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Highlights and Sidelights
Gossip and News of Jewish Personalities
By MARTIN GOLDE
Charles Malamuth, who used to
teach in the Slavic languages depart
ment of the University of California,
once had the idea that the Soviets
were on the right track. Being the
husband of a daughter of Jack Lon
don you could expect such ideas from
the fellow. So he hied himself to the
land of the Reds. There he was more
or less of a big shot. He was the one,
you remember, who acted as the in
terpreter to Iron-Man Stalin when
the latter recently gave his first in
terview in four years to the world.
While in Moscow he occupied his
time with a few translations from the
Russian, the most important being
his rendition of Boris Pilnyak’s latest
tome.
But now Charlie is back—well, not
exactly as a Billy Sunday for Com
munism. Now what do you think got
Charlie’s goat? Well, believe it or
not, the thing that got him sore was
that he had to go all the way from
this most bourgeois of countries to
the land of freedom to be made to
wear evening clothes. Here’s his ver
sion of the tale.
“I went to Russia with a dinner
jacket. I thought that when I got
there 1 might give it to some actor
who had to play bourgeois parts or
something of that kind.
“After I had been there a short
time I was invited to tea. I went
wearing a business suit of some light
color. When I got an invitation to
dinner in the Kremlin some time later
1 was told by the man who asked me
that evening dress would be correct.
I had rather offended them by not
wearing a morning coat and striped
trousers to tea. I told him I had not a
swallow-tail with me. ‘Well, this once’,
he said, ‘we will forgive you if you
wear a dinner jacket’.”
No man has a better right than
Rufus Isaacs to tell you what to do
it you want to beat the game of life.
To become Foreign Secretary of the
world’s greatest international power
at the age of 71 is not such a bad
climb. According to Lord Reading the
secret of success is “an infinite capac
ity for taking pains.” Sleep a lot,
too. That helps. When he first came
to the bar he laid down a routine
for the day. He went to bed every
night at nine, so that he could get up
at four. So that by the time he took
breakfast at eight he had put a pret
ty big dent in his day’s work. He
followed that program even after he
became Lord Chief Justice in 1912.
I don’t know if his wife Stella al
lows him to follow that regime any
what he does now. He’s got the su ■
cess he was working for.
But there’s no formula for gradu
ating from poverty and nonentity f () ,
how otherwise are you going to* ex
plain the case of that big New York
building contractor, who started out
as an immigrant newsboy and is now
a recognized Jewish philanthropist’
The other day I happened to be in an
office where a business conference
was taking place between this con
tractor and a group of other men
One of the men produced an impres
sive looking foolscap sheet, which
was supposed to contain the outline
of an agreement. He handed it over
to the contractor for preliminary in
spection. The latter gazed at the pa
per for about five minutes, seemed
kind of puzzled by certain phrases,
handed it back and said: “Not bad.
But my lawyer will have to go over
it, of course.”
After the contractor had gone 1
asked one of the men why the builder
who is supposed to be hardboiled, had
seemed to agree so quickly to the
outline. And then I was told: “He
can’t read a word of English but even
among those who already know it he
makes a pretense of reading. If he
disapproved, then people would ask
questions, and he would be stumped."
Writing a column that was made
possible because Walter Winchell
some years ago had the idea that
journalism needed a more intimate
note, I should be the last to object
to Winchell’s marvelous gift for dis
covering the unknown. But it does
seem that his premature announce
ment has spoiled one of the best sto
ries in years. There is a certain gen
tleman who prepared a tome on our
beloved President, Herbert Hoover.
The subtitle was supposed to have
been: “The Man Who Made Us Poor.
Herb, however, seems to read Walter.
For within a week the author had re
ceived word from Washington that he
had better lay off. And now the most
delicious subcaption of the centur\
has been clipped from circulation.
But who could believe that the urn
smiling engineer in the White H° Use
read the jazzy tabloids and Walter
Winchell at that?
Molly Picon—the dame who justi
fies the continued existence of e
Yiddish theatre! But now that she as
left these shores for a two-years tour
of Europe, who cares about the 1
dish Rialto. Not I anyhow. Knowing
that her friends want to hear a ou
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