, - ' ..... ,___ L, , '" . ". , , :' i ". ,', ,'.:, " :' , .' :::.;::.;;~:.:;:;" ... \' ,," . .-i;: __ :~':-:-""'':;'' . "\ ' ~ " ,.:~,,\... ,,\ --,.' ~- ,-, " ,.- ~ Thursday, December 9, 1943 Thursday; Decetnb_e_r_9.:.., _19_4_3___________________ T_H_E_J-E-W-I-S-H- __P_O_S_T~ ______...:.... ___...l::~;,=-.c:--:.:..':c.:.':':..'-".,"'.:.- -'~_:\_"_' _''''::'''''.:::0'',:;...." Page Three THE JEWISH POST ~',\ ~,'" ",,','.'.-:- ;,' Page Two of his work." Ce-rtainly, it was noll acting family. It should b~l~\ ention- ;E~rpp~an:fri~~d~. gr\e up -\Yh.at they his introduction of three-dimensional ed, however, that he was old .and 't:alled a "hppeless" struggle, 11ke the s~ts, of .1;he revolving stage and the independent enough to sta il. in. hi~ df~!Q~tist Ern'~~,'",J'ollef~'~ho hanged cyclorama (that ~,;cenic device used theatres numerous works by 'ddish ~§,elf,Jli'h4he, cord of his bath- Max Reinhardt to simulate the sky) nor any other authors, such as "The God, 0 'M'e ~ his Park Avenue Hotel, Qr The Oldest AngI<>-JewiBh Weekly in Western CanadB.' The orld's Foremost (L:!lIued weekly in the interests of Jewish Community activitiep By Alfred Werner technicality, but the reclamation of geance" by Sholem Asch, c Stefan Zweig, who took poison in in Winnipeg and Western Canada) all the arts, for the creation of a Treasure" by David Pinski, and Brazil. Reinhardt, since 1940 a citi­ Gesantkunstwerk (a . Wagnerian works by Ossup Dymov and Semion zen of this country and the father HERE is that in theatricad rep- back-stage training as an actor, Published every Thursclay "T Yushkevich. Jewish plays written of an American soldier, remained by , resentaion w h i c h awakens Reinhardt made the traditional round tenn); it was ·the restoration of thE' Talmudist theatre, which had long been the by German Jews and performed on active and optimistic to his very end. EMPlliE PRESS LTD. whatever romance belongs to OHr of the provincial theatres of the meeting place of I connoisseurs and the Reinhardt stages include "Jacoh'3 He died of pneumonia which had Printel's and Publishers character. The magic lights, the monarchy . It was at Salzburg the snobs only, to the masses . longing Dream" by Beer-Hofmann and "The followed a series of paralytic stroke3 BEN M. COHEN, Business Manager America. Upon his arrival in New York in 1900, pomp of the scene, the fair, false, ex- scene of his later triumphs, that the (A Biographical Sketch of Prof. Louis Ginzberg) for beauty, that was the historical Mission of Seamael" a play dealing at a New York hotel on the last day Phone 54400 Evenjnge ~4 345 he joined the staff of the Jewish Encyclopaedia citing life that is detailed before us, Berlinese theatrical director and By DORIS TUSSMAN with the Tiszlar EszIar case by of October, a few weeks after having as Editor of the Rabbinical Department. During crowding into three short hours all champion of Naturalism, Otto'Brahm, triumph of Reinhardt, the "Austrian Head Office: 213 Selkirk Ave., Winnipeg, Canada (Copyright, 1943, Jewish Telegraphic Agency) hedonist." Arnold Zwei~. celebrated his seventieth birthday. Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at Ottawa' his association with the Encyclopaedia, he wrote our most busy ambition could desire himself a Jew, discovered the twenty IVlost significant was his last request: HE week of December 11th has' been dedicated more than 400 articles and edited many others. all these appeals I to our senses are year old Eeinhardt and gave him a His later experiments were not The numerous Americans who at- Vol. XIX-No. 49 Thursday, December 9, 1943 "No flowers. No pomp. Tell anyone to Professor Louis Ginzberg in honor of his It wa~ in 1902 that he received the appointment not made in vain. Our taste for contract. At Brahm's Deutsches T always successful. Conceiving the tended the Salzburg festivals be­ who wishes to send flowers to make seventieth birthday. It is thus fitting to recall castle-building and visions deepens Theatre the Austrian' enjoyed much which he retains to this day, Professor of Talmud idea of a collective playhouse wher.: tween 1920 and 1938 will still re­ a contribution to any war effort that some events of Professor Ginzberg's life, both his upon us, and we chew a mental op- success portraying Ghosts, but aftel" At The Danger Point and Rabbinics at the Jewish Theological Seminary actors and audiences were one body, member Reinhardt's stupendous will help defeat Hitler." training and accomplishments, in order to appre­ of America. ium which stagnates the other fac~ a few years of working under his he staged Rolland's "Danton" so that mise-en-scene of the medieval mor­ The Westchester Hill Cemetery ciate more fully his dual position of primacy in The Professor's talents and scholarship have ulties, but wakes that of the ideal." stern and pedantic master he became the audience was the court-room ality play "Everyman" re-written fol' near Hastings cn Hudson, N.Y., now Despatches from Jerusalem received this week Jewish scholarship and primacy in the hearts of been accorded recognition by outstanding men In the same year, 1873, when the dissatisfied with the sordid realism, 'rowd of the play; supers were placed the s!