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IN THE LIMELIGHT
I D A KESSLER,
daughter of the late
David Kessler, idol
of the Yiddish-the-
atre-going masses,
has been found des
titute in a shabby
Brooklyn tenement house. Her father, who
died in 1920, made no provision for her
j 0 his will because “I feel she is married
and well provided for.” Her husband
deserted her some years ago. Since then
*he ha- eked out a bare existence by
playing -mall roles on the Yiddish stage,
hut now -he is li\ing on a $2 a week food
Vket provided by the Emergency Relief
Bureau.
BARNEY ROSS, nee Rasofsky, pride of
•he C hicago ghetto, showed himself a
w ,,rthv successor of Henny Leonard when
he successfully defended his lightweight
champion-hip in a 15-round bout against
lony Canzoneri from whom he won the
•itle last June in Chicago. Ross learned
to tight after his father was murdered
,n hi- delicatessen store by Chicago gang
ster*.
ALFRED SUTRO, one of England's
most popular dramatists, friend and
translator of the works of Maurice Mae-
terlink, and brother-in-law of Lord Read
ing, is dead here in his 70th year. Sutro
«a- the author of more than 30 plays,
one of which, “The Walls of Jericho,"
first produced in 1904, was witnessed by
2,000,000 people.
'1R JOHN SIMON, as British foreign
romi-trr, assumed a sympathetic stand to
ward the plight of the German-Jewish
refugee by easing immigration restric-
t: °n* in Palestine and urging the letting
d°w'n f the bars in England and Pales-
:Re f ' permit the entry of such refugees.
s EL UNTERMYER, president of
'he ,\ : erican League, may undertake a
3 ' : -coast tour in behalf of the $500,-
1 d being sought by the American
- ,J - for the Defense of Jewish Rights
>ce the organization of the anti
boycott in the United States.
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CHAIM WEIZMANN will play
role in the conference called for
in October by the Board of Jew
ries to devise means of helping
man Jews. It is considered likely
conference will recognize Dr.
inn as the official leader of the
v orld effort for the relief of Ger
man Jewry, a position to which he was
named by the Zionist Congress. The
World Zionist Organization will partici
pate in the conference.
HIRSC H SMULOWI I'Z, believed to be
one of the oldest Jews in the United
States, died at the New York Guild for
Jewish Blind at the age of 109. Blind
for nearly 40 years, Smulowitz was sup
ported in his own home on the East Side
of New Y ork by the Guild until his wife
died six years ago, when he entered the
Guild’s home.
ISADORE SAKS, one of the pioneer
merchants of the United States, died here
at the age of 82. Mr. Saks and his
brother founded Saks k Co. in Washing
ton in 1867. He was also founder of Saks
k Co., in New York, which was merged
with Gimbel Brothers in 1923. Mr. Saks
was the first to introduce uniform prices
in retail merchandising and a pioneer in
establishing stores for the exclusive dis
play of men’s women’s and children’s
fashions.
BRONISLAW HUBERMANN, world-
famous violinist, who for more than a
decade has appeared regularly as a solo
ist with the Berlin Philharmonic Orches
tra, is the latest musician who has re
jected an invitation to play in Berlin be
cause of the Nazi government's medieval
racial prejudice. Hubermann, who is a
Jew, has received a special plea from
Wilhelm Furtwaengler, director of the or
chestra.
LADY F.RLEIGH, sister of the young
Lord Melchett, has followed her broth
er’s example, and has been converted to
Judaism. The ceremony took place in the
London Liberal Synagogue, with Rabbi
Perelzweig, honorary secretary of the
English Zionist Federation, officiating.
Lady Erleigh is a daughter-in-law of
Lord Reading.
POPE PIUS obtained Hitler’s approval
of a memorandum which pledges the
Nazi regime to treat the Christian Jew*
in Germany in a more liberal manner
and to limit the anti-Semitic program
against the Jews before the concordat be
tween the Vatican and the Hitler govern
ment was officially signed by both parties.
The memorandum in question, now in
corporated in the concordat, obliges the
Nazis to abandon their policy of arresting
Catholic priests and preventing Catholic
clergymen of Jewish descent from holding
church offices.
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG, the world-
famous composer and teacher of music,
who returned to Judaism after he had
been exiled from Germany by the Nazi
regime, has accepted a position as teacher
of composition and harmony at the Malkin
Conservatory of Music in Boston, accord
ing to an announcement by Joseph Mal
kin, director of the school. Herr Schoen
berg will arrive in the United States in
October.
SIR ROBERT MONO, uncle of Lord
Melchett, is chairman of the new Jewish
committee consisting of prominent figures
that was organized in London to strength
en the anti-German boycott movement.
“YOUNG GERMANY,” the official
mouthpiece of the Nazi youth organiza
tions, has announced that Jewish youth
organizations in Germany will be per
mitted to exist and to function, but all
such groups will have to be merged into
one body.
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