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The Southern Israelite
Gossip ami News of Jewish Personalities
Hy DAVID SCHWARTZ
IIAK V A HI) I RA N K FI RTERS
Apropos of the Seminar on Good
Will, which is being held in the good
city of Boston as this is written and
which was marked by a plea for tol
erance by President Lowell of Har
vard University, it may not be amiss
to recall one nifty that. Mr. Lowell is
reported to have delivered recently
when it was proposed that a legal
savant who happened to be a Jew be
added to the faculty of the Harvard
Law School, of which Roscoe Pound
is the dean.
President Lowell is said to have
object, declaring that one Frankfurter
to the Pound is sufficient.
Need I point out that this has ref
erence to both Professor Felix Frank
furter and Dean Pound?
A SHORT STORY ABOUT A SHORT
STORY
That brilliant Jewish humorist,
Dorothy Parker, spent three years
wearing out costly shoe leather ped
dling the manuscript of a short story.
After she had been turned down by
half a dozen editors she finally suc
ceeded in convincing the editor of one
semi-high-brow paper to publish it,
and received the scarcely munificent
sum of $75 for it.
After its publication the editor met
Miss Parker and confided to her that
he was sorry, very sorry indeed, that
he had printed it. Half a dozen people,
he said, had canceled their subscrip
tions as the result of the publication
of this story.
Well, to make a long story short,
the O. Henry Prize for the best short
story was recently awarded to Miss
Parker. And the best short story was
the very one with which she had had
so much difficulty!
DID YOU KNOW
That David Belasco is writing his
memoirs ?
That there is a rumor on the Rialto,
among those who occupy themselves
with Jewish biography, that Bernarr
MacFadden is of Jewish descent .’
That Maurice Schwartz of Jewish
Art Theatre fame has deserted the
Fast Side and is now playing with
the Art Theatre on upper Broadway?
That Dr. Isidore Singer, originator
and managing editor of the Jewish
Kncylopedia, who is now celebrating
his seventieth birthday, has launched
a project for a Jewish Hall ot Fame
in New York whose purpose it will
bo to show the world what the Jew
has accomplished ?
That President Masaryk of Czechos
lovakia once wrote a book on the Jew
ish problem ?
That Max Lowenthal, the executive
head of the commission which is in
quiring into crime and prohibition for
President Hoover, was once a bril
liant student at the University of
Minnesota ?
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That one of the biggest Jewish-
owned banks in New York City is re
ported to be “shaking” as the result
of the recent debacle in Wall Street?
That in the heart of the Broadway
section there is a Jewish synagogue
patronized almost exclusively by ac
tors ?
That the College of the City of
New York is commonly called “the
Cheder on the Hill?”
That the movement for the erection
of the Oscar S. Strauss Memorial of
which Herbert Hoover has accepted
the honorary presidency was launched
bv a young Jewish newspaperman who
is still in his twenties and whose name
is Sidney W'allaeh ?
AN IDEA—NOT FROM THE
TALMUD
One of the smart Fifth Avenue de
partment stores, Stewarts, which is
owned by the Lieberman brothers—
two former Yeshiva bachurim who
know their Talmud as well as their
merchandise, has gone in for a new
little gesture which, it is expected,
will soon be imitated by other shops.
The employes of Stewarts’ are now
hired and rehearsed in almost theatri
cal fashion. The young men are drilled
in accord with tlie famous “Roxy”
methods of deportment and courtesy.
They are garbed in similar fashion
and are taught to speak in the same
smart manner. It is said that the tests
to which the enunciation and presence
of prospective employes are subjected
are as difficult to pass as those for
any “talkie”.
WHEN WILSON SAID “AIN’T”
The old Southern story has it that
when Rastus was asked whether he
hadn’t married he replied: “I ain’t
savin’ I ain’t.”
Whereupon Rufus retorted: “Ras
tus. I ain’t askin’ you is you ain’t
Use astin’ you ain’t you is.”
