of the regular season had always been on Good Friday in the Spring and on Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) in the Fall, when the Irish and the Jews did not have to go to work or school." Today, far fewer Jews would desecrate Yom Kippur by attending a ball game. Perhaps this, too, is a gauge of how far American Jews have come in their Jewish-ness since the early days of baseball, or the early period of Jewish immigration to the United States.

to Amsterdam to see the attic in the I'rinsengracht and to confer with Otto Frank, the only survivor from the group of eight. Anne's father recapitulated to Stevens all the details of their arrest. When the Germans came to deport hi.s family and friends, they looted the dwelling. Iooking for valuables, they pulled out drawers and slit open pillows and mattresses. They found a briefcase with personal belongings and angrily dumped its meagre contents on the floor.

Scattered about them were just books and papers. Says Racial Disturbances Compromise Our Nation BOSTON (JTA) B'nai B'rith president Philip M. Klutz-nick, a U. S. delegate to the United Nations, said here that Americans ear ago, the Mew Yorker reports, he won the brilliancy prize in the iA-ssing J.

Hosenwald Tournament in New York and the "Chess Heview" called the effort "the game of the century." The new chess hero is in his DOO While gathering their spoil, they trampled on a handwritten diary of a little girl. Today Hitler Is silenced, Stevens concluded, by a joint counteraction of the whole civilized world he stands condemned before the eyes of the world Much of the psychological evidence was made public by the slight error of live arresting officers, one German Gestapo and four Dutch Nazis, who brushed aside one of the literary gems of our generation the diary of Anne Frank. world expect from the picture and accepts his grave responsibility. Anne Frank believed that God will raise uv up again. "If we bear all tins suffering and if NO BURNING NO SCORCHING NO DOIL-OVERS Court Refuses Jurisdiction In Case Involving Mixed Synagogue Seating must approach the issue of earth satellites with "less panic, less scapegoating and more sober reflection that American ingenuity and technical advancement are not disintegrating" because the Soviet Union's crash program succeeded.

Mr. Klutznick told a dinner meeting of the Joint Defense Appeal, fund-raising arm of the American Jewish Committee and B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League, that his personal experiences in the UN General Assembly clearly indicated American leadership among the free nations "rests as much with our moral behavior as with our economic strength and technological progress." Warning that racial disturbances were "damaging compromises" to the nation's moral posture and "perhaps as great an issue in international politics as they arc a dilemma in our domestic life," the B'nai B'rith leader added: "We lose a bigger propaganda battle among the neutralist and noncom-mitted nations from such incidents as Little Rock than the Russians gain with their Sputniks." second year at Erasmus High School in Brooklyn and is a good but by no means brilliant student. teachers are amazed he sits still for as long as he does while playing chess, for "in my class," one of them declared, "Hobby couldn't sit still for five minutes." Now that he has done so re-maikably well, his mother, who used to regret his obsession for the game, is now reconciled to his becoming a professional. Most chess pros starve if they depend solely on chess, and Bobby Fischer, who seems well on his way to accomplishing fantastic things in the chess world, would In1 well advised to learn something besides mastery of the ancient game, if he wants to eat regularly, that is. The Giants Axain Although the Giants are no longer New Yorkers, the last has not yet been written about their passing from the New York scene.

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