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SDF News NEW YORK CITY—Educational and organizational work ia getting into full swing with a number of neighborhood forums aad S.D.F. speakers alee being »eTit to various organizations. . ....
...Such considerations make us wonder whether a more appropriate name-for this group would not be "The Maurice Schwartz Theatre," and give us sombre thoughts for the future of Yiddish dramatie art, probably now preserved only in America...
...her easy yet assured way imposes her qualities subtly upon us...
...when the Nazi schoolmaster also comes to America, the Jewish father'kills him...
...Bronx: Monday, Nov...
...Pa---Both will be invited to a public meeting during the season...
...16th...
...Local New York City sent eonsrratuMtions te Mayer Jasper McLevy, of Bridgeport, and J. Henry Stump, of Reading...
...Topic: "AntiSemitism.'' . . . Algernon- Lee answers questions on current topics over Radio Station WEVD every Saturday at 9:45 p. m. . . . Women's Committee Workshop for the manufacture of' clothing for the United Nations' war sufferers is open daily from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. and on Wednesday evenings...
...To her, to the sanity she brings, that helps cleanse the household, facts of birth and religion are incidentals inconsequential in one's estimate of a man...
...N.Y.C., Friday, Nov...
...will be in session Nov...
...The arrows prick more shrewdly at the wealthy banker, Bert Harris: he ia "proud to be a JewT* And when Crystal, the Christian stranger week-ending at his home, looks quizzically, he breaks out: "Do you think I should be ashamed 7" Her answer surprises him...
...Smith hai< not received his merited hospital appointment...
...For, from beginning to end, this piece is not only a formula melodrama, but one that distorts perspective for the sake of propaganda, negleets character to play on the passions, and relies upon the current news instead of any inherent power...
...250 West 89th St...
...These thoughts are not brightened by consideration of the present offering, "The Family Carnovsky...
...hundreds of comrades attended his famoral m the Forward Hall...
...Directed by Maurice Schwartz...
...And as the Jew does this, loud applause breaks from the audience, and shouts of "Good for him...
...NATIONAL.—The national convention of the Jewish Socialist Verband, affiliated with the S.D.F...
...But tbejr are important only through us...
...Reunion ef OH-Timers...
...It was not ' the local stage of a tiny language-group, but a fruitful aspect of our American dramatic art...
...THE FAMILY CARNOVSKY...
...Presented by and at the Yiddish Art Theatre...
...the ideas, though here mere lengthily discussed, filter, through the vivid-action...
...we are not created to illustrate them...
...The deft staging by Miss Franhen is another argument in favor of the author-director...
...they plague, perhaps even destroy us...
...8.30 p. m. Topic "The Problem of Anti-Semitism...
...It is only when equal intolerance has driven the younger couple back to the Jewish fold that the old man accepts them...
...supposedly the source of the dramatic tension, as the older Carnovsky drives out and disowns his son for wedding a "shicksa...
...Maria ouspenskaya's playing of the part makes us share Crystal's affection for old Mother Harris...
...This season the Yiddish Art Theatre is celebrating its twentyfifth anniversary...
...their son is shocked into race consciousness and fear by Nasi brutality...
...This record, however, must not glaze our eyes in their present , view, which gives a less glamorous picture...
...Most of the males must resign themselves to character bits—and, in the second place, for lack of constant, fresh competition, to stereotype and make must be confessed that, despite the surface excitement, the present performance of Maurice Schwartz seems wooden indeed...
...Speakers: Dr...
...The first intolerance is that of the Jews: supposedly a source of humor, as the German Jews belittle their Polish and Galiciaa brothers...
...30th, at the Second Avenue Theatre...
...9 p. m. Topic: "The Jew and the World Situation...
...15th...
...16th, 8:30 p. m„ in the A.L.P...
...By I. J. Singer...
...12th...
...Then perhaps there is also a symbol in the fact that she diea* of heart failure at the play's close...
...In the experimentation that marked the upsurge of the modern theatre in the U. S., the Yiddish Art.Theatre took prominent part...
...Saturday...
...Iff.* season marked mainly by banalities, or puppet-figures * parading points of view, the intelligence and human warmth[of Outrageous Fortune" bring brightest dramatie efreer...
...Crystal may - not be in time to help him...
...they rise from oar natures, and our neighbors...
...But perhaps even more stifling is the dominant presence, throughout the...
...If this represents the spirit of the Yiddish Art Theatre, we need not lament the prospect that it will die with its solo star...
...I've hidden the faet that tells: his full name is Goldsmith...
