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...earnest and moral slave who repulsed the advances of the wife of his master Potiphar, because he was grateful for Potiphar's kindness and wanted no illicit fun in the first place. Joseph's nobility suffers in the theatrical version of him conceived by Playwright Bertram Bloch and performed by George Jessel. They make it quite clear that he balked at adultery not because of lofty scruples, but because he was afraid Neris would ultimately fling him to the crocodiles, her customary farewell to outworn lovers. Actor Jessel, swarthy, expressive young Hebrew, makes Joseph as glib, crafty...
...Author. Jean-Richard Bloch, 46, born in Paris of Alsatian Jewish parentage, onetime schoolteacher, onetime soldier, is one of France's leading novelists, a playwright, director of a publishing house, assistant editor of Europe. At seven he wrote imitations of Moliére; at 26 his first play was produced at the Odeon. "- & Co." was ready for the press when the War broke out, was put on sale in August 1917, the day the German army entered Montdidier (50 miles from Paris). "This circumstance was not favorable to the immediate success of the book." Author Bloch read the proofs...
Says Author Bloch's great & good friend Romain Rolland, himself a famed novelist (Jean-Christophe): "I have known and loved him as a brother for 15 years . . . these stormy 15 years which have been the touchstone of souls and of friendships have only served to consecrate our mutual faith . . . within this virile artist who thinks as he writes, and who acts as he thinks, there is a character which is the equal...
Sixty years ago Clothesman Rosenberg's father Herman founded the business which is now Fashion Park. At the same time one Nathan Stein founded another Rochester wholesale tailoring business which became Stein-Bloch, Inc. Together they grew, prospered. In time, so excellent became their clothes that retailers saw advantage in breaking the custom which demanded that a suit bear only the retailer's label. Thereafter the name Stein-Bloch or Fashion Park appeared with the retailer's name on the inside breast pocket of many a U. S. citizen's suit. Prominent among retailers to adopt...
Last February's event was the merger of Weber & Heilbroner, Fashion Park, Inc., and Stein-Bloch, Inc., into a new company called Fashion Park Associates. Rochester's Rosenberg is President. Weber & Heilbroners Lewis M. Weiller is chairman. The five groups of clothes which Fashion Park Associates will put out are Tailored at Fashion Park, Stein-Bloch, Charter House, High Gate, Tailor Guild. Thirty-two Holly controlled stores will sell them. The net incomes of the three now merged Companies last year totalled...