The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1941-11-28
Heard In The
LObbieS
BY DAVID DEUTSCH
SHOTS AT SAN DOMINGO

With San Domingo hailed as
the latest of the Paradises. will it's
sponsors inquire why General Tru-
Jlllo was as mad as a slaughtered
turkey when he saw a letter in
Aufbau, German refugee weekly
published in New York, complain
ing about conditions in Sousa {?
us hard to say who was present
when the man who dislikes to be
called a dictator and isn't, since
his Dominican project brought him
all the threatened to clean
out 1.-The whole nest" if such criti-
clsm was repeated by any of the
400 who found a place on his
island haven That swell little
pamphlet showing improvements
down Sousa-way forgot to photo
graph the black natives who are
required to do the heavy work :.
Must be pretty tough on the Jew
ish history teacher in Sosua who
can tell the miracles of Jewish
survival only to those who ask for
it-since to teach it to all COM
pulsory would violate the nom
sectarian character of the settle
ment about which some of it's
sponsors are so proud-and about
which others don't even whisper
And any one who's going to
mutter or buster about this par
agraph can also explain, why,
when discrimination against Jew
ish engineers and agronomists is
so widespread, so many who are
not are employed on the Sosua
development scheme And if
there's still objection to exposing
the facts Of life, the sponsors of
Sosua ought to remember that
when a playwright presents a
drama on Broadway the law en-
titles the critic to pass judgment
+. And since the few private
philanthropists got tired of she'll
ing out their own money on this
latest fantasy and offered to let
Jewish welfare funds in on the
ground floor of this non-sectarian
enterprise, they can eXpect-and
ought to Welcomed lot more
study of what it's all about.
STAGE AND SCREEN
Paul MUM. who stalked off the
Warner lot in John L. Lewis fash
ion, didn't realize that his por-
traits of lola and Pasteur lasted
as long as it takes to put the next
feature on the projection machine.
And so the great silent wonder of
the talkies will be taking orders
from a Columbia megaphoner
when he plays second fiddle to
Glenn Ford in Chopin" with
Ford, who won his spurs in
Escape" playing the Polish mu-
stefan . . With Jews being driven
out of Paris with every new anti
Jewish burp from Otto Abetz, it'll
seem strange to see Elizabeth
Bergner playing the stellar role in
Universars paris Calling" The
great Austrian-Jewish star hasn't
been around Hollywood for quite
few years now.
Don't let the experience of New
York Jewish leader and tobacco
magnate, Howard Cullman, give
you false ideas merely because he
struck it rich as Broadway's most
famous angel" Some of his
friends thought they were playing
him for a sucker when they asked
him to back their various enter
prises, but now hundreds of
thousands of dollars are rolling
his way because of his "angeling"
such current Broadway successes
as Lets Face It," 'Life With
Father" arsenic and Old Lace"
"Best Foot Forward" Candle in
the Wind and even Macbeth"
Cullman, who's been the treasurer
for the campaigns of AL Smith,
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Herbert
Lehman, has come pretty high
since he graduated from Yale 20
wears ago. BY the way, he is also
the fellow who, as receiver for
Gotham's Roxey Theatre, put it in
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