(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Mail Service)
The Commissariat of Education and Fine Arts have decided to grant to the Yiddish State Theatre (Chamber Theatre) a sum of 30,000 roubles to pay off its debts; 20,000 roubles as a subsidy for the coming theatrical season.
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise will deliver the baccalaureate sermon to the graduating class of Swarthmore College, Philadelphia on June 6.
Henry Woolf. superintendent of the Jewish Orphanage of Rhode Island, died in his fiftyfirst year.
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