The Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 29, 1938 Page: 4 of 8
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By SIMON A. FEATS
So much tragedy has hounded the
Jewish people in recent years that it
is difficult to gauge which year has
been the blackest. Fresh misfortune
always seems greater than old, half-
forgotten calamity, and present sor-
row shuts out the memory of past
grief. Yet a survey of Jewish events
during 5698 must bring to even an
objective observer the conviction that
of all of the black years world Jewry
has suffered since the world war this
past year indubitably is the blackest.
Jews in America, of course, have
personally experienced this tragedy
only to the extent that their own
loved ones in other lands have been
affected. But with the crushing blow
dealt the Jews of Austria, the tight-
ening of official restrictions upon
German Jews, the heightening of
unofficial oppression of Jews in Po-
land, Rumania and Hungary and
the cataclysmic assault that is now
threatening the very life of the Jew-
ish homeland in Palestine, the world-
wide Jewish tragedy has come closer
to many of us than in previous years.
That we are fortunate enough to be
living in one of the few remaining
bulwarks of peace and democracy
in this world simply imposes upon us
additional obligations in the pro-
foundly necessary work of succor and
salvage for our persecuted brethren.
Perhaps the depth of the tragedy
will at last rouse those Jews who
have not yet been affected by it to a
stock-taking and a planned defense
against our enemies. Our task is
lightened by the fact that it is only
among the foes of democracy that the
enemies of Jewry are found. Nor is
this circumstance surprising. The
social philosophy of the Jew has long
been expressed in two rhetorical
questions that demand an affirma-
tive answer: “Have we not all one
Father ? Hath not one God created
us?"
And when Jewry will at least unite
against its enemy—with no exception
permitted for individuals who find a
truce personally profitable—then the
darkness will lighten, and the black
years will be followed by the dawn
of an era of universal brotherhood.
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POLITICAL PALAVEB .
Anti-Semitism seems due to play a con-
siderable part in this year’s Congressional
elections . . . William Rufus Scott, candi-
date for Congress in the 16th California
district (Los Angeles) has sent out mimeo-
graphed postcards headed "JEWS IN
UNITED STATES IMPERILED BY NEW
DEAL FOLLIES!” in an attempt to stir
Jews to vote against New Deal candidates
by creating the fear that if the New Deal
program is not stopped it will lead to
bankruptcy and subsequent attacks on Jews
... In that torrid New York primary fight
Congressman John J. O’Connor’s campaign
manager sent every voter in the district
a copy of Father Coughlin’s magazine
Social Justice containing a laudatory arti-
cle on O’Connor and also—the 13th and
14th "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" . . .
P. S.—O’Connor was defeated by the
Democrats, but won the Republican nomi-
nation . . . The Republicans in Minnesota
are charged with sponsoring an under-
ground whispering campaign against Gov-
ernor Benson, who has a Jewish secretary,
in the hope of alienating the large German
vote .. . Those Nazis awaiting trial in New
York on charges of espionage against Uncle
Sam’s defense forces were assigned to get
the plans of a sensational new bomb sigh ter
invented by American army engineers . . .
Edward Banta, one of the witnesses before
the Dies Committee in New York, spoke
before the New York branch of the Friends
of New Germany, predecessor of the Bund,
in 1934 . . . Those in the know insist that
Los Angeles Nazis responsible for the fre-
quent bombarding of that city by air with
anti-Semitic leaflets were recently given
a going over by anti-Nazis, who smashed
the Nazis’ printing press ... Prince Huber-
tus Leowenstein, the anti-Nazi German
Catholic nobleman, is at work unifying all
anti-Nazi Germans into a solid bloc . . .
New York hospital supply manufacturers
stuck with German-made goods have got
rid of them by donating them to the com-
mittee equipping a relief ship for the Span-
ish Loyalists . . . Archbishop Edward
Mooney of Detroit, who put the quietus on
Father Coughlin in 1937, is a good bet to
succeed the late Patrick Cardinal Hayes
. . . The schools of medicine and dentistry
of Howard University, a Negro institution
in Washington from which quite a few
Jews have graduated, are now limiting
the number of Jews admitted.
BEHIND THE FRONT
Diplomatic insiders at London and
Geneva will tell you that behind the Arab
terror in Palestine is no Arab brain but a
three-man brain trust comprising an
American from Illinois, who serves as
banker, Gustave Schmeller, a German
archeologist, who directs the smuggling
of arms, and Fawzi Bey, a Turk and a
veteran of the Austrian army, who is the
military strategist ... Sir Oswald Mosley,
who has been a widower for several years,
will soon announce his forthcoming marri-
age to Mrs. Bryan Guineas, sister of Unity
Mitford, the enthusiastic pro-Nazi English
lady friend of Hitler .. . Mrs. Guiness, like
her sister, is a hot Hitlerite ... The govern-
ment of Northern Ireland is working to
bring from Austria Jewish refugees who
are key workers in important industries
that can be transferred to Belfast . . . The
Austrian Nazis are so well-informend on
Jewish affairs that when Zionist leaders
call at Gestapo headquarters in Vienna
they are offered copies of the Daver and
Haaretz, Palestinian Hebrew dailies . . .
