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(Continued from Page 0) elsewhere that Mr. Ochs was so diaboli cally clever, he even fostered clubs of ex-Tinies men and gave large banquets as a method of gaining good-will for the ‘Times.’ “That reporter, who is a non-Jew, simply got his facts mixed. His atti tude of suspicion was unwarranted. Lots of Jews get their facts mixed too. Like our author, they may mistake hali tosis for anti-Semitism. “Jews seem naturally to gravitate to the arts. 1 here are several reasons for that. Art is cosmopolitan, and the Jews are essentially cosmopolites. “All art thrives on poverty, or hare living. The greatest violinists today are Russian Jews, who suffered privations in their youth. Parents in ghettos, real izing that their children were auto matically cut off from every profession, started almost at birth to foster what talent there was in their children. It would he their avenue of escape. When Joshoa Heifetz was so young his arms weren’t quite strong enough to hold it —his father was placing a violin in them. Reuben Heifetz hoped that his son would inherit his love and under standing of music, for he knew it was also a release. Here, in America, there is no such problem. It is heartening to know that in spite of assured comforts Reuben Heifetz is still carrying on the tradition of music in the family. Al ready he has placed a violin in the one year old arms of his grandson—who is the son of the music critic, Samuel Chotiznoff. “In the theatre, on the other hand, we have a way of assuming that Jews are foremost. It’s not so. Here, in New' York, the theatre is in Jewish hands, but it’s a question of real es tate. The Shuberts are an outstanding example. They’ll produce a play if there’s a theatre available, but they started as real estate operators, and they prefer to continue that way. Some few of our great playwrights are Jew ish, but for the most part they are Gentile. For George S. Kaufman there is Eugene O’Neill and Marc Connelly. And so on right along the list. “Of course the Jews are undeniably prominent and at home in the theatre. It may be because the theatre is a substitute for passion, and perhaps be T. J. Dumas REAL ESTATE Cherokee 3261 3092 Peachtree Rr. N. E. cause the theatre is the place for exiles. In the musical field it is different. The Jews are not only writing the songs of the nation, but cracking the jokes. Tell a joke to a Jew and he says. ‘I’ve heard it.’ Tell it to a goy and he doesn’t get it. “I will say that four out of six humor ists are Jews. But then four out of six people I know are Jewish, so there’s no way of telling. Sometimes I think the wellspring of current American humor is New York’s East Side. Cradled in the ghetto. An exception is Ed Wynn—Izzy Epstein—who used to he in my class in Central High School in Philadelphia. But witness Milt Gross, the Four Marx Brothers, Harry Hershfield, Montague Glass, Julius Tannen, A1 Jolson, Eddie Cantor, George Jessel, Rube Goldberg (though lie happened to originated on the other side of the continent). When it comes to music, the sons of the East Side arc paramount. Paramount? They’Ve Warner Brothers, Fox, R. K. O., Uni versal, and all the other movie octopi incorporated. They have it all their own way from Irving Berlin on the East Side to George Gershwin on the West—they’ve made every key on the piano a promissory note.” Mr. Wollcott was certainly knock ing some of our preconceived ideas about the place Jews held in the theatre into a cocked hat. There was still this matter of accent . . . He cryptically told this anecdote: “In London, Mrs. Patrick Campbell was a great hit in ‘The Matriarch.’ For her performance she devised a thick and juicy dialect made up of German, Yid dish, and English, with a little frosting of French. Prince George, who saw the play, and was so delighted with it that he came backstage to pay respectful homage, asked Mrs. Campbell where under the sun she got that dialect. ‘I copied it from your grandfather,’ was her reply. The English are quite wil ling to forget that the Kaiser spoke an English less German than Edward VII.” Apparently no one has the prem ium on accents. So this phantom Jew, this nightmare, really exists only for us. He serves as splendid disciples, but we really ought to lay the ghost. Thus the Jew. And thus Dr. Alex ander Woollcott. Copyright 1931 by S. A. F. S. Antwerp, Belgium.—Rabbi D. Wiener, religious leader of Antwerp, has been named chief rabbi of Belgium. BASEBALL MAKE YOUR RESERVATION — NOW — FOR OPENING BASEBALL GAME Chattanooga vs Atlanta THURSDAY, APRIL 16—3 P. M. EDIVARD H. INMAN Building The DRIVEWAY COMPANY, Inc. 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