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ST ilCTLY CONFIDENTIAL , , ,
its from Everywhere * * * By phineas j. biron
jaffee, the double Olympic skat-
nnpion, is not on good terms with
shea, the other Yankee Olympic
w j r r . Shea called Jaffee yellow, so
cocked Shea on the nose. This
; torv has never reached print, but is true
nevertheless. ... We were right about
H 1 lershfield quitting the Hearst pa-
He is under contract with New
y ,,rk > only evening tabloid paper, "the
Graphic.” where he will conduct a daily
column under the heading "If I’m wrong,
kue m e.” . . . Somebody suggested to
nine \ear-old violin prodigy Grisha Go-
lulv)tf to appear with Paderewski in the
New York recital for the benefit of the
unemployed and got this retort: “As a
musician 1 would be honored—as a Jew
I would feel humiliated.” . . . Which
brings to our omniscient mind the brand
new news that Grisha and two of the
most famous virtuosos will give a bene
fit recital in New York’s Madison Square
Garden for the Musicians’ Emergency
Fund. . . . Jimmy Wise, editor of Opin
ion, just returned to New York after a
two-way flying trip to the coast. . . .
Mrs. Oscar Hammerstein, widow of the
late theatrical impresario, she who last
winter sold apples on the street, is being
featured these days as the hostess of the
llammerstein’s Frivolity Cabaret at 53rd
street near Broadway. Suckers pay more
than apple eaters. . . . No star was ever
featured bigger in electric letters than
our friend Edward G. (Goldenburg)
Robinson as the Hatchet Man in Warner’s
Theatre on Broadway. His name takes
up a whole block. . . . Trotzsky—yes, the
ex Red-Commander was a movie extra
while in the United States many years
ago. This startling revelation is substan
tiated in the vitaphone records. In one
picture he played alongside the almost
forgotten Clara Kimball Young, as an
extra at five dollars a day. . . . This was
in the days of the silent shadows. . . .
Arthur Tracy, the radio favorite known
Tetter as the Street Singer, is a Jew al
though his press agents explain his ex
otic appeal because he is "an Algerian
with a dash of old Egypt, Persia, Judah
and Armenia in his make-up.” Only a
Jew could afford to have such an ances
tral cocktail. . . . Col. and Mrs. Robert
Guggenheim, of Washington, have gone
to Havana, where they are the guests of
the Colonel's brother and sister-in-law,
the United States Ambassador to Cuba,
and Mrs. Harry Guggenheim. . . .
Herman Bernstein, the U. S. Minister to
dbania, will be here the latter part of
April. He will stay in this country two
Months, . . . Paul Yawitz is another
•lumnist who will make his debut in
ter Winchell’s own Daily Mirror.
hat will give the Mirror three Joosh
n itchers in the Column field: Winch-
Hellinger and Yawitz. It sounds al-
like the executive committee of a
:| i s t district. . . . Dave Rubinoff, the
: salaried orchestra leader and violin-
who speaks with a Russian accent,
■ etimes forgets himself and sounds like
rn New Yorker. Business is business.
• I he Lavanburg House on 12th
‘ et > New York, is a working girl’s
lence run on a deficit of about fifty
i^and dollars per year. We are in-
e d that Mrs. Oscar Straus is one of
biggest backers of that institution.
'Ay knew about it till keyhole W. W.
f d the beans the other column. . . .
enz Ziegfeld of Follies fame, who
• that the perfect hip measurement for
an is 36J^, would not be accepted
Atler as a pure Nordic because of a
retouched Semitic strain. This is
A despite the current belief that Zieg-
** a # real German-American. . . .
Jthoritative reports confirm our fears,
essed half a dozen columns ago, that
|a Sidney, our favorite screen star, is
n K weight at an alarming rate. . . •
ad Bercovici, the author who looks
like Gorki, strokes his drooping mustache
like Nietzsche but writes for Liberty Mag
azine, will conduct a Gypsy orchestra
for the milk business. . . . “Soviets oust
Jews from public life” is the startling
heading of a news item in the Seattle
Jewish Transcript. The dispatch itself
tells that two leaders of the Comzet (Jew
ish Colonization and Industrial Commit
tee) have resigned and been replaced by-
two other Jews. That kind of journal
ism doesn’t belong. . . .
