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...first time, the famed Adler family of Yiddish actors appeared on the same stage
...Manhattan's musty old Second Avenue Theatre last week was presented a Yiddish theatrical revival, The Wild Man. The plot deals with an aged and wealthy widower who marries a young adventuress. One by one his children are driven from or leave home until the neglected, crack-brained son murders his stepmother. But Jewish audiences, munching chocolates, were not as interested in the melodramatic antics of the family on the stage as they were in the family of Adlers -"the Barrymores of Jewry"-who were performing the piece. Gathered together for the first time on one stage, the cast...
Cooking Breakfast for the One I Love and When a Woman Loves a Man (Victor)?Fannie Brice sings the first in her ladylike Yiddish dialect, the second is in the My-Man mood...
...Ashley Dukes of episodes from Lion Feuchtwanger's potent novel Power (Jud Suss) which is extolled by its readers as the rich, devious history of a master of aggrandizement, a luxurious pageant of 18th Century Swabia, teeming with personalities. Actor Maurice Moscovitch, once famed in Manhattan's Yiddish theatres and more recently in London, has a few moments over the bier of his daughter when his voice is moving with tragic cadences. But you cannot forget that this is merely splendid histrionism, embellishing a void...
...resignation from the University. Said The New Palestine, U. S. official Zionist weekly: "Does Dr. Magnes imagine that he imbues the Arab leaders . . . with a sense of peace and responsibility when, as the fruit of their blood-thirsty lawlessness, he makes offers and con- cessions?" The Day, Manhattan Yiddish daily, decried Dr. Magnes's suggestions as "futile . . . engendered by hysteria." Replying, Chancellor Magnes warned: "It is impossible to continue as heretofore. . . . Without this realization the Jewish public the world over is bound to suffer disappointment and disillusionment in its hopes with regard to the Jewish national homeland in Palestine...