The Southern Israelite. (Augusta, Ga.) 1925-1986, December 14, 1929, Image 9

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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. White, Moire (may be dyed) with gold and silver kid Also in black Moire with silver and black pearl lustre MAIL SERVICE STREET FLOOR RICH’S INC. 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