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Southern Saw Service
Inc.
1594 Evans Drive, S. W.
ATLANTA, GA.
“Keep the Southern
Dollar in the South”
Miniature Portrait of a Con
temporary Writer
By Michel Kraike
Konrad Bercovici. Is known to book
circles and the New York cognoscenti as
“the Gypsy of Literature.” Because of
alleged gypsy blood in his veins. Born
June 22, 1882, in Braille, Rournania, be
side the waltz immortalized Danube. His
father Jaquot was a giant of vaunted
strength. A large-scale farmer. Had to
Hee the country with his family during an-
ti-semitic seethings. . . . He is broad-shoul
dered. Close to six feet tall. Has a great
shock of black hair. And never combs it.
A high, broad brow. Narrow, steel-hued
eyes of an indefinite color. They can be
soft as velvet and hard and cruel as a
wolf’s. Depends on the mood. A thick
black underslung mustache hides his mouth
and suggests nickname of “Walrus” by
which intimates call him. Swarthy as a
gypsy. With a characteristically Jewish
soft voice.
In the city he dresses modestly. Except
for a ten-gallon hat. At his spacious coun
try place in the foothills of the Berkshires
in Connecticut he bedecks himself in the
loudest colors. Red and green shirts.
Yellow and purple ties. Sashes and scarfs
containing the spectrum. A fez on his
head . . . Won’t be told he speaks
English with an accent. But does. Speaks
nine other languages fluently. Not in
cluding the Scandinavian. Writes letters
in several languages each. Due to absent-
mindedness ... Is French-gallant to
Konrad Bercovici
ladies. Jovial with men. Has walking
sticks from all the odd corners of the
world. Hand-wrought. Antique. Of
rare wood. But goes places with a
dollar-and-fifty cane . . . Has his
suits made to order not to tit. And changes
his shirt twice a day. If he can’t find a
shirt to change into he removes the one
he has on, folds it and lays it in the
drawer, and later dons it again ... Has
four children. Two sons. Two daughters.
All of talent . . . Pockets always full of
theatre stubs, laundry tickets, receipts,
bookmatches . . . Generally mild tem
pered. Gets rid of his ire by writing.
He was ripsnorting while “telling all’’
about that Roumanian Royal Family. And
really there Against The Sky. Advt.
. . . At fifteen he deserted studies in
Paris to wander over highways and by
ways of Europe with a gypsy tribe.
Speaks gypsy Cato excellentlv.
Learned English in 1916. Two years
later his first short story was published
. . . Came to this country as an or
ganist. Wouldn’t play jazz. And starved.
Went to work on Jewish Daily Forward
as a reporter. Then magazine work in
Canada. Ultimately features for the de
funct New York If'orld . . . His tales
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COLLEGE NOTES
Winthrop College
Mrs. Helen Hennig, of Columbia, S. C.,
has been invited to address the entire
student body at Winthrop College in
Rock Hill, S. C., on the subject, “What
Do Jews Believe.”
Florida State College
The Jewish students attending the
Florida State College for Women, were
entertained at a reception held in the
home of Mrs. Wahnish which was given
by the Sisterhood of Tallahassee. They
were also privileged in hearing an ad
dress made by Rabbi Israel Kaplan, of
Jacksonville, who also spoke before the
Jewish students at the University of
Florida.
University of Georgia
Study groups among the Jewish students
at the University of Georgia, have been
formed by Rabbi Abraham Shusterman,
of Athens, Ga. One is a class in Jewish
history; another is a discussion group to
take up problems of Jewish and religious
interests and is composed of fifty students.
A dramatic group has also been organ
ized to study and produce plays of a Jew
ish nature.
Georgia Tech
The Sigma Gamma Club, composed of
students of Georgia Tech, elected officers
to serve the remainder of the school year.
They are: Joseph Weinman, president;
Harold Markowitch, vice-president; Irv
ing Lipshitz, treasurer; Elmo Agoos, sec
retary. Initiation of pledges took place
recently, and those initiated into the club
were Bernard Mandle, Ivan Weiskoff,
Louis Merlin, Myer Goloboff, and Sol
Churnicoff.
