Word: kalb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vice President and General Manager Wurlitzer Grand Piano Co. De Kalb...
ALTHOUGH STORY IN YOUR ISSUE OF FEB. 18 CORRECTLY SHOWS THAT PUBLICITY WAS MOTIVE BEHIND OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY'S BARRING OF NATHAN YAGOL FROM CAMPUS, YOU MAKE INACCURATE STATEMENT WHICH SHOULD BE CORRECTED. FIRST, YAGOL IS NOT AN INSTRUCTOR BUT A STUDENT AT EMORY UNIVERSITY. SECOND, DE KALB COUNTY GRAND JURY FOUND ABSOLUTELY NO GROUNDS FOR CHARGE THAT HE IS A COMMUNIST OR THAT HE HAS EVER ATTENDED A COMMUNIST MEETING. THIRD, OGLETHORPE FOOTBALL SQUAD NUMBERED ABOUT 30 INSTEAD OF 100 AND IT WAS INSPIRED TO ATTACK YAGOL BY COACH FRANK ANDERSON WHO SAW AN OPPORTUNITY TO ADVERTISE HIS INSTITUTION...
...Yoshe Kalb (by Fritz Blocki and Maurice Schwartz, from a novel by I. J. Singer; produced by Daniel Frohman). From 1880 to 1911, Daniel Frohman was one of Manhattan's most astute and successful theatrical producers. He started as a mailroom wrapper on the New York Tribune when Horace Greeley owned it, later became advance agent for Callender's Original Georgia Minstrels. When he started producing for himself, he gave David Belasco his first New York job, as stage manager, Frohman managed the late E. H. Sothern for nearly 25 years, leased the old Lyceum Theatre to house...
...Yoshe Kalb was first performed last year in Maurice Schwartz's Yiddish Art Theatre in lower East Side Manhattan. It prospered when such uptowners as Noel Coward and Jed Harris went to see it, told friends about it. After 82-year-old Daniel Frohman saw it he was so impressed he could not sleep, even on the floor. When later he heard that it had been done into English, he telegraphed Actor-Manager Schwartz: ''May I have the honor to produce it?'' Replied Mr. Schwartz...
...Yoslie Kalb is a sad story about a Jewish student (Horace Braham) who is seduced by the girl (Erin O'Brien-Moore ) whom a rabbi (Fritz Leiber) wants to marry and spends 15 years wandering about as Joe The Fool ("Yoshe Kalb"). Critics admired bits like a graveyard dance by an idiot girl and a candlelit trial of Joe The Fool for bigamy before 70 rabbis but found the rest dull, pompous, obscurely symbolical. After three nights. Mr. Frohman closed his first production in 22 years with an old man's sigh of dismay...