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...costume coordinator, ex-Model Patricia Hope Bryce, that he wanted to marry her there and then. There was a problem, though: marriages between Jews and non-Jews are impossible in Israel, and Hope's Jewishness was not exactly easy to establish. Otto's solution, says Meyer Weisgal, then head of Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science, in his just published autobiography, was to promise the Weizmann Institute a $1,000,000 share in royalties from Exodus in return for Weisgal's vouching for Hope's Jewishness. Not surprisingly, the Rabbinical Court found Weisgal...
Handsome Payoff. Israelis sometimes wonder whether they can really afford such an expensive scientific establishment. Yet it regularly produces so many scientific dividends that its irrepressible president, Meyer Weisgal, 75, a former Broadway impresario, leaves on fund-raising tours with these parting words to his scientists: "Boys and girls, I am going to tell many lies about you and the Weizmann Institute. When I come back, I want all the lies to be true...
...cast will include Haliday (also manager of the theatre), Seymour Harvey '49, Jerry Kilty '49, Miles Morgan '49, Mendy Weisgal '49; Paul Sparer will handle props, and Arson Charles will be in charge of costumes...
...which had to cope with the same thing last year in rehearsals for Henry the Fourth. From that production they have learned two lessons--to wear rubber soles on your sandals and to attach your blades firmly to the hilt; a telling blow from the weapon of Monday Weisgal '45 sent his sword hurting into the wings during the climax of one show last year, where it flattened Jan Farrand...
While Mendy Weisgal '45 2G was decrying United States policy in Palestine, a rubber-masked hockler tried unsuccessfully to storm the platform...