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Before the first-grade class began in the Luria school in Jerusalem, there seemed little difference between the behavior of one six-year-old and another. The dark-skinned "Oriental" children, whose parents come from North Africa and the Middle East, were almost as well dressed and just as well scrubbed as the Europeans. In the scramble for seats, they showed the same giggling eagerness. But then the teacher began the lesson-and the class was promptly split...
...subject of segregation, however, the government-and many educators-are adamant. "In a few years," explains Headmistress Hadassah Brill of the Luria school, "the Europeans will be in a minority in Israel. We must integrate with the Orientals to form one people, and if this isn't done in the schools it will never be done." Adds Moshe Avidor, Director General of the Ministry of Education: "Until East and West have identical standards, there is no future for Israel. Somehow these Oriental children have to be catapulted from the Middle Ages or earlier to the 20th century, from...
Married. James Ramsay Ullman, 38, venturer and adventurer who wrote the current best-selling White Tower, produced four Broadway flops in one season (1936-37), then quit because "I like to eat"; and Elaine Heineberg Baron Luria, 27; he for the second time, she for the third; in Manhattan...
...Comic. It is entirely fitting that a playwright dramatize himself occasionally, especially if he does so with a grin. Lajos Luria, author of The Comic, prefaced this work as follows: "Lajos Luria is the pseudonym of one of Europe's most successful present day dramatists, used by him only when writing comedies and plays of a much lighter vein than his more serious dramatic and poetic works...
...dramatist should write his comedies with more wit and originality than Mr. Luria, if he hopes to perpetrate a graceful hoax. The Comic fumbles with a situation in which an actor convinces a playwright that a certain scene needs rewriting, by maneuvering the playwright into a nervous predicament with the leading lady. The Manhattan audience was more befuddled than convinced-despite the able performance of Actress Patricia Collinge...