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Page 6 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 ? ‘/ftetitci Fruit Cake American bakeries company In Merita I'mil i.uko you will fiiwl whole place cherries, pineapple from whole Hawaiian slices, select Sultana raisins, Muscat raisins from the Malaga grape, citron, select pecan halves, Eng lish walnuts, blanched sweet almonds, honey, blended, selected spices, fruit flavors and juices and butter, milk and eggs. A bettei, i u her. more luscious fruit cake vou couldn't make or find. Dark or I ijzbl 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. Ft 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