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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 tins' in conver t e d Socony petrol- I* Costs No More To Get good printing Buy At Home Buy At Home R S HON llfi x?.RINTDJG CO. 16 Mitchell St.—WA. 7009 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. Copyright 1935 for The Southern Israelite. “In Business For Your Comfort** COMPLETE HOUSEHOLD FURNISHERS Cash or Terms COMFORT FURNITURE CO. 150 Whitehall Street WA. 7789 M. FREEDMAN - I. A. ZION THE PULITZER PRIZE WINNER With America’s most coveted dra matic award soon to be announced the prophets of Broadway are lay ing bets on their favorite for the Pulitzer Prize sweepstakes. The concensus of opinion seems to cen ter on twenty-eight-year-old Clif ford Odets, whose “Awake and Sing” has had its encomiums here as well as in a thousand other pla ces. There seems to be a widespread feeling that Odets has displaced Elmer Rice not merely in the abil ity to stir public controversy but in the power to create striking sym bols of social protest without arous ing critical charges of “propagan da.” Several blocks away from “A- wake and Sing”, Clifford Odets is giving just as effective, if not more so, a demonstration of his play- wrighting ability in a short piece called “Waiting for Lefty”, which, coupled with an anti-Nazi play, “Till the Day I Die”, constitutes the finest “purge” the theatre has had for more years than this col umnist can remember. “Waiting for Lefty” also gives Odets a minor role as Dr. Benja min, the rising young surgeon who is dismissed from an American hos pital because of his Jewishness. 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