A Day at the Movies!

Let's imagine that you are living somewhere in New York City, on Friday,
February 9, 1940, and you have this great urge to go see your first Yiddish film (yum!).

Here are five of the films you can choose from. If you click on the link for each film, you can learn more about the film,
and even learn who was in the cast. You can even see a clip of the film. What do you have to lose? Which film would you choose?

	Third Week for "Tevye the Dairyman" in the People's Cinema and Radio Theatre In People's Cinema [Brooklyn] and Radio Theatre [Manhattan] they are already in the third week of showing the Yiddish film, "Tevye the Dairyman," with Maurice Schwartz in the main role.

	Today is the Last Day to See "Mirele Efros" in the Tiffany Theatre In the Tiffany Theatre, in the Bronx, today will be the last time that Jacob Gordin's famous drama, "Mirele Efros," will be shown, with Berta Gerstin and Michael Rosenberg in the main roles.

	"Motl the Operator" in the Ascot Theatre At the Ascot Theatre in the Bronx, on the Grand Concourse (and 183rd St.). A new Yiddish film "hit" from the well-known stage success. With the "Singer Poet" Chaim Tauber, and Cantor Leibele Waldman. Music by Sholom Secunda.

	"A Letter to Mother" in Three Theatres in Brooklyn This Wednesday and Thursday in the Alba Theatre, Flushing Avenue and Broadway, Williamsburg; Benson Theatre, on 86th Street and 20th Avenue; and in the Biltmore Theatre, on New Lots Avenue, there will be shown "A Letter to Mother," with Lucy and Misha German in the main roles.

	The Premiere of the Talkie, "Der vilner balebesel (Overture to Glory)," This Evening in the Cameo Theatre This evening in the Cameo Theatre on 42nd Street, near Broadway, there will be shown for the first time the new Yiddish film, "Overture to Glory," with the actor and singer, Moishe Oysher, in the main role. In the new film there participates a series of well-known actors, such as Helen Beverley, Lazar Freed, Benjamin Fishbein, Florence Weiss, the Jewish-German actor Jack Milang Mintz, Ossip Dymow, and many others. The film is adapted by Jacob Goldstein and is based on the legend of the great Vilna cantor who left the pulpit and went away to sing in the opera. Later, however, he became heartbroken and returned to his chazzanut. In the film a series of arias from the operas will be sung, and also cantorial compositions and folk songs. The music for the film was written by Alexander Olshanetsky.