Show THESE MOVIE PEOPLE NATURAL BORN ACTORS ARE FOUND AMONG OLD I MEN OF NEW YORK i iBy By GENE COHN NEA Service Writer NEW YORK July 5 Ghetto stuff the casual directors and casting directors call it referring to lo Manhattans Manhattan's East Side SIde SIde-an an In lii Inexhaustible exhaustible supply of types for film extra roles t. t t Almost any venerable patriarch they stop slop on the street is certaIn to lo be bo an actor who needs ne ds little coaching for tor emotions are aro nat natural ural to Hester Hesler street and Orchard street and Grand street Tragedy and comedy are arc so close to their lives lIns Despair has bas them BO so often oCten and joy Life has been beena a II makeup make director parking marking lines linesS of ot care and of ot humor about the eyes the Ibe mouth and the brow I found some 00 of ot them on the Fox lot the other day da figuring in ina a n ghetto scene of ot East Side West WestSide Side There was Abraham Green the year old push pushcart peddler who for tor years has risen with wilh the sun and pushed his bis little cart over Manhattan bridge with wilh his days day's daysI I stock in trade There was old Ed Marcus the perfumer from Riga whose years ears are somewhere around the hundred lunt t dred mark but who also goes to hIs work dally daily And Judah for 38 years a a. tailor He still straddles his bench and spurns the Idea of ot wear wear- wearIng wearS Sing S lag Ing glasses And the fastest but but- button ton sewer ton sener In New York they will tell you Can they act Just ask the di di- director rector There is the faced Pretzel i woman who ho has sat stolidly for tor so many long hours at a cross street corner that she seems transformed to stone The cameras camera's eye has merely merel to catch her to lo get a II great and living symbol of ot monotony's stamp upon a It living thing And there Is Sonia for tor years an au Idol of ot the Yiddish thea thea- tree tres She has given three children to the Iho stage Now she plays moth moth- mother molher er roles with traveling Hebrew players The man Uh the penny carousel sel set is there Lifo Life for him is an ana eternal round of ot grinding the tiny liny tinya a round merry with its asthmatic a music Scores more more philosophers philosophers tat lal- lors lore tinker linker small shop shopkeepers pickle vendors vendors all all leaving their traditions on the East Side to en en- enter enter ter tar this funny tunny game that profits them a day which to lo many Is an unheard of ot sum suns I On several things they hey are aro adamant not adamant not one will work on Saturday At the set of ot sun on ou Friday afternoon they are home to their prayers Nor will they consent to ridicule any of ot their manners or customs No If It that is to be done some actor in fancy tancy up make-up must be bo called in ls A young oung actor from rom one of the tho Yiddish theatres rounds them up For years he has lisa been a runner for tor film concerns taking pictures picture In New l York He Ia knows exactly where here to lo find the types desired 1 4 S- S vS h Two typical Ghetto patriarchs who are much In esmand mand for ex extra extra tra roles In the movies whether they be bo street streel kids or patriarchal they cern roem lans- lans planted suddenly into int the KI lg lights and the artificiality o 0 of b- b bt It t tings old tinge old fellows felloes with the prayers of Abraham upon their lips the Holy Land carved car in their facas and somethIng of ot America sudden sudden- suddenly I ly acquired |