The Southern Israelite. (Augusta, Ga.) 1925-1986, April 22, 1966, Image 8

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Newspaper Page TextFriday, April 22 ,1966 Six THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE Vviewer Displeased Over Removal Integrity from “The Deputy” Abie Nallian Makes Sense To Jewish, i\on-Jewish Press MEM 7 Trial < curiov > the Jewr Mo oodlines. TrLs, at *' At RENT lED ROOM ON VIR , McLYNN BUS LINE. jfNESS MAN. 872-1852. FOR SALE 1777 RIDGE VALLEY CT., N.W. Brand new 4 BR Georgian home on dead end street. Most elegant. Extra Ige rooms. 9 ft. ceilings. Hnge closets. Dream kitchen. Central air-rondi. Terrace with exquisite view. Copy of home in 70’s, selling in low 50’s. Margaret Mitchell area. Mrs. Betsy Zoss 355-5925 and 237-6496 Haas & Dodd Rltrs. 3323 PEACHTREE RD„ N.E. FOR SALE 4 BR Air-conditioned 1238 HOPKINS TERRACE, N.E. Owner transferred after just re decorating this 4 BR, 3 bth, cent, air-condi. beauty in mid 30’s. Den, screened porch, carpeted and draped. 3/4 acre lot. Good loan can be assumed. Dead end street. Exclusive. Mrs. Betsy Zoss 355-5925 and 237-6496. 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No pioneering. 79 yean in busi ness. Free training. Call Mn. Kay Last week, we ripped into Frank Wittow for reviving a play that for centuries has beyond any shadow of doubt been known as an anti-Semitic play. That some directors may stage it with less venom than others or douse the stage with more perfume in the mouths of actors than others does not condone its exhuma tion in the name of literary license. The target this week is Jay Broad, d irector, for “The Deputy,” staged recently by Theatre Atlanta. We had fortunately witnessed “The Deputy” on Broadway. The script produced in Atlanta was not the same. It need not be of course. With deference to the fact the New York produc tion was staged on a budget which would likely put the Atlanta amateurs to shame, per mitting props and experienced actors not of comparable quality, LETTERS to the EDITORS April 15, 1966 Dear Adolph, I was dismayed with your friv olous editorial of April 15, rel ative to whether Israelites or American visitors to Israel get to drink cokes or not. If you were not writing tongue in cheek then you missed the point of the implications of the charge that a major business in stitution in our country has yield ed to Arab pressures. It is not simply a matter of cokes, but whether the only de mocratic country in the Middle East, and for that matter the only country in that area which the United States can depend on in its global struggle against com munism. will be permitted to sur vive by its hostile neighbors, let alone to grow and prosper as a haven for the persecuted. If one does not get his “dan der up" about coke, then at what point does it become important” Obviously in the minds of some it would be never. What is at stake is a principle and in my opinion all Americans. Christians and Jews alike, find yielding to the unreasoned demands of the Arab bloc sufficient grounds for alarm and condemnation. Your flippant editorial was a disservice and clouds the more important issues at stake. Sincerely vours, Ben Hyman FOR SALE N.E. SECTION. 2 B.R. DEN, 2 BATHS, DALIGHT BASEMENT. OR RENT $150.00 874-9873. FOR SALE N.E. SIPF.R MARKET 1965 sales $480,000. Always a money maker. Long estab. B. Isenberg JA. 2-6677 BABY SITTER GRANDMOTHER WANTS BABY SITTING JOBS. 875-6532. the Georgia version need not take a back seat on this score. The Atlanta cast acted magnific ently, even inspiringly, at times brilliantly, and the settings were ingenious and adequate. It is a modern, controversial play quite ambitious for any group to stage. Our quarrel lies in the selee-. tion of material. Apparently the director, or sffjae authority, chooses the scen<*s and material from the original hours-long script in order to suit the limita tions of audience endurance. By the time we saw the play on Broadway, it had run for months, long enough to refine it to per fection so that extraneous dis tractions had been winnowed out. We saw a version which pursued with singular clarity the play’s major theme—the failure of the voices of people in high places to speak out in protest against.Nazi atrocities. No such refinement was evi dent in Atlanta where several contemporaneous themes divert ed attention from the great motif the play might have achieved. There was constant dwelling on the flegmatic cruelty of the Nazis, enough to fill the theme potential of any one play; and then the theme of the inhumani ties against the Jews, enough too for a full evening’s emphasis. As though these two themes were not enough to divert at tention, in the final scene an other major theme is introduced “Is there a Diety and if so how does he allow such, etc." This weighty matter is dispensed with in a few angry statements. But more importantly, in this final scene, the priest who has been displayed as the unadult erated, courageous voice of righteousness, willing to risk and sacrifice all for principle, sud denly turns chicken in the face of the extermination chamber. Such incongruous behavior in the light of all he has said and done before, in our opinion, now casts doubt on the sincerity evi denced earlier in the play. By removing in this way the in tegrity of the role the priest portrays, the Atlanta director also permits doubt to rise over the evil intent and puerility of others the play has presented until now* with force