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WILLIAMS JEWELRY COMPANY
"Macon's Oldest and Most Reliable"
451 Cherry Street
Macon, Georgia
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merited for a script to begin.
Featured writer for the program
since it went on the air is Morton
Wishengrad, who attracted the at
tention of NBC officials with his
first radio script, one of a series en
titled "Labor for Victory,” pro
duced during the war. He was
then asked to do several programs
for “Lands of the Free” and since
that time has turned out more
than 130 radio plays for the Eternal
Light and six other network shows.
Last May, Crown Publishers issued
a volume entitled The Eternal
Light, including twenty-six plays
written by Morton Wishengrad for
the program.
The musical score for each script
is fully as much a part of the final
whole as the written word. When
the script has been written, Morris
Mamorsky composes original mu
sic—painting the scene, stating the
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The world is like the
wheel on the well. The
full pail is emptied, the
empty one is filled.
—Vayikra Rabbah 34
emotion, blending and emphasizing
the moods of the script. A former
NBC staff composer who studied at
the Yale School of Music. Mr. Ma
morsky was awarded the 1939 Pad
erewski Fund Prize for an original
piano concerto. The liturgical in
troduction to the Eternal Light
series is an arrangement by Ma
morsky of a Palestinian folk song,
“Shomer Yisroel.”
Often, a radio script can stand or
fall on "the production." The crew
at the NBC studio that brings a
script to life each week is com
posed of skillful artists. The mu
sic is played by 25 members of the
NBC Symphony Orchestra, con
ducted by Milton Katims, one of
America’s leading musicians. This
summer, Mr. Katims has been
hailed for his sensitive perform
ance as conductor of the NBC Sym
phony Orchestra, an honor for
which he was selected by Tosean-
nini.
Stars on Programs
The difficult and exacting job of
“holding the strings" of the per
formance together has been the re
sponsibility of director Frank Papp,
who is now in Europe collecting
data on Displaced Persons Camps
for a series of radio programs to be
presented under the sponsorship of
Protestant church groups. During
Mr. Papp’s absence, he has been re
placed by Walter MeGraw, one of
NBC’s ablest directors.
Among the actors and actresses
who have played in the Eternal
Light have been distinguished ar
tists, including Jane Cowl, who
played "Lilliam Wald,” Raymond
Massey, who was featured in "Ja-
bod and the Indians" and "The
Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto," Mar
garet Webster as “Emma Lazarus.”
Sam Jaffe as “Sholem Aleiehem.”
The liturgical solos are sung by
Cantor David Putterman of the
Park Avenue Synagogue and Can
tor Robert H. Segal of the Mount
Neboh Synagogue, both in New
York.
Producer of the Eternal Light,
who has watched it grow from its
inception and given it confidence
and encouragement and over-all
supervision is Milton Krents. Dur
ing the war, Mr. Krents served as
radio consultant to the Office of
Civilian Defense and produced two
important wartime shows “The Day
of Reckoning" and Stephen Vincent
Benet’s “Dear Adolph" series.
In the past year, the Eternal
Light has extended beyond the
borders of the United States. The
Palestine Broadcasting Company
has presented Hebrew translations
of Eternal Light scripts, the most
recent of which was "The Door
way to the World," by Arnold Perl,
a play describing the career of
Abraham Joseph Stybel, Hebrew
publisher and philanthropist.
In Germany, the Eternal Light
is being produced by men and
women who survived the ghettos
and death camps of Hitler-domi
nated Europe, people who see in
the program a chance to combat
the virus of anti-Semitism and to
help bring the richness of the Jew
ish heritage into the lives of the
victims of persecution. Israel Blu-
menfeld, who initiated the project
in Germany, is a veteran of the
Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto, and
now edits the “Juddische Rund-
shau,” a magazine “of, by and for
the liberated Jews in Germany."
His Yiddish translations of Eternal
Light scripts have been dramatized
in DP Camps; his productions have
been heard over Radio Nuremberg,
Frankfurt, Bremen and Cologne.
The most popular broadcast has
been “Moses Mendelssohn" by Mor
ton Wishengrad, a play based on
the life of the German-Jewish
philosophy who fought prejudice in
the days of Frederick the Great.
When the program was first pre
sented, thousands of letters poured
into the studios of Radio Frank
furt requesting a repeat perform
ance. Since then, Blumenfeld
writes that more than 15,000 let
ters of encouragement have come
from non-Jewish listeners in Ger
many.
In a report of his activities,
Blumenfeld writes: "The Ewige-
Light-Programm" had therefore to
have chiefly an educational task.
First for liberated Jews in Ger
many, who have missed for six
years the contact with Jewish cul
ture—Second, for the German pop
ulation as re-education to tolerance
and good-will between religious
groups.”
The Eternal Light program is
also heard in Canada, over the fa
cilities of the Canadian Brodcast-
ing Company. Requests for scripts
came from Australia, South Africa,
China and Japan, for use in troop
information and other educational
projects.
(Copyright, '47—JPA)
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The Southern Israelite