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The Southern Israelite
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In The Limelight
SAMUEL L. ROTHAFEL, “Roxy”
of Radioland, keeps on his desk before
him as he works a statuette of Na
poleon Bonaparte. His salary as the
head of the Roxy Theatre in New York
is $3,000 a week, with a percentage of
the gross receipts above a certain
amount, w r ith an even bigger salary
with Radio-Keith-Orpheum. Inciden
tally, “Roxy” is also a comparatively
small fellow.
EMANUEL SHINWELL, ,', nanci
secretary to the War Office in
has been named Secretary for Mi,,. ti
same post he held in the former M ac .
Donald Government.
GILBERT SELDED, critic, essayist
and novelist, adapted “Lysistrata," tl*
Greek play that has created a sensation
in New York because it touches on a
theme that was considered perfectly in
nocuous fifteen hundred years ago.
LORENZO HALEVI, noted Jewish
communal worker and engineer, has
been elected president of the Congress
of Italian Industry, a body composed of
the country’s leading industrialists.
THEDA BARA, the famous vampire
of the screen, is married to Charles
Brabin, also a Jew, one of the finest
film directors this country ever pro
duced.
MADAME BERTHA KALICII, in
ternationally known Jewish tragedienne,
who rose to stardom in her native city,
Lemberg, Poland, first appeared in
America in 1895, where she gave up
opera for drama, and in a period of
eight years appeared in over 100 dif
ferent roles. In 1905 she made het
debut as an English-speaking actress,
but has now returned to the Yiddish
stage for which she expresses a pros
perous future if the Yiddish dramatists
produce plays depicting the life of the
Jew in America today.
HENRY I. KOHN, of New Haven.
Conn., was awarded the Barge Medal
for oratorical excellence, the highest
award in this field.
ALEXANDER WEINMAN, of New
York, has been awarded the Fine Arts
medal for distinguished achievement in
sculpture by the American Institute of
Architects. Mr. Weinman has done
monuments throughout the United
States and designed the ten-cent piece
and half-dollar issue in 1916.
MORTIMER SCHIFF has been
named one of the five to administer
the $10,000 expansion fund being raised
by the Boy Scouts of America. Mr
Schiff is vice-president of the Boy
Scouts National Council and has given
large sums of money to the work o
the organization.
WILLIAM ROSENWALD offered
to give $1,000 a year for three years to
the National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People if four
others would do likewise. Those who
responded were all Jews, with the ex
ception of Edsel Ford. They were
Harold K. Guinsberg. president of the
Literary Guild; Lieutenant-Governor
Lehman, Felix Warburg, and Samuel
Fels.
SEYMOUR PEYSER, 15-year-old
Horace Mann High School student of
New York, was awarded second place
in the national oratorical contest con
ducted by a group of newspapers
throughout the United States to en
courage interest in the Constitution.
ROBERT D. KOHN, of New York,
has been elected president of the
American Institute of Architects. * r
Kohn received his education at 0
lumbia University and at the hcole e;
Neaux Arts, Paris.
SERGEANT BENJAMIN ROTH,
one of the two Jewish members of the
Byrd Expedition, has been promoted to
master sergeant for excellent work dur
ing the Byrd Antarctic Expedition.
LOUIS LIPSKY, President of the
Zionist Organization of America, has
written a play that will he produced on
Broadway next season.
PROF. SAMUEL ALEXANDER,
noted English Jewish philosopher, was
honored by King George V on his birth
day with membership in the “High Order
of Merit.”
JULES PASEIN, whose name was
Julius Pineas, was found a suicide in his
Paris studio. Pasein, who was hailed
one of our foremost contemporary artists,
was born in Bulgaria 45 years ago, and
emigrated to America where he was
naturalized in 1915.
DR. MAX MEYER, for thirty years
head of the department of psycholog)
at the University of Missouri, has
permanently removed as a teacher >
the board of curators as a result 0
charges growing out' of the circu atai
of a sex questionnaire fifteen nion
ago. He had been dismissed six montn
ago, but was then reinstated.
5EPH KIRSHBAUM. of La Jolla,
was awarded the Julia > 3 .
larship for first-year stt. ^ •
e work in theory and apphe<.
1 and PU
ELMER RICE, author of the stage
success, “Street Scene.” and other -
is the principal American de eg
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