And when the Nazis speak of Weizmann
and Jabetinsky they refer to them fami-
liarly as Chaim and Jabo . . . One of the
great mysteries is the daily appearance of
swastikas on the facade of the famous
Rothschild Synagogue . . . The swastikas
appear every morning, and no amount of
watching has succeeded in preventing their
being smeared on . . . Jimmy Hines, the
Tammany leader who pushed Hitler off
the front page by winning a mistrial, will
get a laugh when he’s told that the Frank-
furter Zeitung editorially called him a Jew
. . . Some $60,000,000 has already been
stolen by the 800 Nazi commissars who
took over Jewish businesses in Vienna . . .
Nice going, boys . . . Arab extremists are
bragging that they are perfecting plans to
assassinate Chaim Weizmann.
ABOUT PEOPLE
Gino Olivetti, Italian Jewish industrial-
ist who has been forced to resign from two
important government positions, is one of
the official Italian representatives at the
International Management Congress at
Washington ... If you’re wondering why
you haven’t heard from Sam Untermyer
lately we can tell you that he’s gravely
ill . . . Myron Weiss, who was the only
Jewish editor on the staff of Time maga-
zine, is out after a clash with publisher
Luce . . . Weiss wrote all the medical
By Babbi David B. Alpert
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"Ye itand, all of yoe. thia day before the Lord
your Ged ...” (Dent. 29-3®, P’XUaMm).
An appeal to Jewish pride to drop its
prides. How much needed that counsel is
in our own day.
On the concluding Sabbath of the Old
Year, and on the eve of the New, that is
the first lesson to keep in mind. We are
torn asunder by our little castes, our im-
agined superorities of family against fam-
ily and person against person, by the
blight of personal yichuth and its ruinous
divisions.
Our prominent leaders, our wealthy
families, our powerful captains of in-
dustry, our men of influence and renown,
our better families are really no more im-
portant than our little ones, than the mod-
est people of humble origins and no in-
fluence. Let us drop our petty personal
prides and self-made castes to stand all of
us as one Jewish people, holding together
in need as children of God.
Then we will see how false are the little
bits of social recognition that we regard
so highly.
Why should we serve other gods? Why
should we remain prey to unimportant
prides? Has not the time come for Jews to
take their pride, and to find their distinc-
tion, as faithful Jews, all concerned in the
welfare of the entire group? Instead of
small personal pride, we should take pride
in being one united people seeking to find
the favor and blessing of God. Perhaps,
then, we shall deserve it.
Turn to God as one people. That is our
badge of honor and our sacred task. Then
God will turn our captivity, and end the
misery of our people. And all the peoples
of the earth will share in the benefit that
comes to us. And God, in His kindness, will
do us good and multiply us in blessing
and in opportunity far beyond our dreams.
A little humility, some modesty, befit
us better than our strutting vanities in the
efforts to make impression.
Heed the words of Isaiah, to carry them
into the New Year. “I will greatly rejoice
in the Lord my God, that is my pride. God
clothes us with garments of salvation and
protection, and the nations shall see and
be persuaded of our righteousness and of
our desire to live by the law of God.”
items . . . Some friends of Meyer W. Weis-
gal, who left for Palestine a week ago to
inspect the exhibits being built there for
the Jewish Palestine Pavilion at the New
York World’s Fair, presented him with a
bullet-proof vest as a parting gift . . .
Arture Toscanini is so mad at Mussolini
that when n Duce sent the mastro’s brother
to win back his friendship, Toscanini said
that if he ever meets Benito he’ll spit in
his eye . . . Did you know that Cyrus
Adler once took lessons from Jake Kilrain
who lasted 48 rounds against the immortal
Sullivan . . . Within the next few weeks
James Waterman Wise, son of Stephen S.
Wise, will make public an announcement
which will create somewhat of a sensation
. . . It will mark, in a sense, Jimmie’s re-
turn to a great Jewish cause . . . The at-
torney for Miss Deapna Durbin demands
that we retract our statement that this
charming movie star is Jewish—although
it is no crime, nor libel, in this country to
call a movie star a Jewess ... So, notwith-
standing the fact that the source of our in-
formation insists that Deanna is non-Aryan,
we comply with the attorney’s request . . .
Professor Jekuthiel Ginsburg of Yeshiva
College, editor of Scripta Mathematica, is
a very happy man these days . . The two
albums “Portraits of Great Mathemati-
cians” recently published under scripta
auspices are among the contents of the
“time capsules,” which is being buried in
the New York World’s Fair grounds to pre-
serve samples of our present-day American
civilization for posterity 5,000 years hence
. . . For the first time in the history of the
University of Oklahoma a Jew has been
elected president of the senior class . . .
He is Alfred Slaner, whose family are the
only Jews in the town of Hobart, Okla. . ..
