A large audience is expected to be present at the celebration of the fiftieth birthday of Prof. Albert Einstein, to be held at the Metropolitan Opera House next Tuesday evening, April 16th, according to an announcement by Mr. Herman Bernstein, Chairman of the Einstein Celebration Arrangements Committee. Interest has been aroused by the fact that the German government will be represented at the celebration through Count Von Prittwitz, German Ambassador at Washington. This is believed to be the first time that a German citizen has been so honored by his government in a foreign country.
The Hon. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior and former President of Stanford University, will be the guest of honor and principal speaker at the Einstein celebration. Secretary Wilbur will devote his address to a discussion of the influence of Einstein on the modern world. Other speakers will be Mayor James J. Walker, Louis Marshall, Morris Rothenberg, Emanuel Neumann, Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver of Cleveland, Rev. Z. H. Masliansky, and Herman Bernstein.
The Einstein celebration is being held under the auspices of the Jewish National Fund and the Zionist Organization of America, with the express permission of Prof. Einstein. The Einstein Jubilee Arrangements Committee which is sponsoring the celebration is headed by Nathan Straus, as Honorary Chairman, and includes, among others, Prof. Franz Boas, Arthur Brisbane, Pres, Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, Judge Benjamin N. Cardozo, Col. Michael Friedsam, Pres. John Grier Hibben of Princeton University. Rev. Dr. John Haynes Holmes, Licut-Gov. Herbert H. Lehman. Judge Julian W. Mack, Bishop William T. Manning, Prof. Michael I. Pupin, Prof. E. R. A. Seligman, Dr. Edwin E. Slosson, Senator Robert F. Wagner, and Dr. Stephen S. Wise.
Contributions to the Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities totaling nearly $70,000, were announced at a “Federation Day” dinner in the Unity Club, Thursday night. The contributions were the result of the first day’s drive by 200 Jewish business men to wipe out the Federation’s $200,000 deficit. Nathan D. Shapiro, president of the Federation, announced that complete returns had not been computed. The campaign will be continued until May 1.
Tributes to Justice Mitchell May, former president of the Federation, were made by Mr. Shapiro, Justice Harry E. Lewis, Samuel Salzman. Jack Gumpert. Dr. Samuel Kohs, Judge Algernon L. Nova, Major Benjamin H. Namm and Walter N. Rothschild, speakers at the dinner.
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