The Texas Jewish Herald (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 1, 1931 Page: 3 of 8
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BY THE WAY
After The Ball Is Over
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
Diary Of A Day
WITH JEWESS AT HELM
Up, breakfast and board the sub-
Hinstein and
marvelling that people make
something they
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Broadway," a picture that deserves
the attention of all theatregoers who
are interested in first rate, intelli-
gent and hilarious comedy.
Special attention is called to the
Mid Nite New Years Eve Frolic at
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THE TEN MAJOR JEWISH
NEWS STORIES OF 1930
sit on a pretty girl's lap,
seems like a minute."
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Hollywood adventures are the scan
dal of the family. Causing more ex
citement than you’d think possible
Newspapers report the passing of
Charles K Harris, author of "After LA SCALA OPENS NEW YEAR
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There used to be a little book in the
New York library, containing some
of these adolescent and sentimental
effusions of Mencken himself, but
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played by Ina Claire, herself one of
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and ten big acts on the stage. In
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I ways most enthusi
Jw caused Meh genwine anguish
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so great
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outlook on life to ever have been
have applauded ecstatically
Consider religion.
true, the Germans
Lieutenant Rice began his melo-
t the theaters
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dious work in barracks of Northwest
who may not be in
called “head checks”
checks dated ahead.
was confronted with
L? i the talking screen’s hilarious adap-
3 tation of the George Kaufman —
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The most famous of all stories of'
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Toscnnini, con-
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fide from Einstein himself.
tated, maybe Ex Rabbi might
shoulders above the hundreds of between the Lipsky and Brandeis-
runs, no hits, no errors.”
But nevertheless our
the book is no more to be
to which 1 50 years of the company’s history.
what his theory was, Professor Ein-
who directed
many years.
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6j1 duced by Paramount, “The Royal j
E Family of Broadway” is a buoyant,
135 • belsterous and biting comedy that
WR: tells one of the most amusing stories
it is possible to imagine. From begin-
ning to end it pokes fun, gay and
meaningful, in the general direction
of a theatrical family you probably
know by name as well as reputation.
However, in this picture the family
from here to the heaven,
thope, Harris has gone.
and citement over the possibility of peace Mencken may have been responsible
when the mathematicians gather in
Marie Dressier and Polly Moran,
those screamingly funng "Caught
Short” girls, will be seen this week
at Loew’s State Theatre in “Reduc-
ing,” which, as its title suggests, has
to do with getting thin. The laughs,
however, come fast and furiously
stories seem to stand head
dish, handsome heart-breaker and re
nowned stage and screen star whose
brities. Mary Brian as Gwen Caven-
dish and Henrietta Grosman as the
delight to watch the gold rush days, David Belasco’s
“Girl of the Golden West, opened
actress of the legitimate stage, is
most distinguished statesmen in the
world, including England’s outstand-
ing leaders, that gave cause for one
of the greatest demonstrations of
world-wide Jewish unity in the form
t hat assistant to Arturo
dramatic qualities and the length ofihiiez ine daudeis-ach givup.ini
time during which they remained been ousted from the organization
front page news the following ten the convention was in a fever of ex-' there and gossip has it, that H.
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EESmthpicture, said to be a take-off on
EE w "home" life of one of America’s
Mfndoa , theatrical fami-
SFl* are Mary Brian, Henrietta’ Cros-
iff a veteran of the stage, and
#, Amnold Korff.
2" “The Royal Family Of Broadway”
incomprehensible.
It's the inscru-
Le- many other things, particularly of
news the gentle art of making money,
no with conditions being what they are
today and I told of the two Jewish*
he looked good for at least another
twenty years. If all the couples who
say on
sign a
meh a vane as this of Lovemen:
“It lan’t raining to me
Ite raining violets
On every dimpled drop I see
New flowers on the hills
it isn’t rsining rain to me
Its raining daffodils
Anita Page, Sally Eilers and Bus-
ter Collier have the main supporting
roles. . v
The stage show is headed by Gitz
Rice, famous composer of "Hinky-
Dinky Parlez Vous,” “Magnolia Gal,”
“Dear Old Pal o’ Mine” and ■ many
other famous war songs which re-
sulted in keeping up the moral of al-
lied fighting forces and his being
script. But I would rather take my
To the Civic Repertory, where Yiddish straight. And chatted of
in the spirit of progress and with appreciation of the responsibili
ties of its depositors, this institution will continue to seek new sv
enues of Service and greater facilities to meet the requirements of
an ever-increasing clientele We welcome inquiry and inspection
as to how our service will fill your banking needs.
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the opera
it. I‘cople are al
astie about the
Promenading with Jewish Tribune
Wallach, came upon Louis Popkin,
who now and then is heard, of in a
publicity way. Popkin told the one
and,elicited such wide-apread regret
and sorrow nnong world Jewry as
did the passing of Lord Balfour.
