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...Ludwig Lewisohn, Jewish author who has suffered from Christian ostracism, recommends in his new book, Midchannel, that states invest rabbis with full legal powers in affairs affecting Jews, especially concerning marriage and divorce. Several European countries have such autonomous courts. Manhattan has an extra-legal one whose chief function has become the smoothing of disputes between Jewish manufacturers and tradesmen...
...ever since the concerts began eleven years ago, has never missed a performance. For denizens of Manhattan who prefer cigaret smoking to gum-chewing, Willem van Hoogstraten to Franko Goldman, and paying 25? to $1 for a seat to listening for nothing, there are the Philharmonic concerts at the Lewisohn Stadium. These are sponsored by Mrs. Charles S. Guggenheimer...
Each figure expressed an individual passionate sorrow, yet there was swaying and swooning in groups. It was extraordinarily well done. Responsible for the dramatic composition and the stage direction was Miss Irene Lewisohn.* The voices of invisible singers mingled with the orchestral sounds. The Rembrandt-like picture on the stage was but one more instrument. Conductor Nikolai Sokoloff was at his best; connoisseurs called him great...
...Irene & Alice Lewisohn, founders of the Neighborhood Playhouse, are nieces of Adolph Lewisohn (copper), donor of the famed Lewisohn Stadium, collector of Degas and Bellows pictures...
...ISLAND WITHIN- Ludwig Lewisohn-Harpers ($2.50). The author, a Jew, was evidently in a sweat of fervor when he wrote this novel. He cries out in his preface: "Then, in God's name, let us tell wiser, broader, deeper stories- stories with morals more significant and rich. . . . Let us recover, if possible, something of an epic note. To do that there is no need of high-flown words or violent actions. Only a constant sense of the streaming generations, of the processes of historic change, of the true character of man's magnificent and tragic adventure between earth...