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Page 12 The Southern Israelite KEELY’S JUNE RECORD SALE Sale! SILKS Every Yard of $1.25 to $2.95 Silk in Stock included under These Two Price Groups! All $1.25 to $1.59 Silks Reg. $1.39 Printed Shantung Reg. $1.59 Printed Silk Crepes Reg. $1.59 Printed Georgettes Reg. $1.59 Printed Chiffons Reg. $1.48 Printed Rayon Crepes Reg. $1.25 Plain Rayon Crepes All $1.95 to $2.95 Silks Reg. $2.95 Printed Silk Crepes Reg. $1.95 Printed Silk Crepes Reg. $1.95 Printed Chiffons Reg. $2.95 Printed Chiffons Reg. $1.95 Plain Georgettes Reg. $1.95 Plain Silk Crepes Reg. $1.95 Printed Dumaid Crepes —Keely's, Main f loor » S&anAe/iJ 6<nl Aeu> c. tycr/i ^xcJianye v x L//' i/crA Yea/*/) £\ cJiunyc Government, Municipal and Corporation Bonds Listed and Local Stocks Underwriters of Southern Securities Private Wires to Otis 8 Co.. N. Y.—Post & Flagg, N. Y. HURT BUILDING, ATLANTA TEL. WAlnut 9110 Ship Via SOUTHEASTERN EXPRESS “The South's Own Express Company” AND RECEIVE SUPERIOR EXPRESS SERVICE PAINT NOW ON OUR 10 MONTHS PAYMENT PLAN TRIPOD PAINT CO. 61 PRYOR ST, N. E. PHONE WA. 0143 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 (Continued on Page