On February 2, 1941, an advertisement for a performance was posted in the New York Times. It read:
A festival in honor of the late Jacob Gordin, Yiddish playwright, will be held Wednesday afternoon at the Second Avenue Theatre. The “Adler Family,” consisting of Luther, Stella, and Celia Adler, will appear together in an act of Gordin’s “The Wild Man.” Frances Farmer and Sylvia Sidney also are
... [Show full abstract] scheduled to appear in the performance which is being sponsored by Harold Clurman, Clifford Odets, Ossip Dymow, Herman Yablokoff, Samuel Goldenburg [sic], and Sam Jaffe.