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The Southern Israelite
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soldiers, throw up his hands hope
lessly and then put us to work at a
hectic pace through long hours.
When, after a night of rehearsal,
we actors were ready to leave, he
would approach me smilingly and
softly comment: “Fine—I think
• we’ve got it now.” And with a gay,
naive laugh he would add: “Fannie,
when I shout it means that all is well
—don’t you know that yet ? ’ ’ Then
calling together his technical staff,
he would settle down to a conference
as the gray dawn broke sadly into
the empty theatre.
With that confession David Belasco
characterized himself better than any
biographer can ever hope to do. He
was soft and tender and helpless
when things went wrong. He was
ferocious and ruthless when things
shaped themselves according to his
plans. In this he was like his idol,
Napoleon Bonaparte. His creative
joy did not recognize any difficulties
when, after the first inspiration, he
had to transform himself into the
artisan, the craftsman.
The one thing he could never en
dure was an actor’s revolt against
his—Belasco’s—own conception of a
role. Then he would try to bully the
player. If that didn’t work he would
go into elaborate explanations. That
failing, he would inevitably gain his
point by playing u parody, a carica
ture of the part as the actor had
conceived it, and making it so ridic
ulous that the actor finally gave in.
Others will tell you of Belasco, the
wizard of the American theatre; the
discoverer of stars; the maker of
of the history of the American
drama. His title, the dean of the
American theatre, was not honorary,
but symbolic of the creative record
David Warfield, Mrs. Leslie Carter,
Lenore Ulric; the producer of three
hundred and seventy-five plays, of
which he wrote a hundred. For six
decades David Belasco has been part
which he achieved during his life
time. Much will be written about
him and the Belasco era.
Because he was in the theatre so
long, Belasco became a legendary
figure long before his death. It is
difficult to realize that the man who
opened a new epoch in theatrical his
tory with “Madame Butterfly” was
to his very last day regarded as
one of the most modern and up-to-
date of producers.
The essence of his genius lay, first
of all, in his race. Ilis Jewish blood
gave him that vitality and resource
fulness which brought Belasco from
his humble San Francisco home to the
very pinnacle of his success. He
wanted to succeed, and did because
of this almost superhuman Jewish
vitality. He read with the avidity of
an ogre, day and night, keeping
abreast with the dramatic literature
of all countries. He studied all tech
nical devices and inventions, with a
view to adapting them to the stage.
Endowed with a truly revolutionary
spirit, he was always ready to ex
periment. He was one of the first
to utilize motion pictures to create
ceitain ettects on the stage. He was,
just like any other true stylist in
any art, a stickler for details. Once,
indeed, he interrupted a rehearsal for
several hours until a certain kind of
spoon was found for a dining scene.
He was a realist, but did not mind
using the best phases of impression
ism and symbolism if they made the
play more vivid. His imaginative
brain was always at work, struggling
with problems pertaining to how to
make the stage more real, how to
make the three walls of the scene
seem four and the very reflex of real
life. In one word, Belasco personi
fied the stage—writing or adapting
his plays, creating his scenery,
moulding his actors, jealously stamp
ing every phase of the theatre with
his personality.
Copyright 1931 by S. A. F. S.
MEXICO AND THE JEWISH
PROBLEM
(Continued from page 8)
ket places as peddlers. And again
anti-Semitism has reared its head.
In a report discussing prejudice in
Mexico Mr. Weinberger has this very
striking comment: “We have always
contended that anti-Semitism does not
exist in Mexico and that the Mexican
people are not anti-Semitic in the
sense that we understand the term.
Hostility towards the new immigra
tion has sometimes been shown by the
press, but. it has been proved that
this was generally inspired by busi
ness interests affected by the com
petition of the new elements, who
were more aggressive in their methods
of getting business.”
But Mexico, like every other coun
try which indulges in anti-Semitism,
has its own paradox. It has Jews
whom it persecutes, but it also has
Jews whom it presents as the coun
try s glory. One need cite only one
illustration, for he is sufficiently im
portant to counteract all the incon
venience which Mexican business in
terests allege they have experienced
on account of Jewish peddlers.
That example is Diego Rivera,
Mexico s outstanding artist, the man
who has revolutionized contemporary
art in his country and who has done
more to give Mexico artistic prestige
throughout the world than anj r other
Mexican. And Diego Rivera, Presi
dent Ortiz Rubio should be reminded,
is a scion of Spanish Jews, in whom
flows the blood of creative artists
of the past. If Mexico lias a Jewish
problem it is of her own creation,
and not the inevitable result of cir
cumstances. (Copyright S. A. F. S.)
B’nai B’rith
The B nai B rith Luncheon Club
held their past two regular meetings
at the Winecoff Hotel on May 22nd
and 29th. Members attending these
meetings have enjoyed the privilege
of participating in some very inter
esting discussions, particularly at the
meeting of May 29th, at which time a
round table discussion was held on two
important communications from the
International President of the B’nai
B’rith—Brother Alfred M. Cohen—on
the Jewish Mexican situation and its
effect upon the program of the B’nai
B’rith.
THE JEWISH EAR
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