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The Southern Israelite
Page 9
Scanning the Jewish Horizon
Gossip and News of Jewish Personalities
Ry DAVID SCHWARTZ
H<i\\ THEY STARTED
clever publicity man once
the gag that Max Gabel, the
M-h George M. Cohan, started his
, , r i,v selling shoe-strings. He was
. , t «> put over the dramatic idea
.. .(it Yiddish Thespian literally, as
figuratively, started on the
, ,. r (,j a l <hoe-string. The story, as
i • : , expected, received a front
ift ik in all the New York flail-
\.),1 well it might. Nothing really
, the homo Americanus (cor-
• .. . Latin if I am wrong) than
. juries of the successful arising
,n darkest obscurity.
\\, ]i. my column aims to please. 1
m\ custonu»r.s to be satisfied. So
are a few items that ought to
Y Mime of my readers:
ranklin I’. Adams, or F. I*. A., as
. -minus New York World Colum-
- more frequently dubbed, ped-
>.: m>urance at one time.
I..<1 Harris, famous producer, was
hnh.i and a waiter.
Iei\y. also of theatrical fame, can
k leu■ k at a past in which he func-
’.•<1 a- a bartender and house-paint-
1 .>• rge S. Kauffman, playwright,
of "The Butter and Egg
;r and other hits, was a drum-
L.’ amin Winter—a house-painter.
I'll \ I GREEN HUT CHAIN
I hi plan of the Greenhuts, of our
Kngland section, to establish a
"f sime forty newspapers—or,
*h*-'. to buy out a large number of
■ - and form them into a chain—
•ti- ’o have miscarried. It will be
J that when the plan was first
" hod there was quite a b ; t of vo-
pp'.sition on the score that Big
would soon have its hands
’ ’h.- throats of the last Palladium
u lib(>rties, as the Fourth of July
r- might say.
"iiicss frankly that I, personally,
’ ’t cherish the idea of such gigan-
1 paper chains, but that is neith-
v>r, ‘ nor there. At any rate, it
: " :;r ' that the recent market ro-
' have nipped th ( > plan in the
h' " a hat I was going to say is that
•■ditorial father of 4 hc whole plan,
' ’' :, 'ps. is Moses Koenigsherg.
thereby hangs a very interesting
^ tale about Moses Koenigsherg
1 '‘‘if formerly of Texas, now one
tt" most interesting men in the
l 1 rama of American journalism.
Fcnigsherg once tohl this writer
'?f>ry of his younger years—the
1 cities he met in entering news-
f ‘ r u °rk. how his father actually
*' < harge with the police against
ausing his arrest with the hope
seeping him in jail rather than
1 **’ng him to become a newspap-
rn ‘ an - Those were the days when
' tapering followed more closely
p. ‘ traditions typified by Murad
'lead, who edited his paper in Cin-
1 ‘C.fiati with a bottle of Bourbon on
1 corner of his desk and a *crty-
,r calibre shooter on the other. To
I >a t
hin
Koenigs-
press as
in Cuba.
good, respectable people the word
newspaperman’ was synonymous
with “rowdy” in those days. But the
senior Koenigsberg’s efforts availed
not. Moses stuck to the game; and
when he became chief of the Universal
News Service, the International News
Service and four or five other press
services Papa Koenigsherg forgave
h i m.
Recently Koenigsherg was notified
by the French Government that they
desired to confer upon him the Legion
of Honor. Mr. William Randolph
Hearst forthwith issued an order that
no man connected with the Heatst or
ganizations might accept the French
ribbon. Whereupon Mr. Koenigsherg
announced that he would accept the
ribbon, and tendered his resignation
to Mr. Hearst.
After that incident Mr.
berg was next noted in th<
having acquired two paper>
And now—well, Koenigsherg abounds
in ideas and energy. It will b-> inter
esting to watch him.
DID YOU KNOW
That Meyer I^esser, one of the big
men in the Warner organization, is a
son nf the late orthodox Rabbi << r Cin
cinnati ?
That the late Professor Gotthard
Deutsch, of Cincinnati, was very fond
nf Rabbi Lesser, notwithstanding the
fact that the Rabbi used to call him
a shagetz to his face?
That in the near future a well-
known Jewish news agency will an
nounce as its new editor a faiily well-
known Zionist figure who started his
phenomenal climb to the extraordi
nary position he now occupies as an
office boy in the Zionist Organization
many years ago?
That Irving Berlin’s reply to tho
question as to why he married a Chris
tian girl was: “Love is the greatest
religion” ?
That George Jessel carries two
brands of cigars, one of which he
smokes himself?
That A1 Jolson seldom laughs?
That “Caught Short," Eddie Can
tor's opus on the Stock Exchange
sold forty thousand copies during the
first week after its publication?
EVENTUALLY—WHY NOT NOW?
Well, it will be done some day, so
we might as well do it now. No one
has proved as yet that Calvin Cool-
idge has Jewish blood in h’s veins.
We can’t say that we are quite
prepared to prove so broad a thesis
ourself, hut our private detectives
have unearthed some evidence that is
auspicious, so to speak.
Mr. Coolidge. it will be recalled,
lives in the quiet town of Northhamp
ton. And if you will walk down one of
the main streets of that good town you
will soon come to a building called
“Cohen Brothers’ Annex.” On the sec
ond floor of this building are the of
fices of Heminway and Coolidge, and
the Coolidge is none other than the
ex-President himself.
Now, while this does not prove that
Coolidge is a Jew, the fact that his
offices are in the Cohen building
shows, at any rate, that some of his
best landlords are Jews.
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