...Esther Friedman speaks at the New Era Club, 274 East Broadway...
...these press up at times into critical concerns...
...As its directing spirit indicated in his curtain speech, the record may be contemplated with pride...
...A quarter of a century of such authoritarian activity is likely, in the first place, to diecourage talent—to what may a young actor, a would-be director, aspire...
...Upper Want Side Branch: Meeting, Tuesday, Nov...
...Delegates will be present from many states, and a number of prominent Social Democrats will address the convention...
...Give it to him...
...Speaker: Fulton Oursler...
...Why...
...Good...
...But Bert's pride is a protection...
...The Family Carnovsky" tells of a German Jew that marries a Christian...
...for the Jews to summon forth the beast in their bosoms, to cry for and gloat over brutality matchmg their oppressors, gives little hope for any early end of intolerance and interracial hatred...
...In fact, she may be taken as a symbol: is it not Crystal clear that-her sanity points the road to the salvation of the human spirit...
...Even a good play (which this is not) should be condemned on social grounds for trying to rouse the emotions and attitudes we most condemn...
...It was his "outrageous fortune" to have been born a Jew...
...Perhaps out of the ashes a wiser and rieher theatre will be reborn...
...and Frederic Toiere as her husband Bert plays a difficult role with quite unuerstanamg...
...26-27-28 in the Labor Lyceum, 415 S. 19th St., Philadelphia...
...The youngest Carnovsky, of Jew-' ish and Christian blood, is stripped to the waist by the Nazi schoolmaster, then slapped viciously...
...Samuel Schiller, of the Downtown Diaaxfc...
...Here at long bast is a drama of ideas in which the issues rise from the lives of the characters...
...Dr...
...Conversely, his younger brother Julian, trying to throw off this religion, has tossed aside his moral supports as well, has become distorted, inverted...
...And at the close of the play, this boy's father forces the schoolmaster to strip, then viciously shape him, crying "An eye for an eye," before firing the shots that kill the terrified Nasi...
...I have never before in this country seen so direct a pandering to the very passions that have surged in Nazi breasts through the past decade...
...Clubroom...
...Understanding and tolerance (as we may gather, elsewhere [ in this page) are in no present prospect...
...bat over most she clearly exerts a beneficent power...
...Bert has boilt up a wall...
...understandable persons are involved (even as you and I) in various problems: servants, sex, racial bias...
...Presumably selecting the plays'to fit himself, also directing the plays, enacting the star role, is always the same person...
...It may be that, as "Cafe Crown" hinted, the best scenic designers, writers, and actors, especially, of the growing generation, are drawn onto, the English stage or off to Hollywood...
...8. Hetferlinr...
...6 p. m., Town Hall Club...
...1st...
...Neither...
...its strength requires also his rigid morality, his hide-bound ways...
...Is it lack of interracial sense of proportion, or the blindness that sees one's own faults only in others, that mars the play...
...8:80 p. m...
...aa is here said of many of his kind, "You either cringe or you strut...
...Margalo Gillmore makes .a living reality of the inhibited wife who grows to understand herself...
...Here, where the melodrama ends, a true tragedy might begin...
...corner of Broadway Speaker to be announced...
...By Rose Franks Directed by the author...
...ISth...
...Tfiisfmaiat aad S. Mendelsohn...
...JAV, tops tk* record with S3 new members and more on the amy...
...August Claessens speaks to the Men's Crab of the- Progressive Synagogue, 1515 46th St, Brooklyn, Monday, Nov...
...Presented by William Brown Meloney...
...Plays — like "Anathema," like Toller's biting picture of the man emasculated in the war—translated or originally in Yiddish, some never seen on our English stage, were challenging in themselves, provocative in their production technique...
...Returning after fourteen years, Elsie Ferguson as Crystal Grainger has complete command of the stage...
...veteran Social Democrat, died Nov...
...The intertwining and involved iires of the.characters, I repeat, with-dramatic tensions and resolutions, are what we observe in thi* play...
...Theatre Party Thursday...
...N. M. M.nkoff will spank on the "Results of the Recent Elections...
...At tke 46th Street Theatre...
...Branch in the Amalgamated House...
...Topic: "Background for War and Peace," August Claessens speaks at this club on Friday, Nov 19th...
...This Week on the Stage Plays on a Racial Theme By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY -OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE...
...twenty-five years, of a single man...
...a large east gives noble support...
...Jewish Socialist Verhand: City Committee monthly forum, Hotel Pennsylvania, Tuesday...
...Thus with Rose Franken's new play...
...Good...
Vol. 26 • November 1943 • No. 46
