Page 6 — The Conodion Jewish News, Fridoy, September T4, 1962
Master Ojf All Arts By Barbara I. Pearl
JAN BAKT
BIIOAHWAY'S GIFT TO ISRAEL
Toroniomans have b e e n\ NowAliat eighty-percent: o} treated lately to what tiuiy] the first issue of the State
be considered a Jewish Show of Shows, lis producer, its star, its cast, its M.C. — are all bne man. Master of All Arts: Jan Bart.
Fur the past eleven years, since the State of Israel lawiched its bonds drive, Polish-born Jan Ban has been tonrina North America for the purpose^/ inspirnig his fellow-Jews to invest in what he believes to be the soundest enterprise: t h e Jewish State. Ja^i Bart is
ol Israel. Bonds already has been redeemed, it is relatively easy to sell Israeli bonds. However, eleven years ago, when the young and highly talented shtger and entertainer, Jan Burt, who had been trained as a cantor, made his life's decision to leave a pro}nising career on Broadway in order to devote himself to the sale of bonds — such ajtep demanded the purest of idealism. Last week when I watch-
trulv Broadways gift to Is- \ ed Jan Bart's performance
rael.
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' in a Toronto synagogue, I I realized how dedicated this ' man must be to the cause of l.srael in order to have ah I andoned the stage so that he I cindd devote himself entirely j to making his fellow-Jews i aware of what Israel mean.^ j to our generation.
Indeed very few actors and.stage performers posses-i the talent to become a suc-cessfid one-man-show. Jan Bart usually begins as his ■own M.C. Both Engit<h and 'Yiddish come naturally to ■ him. He keeps Ins audience .spellbound, from the jit^t I minute of his appearance : iniiil the end of the show. ; Even when he sells bonds — ' after assuming the roles of , raconteur, imijatvr. >i>;ger a>td Jew-comedian in the ' best sense of the word — the captivated listeners remain and buy.
Not one person have I seen to leave the room before the complete show was over.
m ENTERTAINMENT WORLD •»
• Arthur Miller has just linished wriung a children's book, "Jane's Blanket", using only an SOO-word vocabulary by experts.
• Marc Chagall has been commissioned to paint a new ceiling at the Paris Opera. His ' last such job was in 1920, for the lobby or the Yiddish Art Theater in Moscow.
• Ava Gardner takes voice lesspns. ■
• Hermlone Gingold replaces Miml Benzell in "Milk and Honey".
• Jack Herbert says, "Mv
doctor said my wite and 1 needed exercise. So 1 bought goll clubs lor myselt and lawninower for her".
• Tony Curtis will do a short scene for Kirk Douglas' "List of Adrian Messenger" in London. It will take six hours, for which Curtis' lee is $50, 000. ■
• Tuesday Weld and Gary Lockwood have split.
• Charles Lederer and Ben Hecht are writing a new libretto for "La Belle", the Offenbach muskal which closed in Philadelphia.
JAN BART
Somehow Jewish people warm up to him. Is it his deep lyric tenor which reminds them of the best ha-zanim? Is it his excellent imitation of characters which has been equaled only by Menashe Sktdnick? Is it his personality in whom one senses the warmth of a fellow-Jew who believes in what he says — even onstage?
Thus, at the age of forty-three, Jan Bart is going strong as the most remarkable salesman of- the cause of Israel.
The only one who has the prerogative to be critical of this show is Mrs. Jan Bart, the former Lillian Robbins, an exceptionally talen t e d contralto in Iter own right.
New York-born Lillian and Jan have been married happily for twenty-one years. Their daughter Judith, nineteen, recently married. The Barts also have a son, Gary,
sixteen, who hopes- ro~&e^'"sion Club.
come a doctor.
ON MISSION to ISRAEL
H. Wayne Tanenbaum, not- tensive study tour a series ed Toronto industriahsl and of talks by leading aulhori UJA leader, has been app>'-i ties on Israel vviil be presented to I he Mission hciucen now and their departure date on November 4, said Mr. Rothschild.
first of these speakers will be Yaacov Herzog, Israel Ambassador to Canada, who wilhgive; Mission members an up-to-the-minute picture of economic and social conditions arising out of the continued high rate of im- ' migration and resell lenient ! in Israel.
The meeting will take pla- | ce al the Primrose Club on Sunday, September 23.
• Lotte Lehman, retired and living in Santa Barbara, Cal., wrote a book about her \york with Richard Strauss; tor whom she played five leading roles, including "Der Rosenkavalier". '
• Henry Stampler asserts that the trouble with after-dinner speakers is that after you've eaten the chicken they start dishing out the baloney.
• When Anne Bancroft stopped smoking, she gained 34 pounds. She resumed smoking and lost the excess poundage. ~
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I summered at the lake, it was
I a miracle. The weakness?
; T\yp of them. One was the
I same lights left on night af-ied to Canada where he set- ihemes by Yevuishcnko in-ifer night; and on garbage tied in Hamilton. i eluding "Babi Yar". In this
day, his can was the only !one completely garbage free. Now do I get my Observer's [Badge, or not? How about I the Order of Jim Lawrence jat least?
It was like a chapter from
The vears were tortured JP^'^ni. expresses regrel ones for him, as he fruitless- \ 'hat to this day there is no ly sought to establish contact'mon^"ii^'"'- "ot even a pia-with his farailv, his brother: que. commemoraiing the t.e;
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especially. Many was the night he spent, tormented bv self-accusation that he
Milais'.as Henry Turner took j didn't do enough to find his time out from his job at A.J. 'brother when they weie first Frank's to relate the miracle ! separated back in 1941. He : of his reunion in Israel with |did manage to learn the name his long-lost younger broth- of the farmer who gave him er, Asher. The two were! surcease. Letters flowed, j separated back in 1941 when leve.n a phone call was placed
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According to a report fiom , Moscow, the new symphon\ ' was performed at the com , poser's home in .Moscow be- i fore in\ited guests who in-, eluded 'leading personalities' in the Soviet literary and musicalworlds.
\ the. Germans began their systematic destruction of all
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One dav at the office, the season of theater yet pro-Henry, because of his non- ^^'.^g'-^Ph office asked cas- sented at O'Keefe Cent^^^^ ■' .....u„,i,^^ _ u„— To begin with, the Sub-
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his long-given-up-for-d e a d ! four productions: ".Madamt? kid brother, now a man of i Butterfly", "Rigoletto"
30, a far cry from that baby brother. His reminiscences must be typical of those of that amazing band of survivors now gracing our Hamilton District homes.
"When. I-was 14 - 15, Paul, 1 used to support the whole
tor the rich people from one ghetto to another. They paid me about 1,000 - 2,000
"Hansel and Gretel" and "Die Walkure".
continued, "that more of our people would have survived had they taken time to learn the language of the country. But i suppose ghetto-life
family by delivering letters M'^n't make this possible or
necessary. If Lhad the nerve now that I had then, even.a bit of the chutspah that let
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and soldiers to deliver those leters. I could be a millionaire." • . But I couldn't help thinking that these days, as Henry basks in the sunshine of this miracle re-iinion, . he must figure himself indeed a millionaire.
Isn't it discouraging \ that there are some who feel embarrassed because-^of these "greena"! Is it' because of their Jewishness, or because they are reminders of past tragedies? Thesfe^remarks are addressed to those,. in particular, who read the lighter columns of the paper and avoid the sdmetirnes unpleasant Iront page, stories. .
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