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Highlights and Sidelights
Ciossip and News of Jewish Personalities
By MARTIN GOLDE
In the past few years the Menorah
Journal has been such a hit and miss
affair that nobody particularly no
tices the difference if it doesn’t appear
for many months at a stretch. I don’t
remember when I last saw that brown-
covered mag. My information is that
the staff of the sheet has been disband
ed and Henry Hurwitz is parading
around the country trying to get a
few angels to contribute the coin.
But how many can be persuaded to
come across? Especially for the Me
norah Journal? During the height of
its career there were few idols that the
Menorah respected. It would just as
soon debunk a rabbi as a fake Jewish
institution. It wisecracked at a Jewish
notable as often as it sneered at the
activities of many Jewish philanthro
pies. Its side-swipes at Zionism cre
ated the well-known furore.
But Henry Hurwitz has a new gag.
In approaching suckers, who protest
violently at the staff the Menorah used
to run, the little Napoleon tells them
that his staff was responsible for the
tough stuff, fellows like Elliot Cohen
and Herbert Solow etcetera. That sto
ry may appease rabbis and wealthy
laymen, but what writing man is go
ing to let that alibi get by? An editor
is the fellow who passes on stuff in
his paper. The question is was Henry
Hurwitz the editor of the Menorah
Journal?
And talking of Jewish newspapers
reminds me of Opinion, which James
Waterman Wise promises will be in
the hands of the public within the
next few weeks. According to Wise,
Opinion is the last word in high class
journalism. It will be the intellectual
paper, the sheet that won’t take the
bunk from anybody. But Wise’s rag
has put out a prospectus containing
endorsements from some of the lead
ing citizens of our land. And who are
these estimable gentlemen—stars in
the intellectual heavens? Judge for
yourself. Laudatory comments are to
be had from such magnificos as Bish
op William T. Manning, Arthur Bris
bane and others of that ilk. I ask
you, Jim, how does that differ from
the prospectus issued by at least a
score of other Jewish papers?
The Saturday Evening Post reminds
us of one of the most famous anecdotes
that have clustered about the memory
of Jacob H. Schiff. A big dinner was
given in honor of President Roose
velt’s appointment of Oscar Straus as
Secretary of Commerce. In making
the principal address, the Wielder of
the Big Stick praised Straus and said
that he had considered the entire field
and felt that no man would be as
good for the post as the one man
he had selected. He emphasized that
neither race, color nor creed had been
of any influence in his decision.
Jacob Schiff was the next speaker.
The famous philanthropist was a bit
hard of hearing and had not gotten
the full meaning of the President’s
talk. In his remarks, Schiff praised
Roosevelt as broadminded and toler
ant, and said that the President, be
fore making the appointment, had
told him that he wanted a Jew in the
t abinet and wanted to know which
Jews in the country most deserved the
honor. Whereupon Schiff recommended
Oscar Straus.
And was Roosevelt’s face red?
This may he the time when every
body hangs on to what he has and
tries to get as much more as possible,
hut I know a fellow who has deliber
ately turned down thousands, many
thousands of gold dollars. He does it
every week too. But there’s method
in his madness—maybe. You see this
funny fellow is Arthur Tracy, known
to the music lovers of the land as the
Street Singer, an ace of the Columbia
Broadcasting System, who rivals Russ
Columbo and Bing Crosby. Arthur
used to do his warbling over in Phila
delphia. Then this Jewish lad went up
the ladder to one of the smaller New
York radio stations. And now he has
a spot position on the big time. He
now gets offers of from one to four
thousand a week to appear at one of
the big movie palaces. But Arthur
turns down these swell offers.
The reason is simple—to him. He
is now on a sustaining quarter-hour.
He feels that if he holds out long
enough he’ll get one of the juicy com
mercial contracts—and $10,000 a
week. This hoy is all investment, no
speculation. He won’t take a chance
on getting the chicken feed now and
ruining his chances for the future.
Well, let’s hope that his fame lasts
long enough to grab that $10,000. But
you know all about the fickleness of
the radio audience.
While we’re talking about fellows
who have the nerve to refuse money,
why not mention the big mogul of the
literary racket, Emil Ludwig himself?
You may think funny to hear that a
ftdlow who writes so fast that he looks
like a printing machine turned down
cold cash, but it’s true just the same.
About a year and a half ago when
Carl Laemmle, father of Universal
Pictures, got the itch to have him
self biographized, he wanted only the
biggest fellow in the writing industry.
He admitted that he wasn’t much of
a sure winner in picking such kind of
fellows so he asked for the best ad
vice. And one and all, his yes-men
told him that no man could paint him
as good a word glorification as Emil
Ludwig. At once the wires began to
hum. And in Ascona, Switzerland, Mr.
and Mrs. Ludwig amusedly opened
the cables stating that Laemmle of
fered himself as the subject to follow
up the Lincoln biography. Mr. and
Mrs. looked at their swell home away
from the crowd and decided that they
didn’t need the money so badly. If
you remember, John Drinkwater took
the job.
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