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of massage, exercise, physical,
chemical and other properties of
heat, light, water and occasionally
electricity.
The occupational therapist co
operates with the physician in or
ganizing work projects for patients,
supervising workers who teach pa
tients activities as rug making, sew
ing, basketry and other avocational
activities. They hasten the patient’s
recovery by keeping him usefully
occupied.
Among the traits you should pos
sess for either profession are good
health, sound emotional balance, a
liking for people and desire to serve
them, patience, tact and sense of
humor. Training is from four to
live years subsequent to high
school.
There are many jobs in govern
ment service, various hospitals and
schools for the handicapped. Sal
aries range from $2,000 to $6,000 for
supervisory positions.
A small but increasingly large
number of women are finding in
teresting careers in optometry. Bar
riers existing in other fields against
women are refreshingly absent.
Many women conduct their own
practice, while others work as as
sistants to opthamologists and op
tometrists. Women have shown
themselves especially well suited
for working with children. Others
are employed by clinics and as re
search workers for optical manu
facturers. Earnings range from
$3,000 to $12,000 a year and more.
Another little known field wel
coming competent women is osteo
pathy. Approximately a fourth of
all osteopaths are women. Osteo
pathy is the school of medicine de
voted to the treatment of diseases
and injuries, chiefly through ma
nipulation. It does, however, use
other approved methods of diagno
sis and treatment. The osteopathic
physician not only engages in ma
nipulative treatment but also pre
scribes diet, exercise, rest and rec
reation.
The total training after high
school is about six years. It is a
young, uncrowded and growing
profession where incomes compare
favorably with that of other phy
sicians.
Finally, although this doesn’t ex
haust the list of professional fields,
there is librarianship. This impor
tant profession has been slow in
gaining the recognition it deserves.
Standards have risen so that a min
imum of a college degree is essen
tial for the better paying job. There
are also several graduate schools in
the country. This profession also
suffers from a shortage of profes
sionally trained workers.
Those Jewish women who are
interested in, and qualified for any
of the above fields will find them
challenging, often remunerative
and emotionally satisfying voca
tions.
LEON CUTTERMAN:
Rabbi in Hollywood
Motion picture producer Jack Skirball is the only movie-maker
in Hollywood who, if film business should go on the rocks, can re
turn to his one time profession of being an ordained rabbi. How
ever, producer Skirball doesn’t believe that the movies will ever go
broke, and that he will ever have to face the necessity of returning
to his former title of Rabbi Skirball. His recent films such as
“Magnificent Doll” (Ginger Rogers), “Guest in the House” (Clau
dette Colbert), “So Goes My Love” (Myrna Loy) and Shadow of a
Doubt (Joseph Cotton) were all big box office hits, resulting in the
fact that the rabbi-turned-producer is today one of the movie colo
ny’s busiest (and happiest) creative artists.
At the moment, Jack is actively engaged in filming his latest
comedy, “Love is Big Business,” starring Claudette Colbert, Robert
Young and George Brent at RKO studios. And although carrying
the nerve-wracking burdens of a motion picture producer, Jack is
more than ever engaged in solving the problems of Judaism, Charity
and Philanthropy.
Every day finds him more earnest about getting things done for
dozens of worthy causes. He’s active on committees, drives, appeals
and fund-raising campaigns. Even though it is his nature to be an
inherently quiet and modest individual, he has been known to un
leash an appeal-for-funds speech with the ferocity of a lion’s roar —
and with exceptional results.
The spirit of Rabbi Skirball still lives and breathes in the heart
of Producer Skirball. The Skirball films spark intelligence, sig
nificance, information, wisdom all wrapped up in a bundle of pure,
unadulterated entertainment.
“The chief difficulty with the production end of the motion pic
ture industry is that there are too many of the wrong kind of people
still engaged in it,” says Jack. "The production of motion pictures,
after all, is a definite form of art, and the films reflect unerringly
the moral character of those who create the pictures. One cannot
expect a man who has no appreciation of decency or cleanliness,
himself, to be very much concerned with the importance of making
his pictures clean and decent and wholesome.
“One whose normal antennae are attuned to the mouthings of
the gutter, is not likely to react favorably to the wholesome atmos
phere of the higher strata. And just so long as those wrong kinds of
people are in a position to control the moral content of the motion
picture, just so long will bad pictures continue.”
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