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La Belle Juive of Bucharest
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liberal and democratic inclinations
that the King is attacked so bitterly
by his enemies. The Jews may well
feel that at no time, in no country,
have they had a ruler who so well
understands their troubles and so gen
uinely desires to help them.”
Madame Lupescu, a bit exhausted
by her long speech, reclined on a
Recamier sofa. After a brief pause
she regained her smile and good hu
mor. Her glass in hand, she looked at
me mischievously and inquired: “Do
I really look like a villainess or one
of those fatal intriguers? You should
meet my father and listen to him
when he is told of the impossible
stories the papers are printing about
me. He gets so angry that he would
like to sue every publication that does
not state that his darling daughter is
an angel. 1 don’t profess to be perfect
—but I surely do not deserve all those
epithets which are hurled at me.”
Taking advantage of her relaxed
mood and the mention of her father,
I queried, without emphasis; “But
don’t you think, Madame, that your
denial of your being a Jewess will do
more harm than an open acknowledg
ment of your racial affiliations?”
La Belle Juive, astonished, counter
ed: “How?”
I elucidated: “Might it not imply
that you wash your hands of all this
anti-Jewish talk and are eager to take
your own person out of it?”
The woman who may some day be
come the morganatic wife of the Ru
manian ruler blushed and said, in
some excitement: “No, no, no. You
are wrong. You don’t know conditions
if you talk that way. Jews are suf
fering because of my position. I have
been threatened more than once that
unless l agreed to one thing or an
other Rumania’s Jews would be made
to bear the consequences. This sounds
unbelievable—but a time may come
when I shall have to speak out. The
world will be amazed at the pressure
that has been brought to bear on me
because I am of Jewish parentage. 1
deny and will continue to deny my af
filiation with the Jews—am I not con
verted ?—precisely because 1 do not
want my private life to reflect—or.
ment is you can make, and it’s sure
to go every day—mother’s love for
father.”
Knowing of the boy’s passion for
driving an automobile when that fa
vorite sport of his is allowed him on
uncrowded roads, we asked him
whether he would like to fly. Looking
up in that quiet, quizzical way of his,
Yehudi answered: “Yes—but only
with three people: Lindbergh Byrd
and Eckner.”
Then Menuhin told us the following
little story, which, more than any
thing else we can think of, is typical
of his complete lack of self-conscious
ness.
“When I played a concert in Chi
cago, not long ago, the big auditorium
was so full of people that it looked
black. There was scarcely room for
me on the stage. After all the encores
had been played and I went back to
the artists room lots of nice people
came to speak to me. One lady was
a great prima donna, Madame Elisa-
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rather, influence—the status of Ru
manian Jews. I hope you understand
this, that I have made myself clear.”
In all that Madame Lupescu said
there was evident an extraordinary
and very tactful avoidance of danger
ous ground. At no time did she refer
specifically to her intimate relations
with the King nor to the various pos
sibilities to which her presence in Ru
mania might lead. I gained the im
pression that she fully realizes that
the center of gravity, so to say, of
her position lies in the fact that she
is regarded as a Jewess by the Gov
ernment and the people of Rumania.
Were she not a Jewess the animosity
which some members of the Ruman
ian royal family have shown toward
her might not prevail. There are those
who claim that it would have been an
easy matter for King Carol to reg
ularize the triangular condition of his
private life. Under ordinary circum
stances he might have been eager to
give, by a morganatic marriage to a
commoner, further proof of his demo
cratic and liberal outlook on dynasti-
cal matters. But though the Redhead
of Bucharest deny a thousand times
that she is a Jewess King Carol can
not, would not dare—with anti-Semit
ism riding on its highest crest in his
country—to discard the mother of the
Crown Prince for the daughter of a
small Jewish merchant of Jassy. This
passed through my mind as I watched
the beautiful woman in white sip at
her wine glass, apparently oblivious
that in all the chancelries of Europe
she is earmarked as Rumania’s Wom
an of Destiny. I wondered: Does she
have the illusion that she is a modern
incarnation of Queen Esther?
Lightly Madame Lupescu jumped to
her feet. Ending our conversation, she
said: “Whether I am a Jewess or not,
1 am a patriot, ready for the supreme
sacrifice, whatever it may entail, for
the sake of my country. Never forget
that if any one asks you what you
think of me.”
And La Belle Juive escorted me to
the heavy portal that closed behind
me and once more cut her off from
the turbulent gossip that surrounds
her name.
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beth Rethberg. I had heard her sing
and I thought she was great.
How much do you get for sing
ing a concert?’ I asked.
W ell, different prices,’ she an
swered. ‘\\ hen it is a concert in a
big auditorium like this I am paid
more than when I sing in a hall to a
smaller audience. Now tell me, how
much do you get for playing for this
great audience today?’
An ice-cream cone,’ I answered.
That gave her a great laugh, though
I don’t know why; for it’s true.” And
conf identially the boy genius conclud
ed. Strawberry is my favorite.”
When, in 1932, Yehudi Menuhin will
return to these shores he will be a
^^ een an d will have joined,
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