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The Southern Israelite Page 14 On i he Ocean Front The Breakers ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. EXTRAORDINARY REDUCTION IN RATES — AS LOW AS Without Meals: $2.50 Daily per Person— $35.00 Weekly for Two. With Meals: $6.00 Daily per Person— $70.00 Weekly for Two. Club Breakfasts 25c to $1.00 Table d’Hote Meals $1.50 to $2.00 American or European Plan Hot and Cold Sen Water in All Baths Complete Garage Facilities Chicago's MORRISON HOTEL Corner Madison and Clark Sts. Every room in t he Morrison Hotel is outside, with bath, circulat ing ice water, bed-head reading lamp, telephone and Servidor. A new 500 room section, soon to be opened, was made necessary by the demand lor Morrison service. 2500 ROOMS $2.5®up THE FINALE (Continued from page 5) 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 5691-1931 tALtlNU ’Rosh Chodesh Adar_Wednesdv Punm _ Tuec Rosh Chodesh Nissan _ Thm 1st Day Pessach tI u 7th Day Pessach Wedi *Rosh Chodesh Iyar Sv Lag b’Omer T v Rosh Chodesh Sivan v 1st Day Shabuoth *Rosh Chodesh Tammuz Ti!. Fast of Tammuz tj‘ Rosh Chodesh Ab_ Wedn Fast of Ab Thu; *Rosh Chodesh Ellul . Friday 5692 Rosh Hashonah Saturdav Yom Kippur Monday,’ s 1st Day Succoth Saturday, 1 Shemmi Atzereth Satiirdv Simchath Torah -Sunday' ’Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan Monday *Rosh Chodesh Kislev. Wednesday! tst P a X Chanukah Saturday, i Rosh Chodesh Tebeth Fridav I Fast of Tebeth Sunday’ ’Also observed the day previou Chodesh. 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