Sixth Day of United Jewish Campaign in New York Brings Total to $3,463,175

On the sixth day of the United Jewish Campaign in Greater New York the sum of $3,463,175 had been raised, according to the announcement made by David M. Bressler, vice-chairman of the campaign.

A conference of leaders of the theatrical profession and allied industries was presided over by William A. Brady, veteran producer. The campaign of this division will begin after the main drive is over. The conference was participated in by Al Woods, Joseph Leblang, Louis Bernstein, Barney Klawans, Julius Tannen, Louis Mann, Gus Edwards, Douglas N. Taussig, Leney Haskell, John Zanft, Leo Brocher, Harry Hershfield, Beulah Livingstone, Herman Bernie, Martha Wilchinski, John Zanft, Alex Kempner, Paul Bern, Eva Puck, Sam White. David M. Bressler and David A. Brown, national chairman of the campaign.

Plans for a Sunday night benefit performance, in the theatres and moving picture houses throughout New York were adopted. A boxing carnival with Benny Leonard as a performer is projected, and outdoor performances, including exhibition baseball games in the three baseball parks of the city. Concerts at the Metropolitan and Manhattan Opera Houses are included in the attractions projected at the conference.

“I saw the conditions described by Mr. Brown,” declared Mr. Brady, “and he hasn’t told a tenth part of the story. It’s such a vast tragedy that not even the combined talents of the many gifted men in our industry could succeed in putting the whole story across. I saw it in Austria, in Czecho-Slovakia, in Germany, in Hungary. I saw it everywhere in Europe.

“The world-war has had varied effects on various people,” he said. “The Irish have been lucky enough to set themselves right with the world as a consequence of the war. Many other people have profited from the war and what has followed. The Jews of Central and Eastern Europe are the only people in the world who have not profited, who have paid the price for the war and the conditions that it has brought about.

“This appeal should be made to the entire American people, because it is only America that can help this situation. I am glad to be called into this campaign, because the best patrons of the theatres, of baseball, of the opera, of concerts, of pugilism, of any form of amusement in the United States are the Jews, and it is we, of the amusement industry who profit most from this.

“The theatrical industry has been in many drives since 1914. We were in the great Hoover drive in 1922, and when it seemed that this great drive was on the verge of collapse, it was the amusement industry that saved it. Joining with Mr. Hoover, in a night letter to every theatrical man in the United States, we roused the profession. We had men out in the streets in every city from coast to coast, from the Lakes to the Gulf; every theatre threw wide open its doors and we stirred the entire American people to respond to the Hoover appeal. What we did then nationally, we stand prepared to do now. Everything, every form of entertainment that caters to the people of New York, every legitimate theatre, the opera houses, the vaudeville houses, the moving picture theatres, baseball, pugilism; every person in the industry, performers, managers, producers, press-agents, musicians, stage-hands–all will be drawn into this campaign, and we will rouse New York as it was never roused before. This is a just cause, this is a righteous cause. It is a cause that must elicit a response from Jew, Catholic, Protestant–from everybody and we of the theatre industry are for it to a man.”

Julius Tannen was the first to contribute $1,000, and offered his services to the campaign. All Woods pledged $20,000 and declared himself ready to head a committee to mobilize the legitimate theatre for the proposed all theatres Sunday night benefit performance. Louis Bernstein, music publisher, contributed $5,000 and undertook to secure contributions from other music-publishing houses.

Mr. Joseph Leblang, chairman of the Theatrical Division, announced a contribution of $5,000 from William Klein, Legal advisor of the Shubert enterprises. Mr. Klein sailed last night on the S.S. Leviathan and before leaving was commended for his gift in a telegram signed by Felix M. Warburg, Louis Marshall, David A. Brown, David M. Bressler and Joseph Leblang.

A committee headed by John Zanft was appointed by Mr. Brady to call on Mayor Walker to head, as honorary chairman, the division of the amusement industry’s committee which is to organize the baseball and pugilistic contingent for participation in the campaign.

Joseph Leblang, Charles B. Dillingham, Winthrop Amos, Florenz Ziegfield and Harry Frazee were appointed by Mr. Brady as members of All Woods committee to mobilize the legitimate theatres. Harry Hershfield the well-known cartoonist, and president of the “Cheese Club” volunteered to form a special publicity corps.

Ben Bernie was put in charge of the “super” orchestras, Joseph Weber, of “pit” orchestras, and Ralph Long of other trades affiliated with the theatres, including stage-hands and housemen. William A. Brady took it upon himself to enlist the support of the Actors Equity Association and Loney Haskell promised the cooperation of the Jewish Theatrical Guild of which he is executive secretary. E. F. Albee was appointed chairman of the committee to obtain the support of vaudeville.

Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor, George Jessel, David Belasco, Louis Mann, Julius Tannen, J. J. Shubert, Lee Shubert, and William Morris were appointed a special committee to invite the cooperation of the artists of the legitimate stage, and Mr. Leblang was instructed to invite the Actor’s Fidelity.

Gus Edwards announced his readiness to direct a children’s carnival for the benefit of the campaign.

BREVITIES

James Waterman Wise, twenty-three-year-old son of Dr. Stephen S. Wise, resigned as leader of the Jewish Community Centre at White Plains.

In a letter to the Board of Trustees young Wise assigned his resignation to his recent decision not to continue the study of Jewish theology and follow in his father’s footsteps as a rabbi.

Julius Rosenwald, well-known American-Jewish philanthropist, Chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Co. of Chicago, returned from Europe on the Aquitania.

Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach, President of the Rosenbach Company, returned on the Aquitania. His purchases of rare books in Europe totaled more than $1,000,000, he stated.