Einstein’s Speech to Be Broadcast over Station Wor Wednesday Night

Mrs. Alexander Kohut is head of the Menorah Writers and Artists Committee which is giving a Menorah Benefit Concert with Victor Chenkin on Sunday evening, March 19th, at the Morosco Theatre, New York. Mr. Chenkin will give a special program of Chassidic, Hebrew, Russian, Caucasian and Gypsy songs in costume.

Station WOR will broadcast the program of the dinner which is to be held at the Hotel Commodore on Wednesday, at which Professor Albert Einstein will be guest of honor.

Dr. Einstein, who is making his only public appearance in New York at this dinner, will deliver his speech in German, and the address will then he translated into English for the benefit of the radio audience, who will hear the address through a coast to coast hook-up by the National Broadcasting Company.

The dinner, at which notables in every field of science and the arts will be present, is in connection with the nation-wide festivities for the Fifteenth Anniversary of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, and the Eighth Anniversary of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, on whose first Board of Governors Dr. Einstein served.

A surprise guest will be Dr. I. J. Kligler, Head of the Department of Hygiene and Microbiology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, who is arriving on the S.S. Bremen, just in time to attend the dinner. Dr. Kligler, who is the only American on the faculty of the Hebrew University, has been connected with that institution since its opening April 1, 1925. His last visit was made to this country in 1928. He was formerly connected with the Rockefeller Work in Palestine under the auspices of the Hebrew University.

Mrs. Alexander Kohut is head of the Menorah Writers and Artists Committee which is giving a Menorah Benefit Concert with Victor Chenkin on Sunday evening, March 19th, at the Morosco Theatre, New York. Mr. Chenkin will give a special program of Chassidic, Hebrew, Russian, Caucasian and Gypsy songs in costume.