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The Southern Israelite
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Si inning the Jewish Horizon
By MARTIN GOLDE
me to me from an eminently
iiircc that the New York
danning to absorb the New
rid. If the rumor is ever
to fact it will be one of the
:iwitic amalgamations in tnocl-
spaperdom. Since Adolph
. owned the Times it has con-
row n in influence and wealth.
• ue Joseph Pulitzer died and
took over the management
York World has been stead-
down. It is even reported
paper, whose editor is Walter
i. is losing circulation at the
several thousand a week. It's
,1 to be the outstanding liberal
America, but poor adminis-
s turned an important organ
inion into an inconsequential
Yew York Times is thoroughly
alive. The New York World
aitighly (that is, most of the
liberal. If Pulitzer's offspring
ad a ted it will mean another loss
Xmerica's freedom of the press,
t-ntally, the same source tells me
it the Times would plan to keep the
ling World going, since it is a
Table proposition.
Yme, Xo7C. Roys!
s is so had these days that
■rig a lot of had tempers and
elings. 1 his sad state of affairs
i invaded the rabbinate. The
n of the cloth get a salary, of
and in addition fees from such
ceremonies as marriages, fu-
,. tr>
't ork City the competition
rabbinate is tremendous. Take
< of two Reform rabbis in the
' lis—one is in New York, the
i Brooklyn. Let’s call one of
gentlemen Rabbi X. He is one
pastors of one of the greatest
"f worship in America. Let’s
"thcr gentleman Rabbi Z. He,
comes from the same insti-
Rabbi X—the Hebrew Union
of Cincinnati.
'lory has it that Rabbi Z is
g to call Rabbi X before a rab-
r "t>rt of arbitration. It seems
reading the newspapers, finds
uc girl over in Brooklyn is en-
ff he ever met her, her family
Datives, or if she ever attended
day School of his temple in
-Tie bv, he calls up and says:
-and-So! Congratulations on
gagement. I suppose you want
tarry you?” The poor girl, in
>arrassement of the moment,
> affirmatives. All of which is
b except that it constitutes
on the preserves of the
n rabbi, who is ragingly indig-
! ’.v the way. you should be able
v the rabbis’ names. They’re
A known.
Xoze It Can Re Told
all these years it has been re-
I hiring the time when Henry
Ford was running his notorious arti
cles m the Dearborn Independent all
the leading Jewish comedians on the
stage, including A1 Jolson, Eddie Can
tor, Ed Wynn, Georgie Jessel, et al.
got together and decided to razz the
automobile king. 1 hey weren't going
to let this slur on their national pride
pass without hitting hack through the
millions of people their wit reached an
nually in the vaudeville houses of the
country. Of course, no one knew that
it was a conspiracy, but an awful lot
of Ford jokes circulated at that time.
With this new information I was able
to understand Eddie Cantor’s famous
line in those days.
He would ask his feeder: ‘‘Do you
know the name of Henry Ford in Chi
nese?”
‘‘No. What is it?”
‘‘Sum Dum Goy.”
Who Is Eddie’s Ghost?
Typing of Eddie Cantor reminds me
of the hornet’s nest which Harry Sal-
peter, the New York World’s Jewish
book reviewer, stirred up when he de
clared in his column that Eddie Can
tor’s latest book was ghosted in large
part by David Freedman. He wrote
that three years ago the author of
"Mendal Marantz” showed him a num
ber of the chapters which now appear
under Cantor’s name as “Between the
Acts”. This is not the first time that
Eddie’s ghost has been brought into
public print.
In replying to Salpeter Eddie wired :
“If Salpeter claims Freedman showed
him three of the chapters several years
ago ask him if he doesn't think it
funny that these articles never found
a market until now, when Cantor in
jected some of that rich red Cantor-
esque - Goldwyn - Ziegfeld - Whoopee
comedy in it. This telegram written
by me the morning of September 5th
at Cleveland without the aid of a Jew
ish ghost, so help me God.”
Now Eddie should never have asked
that question, for Salpeter’s reply was
quite crushing. He pointed out that no
matter who wrote what, the name of
Eddie Cantor could have sold anything.
The mere fact that it didn’t sell under
Freedman’s name and did sell under
Cantor’s was no proof that the stuff
had been changed in the meantime.
Well, it’s a lively battle now. All of
it leads us to the suspicion that some
of the country’s best jokes, cracked by
the country’s most expert comedians,
are thought up by the country’s most
tragic and downhearted pessimists.
The Tumblers
One of the greatest Jewish humorists
the country has lies wasted in Stephen
Wise. Instead of being a pulpiteer be
could just as easily have been a fa
mous gag writer. The other day, with
his own inimitable twists and sense of
timing, he told the story of Sir Harry
Lauder, the Scot (superfluous to say)
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