That Jewish general in the Chinese
Army, Moishe Cohn, was so well public
ized in the Jewish papers that the Inter
national Photograph Company released
his picture to their six hundred papers
throughout this country. The picture,
however, is that of a Cohen of V’ancouver,
who looks as much like the so-called gen
eral as Lindbergh resembles Fatty Ar-
buckle. The fact is that there is no Gen
eral (. ohn in the Chinese army, dispatches
notwithstanding. . . . Buddy King, the
WHN singer, is a daughter of Sam K<>e-
ing, Republican Boss of New York, one of
the few Joosh political bosses in this free
country of ours. . . . George Gershwin’s
new "Rhapsody in Rivets" is declared a
much more mature and ambitious compo
sition than his world-famous “Rhapsody
in Blue.” . . . From reliable sources
comes the information that City Court
Justice Aaron Steuer, son of the noted
Max D. Steuer of the Tammany strategy-
board, will soon be a Supreme Court Jus
tice of the State of New York. . . . Lil
lian Ginsberg is considered one of the ten
Ixest-looking shopgirls of New York, ergo,
as the New York Evening Journal claims,
of the world. Does that make you proud?
. . . Irving Thalberg, the busy Metro
Talkie producer—by the way, he is the
youngest Hollywood executive—is a hard
man to see. Lee Marcus has announced
that he would give a cup to the man who
manages to see Irving three times in one
and the same day. So far nobody- has won
the cup. . . . Eugenie Leontovich, who
made Vicki Baum’s “Grand Hotel" fa
mous on the American stage and who in
private life is known as Mrs. Gregory
Ratoff, enumerates the following as some
of her greatest thrills in this country:
Alexander Woolcott’s acting in "Brief
Moment”; George S. Kaufman’s visit
backstage after her first performance in
"Grand Hotel”; Groucho Marx’s sense
of humor. That makes it a hundred per
cent Jewish batting average. . . . Zeppo
Marx, the outstanding gambler of the
Four Marx Brothers, opened a dog shop
in Hollywood. Zeppo is betting his cus
tomers as to which dog in the place is
first to bark. . . . Maurice Schwartz,
the Yiddish actor who just finished a dis
astrous season in English on Broadway,
will begin a tour in RKO V audeville. He
will appear in a playlet by Anton
Chekov. ... .
Dorothy Thompson—or, if you prefer,
Mrs. Sinclair Lewis—has just returned
from a trip to Germany. She interviewed
Adolf Hitler. The March issue of the
Cosmopolitan Magazine will carry an ar
ticle by her under the caption “I saw Hit
ler.” Here are some of Dorothy s jewels.
"Hitler is formless, almost faceless; a
man whose countenance is a caricature.
There is in his face no trace of any
inner conflict or self-discipline.
Here is another gem: Mr. tin
ier in the next election you may get the
fifteen million votes which y°“
But fifteen million Germans CAN be
wrong.” . • • Apropos of this: Did you
know that Hitler’s press chief and private
secretary is Ernest Hanfstaengel, Har
vard graduate, famous among his class
mates for his piano playing and his ec
centricities. There’s something for all
Harvard men to be proud of. . . . No,
we are.not yet through with Hitler. Dor
othy Thompson has this to say about the.
Jews and Hitler: "And the Jews? Bis-
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marck s hrst speech in the Reichstag was
against the Jews, but he lived to have a
Jewish banker as his most intimate ad
viser Which implies that Hitler mav
see the light yet. ... A Canadian cor
respondent, writes in to let us know that
Marlene Dietrich of the Garbo face and
the Am, Harding legs is a Jewish girl.
>\ ell, we are ready to accept her into the
told. . . . Irving Caesar, the writer of
lyrics for song hits (Tea for Two; Just
a Gigolo, etc., etc.), the other night went
to a masquerade ball as Julius Caesar,
wearing a toga. Going home in his auto,
he was stopped by a traffic cop for speed
ing. \\ hat’s your name?” asked the
cop. ( aesar, was the reply. "So vou're
one of those wise guys, eh?” declared the
cop. "( ome along with me.” And little
Caesar was taken to the police station.
• • . Dan Daniel, New York’s most be
loved sport writer, is a Jew, if that will
make you any happier, Mr. Reader from
Minneapolis. . . . After a huddle with
Harry Margolin, the French designer
fiom the Bronx, they gave birth to the
James ( agney Shirt." “If you want to
n, ake a hit with your girl, wear my
*hirt is Cagney's slogan.
t harlie ( haplin will stay in F'urope an
other year. . . . Jacob Wassermann’s
latest novel, "Dr. Kerkhoven,” is in the
best seller list. . . . Louis Sobol, known
as “ I he Voice of Broadway,” one of
America's most gifted columnists, was a
tie salesman at Gimbel’s, getting $22 a
week, back in 1919. . . . Henri Barhusse,
the French writer, is not a Jew, but he
married the daughter of Catulle Mendes,
the Joosh poet laureate of France. . . .
Paul Moritz Warburg, the banker, who
is said to have left between hundred and
fifty and two hundred million dollars, did
not leave one cent for charity in his will.
It will be up to his missus to show that
he knew she would attend to it. . . .
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