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Yoshe Kalb was first performed last year in Maurice Schwartz's Yiddish Art Theatre in lower East Side Manhattan. It prospered when such uptowners as Noel Coward and Jed Harris went to see it, told friends about it. After 82-year-old Daniel Frohman saw it he was so impressed he could not sleep, even on the floor. When later he heard that it had been done into English, he telegraphed Actor-Manager Schwartz: ''May I have the honor to produce it?'' Replied Mr. Schwartz...
Died. Ezekiel Sarasohn, 69, longtime (1905-28) editor & publisher of the Jewish Gazette, founded by his father in 1874, and the Jewish Daily News, first Yiddish papers published in the U.S.; after long illness; in New Rochelle...
...surprise you to know that practically no mention has been made of this decision in any of the English newspapers, whereas the subject has occupied considerable space since the handing down of the decision, in the entire Yiddish press. As a matter of fact, this information threw the citizens of the East Side of New York City into a turmoil in view of the fact that most of the persons in that vicinity had in the past eaten the products of this company, and according to the Jewish dietary laws, there is a grave question as to whether the dishes...
...Manhattan, before starting on a tour of the Midwest, he spoke at the opening of the American Palestine Campaign. Nahum Sokolow speaks twelve tongues (he politely corrected Louis Wiley of the New York Times who, at a dinner, credited him with only nine). He addressed his audience in Yiddish last week, departing from his set speech to eulogize the late Boris Schatz, head of the Bezalel School of Arts & Crafts in Jerusalem, who had died in Denver during the week. Boris Schatz had appealed for funds for his school and museum. He died in poverty. Said President Sokolow: "Today...
...nearly everyone remembers, the name "Kabibble" comes from the familiar expression of two decades ago, "Ish kabibble" ("I should worry"). It is a corruption of the Yiddish jargon "nisht gefidelt" which meant the same thing but was hard for Gentiles to pronounce. Cartoonist Hershfield, who takes the action of King Features much to heart, last week promised "the biggest national fight you ever saw." Said he: "I am fighting for my natural right to earn a living. ... I claim that the character and his name are virtually chemical to myself and that no one should interfere with my right...