£100,000 FOR REFUGEES
EDDIE CANTOR'S WORK
LONDON, July 27
Eddie Cantor, the film comedian, is leaving for the United Slates after 1G days in Loudon, where he collected £lOO.OOO for Jewish child refugees from Central Europe. .His success is more remarkable in view of tlte fart that American Jews had warned him nor to go to London, declaring that they had already “bled their co-rcligmni-tts white." Nevertheless, Eddie Cantor t aired £O.OOO at a midnight picture show in London, £lO,OOO in Glasgow. £ll.OOO in Leeds, and £23.000 in Manchester.
Sir Lionel Halsey, an Extra Equerry Io the King and formerly Comptroller to the Prince of Wales, offered Eddie Cantor honorary membership of the Nat iona 1 Sport ing Club. Eddie Cantor’s parting message was: “Never allow anti-Semitism to become, a. blight in England."
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 August 1938, Page 2
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