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SERIOUS THE DYBBUK-A deeply moving folk legend from the Yiddish, done magnificently into English by the Neighborhood Playhouse...
...there before me was the Mona Lisa. That was a shock. I not only did not like it, I hated it. It made me feel sick. . . . I rushed out. . . . I went back. . . . I was still horrified at thinking her so horrible. The slimy paint, like that of the Yiddish School of the present day! I listened to what people were saying. . . . 'That expression!' . . . 'Leonardo has here expressed womanhood in all her moods!' . . . 'The eternal circle!' . . . 'The masterpiece of the world!' And there was I, unable to see anything except a slimily painted...
...prizefight fans and from which circus acrobats had dangled in airy peril, was decked with the colors of the nation. The Convention restaurant, every year, had exhibited the freaks of the circus. The theatre in the building, which ordinarily was the seat of indescribable plays set forth in indescribable Yiddish, had been converted into a "Convention Club," as advertising by a large department store...
...English novel, the other tongues are not backward in their occasional donation of a cryptic phrase. Villains are at almost any moment likely to break out with a brisk donner-wetter. What would a volume by Fannie Hurst be thought of without an occasional lapse into some good expressive Yiddish? Haunch, Paunch and Jowl is plentifully spattered with the colorfully Hebraic...
Moussorgsky's "Josua Navine", a spirited cantata, was sung altogether as well as anything all evening. Following it, a small group sang some charming Yiddish folk-songs which were as pleasing even to those who did not know the language as to those who did: Mrs. Gideon's expansive and magnetic personality, together with her unusually musical speaking voice, added much...