Forever associated with the Palestine
cause by virtue of having been the
author of the Balfour Declaration,
Lord Balfour's death was one of the
really big Jewish news stories of the
year.
The last two stories in this list of
ten created little stir but are never-
theless of tremendous importance.
The appointment of Isaacs as gover-
nor general of Australia, one of the
leading commonwealths in the
British Empire, and the election of
Arthur Seligman and Julius Meier as
governors of New Mexico and Ore
gon respectively were the highest po-
litical honors that had been accorded
to Jews in many years and as such
they become big naws. -
(Copyright 1910 by TflfUfophu Ageney, lnt )
came true. She is writing a
ment of the famous institution She
. . .1 r [is described as not only a first class
Music and mathematleS - the .Jew ap-
. . ... . musician and linguist, speaking 1111
pears to have a strong predllectlon
. . . ,, . . ently four languages, but also as an
of both of these. Hintsein is not . *
, .it , .. • intelligent, energetic business
the only great Jewish mathematician.
T1 . ‘ . it. woman, fitted to cope with th<* sen
He is thi greatest porhapF, but the
, . v • i ons financial prebems which now
woods are full of prominent Jewish
. , , face 1 .a Scala.
mathematicians. I remember once
listening to a listing of the promi
waltzed to his melodies
Signorina Anita Colombo is now the
director of La Scala, having been
of bitter protest
Mounted Police, where he organized
his unusual singing band which has
accompanied him throughout the
United States and Canada in vaude-
ville appearances.
The remainder of the vaudeville
program has a comic tendency, in-
cluding the acrobatic opening act.
fied, he wrote songs- What’ll I d
book, Library series and are reputed to
I i <» dhat post following the
The last twelve months have been
replete with momentous happenings
in world Jewry. Palestine, Russia,
Roumania, Germany and the United
States have loomed large on the
news horizon. Jewish news was
never so much in the spotlight as in
1930 and as the year passes into the
limbo of history it is well to sum-
marize the outstanding news stories
of the year and to select the ten
which are of major importance.
In the order of their importance,
amount of interest engendered in
Jewish and general circles, their
the inexperience of Marie
as their
slaves Miss Steinberg for Eva
Gallienne. To our query for
came the response: “Nothing
But going back to Robert Love-
man, my private detectives inform
me that Robert Loveman was the
idol of H. I- Mencken in his youth,
and that the Loveman family still
possesses a number of letters which
the youthful Henry wrote to Love-
man, telling him how much his poems
meant to him. Probably today,
Mencken would give a small fortune
to burn up these letters. In his
youth, youthful Harry was quite as
sentimental as the rest of them.
will say Einstein was
and the French will say
things that are a
and listen to.
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the way, began his musical composi-
tion as the result of some unhappy
love episode. Song writers should
always be unhappy Consider Irving
drwhobnobcevattavsienZuzedth. nitd"fron wah“reeEtabiBsheddwado for the votary of the Dionysian
last year, big news and it became even bigger
i. The issuanc of the British because of the dramatic way in known to
the Ball” and “Break the News to i
Mother.” Saw him only recently and I
who is a Jewess besides, in complete
command for the' first time in the
wall for a second term.
Sam Mayerovitch was elected a
name is referred to as (’avendish.
muse ductor of the n
was promoted o
others connected
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Tredrie March, who recently
ded-a hit in "Laughter,” and Ina
bkre, the distinguished actress of
wlegitimate stage, are the featured
bum in the new Paramount
Gmady, “The Royal Family of
Iwhs," coming to the Metro-
n theatre, starting Friday. Also
vently cast in this intimate and '
' are merely
When Ginsburg
opus is to be a history ' public eye, and an for myself I
suspicions boys who had bought out the Modern
lovable, tyrannical grandmother,
6" F Fanny Cavendish, are also well cast.
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k “rected "The Royal Family of
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stein told a friend. “If
Harris wrote them, were placed side
by side, they would reach almost
Berlin. As long as he
check, ns of say, January 5th.
“Well, it appears that Ginsburg,
who was eternally writing “head
checks,” died and his friends placed
on thd tombstone:
Here lies Jacob Giinsburg
He died June 6 as of July 2nd.
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Meme • On the stage starting Friday
Az8zm,* Jlmmy Ellard and the Met Stage No.
M 8, Band in "Ole Virginny" featur-
"mi ing Slim Timblin and Co., Pauline
w Gaskins, The California Cropners
aw^ tho Mary Read Tiller Girls, also
as who is not, for as the poet ob- be clearing $35,000 each
convention, it looks like Shavucuth important .role in the recent munici
at some Synagogue pal elections in the various cities and
Music and mathematics does not, towns of Ontario. Besides David
Bertrand Russell says somewhtere Kroll, prominent Jewish barrister
that they are very much akin -that who was elected mayor of Windsor,
music is really only a form of giori another Jew, Aaron Horowitz, was
fied counting, except that .you count re-elected chief magistrate of Corn
committed suicide but for mathe- member of the Rockland town
8. The arres of the Minsk rabbis.
4. The Mandates Commission’s
statement on Palestine.
