“Wall Street”, the play by James N. Rosenberg, prominent Jewish leader, lawyer and artist, will be produced at the Hudson Theatre next week. The Stagers, Inc., are producing the play. It is directed by Edward Goodman who directed “The American Tragedy”. Arthur Hohl, who played the lead in “White Cargo”, is to have the chief role.
Mr. Rosenberg is the vice chairman of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee for which he spent over a year in Europe supervising their work there. He is known also as an artist of repute, his paintings having been exhibited at the Anderson, Rosenbach (in Philadelphia), and Arlington Galleries and at the City Club. He was the founder of the New Gallery in New York and has been instrumental in bringing to America the work of several notable modern European painters. He is the author of a short fantastic play entitled “Punchinello”, which has been published by Mitchell Kennerly. “Wall Street”, will have its initial performance on the evening of April 20th.
In accordance with its recent announcement, made at a protest meeting of Detroit retail merchants, the Ford Motor Company will bar the public as patrons at its commissary stores at the Highland Park, Fordson and Lincoln plants. Only employes will be served. It was estimated that only about 10 per cent of the stores’ patronage has been from the public.
It was denied in Detroit that this decision of the Ford Company had come about under the pressure of a boycott by the merchants.
Rabbi Isaac Jacobson, for twenty-eight years a resident of Sydney, Canada, died in that city at the age of 65.
Rabbi Jacobson went to Sydney from Worcester, Mass., about 1899.
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