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Friday, 20.10.1946
mrs goodman named jewish is honored
Mrs. Goodman Is Honored Mrs. J. A. Goodman was honored Monday at a surprise birthday luncheon given by Hadassah board members at the home of Mrs. Herman Chalfie. Mrs. Goodman was inscribed in the Jewish National Fund Golden Book by the board members. . . . Mr. and Mrs. H. Benjamin Marks will celebrate their 35th wedding anniversary tonight. They will be honored at a dinner for forty guests at the home of their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Feibel, of Cincinnati. Mr. and Mrs. Marks, Mr. and Mi>. Robert Marks and Mrs. Harry Jacobs motored to Cincinnati for the anniversary celebration. . , . Mrs. Harold I. Platt and son, Ronald, are vacationing in Nassau, Bahamas, and will fly to Havana, Cuba, before returning to Miami Beach, where they will stop on their way home. . . . Mr. Manuel Freeman has gone to Camp Lee, Va., to spend the week end with his son, Cpl. Irvin G. Freeman.
Paul Muni An Unusual Person; Writer Traces His Rise To Fame
Last fall Paul Muni, one of Hollywood’s most beloved movie stars, celebrated his fiftieth birthday in the seclusion of his California home. With him were his wife, the former Bella Finkle, like her more famous husband, a graduate of the Yid dish stage, and a few picked friends. For many months the couple had been busy writing the final screenplay to Alfred Nobel’s biography Muni also planned to produce the movie. Having failed to find anyone who could play the role of the Swedish inventor and pacifist, he "decided to enact the part of Nobel himself. But then came Ben Hecht, the author, and asked Muni whether he could not interrupt his work for a while, as there was a stage role