We have it from Bernard G. Rich
ards, Secretary of the American Jew
ish Congress, that President Wilson
was not innocent of the use of “ain’t.”
It all developed when Rabbi Wise
presented to Wilson the statement,
which he later signed, approving of
Palestine as a Jewish homeland.
The manifesto contained the poeti
cally sounding word “anent.” Wilson,
it is said, smiled to Wise and said:
cs, the English is good, but ‘anent’
ain't in my dictionary.” And Wilson
had once been President of a great
uni vo rsity!
EDDIE ON BROADWAY
It is difficult to think of any one
more identified with Broadway than
Eddie Cantor. Cantor ought to know
his Broadway, if any one does. And
yet
le
arc cal
any pojn
Recently Eddie, driving dow „
thoroughfare, passed one of th* * /
fic lights.
“Say, you a blue-coat shr
at him, “don’t you know how to ri ,
Is this the first time you've eve/k*'
on Broadway?”
“BERLINERIZING” (hr
THEATRES
It is a pity that Emile Berliner H
not live to see the vogue which h
come to his last invention, a
for improving the resonant q Ua m‘
of auditoriums. Virtually all the'.V?
York theatres are installing thb"
vice at present. The first New y »■
house said to have adopted it wa< '
seething cauldron of noise, the >•
Exchange. Then came the t;
Theatre: and now theatre after •/.
tre is falling in line. A large nan-.-
of churches, too, are being “iv
erized.”
The “Berliner system” cnn>i<t>
the placing of a series of small <i
on the insides of the walls, the
—or “waffles,” as they
relaying the sound to
sired.
And by way of postscript r ■
not be amiss to say that it is an
pity that this American Jewish
tor, who played such a tretm-m
part in the invention of the taik.r
machine, telephone and radi
scarcely known even by name : •
average American. The average per,
still labors under the delusion •
Thomas Edison invented everyr
except the collar-button. We have -
desire to detract from the glory *r
properly belongs to Edison; hut ••
is no question that much of the -
nown that went to him as far i\> •
phonograph is concerned, and nv;
of the luster that adorns the nano
Bell in connection with the telejh •
should have gone to the Washing: '
Jewish inventor—who, incidental!
his younger years studied umFr
great rabbinical scholar Ahrar.:
Geiger.
WHERE LOU GOT MIS ENERiA
It seems that Lou Tellegen g<
vivid personality from his n:
who was as great a dancer a-
son is an actor. Indeed, it is •
Anna Pavlova took some less
her. She was a woman of »"
energy.
On one occasion, it is said, >!>•
dancing until five in the morning. I
lova approached her and asiu ■
whether she could have a dam*
her some time or other. ’ Cert.t.
replied Madame Tellegen. B
-Copyright 1929 by Seven
Syndicate.
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Jen's Boomed For U. S. Senate In Ohio
( olumbus (J. T. A.)—The recent
municipal elections in various cities
ot Ohio are expected to have an im
portant bearing on the political fu
ture of a number of Jewish political
leaders according to well-founded tales
going the rounds here. Maurice Masch-
ke, Republican boss of Cleveland, and
one of the first Hoover men, is slated
tor retirement following a crushing
and unexpected defeat in his own
Bailiwick. Two years ago Maschke
controlled 17 out of the 25 council-
men. Now he has a mere paper ma
jority. His candidate for City attorney,
Herman Kohen, counted a certain
victor, took an unexpected beating.
Murray Seasongood, the prominent
Jewish philanthropist, who na>
elected mayor of Cincinnati t -
third term, has by his succe>' u*
paign insured the victory
charter grouped movement
initiated in 1925. Seasongood >
is already being used by • 15
as ammunition to boo>t inl
United States Senate. ^
The anomaly of two Je * s , P ^ flrt .
each other for a high po i 1 eX pecteo
rather common in Ohio, i> _ sr _
at the next election. G,lbel v p*
left vacant by the reeen ^
Senator Burton and
u„: Kv a temporary