Sigma Gamma Club entertained with a
buffet supper and dance at Wieuca Inn
for members and their friends. The guest
list included Misses Nelle Swerdlin,
Agnes Nissenbaum, Sylvia Kahanow,
Freeda Freedman, Bernice Sinullian,
Minnie Klotz, Ethel Sinullian, Fannie
Taffel, Pauline Sirote, Dorothy Miller,
Bertha Saperstein, Miriam Baum, Sarah
Moldow, Rose Tessler, Sylvia Freedman,
Ida Kunis, and Mr. Joe Cuba, advisor.
Maurice Jacobs, of Pittsburgh, Pa.,
traveling executive secretary of Phi Ep
silon Pi fraternity, was honor guest at
a dinner given at the Standard Club by
members of Xi Chapter of Georgia Tech
and the alumni. Over thirty members
of the fraternity were present.
Emory University
Epsilon Chapter of Alpha Epsilon Pi,
is the winner of the trophy awarded by
the fraternity each year to the chapter
showing the most progress, it was an
nounced by Dr. Harry L. Cohen, chair
man of the southern advisory committee
of the fraternity. The trophy, a hand
some silver loving cup, was presented at
the fraternity’s eighteenth annual conven
tion held in Philadelphia. The Alpha
Epsilon Pi Fraternity was recently
awarded the Emory Pan-Hellenic Cup
New \ork, N. Y.—The Wandering Jew
tried to find a haven in New York City
but is being sent back to the countless
places he came from, Eighteen sons of
the \\ andering Jew are being held on
Ellis Island for deportation. Two of them
are from far-off China. They are young
fellows who say they tried to get away
from the Jap-Chinese war. Two others
are an Hungarian doctor and his wife,
who forgot the formality of renewing
their entrance visa and have overstayed
their time three years. Two others got
in illegally from Egypt. Another one is
fioin Greece. 1 he others are sailors who
"ere stranded in New’ York after dis
charge from their ships. Most of them,
however, have no country to go back to,
being citizens of none.
for leading all the other organic
scholarship.
Davidson College
Rabbi Morris Levine, of Char] v
C., delivered an address before
dents and faculty of Davidson Co!!
the subject of “The Contribution «,f t h,
Jew to Civilization.” Rabbi Levine h'-
also delivered this address before other
Southern colleges.
Rabbi Levine presents this . , t j n
the manner of the true scholar that he i.
He studied at Oxford Universit , : n Eim
land and in Hebrew seminaries in Lon
don and Palestine.
Miami University
Miss Frances Kane, a sophomore in
the University of Miami, left recently
to join the “Reisman’s Alabamians,” 3
family of musicians appearing on the
R. K. O. Circuit. She is playing the bass
viol with the ensemble, also a piano duet
sings and does classical dances. Mi ss
Kane is president of Upsilon Lambda
Phi; secretary of the University Inter-
Fraternity Council; member of the Girls'
Glee Club, also of the mixed Glee Club;
on the staff of the Hurricane; member
of the Wig and Wing Dramatic Club;
Mana-Zucca Music Club; pianist for the
Temple Israel Sunday School; pianist for
the Miami Beach Ensemble, and bass viol
player for the Junior Symphony orchestra.
Miss Ada Galanter
Miss Ada Galanter, daughter of Mr-
and Mrs. Leon Galanter, 554 Capitol
Avenue, Atlanta, was awarded a scholar
ship in art from Girls’ High School to
study at High’s Museum of Art in At
lanta. Miss Galanter is a senior at Girls
High School and has been an art studi
for three years, making outstanding pr"f
ress in her work. She is art editor of t it
“Junior Topics ” which is published by
the Temple.
w York, N. Y.—A slashing attack
the Administration for its attitude
imigration restriction was the t eI,ie
i address delivered bv Congressnaa
tel Dickstein, Chairman of the
igration Committee, at the --’ rt
meeting of the Hebrew Imungt*'
and Sheltering Society. Expressing
;t over the approval by his <- ni ’
,f the Moore bill, which would re
present immigration schediiies
?r cent. Dickstein said that C • n
itration favors immigration !e " trl .
is determined to cut pre' 1
Consuls abroad ha\e ee ? f
ted to be sparing in the g
, The result has been *« *
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