6. The anti-Semitic riot in Berlin.
fl. The anti-Semitic outbreak in
Roumania.
7. The establishment of a united
front in American Zionism.
8. The death of Lord Balfour.
9. Appointment of Jews as gov-
ernors in Oregon and New Mexico.
Of these ten major Jewish news
stories in 1930 five bear directly on
some aspect of Zionism. Three have
to do with persecution of the Jews.
One deals with the death of a promi-
nent personage and two treat of high
honors that have come te.Jews. Ex-
clusive of the Zionist stories five
countries are represented in the list
of ten.
Each of the ten stories here se-
lected were of interest not only*to
Jews but to the general newspaper
reader. They were all reported ex-
tensively in the non-Jewish press
while the Jewish press played them
up heavily. Each of these stories
affected not only a handful of Jews
of the Jews of one country but had
repercussions throughout the Jewish
world.
That the issuance of the White
Paper and the Simpson Report was
the most outstanding Jewish news
story of the year fow will dispute.
Documents, that led to the resigna-
tion of Dr. Chaim Weizmann, Lord
Melchett and Felix M. Warburg
from their posts in the Jewish
Agency, that caused riots in Poland,
that led to protests by some of the
table that explains its lasting grip.
At the ffice, meet X who asks
if I have heard Einstein', latest defi-
nition of relativity.
"I devoutly pray you me not go
ing to spring <he one about 'when
you sit on a red hot stove,.' a minute
seems like an eternity and when you
But as usual, all these cogitations
are but apples of Sodom collapsing
and crumbling as one takes them
into hand
And so home and to bed
(Fopvrighr 19301v l.tmh l 1gen., i,i I
Montreal. (JTA) Jew play d an
By BERNARD POSTAL
Editor’s Note: When the historian
comes to write the story of 20th cen-
tury Jewry he will find the year
1930 looming as one of the most im-
portant of the century. Few years
since the War have been productive
of such dramatic and significant de-
velopments in World Jewry. This
article by the news editor of the
Jewish Telegraphio Agency recalls
he considers the fen major Jewish
news stories of the year.)
And so, an anthology of Southern
verse is planning to devote some six-
teen pages to the works of Robert
Loveman of Dalton, Ga., who au-
thored among other things the "It
isn’t raining to me" ballad. I have
been told that some cousin of the
Lite Dixie poet a lawyer is presi-
dent of a Brooklyn synagogue. Let
those who think of Jews so frequent-
ly in terms of the revolutionist con-
sider the case of Loveman. Here
was a poet of "sweetness and light"
in all its glory, particularly of sweet-
ness. A cousin of this Robert Love-
man, by the way, Sam Loveman, if
I recall correctly Wrote things of a
more acid constitution He was a
friend of Ambrose Bierce.
a mind like his was international.
Whereas, if the theory proves un-
sound. the Frem h will say Einstein
was a Gierman and the Germans will
say be was a Jew. That’s relativ-
ity "
That, too, X. I have heard before,
but I can use it in my business .
whab, with the depression, what it
is.....
} 1 . be thrill picture of the year opened
* Thursday, Jan.- 1, at the Kirby Thea-
0 itre.
0” . It is “The Bat Whispers,” Roland
3 West’s production for United Artists,
M featuring that dynamic young actor
Ee Cheater Morris.
d The production is a succession of
2 -ramatic, myatifying situations with
EMSacuicely a pause for breath. The
0 grcomedy moments are splendid. Gen-
EX” uine laughter is provoked by three
MMtmm-makers drawn from the stage,
HBES8Mnnde Eburne, Charles Dow Clark
EMifhnd .Spencer Charters.
Net Went, who makes only one picture
EMKear, has turned out the liveliest
EMben of entertainment in town. The
Mehara work is unusual, replete with
E2bi dhrifying shots and strange angles.
HH^MkteMat never lags for a moment
BBSs* the time "the bat" commits his
' erfane until he is unmasked at
md gend.
BENfoalot of "The Bat Whispers" is
md6ohzrom a sensationally successful
Ederby Mary Roberts Rinehart and
Mbb Hopwood produced on the
mabu Wagenhals and Kemper. The
mhdk”nd a record run in New York
mbbib. every important city in the
Einas well.
mfda a request from the Kirby
you’ve seen the show
IE momhbmlse the secret to your
Edsik you'll spoil the real kick
Eam2.. Yau had to guess. Let
Harriet Beecher Stowe.
