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Jacob Ben-Ami, Stalwart Star of Yiddish Stage.
Mas hirst Broadway Hit in “The Tenth Man”
One of the leading stars of the
Jewish theatre for the past forty
years, Jacob Ben-Ami has his
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first Broadway hit in “The Tenth
Man,” the new Paddy Chayefsky
drama at the Booth Theatre in
New York. “The Tenth Man”
opening at the Booth last Nov.
and has been playing to capa
city audiences ever since. The
setting of the play is a small
Jewish synagogue in Mineola
Long Island, and Mr. Ben-Ami
plays a loving grandfather who
seeks to prevent his grand
daughter from being committed
to a mental institution.
He got rave notices for his
performance in the role, but
that is nothing new to an actor
who has been garnering them
for the past four decades. “He
is an actor endowed with a bodi
ly eloquence and a tragic mask
unequalled in our theatre,” wrote
Alexander Woollcott in the New
York Times of his performance
in “Samson and Delilah.” “Ben-
Ami’s face is akin to Chaplain’s
- mobile, beautiful, exquisitely
expressive. It is the kind of a
mask for which all the tragedies
of the world have been written ”
That was back in 1921 on the
occasion of his English-speaking
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debut Mr Ben-Ami was born in
Minsk and was attending He
brew School there when a small
circus came to town and awak
ened his youthful imagination to
the glories of show business At
sixteen he was apprenticed to a
Jewish acting group and within
a few years he was presenting
classical and serious drama
throughout Eastern Europe.
Mr Ben Ami came to America
in 1918 and immediately estab
lished himself as one of the out
standing actors in the Yiddish
theatre Arthur Hopkins saw him
playing “Samson and Delilah”
in Yiddish and engaged him to
appear in it the following sea
son on Broadway, this despite
the fact that Mr. Ben-Ami was
totally unfamiliar with the Eng
lish laguage at the time he
signed the contract. After a
summer of intensive study he
played the show in English and
received a glowing tribute from
critics and playgoers alike for
his performance as Samson.
“Samson and Delilah” opened
at the Greenwich Village Thea
tre, an avant-garde off-Broadway
playhouse. Mr. Ben-Ami subse
quently scored a tremendous
success on Broadway in the title
role of “Johannes Kreisler and
in such other dramas as Lenor-
mand’s “The Failures,” Eugene
O’Neill’s "Welded” and Philip
Barry’s "John.” But none of
these plays could be described
as box-office hits, however dis
tinguished their authorship.
During the heyday of Eva Le
Gallienne’s Civic Repertory
Theatre Mr Ben-Ami starred
there in Chekhov’s “The Sea
Gull” and “The Cherry Orch
ard,” Tolstoy’s “Living Corpses,”
“Romeo and Juliet” and “Ca
mille.” These were great hits
on 14th Street just a mile and
a half south of Broadway.
Mr. Ben-Ami scored his most
recent New York triumph in
“The World of. Sholem Alei-
chem,” but that too was off-
Broadway. He has starred on
tour in three tremendous suc
cesses, “Payment Deferred,”
“Death of a Salesman” (in Afri
ca) and “The Diary of Anne
Frank.” But it remained for
Paddy Chayefsky to provide him
with his first Broadway hit-
after thirty-nine years on the
American stage—in “The Tenth
Man.”
lie is remembered in Atlanta
for his appearance in 1959 in the
arena theatre production of
“Sampson *and Delilah” and pre
viously on Farband theatrical
troops.
Arab Envoy Called
To Account for
Anti-Jewish Speech
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — The
Department of State made
known last week that it has
called Ambassador Mustafa Ka
mel of the United Arab Re
public to account for portions
of an anti-Jewish address de
livered in Washington by the
Ambassador on August 29.
William B. Macomber, Jr.,
Assist Sect’y. of State, revealed
the development in a letter to
Rep. Seymour Halpern, New
York Republican. Rep. Halpern
had lodged a formal protest
with the Department against the
speech in which Ambassador
Kamel questioned the loyalty
of American Jewry and urged
Arab students in America to in
ject anti-Jewish and anti-Israel
propaganda into current election
activity.
Mr. Macomber said that “cer
tain aspects of the text to which
you have referred gave the De
partment concern, and were
brought to the Ambassador’s at
tention.” He added that “with
respect to possible improper ac
tivities of the students,” the ap
propriate agencies of the Justice
Department were following the
situation closely. He said any
abuses would be "dealt with
promptly.”
Left to right: George Voskovec, Jacob Ben-Ami, Lou Jmcobl,
Arnold Marie, Risa Schwartz in a scene from Paddy Chayefsky’s
drama, “The Tenth Man,” at the Booth Theatre in New York.
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