A quota of $45,000 was accepted by the motion picture industry here for the Los Angeles joint relief and Palestine campaign at a meeting of representatives of the industry, headed by Louis B. Mayer, Chairman of the Los Angeles drive.
Headed by Mr. Mayer, who contributed $5,000, a total of $30,000 was pledged at the meeting. Other contributors included: Sol Lesser, $1,000; Warner Bros., $2,000; Gore Bros., of the West Coast Theatres, $2,000; Mike C. Levee of United Studios, B. P. Shulberg, Famous Players-Lasky, Sol Wurtzel, Fox Films, Samuel Goldwyn, United Studios, $1,000.
Speakers included Sol Lesser, Rabbi Magnin, Rabbi Rothstein, I. Irving Lipsitch, Judge Harry A. Hollzer and Bernard Stone, representing the United Palestine Appeal during the campaign.
The total quota for Los Angeles in the campaign is $265,000, of which the United Palestine Appeal is to receive $100,000, the balance going to the United Jewish Campaign and an mergency fund for the Jewish Consumptive Relief Association of Los Angeles.
Preliminary organization of a Women’s Committee for the campaign was launched at a tea given at the home of Mrs. Louis M. Cole, a sister of Irving H. Hellman, state chairman of the campaign. Forty women were present. A $20,000 quota has been adopted by the Women’s Committee.
Dr. Esther Mangel, of Warsaw, arrived in New York on the Aquitania on Saturday. She has come to America to lecture on Jewish life in Poland and Palestine and describe her experiences as Vice President of the Woman’s Zionist Organization of Poland. She will remain here two months.
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