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Friday, February 28, 1936
The Southern Israelite
39EB
Page Nine
eftCusical Motes
By MRS. WALDO OETTINGER
Amendment to Penal Code
Would Hit at Nazis
Tuesday evening Myra Hess
played a classic program before a
apacity audience. Miracles really
do happen. Some of the very same
m>onle who waxed enthusiastic over
a concert program featuring two
vtM v popular movie stars, were just
t- excitedly pleased at Myra Hess’
exemplary interpretation of Bach,
Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms.
yjiss Hess opened h&r program with
the Bach C minor Fantasy, and the
First Partita in B flat played in
its entirety. The Bach Preludes
and Fugues are, unfortunately, so
better known to the average con
cert audience than the suites, that
the poetic Bach is comparatively
unknown. Miss Hess plays Bach so
that even the “average layman”
can derive pleasure from listening
to her. The magnificent Sonata
Opus 110 by Beethoven was almost
too large a morsel for many in the
audience, but we are proud of them.
They were absolutely silent and
Miss Hess held their attention
throughout — nor was there un
timely applause between the move
ments of the sonata! Brahms’ In
termezzi Opus 118 Nos. 1 and 2
and Opus 119, No. 3 and the Capric-
cio Opus 116, No. 7, were the high 1
lights of the recital. The last In
termezzo was so thrillingly played
that the audience demanded an im
mediate repetition. As an encore to
this group Miss Hess played the
altz in A flat by the same com
poser. The Etude^ Symphoniques
by Schumann completed the pro
gram. Even in her encores Miss
Hess retained the classic note of
her program. The encores at the
close of the concert were two Bach
Gigues, one from a Partita and a
Suite and a Toccato by Paradies.
The MacDowell Festival, founded
several years ago in Atlanta by
Miss Evelyn Jackson, is in progress
this week at the Studio Arts Build
ing, and musicians from this entire
section of the country are paying
tribute to the jn-eat American com
poser. Proceeds derived from the
contributors to this Festival are
sent to the MacDow'ell Colony at
Petersboro, New Hampshire, and
used to encourage contemporary
writers and composers in their
work.
(Continued on page 10)
Leaders Confer With En
voy On Polish Situation
Albany, N. Y. (WNS) — An
amendment to the New York State
penal code making it a misde
meanor to spread hatred or propa
ganda against any individual or
group because of race, creed or
color has been introduced in the
Senate of New York by Senator
Jacob J. Schwarzwald of Brooklyn.
Schwarzwald’s amendment provides
for a maximum prison term of
three years and a fine of $5,000 for
any one convicted under the terms
of his amendment.
BERLINDER. AUSTRIAN
INSURANCE CHIEF. DIES
Vienna (WNS)—Dr. M. Berlin-
der, director of the Phoenix Insur
ance Company and one of Central
Europe’s leading financial experts,
is dead here. A fighter for Jewish
rights, Dr. Berlinder has been of
great assistance to East European
Jews in Vienna.
Washington, D. C. (WNS)—Tak
ing time following the National
Conference for Palestine, Dr.
Stephen S. Wise, president of the
American Jewish Congress, and Dr.
S. Margoshes, editor of The Day,
conferred with Wiadyslaw Sokol-
owski, Polish charge d’affaires, re
garding the plight of the Jews of
Poland. Calling Mr. Sokolowski’s
attention to the increased economic
discrimination against Polish Jews
and the spread of anti-Jewish vio
lence, the delegation urged him to
impress upon his government that
failure to protect the Jews would
create a bad impression of Poland
in this country. Mr. Sokolowski
promised to convey the delegation’s
message to his government, but
? ointed out that the problem of
olish Jewry was primarily one for
solution between the leaders of
Polish Jewry and the Polish gov
ernment. He also stressed the fact
that his government had already
taken vigorous measures in behalf
of the Jews.
Agitation Ceases Follow
ing French Intervention
Bucharest (WNS)—Well-in
formed political sources here credit
the intervention of the French gov
ernment with responsibility for the
vigorous measures now being taken
by the Roumanian government
throughout the country to liquidate
the semi-military bands of the
various anti-Semitic groups and to
enforce the law banning the wear
ing of uniforms by private organi
zations. The sudden cessation of
anti-Semitic agitation is attributed
to the strong stand of the govern
ment.
Resuming his seat in the Rou
manian senate for the first time
since an anti-Semite attempted to
assassinate him, Chief Rabbi Jacob
I. Niemerower received an ovation
from the members of the senate.
The president of the upper house
congratulated the Chief Rabbi on
his fortunate escape from death.
New Books
“STOKER BUSH” by James
Hanley. (Macmillan.)
The closeness in publication of
James Hanley’s new novel, “Stoker
Bush,” to “The Furys,” that un
forgettable portrait of a lower class
English matriarch, proves for all
time that the English writer is
among the more powerful record
ers of the lives of the laboring
classes, and that in spite of his
having been compared to such di
verse writers as Faulkner, Hardy
and Hamsum, he is uniquely him
self.
If in “Stoker Bush” he throws
off the passionate glow that marked
the earlier novels of the late D. H.
Lawrence, it is not because of simi
larity in style or structure, but for
the reason that his Liverpool slum
characters are conditioned by the
same economic forces and physical
excesses as were Lawrence’s.
“Stoker Bush” derives its title
from the gentle Chris Bush, whose
sea-faring takes him away from his
wife, Annie, and his “dear chucks”
for long intervals. A tense, ele
mental woman, Annie permits heil
children to wander in the streets,
has no kind word for her father,
Harry, and helplessly feels her in
fidelity with Rooney grow to a deep
loathing of her indulgent husband.
There is in Hanley’s treatment of
the story, a bitter and loving sin
cerity, and save for the shipwreck
episode, he impels his characters
with masterful grasp.
Strong meat, “Stoker Bush” will
please readers who demand the
vigor and color and ribaldry of life.
316 pages $2.50.
O. B.
CAN IT HAPPEN HERE?
(Continued from page 8)
rationalizations of the underlying
feeling of foreigness—instances of
difference made to stand for the
difference itself. The true difference
is cultural. All other immigrant
peoples accept the culture of the
country into which they come. The
Jews for centuries have refused to
accept it and are now, in many
cases, unable to accept it when
they would. The habit of pride, the
long, proud stubborness of their
ancestors, is too strong in them.
Even many of those who have de
serted the traditions of their peo
ple and accepted in every detail the
dress and speech and life of the
non-Jewish majority are still subt
ly but recognizably different.
(To Be Continued)
RADIO BROADCAST TO MARK
YOUNG JUDAEA MONTH
The opening of Young Judaea
Month will be signalized Sunday,
March 1, by a radio broadcast over
WSB at 12:45 P. M.
The program, which will last for
a fifteen minute period, will
elude addresses by Young Judaean
leaders and musical selections.
Young Judaean month will
by a series of special
including a Leap Year
Sunday evening, Sabbath
services at the Ahavath Achim and
Shearith Israel Synagogue, a Punm
Party March 8, a Tri-State Meet on
March 13 and Stunt Night enter
tainment.
marked
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