Latest alumnus of the Anglo-Jewish press
to make good in other spheres is Sidney
Kaufman, movie critic, who’s giving a
course on the cinema at the New School
for Social Research . . . Some of the sub-
jects with which he will deal are, the
films under Fascism and the treatment of
minorities in the movies . . . Prof. Louis
Ginzberg, the great Talmudic scholar of
the Jewish Theological Seminary, showed
what he thought of his former student. Dr.
Solomon Goldman, by making his first
public appearance in years at the Goldman
dinner in N. Y.... Congressman Sol Bloom
of New York, who has long been palsy-
walsy with Mussolini, has removed some
of II Duce’s personally autographed photo-
graphs from his walls.
By DIANA KLOTTI
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CEDERBARUM TO LILLITH
Take a bit of Fannie Brice, mix it up
with Sophie Tucker, add a dash of Sarah
Bernhardt, and what have you got? Ola
Lilli th, blazoned in white lights over Julius
Nathanson’s National Theatre on Houston
Street and Second Avenue, N. Y.; . . . Ola
T.illith, small, piquant, whose stirring, mel-
low voice wins the hearts of all who at-
tend the Yiddish Theatre where she’s bill-
ed as "Ola Lilli th, International star.”
It’s easy to work hard with a dream
that’s before you. It’s not hard to give per-
formance after performance and come
home to the small three-room apartment
in the Bronx which you share with some-
one else—when you’ve a dream that some
day, all will be different; that some day
there’ll be comfort and luxury, furs, jewels,
cars, horses to ride, maybe even a castle
to live in.
But that’s the easy way. Ola Lillith did
it the hard way. Bom Lenore Cederbarum,
she is the niece of Baron Horace Ginzburg,
the only Jew ever to have been honored
with a title in Czarist Russia. Back in 1919,
when Lenore was but eighi years old, her
family fled from Russia to Poland, where
her uncle, who had made his fortune in
meat and iron foundries, owned much land.
The Cederbarums settled there—her father
becoming a member of the Polish senate—
and there she grew up in a large castle
at Wolyn, Poland, and had jewels to wear
and fine horses to ride and everything
costly that her heart might desire. But
she wanted to sing. She wanted to act.
She wanted to portray characters like
prostitutes and gun molls, to sing their
woes in deep, whining, stirring strains, to
make large audiences laugh and cry. She
wanted simply to be Ola Lillith. But a
Jewish Baron’s niece didn’t do things like
that So Lenore ran away from home and
joined a group of traveling players; and
her family disowned her. At 17 she was a
star, and known throughout Poland as a
chanteuse. At 19 she went to England and
France on tour. Though she spoke no Eng-
lish, and very little French, she received
an overwhelming ovation and in London,
sang at the Prince Edward Theatre for
six weeks—after which King George, then
the Duke of York, wrote a personal note
complimenting her talent “It was printed
on every one of my programs,” she beamed
proudly. When she came to New York at
the age of 20, she still spoke no English
and was consequently engaged to play for
the first time in a Jewish theatre starring
in a play written especially for her called,
“The Girl From Warsaw.” Here David
Samoff, president of RCA, heard her, and
was so impressed that he gave her a letter
to Martin Beck. For eight weeks she played
in vaudeville singing with bands like Ben
Bernie’s and Fred Warring’s. Blanche Mer-
rill, who wrote songs for Fannie Brice, did
verse for Ola Lillith. Then came her big
chance: Martin Beck offered to star her in
an American musical comedy.
But her visa ran out and she was obliged
to return to Poland.
Enthusiastically Polish audiences clam-
ored for her English songs. "Brother Can
You Spare a Dime” made a tremendous
hit Ola Lillith was going places back home.
But America had won its way into her
heart. America was in her blood. In 1935.
she came back here, this time taking out
her first citizenship papers. Ever since she
has been playing on the Yiddish stage.
There are no castles, no horses, no jewels,
but Ola Lillith has another dream.
Strange things bring talent to America.
Once there was a man, Hitler. And so bes-
tial were his maneouvers, and so horrible
his madness that great people fled from
his land and found refuge in strange
foreign places.
Gerta Rozen, a young actress of un-
equivocal talent and well-earned reupte,
suddenly left Berlin for Vienna. That was
in 1934. It was during an appearance in
a Viennese operetta that Maurice Schwartz
discovered her. He was just about to begin
casting for what he considered the most
important production of his career, “Bro-
thers Ashkenazi,” and he wanted her for
his feminine lead. Gerta Rozen was dumb-
founded. This was the chance of a lifetime
—and she spoke no Yiddish. But Maurice
Schwartz had found what he wanted. He
would engage two tutors to teach her the
language before he sailed for America.
Three weeks later Maurice Schwartz left
for New York, and Gerta Rozen had mas-
tered Yiddish and was able to read her
lines in the L J. Singer production. And
Gerta, whose great success had been
achieved by comedy roles, who, though she
had played with equal success heavy drama
and even the comedienne, now found her-
self in the role of Dinah who enters the
play at the age of eighteen and grows to
maturity and old age. What the final out-
come was need scarcely be recounted.
Gerta Rozen proved her metal. Next step
is Broadway in “Window Shopping” by
Louis E. Shecter and Norman Clark, Gerta
Rozen’s first English-speaking role.
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