Word: beales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cathedral Films), as sombre as a pogrom and sometimes as bloodcurdling, tells the story of a Jewish revolt against the Romans in 30 A.D. After treating the audience to a pretty thorough study of oppression at its Roman worst, the picture knuckles down to entertaining. Joel (wistful, youthful John Beal) is leader of the Zealots, a Jewish revolutionary society. He has three problems: i) to defeat the Romans; 2) to win languid Tamar (Marjorie Cooley) who seems a little puzzled by all the excitement; 3) to convince his father, Rabbi Lamech (Maurice Moscovich), that it is better to free...
Last week, with Paramount, RKO and MGM, dickering for his picture, the Rev. Mr. Friedrich, movie producer and parson too, looked around for a typically U. S. town to test audience reaction to the film. He chose Joplin, Mo., birthplace of Cinemactor Beal...
Fugitive Mr. Beal got in bad with the Russian comrades by finding a worse situation in Soviet Russia. Said he: "I found just the conditions against which I was fighting over here. The union officials . . . ate well, but the workers were hungry and they were in rags. I never saw the equal of that misery in this country...
When he returned briefly and secretly to the U. S. in 1931 and betrayed his disillusion, a U. S. Communist told Fred Beal that the Russians should have shot him while they had him. When he returned for keeps in 1937, he was no longer a martyr to the Communists. Their International Labor Defense not only refused to aid Fred Beal but covertly discouraged all efforts to save him. He was arrested last year at his brother's home in Lawrence...
...Others (nonCommunists) who now aid Convict Beal: U. S. Senator Robert M. La Follette's cousin Suzanne, Author Eugene Lyons (Assignment in Utopia), Raleigh Editor Jonathan Daniels...