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Page 15 The Southern Israelite Highlights and Sidelights By MARTIN GOLDE Make the Most of this year’s vacation! T UI long-planned summer vacation has a habit of melting away under ugc of lost travel hours and high travc 1 11 'sts. This year, let’s change all that! Pak a Greyhound bus for your trans portation On any trip, it saves dollars tor extra spending. Irs individual deep cushioned chairs are the most comfort- on any vehicle. It reaches more ts of scenic interest, more National md playgrounds, more historic :s than any other travel system. are more frequent, stop overs rranged, terminals right down town Thrilling new scenes sweep into g the highways, through wide s at cither side and straight ahead. /■V; a few of the thousand vacation 't d by G rey hound L ines: ROCKY MOUNTAIN NAT. PARK grand canyon NIAGARA FALLS THE OZARKS MINNESOTA LAKES YELLOWSTONE PARK YOSEMITE VALLEY CRATER LAKE, ORE. “TLANTIC CITY : O R I D A R ESO RTS REDWOOD HIGHWAY greyhound a. ^ion Information; I ravel Bureau. E. 11th Street & vve., Cleveland, Ohio: ■ me, without any obligation, u t,V i5 p,ctor,a l bocklet/'America’s lignways”, and other vacation --ion. Natr a 3r Any contest to decide who was re sponsible for the best wisecrack of the year over the radio would have to award the palm to Harry Hershfield, standby of a great many of New York’s columnists, and otherwise known as the father of Abe Kabibble. Now Harry i>> a Jew. He was that before Ludwig Lew iso I111 made it fashionable, lie’s not the type with a chip on bis shoulder, who goes around muttering: "I’m a Jew and proud of it.” He lets you know lie’s a Jew with a punch. At any rate, Harry was one of the speakers at the famous dinner that was tendered recently to Mayor Walker of New \ ork by the Jewish I heatrical Guild. And as Harry stepped up to the spot in front of the micro phone that was broadcasting the affair lie remarked: "I am always happy to speak over the radio. For it brings me into the finest Christian homes.” \ ou'll have to write many sermons and deliver many speeches to achieve the effect of those two sentences. As you can imagine, Harry got the hand of the evening. Another of the personalities at the Walker dinner was Belle Baker. It was about twelve o’clock, midnight, when she stepped forward to the microphone, leaving the table where she had been sitting with her husband, Maurice Abrahams, the noted composer and music publisher. It was only a few hours later that Abrahams died. Belle told the story of Mrs. Goldberg and Mrs. Rabinowitz, the two friendly neighbors. Mrs. Rabinowitz was visit ing the home of Mrs. G., who put some pieces of cake on the table as a gesture of her hospitality. They had been dis cussing the difficulties of their children, the hardships of their husbands' busi ness, .when Mrs. G. apparently re minded of her obligations as hostess, said: "l ake a piece of cake, Mrs. Rabino witz.” "Oh, that’s all right. I already have one.” "Xo, you have two. But take a little piece.” Among the new ones that Harry Herschfield told me lately is the one about the fellow who was failing in business. He came to his friend, Cohen, and said: ‘I want to tell you, Cohen, I am going bankrupt. But since you are a friend of mine I am making you a preferred creditor.” "How so?” demanded Cohen. “Well, I’m telling now that I won’t be able to pay you. The others don’t know it yet.” As befits a man who has already taken on the legendary halo, which sur rounds Supreme Court Justice Brandeis, there are many stories as to his unique abilities. One of these has to do with his phenomenal memory. It seems that in his younger days he was afflicted with a serious eye strain. When he went to Harvard he had to hire read ers to help him memorize his lessons, because he couldn't read the manu scripts. As a result of the training acquired that way he is now supposed to he able to quote stock exchange listings for many years hack. He is also supposed to be able to describe minutely plays, paintings, and other works of art that he hasn’t seen for many decades. Recently John Haynes Holmes and Clarence Harrow debated Zionism in New York City. Holmes, of course, was arguing that the Jews would be succesful in building up their homeland. In order to prove his point he de scribed some of his experiences with practical Jewish achievements in Pales tine. He spoke of the famous wine cellars, which were launched by Baron Rothschild. He spoke glowingly of "Risen le Zion.” Whereupon Hr. Stephen S. Wise, who was chairman of the debate, had a pretext for a wisecrack when the speaker ended. He pointed out that Holmes had often bragged of the fact that there are many Jews in his Com munity Church. "But of all his Jewish congregants it had to he a Litvak who taught him how to pronounce Hebrew.” You may he certain that in his sub sequent remarks, Holmes was very meticulous about his pronunciation of Rishon le Zion. At the recent dinner to Gotham’s Mayor Walker, sponsored by the Jew ish Theatrical Guild, Dudley Field Ma lone, noted lawyer, attacked the "Gloomy Twins.” By these lie meant 1 )r. Holmes and Rabbi Wise, for these two clerics were largely responsible for the legislative investigation of corrup tion in New York City government. Malone, of course, did not name the gentlemen specifically. He merely ad ded that of the "gloomy twins” “one is a confirmed grouch and the other a discover which is which. For both Dr. confirmed dry.” We are still trying to Holmes and Rabbi Wise are upholders of the Eighteenth Amendment. Incidentally, it is rumored that Dr. Wise tried to get the Jewish Theatrical Guild to cancel its dinner to Mayor Walker. The result is that Dr. Wise isn’t the most popular person as far as the Theatrical Guild is concerned. By this time, of course, that type of wit is pretty much worn out. It has become threadbare. Even the men at whom the joke is aimed have the story in their repertoire. But since this column acts as a reporter and not a censor, it passes on to you this latest version of the episode. A famous dramatist came to Holly wood. He was assigned the task of doing some scenarios. After several tries, which were rejected by the pro duction department, the head of the film company came to the playwright (Continued on Page 16) WITH SAFE SILENT SYNCRO- MESH TRANSMISSI Anthony Buick, Inc PHONE JACKSON 1480 512 SPRING ST., N.W. ATLANTA Permanent Wave $ 3 COMPLETE No Other Charge! 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