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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. DR J ma U>nd i*h I the ( that ^ eiz unite 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. (Please turn to page 27) Tli SOUTHERN ISRAELITE#