The Arizona post., 1960-01-08
Debbie Reynolds Praised
For Her Charity Work
Hollywood Report:
By HERBERT G. LUFT

Copyright, 1859, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, mc.)
HOLLYWOOD talked with Debbie Reynolds
(he former Mrs Eddie Fsher) at the dedication cere
mony for The Thaans Clinic for Children at Mount
Sinai Hospital described by Attorney General Stanley
Mosk as zone of Hollywoods finest hours"
1t is not generally known that Miss Reynolds has
been for many years and still is in the forefront raising
funds for Jewish-and Los Angeles community activi-
ties in addition her church interest She is cur
rently president of The ThalanS, organization OF
younger motion picture personalities who want to
do some good for their fellow men.
Lester NJ Finkelstein president of Mount Sinai
Hospital awarded Miss Reynolds a ceremonial gold
key to The Thaians Clinic $50 that you may throw
wide the doors for the children of our community
who will enter to be healed" Your JTA correspondent
congratulated Debbie screen star Glenn Ford, and
former Thalian president Margaret Whiting for the
success of their humanitarian efforts.
Not so pleasant is my report on II Aim At The
Stars" the Wernher Won Braun Story currently be-
fore the cameras at the Bavaria Studios in Munich,
GERMANY The item belongs in this column because
this is a Hollywood venture, with Charles H. Schneer
at the helm and many names of "Our Film Folk con-
nected with the production.
Says Columbia Studios in a release for publica-
ton by JTA: CDR. Braun has been involved IN
many history-making events in his short Al years,
many of which have changed the course OF history
and seriously affected the destiny of mankind. He
was for example, the brain behind the deadly w
rockets, which raned on London in the last months
of the war and many believe if they had come along
sooner they might have even turned the tide of war;
"I Aim At The Stars" continues Columbia, twill
not take liberties with history or facts. 1t Will snow,
for instance that Dr. Braun was a member OF
f0y
ernment as did everyone in Germany at that time
BY the same TOKEN it will also show he arrested
by the Gestapo and thrown into prison. charged with
reasonable utterances It will also be told that he
was released on the authority of Hitlers High Com
mand to carry on his w work."
"Dr. Won Braun was in charge of the huge Peene
nunde rocket base with thousands under his super
vision when he was still in his twenties" etc. etc.
Wernher Won Braun aims at the stars trying
to conquer the universe after he has helped Hitler
to kill off the people of planet Recently dur
ing an address in London he is quoted having said
of his past Fright or wrong, My Fatherland.
At Twentieth Century Fox studios, watched the
opening chapter of the biblical epic "The Story OF
Ruth" unfold before the cameras. When Elana Eden,
portraying the title role came to me to say hello
I hardly recognized in the brilliantly garbed Moabte
prestess who walks with majestic pose the sweet 49,
year-old Israeli had lunch with in the studio COM
missary just week earlier.
On the set Elana Ruth before her CONVEX
sion to Judaism. She is just putting golden crown
onto the head of dark-haired youngster caresslng
the chld's face with much tender care The Moablte
prestess knows well that the pagan hierarchy is de-
termned to sacrifice the girl on the altar OF the gods
Ruth is revolving against the slaughter of humans but
unable to reveal herself to her ward