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The Southern Israelite
r-^Y. April 26, 1935,
Page Three
glEtf CULTURE
EXHIBITION •TIMELY'
. rom missioner Expressed Re-
B* b \ t That He Was Unable
** To Attend
t Aviv (WNS—Palcor Agency)
* first international exhibition
' Hebrew art and culture opened
* m the presence of four thou-
& people who heard Sir Ar-
* waochope, High Commission-
of Palestine, say in a message to
' gathering that this review of
Z1 cultural achievements was
Je " The High Commissioner
;^eied regret that he was un-
I to be present. The opening
! emanies were a tribute to Chaim
fchman Bmlik, to whose memory
L first days of the exhibition are
dedicated. The show epitomizes
tbe historical development of Jew
ish art and culture. Mayor Meier
Diezengoff, in opening the exhibi
tion declared that “the man Bialik
y gone but his spirit lives in our
whole work in Palestine.”
Menahem Ussishkin, who intro
duced Nahum Sokolow, spoke of
•he extraordinary role which Bialik
had played in the modern Hebrew
Renaissance. The President of the
World Zionist Organization, himself
an outstanding Hebraist, fascinat
ed the audience as he unfolded the
inner significance of Bialik as the
poet of the national revival. The
Hebrew University was represented
at the exercises by Professor Klein,
who revealed that it was Bialik
who had chosen the name for the
first Jewish university of modern
Pilate’s Aqueduct Used In
Jerusalem Water System
Jerusalem (WNS —Palcor Agen
cy i—Few people know that the
Roman aqueduct built by Pontius
Pilate, the Procurator of Judea
who condemned Jesus Christ to be
crucified over nineteen hundred
years ago, has been in use as a con
duit to furnish water from springs
outside Bethlehem into reservoirs
in the Mosque of Omar sanctuary,
which stands on the site of th=
Second Temple destroyed in 70 A.
D. Considerable opposition was
aroused by the fanatic clergy in 28
or 29 A. D. when the masterful
governor of Judea ordered the con
struction of an aqueduct from a
point near Solomon’s Pools, some
twelve miles south of Jerusalem,
into the sacred Temple enclosure,
and raided the Temple treasury for
the funds to build it. The zealots
then came to blows with the Rom-
an legionaires, and there was a
massacre. But the job was done.
Now, nearly twenty centuries lat-
? r. the authorities have had the
aqueduct patched up and installed
Piping along bad sections, so as to
•Plenish the almost empty cisterns
in the Haram esh-Sherif, which
rate been there since the time of
r ? Temple. The Romans did their
-r.gineering task thoroughly, and
• has lasted until now. A quanti-
• of two thousand gallons daily
-- b*j;ng supplied in addition to wa-
furnished to nearby Bethlehem.
00r Moslem people living around
Mosque in Jerusalem are allow-
, n t0 get their water from these
f Uge underground cisterns, a relic
& raels splendor, to relieve the
, shortage. Though clad in the
^turesque attire of the Holy Land,
-• lm -dwellers take the water
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SOVIET COMMISSAR
Maxim Litvinoff, Soviet Foreign
Commissar, speaking: at a League
.of Nations session last week at
which the Reich was condemned
for rearming, indicted Germany
by implication and character
ized Hitler’s rearment as motiv
ated by i policy of “revenge and
conquest."
JEWRY WORRIED
IS NAZIS GAIN
IN ELECTIONS
Nazis Gained From Eight to Ten
Per Cent in Their First Political
Campaign on National Scale
Amsterdam (.WNS) — Dutch
Jewry, which has recently found
itself beset by wide-spread anti-
Semitic propaganda, is looking
forward to an expansion of this
Jew-baiting agitation as a result
of the sensational gain's made by
the Dutch Nazi party in the pro
vincial elections. Making their first
political campaign on a national
scale, the Nazis gained from eight
to ten per cent in the provincial
balloting. The Dutch Nazis, who
publicly proclaim their allegiance
to Hitlerism, have a membership
of forty thousand. Their leader
is Dr. A. A. Mussert, a protege of
Hitler and a former chief engin
eer of public works of the Province
of Utrecht.
that is reminiscent of the Eliza
bethan stage, Odets stimulates
more honest excitement, more
pounding drama than the most
outdated melodrama. At the same
time he puts over a social message
so suavely and overwhelmingly that
the spectator becomes part of a
great revolutionary movement right
in the theatre.
Clifford Odets has the world at
his feet because he has the world
in his heart.
INTERESTING
SIDELIGHTS
Reveal Mussolini Plan To
Give Arabs Independence
In New World War
(Continued from page one)
the letter is obviously to the Gov
ernment. There is no doubt, how
ever, as to the authenticity of the
etter itself, whatever the real facts
may be as to Mussolini’s attitude
toward the Arabs.
Jerusalem (WNS — Palcor Agen
cy)—With the entire Arabic press
aroused to a state of furore by the
publication of a letter which pur
ported to be an agreement to con
duct pro - Italian propanganda
among Arabs in Palestine and Sy
ria, Haj Amin el Husseini, Grand
Mufti of Jerusalem, visited Sir Ar
thur Grenfell Wauchope, High
Commissioner of Palestine, and as
sured him that there was no truth
in the story, which linked the
Grand Mufti’s name to that of
Mussolini. All Arabic papers de
voted a large amount of space to
the incident, which was created by
the publication in Jamai Islamia
of a letter allegedly written by
Emir Ibasslan, noted Istaquil (In
dependence Party) leader, to the
Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, in which
Mussolini was quoted as having
given assurances that he wouid
guarantee the Arabs national in
dependence in the event of a new
world war.
The story of the Grand Mufti’s
visit was published by the Arabic
newspaper, Falastin, which declar
ed that Haj Amin el Husseini had
apologized to the High Commis
sioner for the incident and assert
ed with any attempts to introduce
Italian propaganda into Palestine,
ed that he was entirely unconnect-
The Falastine also states that the
Grand Mufti asked for permission
to invite Emir Ibasslan to Pales
tine in order that he might pros
ecute the publishers of the alleged
Ibasslan letter. The Grand Mufti
stated that the letter was forged.
POTASH AND PERLMUTTER
At the other end of the dramatic
ladder is “Potash and Perlmutter”,
which has been resurrected after a
generation. For twenty years that
comedy by the late Montague Glass
and Charles Klein gave to most
non-Jews and even to many Jews
their only insight into “folk” Jew
ish character as it manifested It
self in these United States.
At the Park Theatre in Columbus
Circle, from the stage where once
A1 Jolson entertained great hordes,
Robert Leonard and Arthur Ross
are recreating the roles with which
they have become identified. Leon
ard played Perlmutter In the first
London production in 1914, while
Ross was touring in the opus as
far back as 1915. Their return to
parts that have great warmth when
properly Interpreted gives them
acting opportunities that they have
lacked in recent years.
Abe and Mawrus are vulgar,
brawling people but underneath
their broad horseplay there is a
strain of cordial good nature and of
fine feeling which manages to re
tain for this vintaged play a sin
cerity which some of its more re
cent Imitators do not always have.
A new generation has arisen since
“Potash and Perlmutter was first
produced. This revival doesn’t re
veal it as a creaky vehicle but as
a homey piece of dramatic crafts
manship which can well stand in
spection.
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