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Show PASSING OF THE JEWISH COMEDIAN. The exaggerated character type the Hebrew comedian so pop-tilar pop-tilar in musical comedy, vaudeville and burlesque, is to disappear from the American stage if promises of managers count for anything. Rabbi William S. Friedman of Denver, chairman of the committee commit-tee on church and state of the central conference of American rabbis, has secured from Klaw & Erlanger, the Shubert, John Cort and Martin Mar-tin Beck, assurances that the day of the lampooning of the Jew on the stage is past. Another thing which the committee headed by Rabbi Freidman has determined to accomplish is the elimination of high school reading of Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice" from the course preparatory to college admission. The portrayal of Shylock is prejudicial, in the opinion of the central conference of American Rabbis. While the committee on church and state has many duties to perform, per-form, so far their efforts have chiefly gone to the matter of stage caricatures. car-icatures. They will also work toward the elimination of sectarianism from the public schools and in general for the preservation of the good namo of the Jew. For the committee Dr. Friedman wrote to John Cort, president of the National Theatrical Owners' association; Klaw & Erlanger, Bam S, and Lee Shubert and Martin Beck of the Orpheum circuit, complaining of the caricature of the Jew on the stage. |