"Well, is Santa Claus being good
to you?” she queried. "Don’t you
know that Santa Claus doesn’t visit
Jewish boys?” I replied.
And thence to the printery, where
I was shown a novelty, a book of
Yiddish poems, ptinted in the Latin
final effects have yet to be seen cer-
tainly take rank with news of the
first water.
A close second to the White Paper
and the Simpson report in news im-
portance was the report of the Shaw
Commission. Hardly less impressive
than the "protests called forth by the
more recent documents were those
elicited by the Shaw Commission re-
port. Practically every Jewish news
paper in the world published long
extracts from this report. The dis-
cussion over it lingered for weeks.
The criticism was unending. As
major news it was surpassed only by
the White Paper and the Simpson
Report.
The arrest of the Minsk rabbis at
the height of the Russion drive on
religion aroused world wide protest.
Jews and non-Jews joined in a huge
torrent of protest. When the news
came that the rabbis faced death a
thunderous wave of revulsion against
the Soviets shook the world. The
rabbis were the leading actors in a
tremendously powerful world drama
of persecution. From the dramatic
elements alone this story merits in-
clusfon in this list.
Although having little of the sen-
sational in it the Mandates Commis-
sion's statement on Palestine ws a
document‘of the utmost importance
to the Zionist movement. Its criti-
cism of the British government’s pol-
icy in Palestine places it high in the
annals of Zionist history and as such
it is extremely important Jewish
news.
The outburst of anti-Semitic riot-
ing in thesatreets of Berlin when the.
new Reichstag opened its sessions
was one of the biggest pieces of Jew-
ish news of the year. Anti-Jewish
rioting was common enough in Rou-
mania, Poland and Hungary but it
was entirely unlooked for in Ger
many. The element of surprise and
the fact that civilized Germany had
given birth to such an outbreak com-
bined to make this even a first-rate
Jewish news story.
Riots in Roumania were nothing
new but when widespread anti-Semi
tic disturbances took place in that
country under the Maniu administra-
tion, a government that had been ex-
pected to suppress such manifesta-
tions, public opinion in Roumania
and abroad was aroused to a new
pitch. The fact that the troubles
were not localized and signs that
high government officials were in-
directly cesponsible kept this news
in the front pages for many days.
What was probably one of the best
Jewish news stories’ of the decade
was the result of the 33rd annual
convention of the Zionist Organiza-
tion of America. Meeting nine years
nent ones by P’rofessor Brodsky of Aaron Horowitz Re-Elected
England, who is quite some pumpkin Mayor of Cornwall
with Ann Harding as the girl.
The story is a drama that is vital
in its simplicity and stark in its
revelation of human passions run-
ning high against a background of
greed for gold.
It is a love story of redemption
and regeneration, James Rennie play
ing the lead, Dick Johnson, who is
also secretly known as Ramirrez, the
road agent. Rennie is simply splen-
•did in this part, and gives a char-
acterization that is filled with the
spirit of the old West.
Harry Bannister is highly effective
as Jack Rance, the sheriff, who loves
the girl, but is rejected by her. Es-
pecial praise is due to the casting of
a number of small but important
character parts, among them those
played by Ben Hendricks Jr., J. Far-
rell MacDonald, George Cooper, John
Walker, Arthur Stone, Arthur Hous-
man and Joe Girard.
“The Girl of the Golden West,” as
a picture, is taken from the original
play, and not from the grand opera
version which appeared later.
The action of the story moves
fast, and the interest is always tense.
John Francis Dillon, the director, has
obtained the true flavor of the gold
rush days.
The screen version of the Belasco
play, the additional dialogue, were
written by Waldemer Young. One
of the features of the story is the
novel twist at he ending.
“Girl of he Golden W est” is a
picture that you can’t afford to miss.
of the Fourteenth St. Theatre, and
being an institution where such '
actors as Booth, Laura Keane and
other celebrities of the years that
are no more played it should have ,
plenty of throbs.
served, anyone may write a book, but share, annually S. W proffered the
who can write a tree—or something idea of ghosting the confessim of
to the same purpose Anyway, Miss | some witness now very much in the
Milan. (JTA). The new ci
at La Scala, famous Milano o 1
matics. . He had reached the point cil after having served eight years
where he decided that for himself as trustee of the Rockland public
life was not worth the candle—but-school board and the last four years
he wanted to learn a little more as its chairman. The Jewish aiderman
mathematics before he took the gained his seat in the town council
grand leap. by a large majority, thourh 10 i
And now—he seems so completely cent of, the Rockland population is
,, , . . .... French (many of them readers of
cured, that he writes books on I lap
,. the Goglu and other anti Semitic
piness.
publications) and the Mayerov itches
At the library met L C daughter the only Jewish family in the town
of Presbyterian clergyman from where the elder Mayerovitch settled
Texas who is writing biography of 23 years' ago.
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