The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle from Milwaukee, Wisconsin • Page 79

September 27, 1946 THE WISCONSIN JEWISH CHRONICLE 7 Paul Muni (Contioord from Pace 3) first English-speaking role, yet Dreyfus; or the stolid idealistic- A Very Happy New Year to All Our Friends and Patrons! one of the ill-informed critics, Mexican Indian who defied Luro- Sincerest Greetings for a Happy New Year! FARBER'S 1 Dave and Max Schuster pean despotism and imperialism who was thrilled by his perforin and established democracy in Mexico, Muni always carried an important message to the public, a ance, expressed his pity about the fact that "this old man should I have spent a lifetime waiting for a chance to appear on Broadway." message that could not be misun- Those who know good food know they get the Best here. KOSHER RESTAURANT Full Course Meals Served IN OCR New Restaurant AT 106 W. WELLS STREET Cawker Bldg. extend best wishes for A HAPPY NEW YEAR! and invite you td enjoy a refreshing visit to the APE III HI- AIR-CONDITIONED In any event, Muni was a tremen-! derstood. Perhaps this "man of dous success and John Golden soon many faces," this "man who is al gave him a larger role, that of Ben- ways somebody else" is so great i ny Horowitz, a sturdy young tough I because of his faculty of complete-; just out of prison, in the hit drama ly submerging his ego into the "Four Walla'' by Dana Burnet and personality he is portraying.

You i George Abbot. may say, after leaving the movi'- Not Always Successful I nouse wasnt he? But after leavinr Thereafter Paul Muni, as he Muni's movies you feel like ex called himself, had his ups and claiming: That great idealist Pas-downs like every actor. Not all tour, that brave man Zola! of his ventures were equally sue-1 icessful. But he never lowered on 'Oscar in 1936 I his standards nor did he under- After his appearance in "The estimate the intelligence of his story of Louis Pasteur," Muni audience. He worked as conscien- ws nrnrlninipH the hest of the Milwaukee's Most Unique Dining Retreat male actors in 193(5 by the Acad nousiy as oniy iew contemporary actors are known to do and he created at least a half dozen roles emy of Motion Picture Arts anc! Si'ienres.

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THIRD STREET BRoadway 2972 thanks to Muni's presentation we for the formation of Canada's I remember every episode in the Hudson Bay company in "Hudson I ghetto boy's meteoric rise from ob- Bay;" as a leader of the Nor-scurity to a place of power and wegian underground in "Comman-j glory, his struggle for justice, and dos Strike at Dawn;" as a Russian I his personal tragedy (he is being guerilla in "Counter Attack;" and I deserted by his gentile wife and as Chopin's music teacher in "A her children from an earlier mar-1 Song to Remember." "Famous for the Finest Food If none of his later performances reached the artistic heights of his earlier ones, this was not tr I riage.) I remember how the first act left me cold but when, in the second act, Mr. Simon made his -A Happy New Year to All My Friends and Customers! TED JAMIESON of Ted Jamieson's Inn On Highway 57 2 Miles North of Brown Deer a lessening of his genius, but appearance the stage was trans-j the weakness of the scripts th Really GOOD FOOD Well Prepared Tastefully Served I formed into something that was did not permit him to develop hi vehemently alive and we, the au gifts completely. However, hp Lowest Prices AT dience, began to breathe heavily. For Muni was not Muni, but New York Jewish attorney fighting against fate, prejudice and injustice, with all his amiable, strong personality. Passion for Truth Muni's passion for truth mani- Enjoy DELIGHTFUL DANCING AT THE Wisconsin HBoof 710 N.

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Through react," he once said. "Actors mus- do the same." At another from the I muni taugnt nis audience, user to thrillers, melodramas or comedies, stern lesson, as he did through most of his other movie; which broke the rules of Holly- wood by aiming higher than mere time he asserted: "I try to grasr the mind of the character I'm playing. I think his thoughts and consciously they motivate my hands, my voice, my face, my body. You cannot become a good PAPPY'S MAMMY'S "Where People Who Know Best Gather" MILWAUKEE ly to entertain. "The Story of Louis actor, I believe, if you merely "The Good Earth," "The Life of imitate a character, if you art Dine at SCHUCH'S Famous for FINE FOODS Emile Zola" and "Juarez, which thinking: now I'll move my hand starred Muni were educational in now I'll shrug my shoulders, now the last analysis, yet hardly any-1 I'll get my face close to the one minded because they showed 1 camera the eternally interesting fight of Above all he is not a cynic, light against darkness, exemplified Oscar Wilde once defined a cynic by drama instead of dogma.

as person who knows the price In other words, the excited au- i of everything and the value of dience did not suspect until after nothincr. Sascha Guitry was a the show that it was being edu cynic who, knowing his price, sold Served Appetizingly in an Atmosphere of Refined Hospitality cated! Whether he portrayed the zealous French bacteriologist who braved the sneering stodgy Chinese peasant's struggle with nature: himself to the Nazis. Muni win not sell himself to anyone including those people who are interested in box-office returns only. Muni is fully aware of the intrinsic value of art, of life and of hu whether he transformed himself into the fearless French novelist fighting for innocent Captain manity. (Copyright, 1946 MOY TOY wishes his many friends A HAPPY NEW YEAR and extends a cordial invitation to visit FRANK SCHUCH, Prop.

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