Word: torozko
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bride of Torozko (by Otto Indig; Gilbert Miller and Herman Shumlin, producers). When the recorder of Torozko, Rumania, looks up the birth credentials of the village belle, he finds that she is not, as she thinks, the daughter of Catholic peasants but a Jewish foundling. Klari (Jean Arthur) promptly breaks her engagement to the village tosspot, goes to live with a kindly old Hebrew publican (Sam Jaffe), learns to like the Talmud. The town recorder looks into the matter further and discovers that Klari is neither Jew nor Catholic but a Protestant foundling. She shuts the Talmud and reopens...
...amiable racial controversies in The Bride of Torozko are decorated by observations like the publican's: "Everyone should be a Jew for four weeks. As for me, two weeks would be enough." It contains its complement of minor characters: a simpleton, a schoolmaster. Klari's girlfriend. If it bad been transplanted, like Sidney Howard's The Late Christopher Bean, instead of merely translated, by Ruth Langner, its merits as a play might have been more apparent...
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