=!cptical and sophisicted twenti­ bears the remains of a great refonner report that the charges agaillst the 34 settlers all those who know him. We remember these and institutions of all sects and nationalities. He author of these words, the outstand- drab dullness and perverted mater­ in seats throughout the auditorium, eth-century audience by Hugo Hof­ of the modern stage. True, the Rein-, of Ramat Hakovesh, arrested during the police deeds, not only in tribute to a great man, but was one of a select group of world famous men to ing English novelist and dramatist, ialism that were the keynotes of the and they astonished their unprepared mannsthal), of Hofmannsthal's ver­ hardt-style is the style of yesterday, raid on the settlement, have been dropped by the also as an inspiration to others for a nobler and be distinguished by Harvard University during Bulwer-Lyton, passed away, at the Gennan stage of 1890-1900. He real­ neighb~rs by suddenly rising to .'sion of Calderon~s f~l Gran Teatro not of tomorrow, and he was, indeed, Palestine Government. The net results of the more meaningful Jewish life. its Tercentennial celebration when he was pre­ little spa of Baden near Vienna to 1 iz'ed that, contrary to his director';; speak their lines.' In his production del Mundo" and Goethe's lIFaust 0' a unique mixture of Prospero and 1 disturbance were one Jew killed and the tension Professor Ginzberg's literally encyclopaedic sented with an honorary degree of Doctor of the Goldinanns a son was' born who, concept, the spoken word was not the of .' '~Hamlet," the actors, wearing just as they will recall Toscanini a~d Barnum, as his critics claimed. But of the entire Near East engendered to such a learning in the field of rabbinics has been attri­ Theology. ' under his artist's name of Max Rein- \ only element of stagecraft, ~nd th",t modern dress, leaned against the Bruno Walter conducting their Moz­ the superficial showman Reinhardt pitch that serious outbreaks in the not far distant buted to many factors, but one in particular seems Though widely known as ,a teacher and scholar, hardt, was d~stined to create on the I the stage demand~d its full ·share. of spectators' boxes and mixed with the art's operas or Lotte Lehmann sing­ of the later years must never oblier­ future are a distinct possibility. The shedding of relevant at this point. It may be said that it is his Professor Ginzberg's fame rests chiefly upon his modern stage all the magic lights, alII light, color and design. Breakulg 'audience before the curtain rose. ing German lieder. To m~ny oi ate the memory of the serious young one more Jew's blood will be dismissed without universality of knowledge that has enabled him many books on Hebrew law and folklore. The most the appeals to man's senses that had with Brahm'l he founded, fIrst a cab­ Reinhardt tra;nsforme4 a Berlin cir- those Americans, however, who nev­ revolutionary Reinhardt whose hon­ much fuss or furor in the face of indiscriminating to be a great specialist. His particular fame rests famous among the latter is "The Legends of the been extolled' so longingly by the:, aret 'of his own, later' his own little cus into a huge theatre with 3,000 er went to Europe, he is known ps orable place in the history of the bloodshed of three million others, but this leaves upon the unique manner in which he brings to jews," which consists of seven volumes and is the British writer. A castle-builder h~, theatre where he earned a stunning seats and there "barnumized" the the Prospera who staged here "Tc:~' modern theatre is undisputed.-Am- the question of the present uneasiness that has bear upon his own profound insights into the first attempt to gather from the original sources was, indeed, from his boyhood spent I success with his peculiar staging of classics, resorting to acrpbatics and. Miracle," "A Midsummer Night's erican Hebrew. been brought to a dangerous pitch. Talmud and Hebrew lore the vast knowledge of the myriad Jewish legends which refer to Biblical chiefly in the gallery of the Hofburg' Gorki;s "Night Lodging/', that half the' 1oud ar,ena style of speaking. 'bream," and liThe Eternal Road," __________ , 'We can understand that there are some in Western Science personages and events. It is the most complete Theatre in Vienna, to his very last mystical play where the scene is a While thus yielding to sensation- and as the producer of a much-dis- Call For Blood Donors the Middle East who are satisfied with the results.