and purpose. No such conflict was permitted to arise in the N.Y. version. “The Deputy” played to pack ed houses every night, longer than any other performance of Theatre Atlanta. There is the possibility it may be returned in repertory towards the end of the forthcoming comedy run of "The Tenth Man.” It is a compelling drama to experience despite any shortcomings. We hope Director Broad will see his way clear to sublimate the distraction themes in order to highlight in sharp contrast the main objective and that the character of the priest can be restored to its original integrity without baffling enig mas. —ADOLPH ROSENBERG Bv David Benarone NEW YORK, (WUP) — Abie Nathan has come and gone, and judging by the reactions in the American press, both Jewish and non-Jewish, he has left a good impression. Although the N.Y. Times gave him only brief mention on his arrival, the Herald-Tribune gave him a glowing send-off with a rather lengthy article pointing to his sineerety and partial success of his mission in this country. Some of the nation’s leading English-Jewish publications de voted leading editorials hailing Abie’s peace exploits. Leo Glass- man, editor of the American Examiner (New York)—who met the daring Israeli just before he departed—-had this to say edi torially: “It is too bad that no one highly placed in the State De partment found it necessary to receive Abie Nathan, the Israeli who flew to Egypt in an attempt to see Nasser and persuade him to talk peace with Israel. Abie Nathan makes more sense than the State Department’s Middle East policy makers. At an inter view Monday, he proved himself courageous, intelligent, articulate and clear thinking. The chief points he drove home were: many Arabs are coming round to the conclusion that Israel is here to stay and their leaders might agree to sit down and talk peace with Israel if influential personages in Washington and Moscow gave evidence of a real interest in such a move; the way to solve the arms race in the Middle East is not to give more arms to any of the states there, but to reduce, and eventually eliminate altogether the arms buildup. The striped pants gentlemen in Washington might have learned something by talk ing to Abie Nathan.” The B’nai B’rith Messenger of Los Angeles, which distinguished publication was host to Abie during his West Coast visit, had Senators Back Continued from page 1 Frank E. Moss, Utah; Karl E. Mundt. S. Dakota; George Mur phy, California; Maurine Neu- berger. Oregon; John O. Pastore, Rhode Island; James B. Pearson. Kansas; Claiborne Pell. Rhode Island; William Proxmire, Wis consin; Jennifigs Randolph, West Virginia; Abraham A. Ribicoff, Connecticut; Leverett Saltonstall, Massachusetts; Hugh Scott, Penn sylvania; Milward L. Simpson, Wyoming; George A. Smathers, Florida; Stuart Symington. Mis souri; Strom Thurmond, S. Caro lina; John G. Tower. Texas; Jos eph D. Tydmgs, Maryland; Harri son A. Williams Jr.. New Jersey; Ralph W. Yarborough. Texas; Stephen M. Young, Ohio; Alan Bible, Nevada; Winston I,. Prou- ty, Vermont; Everett McKmely, Dirksen, Illinois; and Gaylord Nelson, Wisconsin. this to say: “It is hard to find anyone on our current scene who has fired the imagination of knowledgable people more than a Tel Aviv restaurateur by the name of Abie Nathan who is currently dishing out peace. “In fact, peace has been high on Abie’s menu for a long time. He told the Israeli electorate he would go to Egypt to seek peace if he was elected to the Knesset. He didn’t win but he went any way in a 40-year-old biplane. “When he got to Egypt his awe-stricken and non-plussed hosts treated him with gentle manly politeness before sending him back to Israel. At home he was a hero—a man of his word who had expressed everyone’s innermost hope. So it is that he is now touring the West, bringing his message of peace and brotherhood. So it is that we in Los Angeles say ‘Shalom’ to this modem apostle of peace. And so it is that we of the B’nai B’rith Messenger are happy to have played a major role in bringing Abie Nathan to the Southland by making his trip here possible.” UN Debating Issue of War Criminals UNITED NATIONS (WUP) — The Commission on Human Rights began debating the ques tion of the punishment of war criminals and of persons who have committed crimes against humanity. The Commission has before it a resolution submitted by the Polish delegate which, with sev eral amendments submitted by Austria, Israel, the Netherlands and New Zealand, will undoubt edly be adopted. Operative paragraph 1 of the Polish resolution urges all States to observe the principle of in ternational law according to which no statutory limitation shall be applied to war crimes and crimes against humanity and to continue their efforts to en sure the arrest, extradition and punishment of persons responsi ble for war crimes and crimes against humanity.” The four-power amendment to this paragraph reads: “Urges all States to take mea sures necessary to prevent the application of statutory limita tion war crimes and crimes against humanity, and to make available to other States any doc uments in their possession re lating to such crimes.” During the debate, the observer from Byelorussia stated that the Federal Republic of Germany shielded Nazi war criminals from just punishment and that many of them are occupying high pos itions in the governmental struc ture. PILGRIMS Statement for Spring Lack Storage Space? 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