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...Little, So Much. Some of the inquisitors extracted embarrassing admissions. Sonotone Corp.'s Chairman Irving I. Schachtel was obliged to report that most people so dislike wearing hearing aids that when his company tried to give 1,000 of them free to needy deaf children, there were only 700 takers. TelAutograph Corp.'s President Raymond E. Lee had to admit that his company lost money because it could not produce and deliver the electronic machine it had designed to send handwriting over telephone lines...
Spiritual father of the Houston statement was Beth Israel Trustee Leopold L. Meyer. But the congregation's young Rab bi Hyman Judah Schachtel, son of an Orthodox cantor, got a few hard raps. He had come to Houston from Manhattan's West End Synagogue only three weeks be fore the principles were adopted. But he stood by them. Said he: "If I had written the principles I would have made some changes. I endorse them in the main. . . . Our congregation does not oppose Zion ism. We simply do not participate...
Curtain Call (by LeRoy Bailey; Quigley-Schachtel Inc., producers) is interesting as a nearly perfect example of a bad play. In his stage-struck youth. Author Bailey joined the company of the illustrious Eleanora Duse in Pittsburgh, did odd jobs for nothing while he studied backstage life and listened to Duse's reminiscences. Curtain Call is a futile and impertinent attempt to stir the ashes of Duse's affair with Gabriele D' Annunzio. Feebly directed and stuffily acted by Ara Gerald and a supporting cast which includes Elaine Cordner, Selena Royle and Guido Nadzo, it achieved...
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