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STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL + + +
JidHits from Everywhere + + + by phineas j. biron
(Irrman authorities provide all sorts
ib explanations of the considerable
release in the Reich’s export trade, but
•3f factor which they never mention to
x rolks at home is the anti-Nazi boycott
• ,w being carried on in many countries
I'he family of Otto H. Kahn is suffer-
ng acute embarrassment these days be-
ju'e that gentleman, having digested the
•jll import of the Hitlerite atrocities, has
• >und a renewed interest in the affairs
t his people . . . Our own Nordic theo-
note with dismay that The Fellow
ship Forum, official KKK organ pub-
•hcd at Washington, is moribund . . .
Yet Klansmen derive comfort from the
•irt that their Ladies’ Auxiliary, called
\amelia, is going strong . . . We wonder
• hat the KKK thinks of the recent an-
-juncement by the Berlin Race Investiga
tion Bureau to the effect that marriages
•rnveen Nazi Nordics and Japanese are
aighly desirable . . . While we are on
■he subject of N’azi-land, let us quote a
•entence from Ashley Dukes’ article on
the German stage, published in The The
atre Arts Monthly: “If all the dramatic
ritics had taken to writing plays and
ill the box office clerks and stage door
keeper* had taken to directing them, noth
ing worse could have happened than the
•tate of affairs under the newborn theatre
jf the Third Reich" . . .
The Riesling grape, from which the
r«t Rhine wines are made, is being cul
tivated in the United States, and Made-
n-America Rhine wines are now on the
market . . . And a warning: When you
uy your next varmelkeh, take a good
look at the label ... It seems that a lot
>f this type of headgear comes from the
land of Hitler . . .
Ellery Queen, author of some excellent
mystery stories and editor of a tine de-
trrtive story magazine, received the name
Kmanuel Lepowsky at his birth . . .
I.'Affaire Jones,’’ Hillel Bernstein's
brother of Herman Bernstein) Literary
Guild selection for January, couldn't find
in American publisher until an English
house had brought it out and proved its
popular appeal . . . Another Bernstein,
Aline by name, one of Broadway’s fore
most designers of stage sets and costumes,
has gone literary on us, with a volume
ailed “Three Blue Suits” . . . The movie
r>t Louis (folding's “Magnolia Street’’ will
*oon come to these shores from England,
where it has been making a tremendous
hit . . . Bill Soskin, hitherto literary
r ritic for the New York Evening Post,
David J. Stern’s recent acquisition, will
begin the new year by switching over
to Mr. Hearst's American . . . Rumor, by
the way, has it that Samuel I’ntermyer is
an interested party in Mr. Stern’s Evening
Post ...
While visiting Sigmund Freud in \ i-
ftma Dr. Stephen S. Wise was asked by
his host whom he considered the world s
three greatest Jews . . . "Freud, Einstein
a^d Brandeis,” came back our own S.S.W.
. . “What about Wise?” queried the
^ ennese professor . . . "No, no, no,’ the
Rabbi cried quickly . . . Thereupon Dr.
F eud, who, as you know, is a great psy-
c ^analyst: “My dear Dr. Wise, your
T j, no, no’ doesn't sound very convinc
ing” . . . This story was told by Dr. Wise
h mself during a recent speech at Phila-
d'lphia—and thus furnished additional
P oof that Wise still retains his sense of
h mor . . .
Felix Frankfurter, who is now in Lon
don, is being groomed to take the place
of Louis I). Brandeis . . . One of Frank
furter’s disciples, Jerome Frank, counsel
of the AAA at Washington and center
of the recent rumpus concerning that
body, is unpopular among certain poli
ticians, which fact gave rise to rumors
that he had placed two brothers-in-law
of his on the AAA payroll . . . Actually,
however, Frank has only one brother-in-
law, and hasn’t been on speaking terms
with him for ten years . . . Our congrats
to M orris Margulirs, who was respon
sible for the successful Maccahean Fes
tival held by the New York Zionist Re
gion at Madison Square Garden ....
Rosa Raisa is doubtless justified when
she says harsh things about Samuel In
still, who relieved her of half a million
berries . . . But the fact remains that it
was Mr. InsulT* ( hicago Civic Opera
Company which drew to her the attention
of the Metropolitan Opera Companv . . .
I he man who supplied Ferdinand Pecora
with ammunition for the blasting of Wall
Street and New York banks, is Max Low
rnthal, Gotham attorney ... In addition
to being the first negrrss to be graduated
from a Hebrew school, Miss Vertelle Val
entine, 15-vear-old New Yorker, plans to
enter Yohiva College, which so far has
numbered only male and white Jews
among its students . . . Rabbi Stephen
Wise is publicly promising friends of Ber
nard G. Richards that the latter, after
two \ears in exile, will be reinstated as
political secretary of the American Jew
ish Congress, but the general impression
is that the subject will never come to a
vote ... I he War Chest of the Congress,
incidentally, has dwindled from 90,000
dollars to 56 grand . . .
Did. you know that Jacob Ginsburg,
publisher of the Philadelphia Jewish
World, is the father-in-law of Shirley
Howard, one of the most sensational
songsters of the radio? . . . Whereas Leo
Mielziner, famous painter, will soon cease
being the father-in-law of Kay Francis,
flicker queen and now estranged wife of
Leo, Jr., whom you know as Kenneth
McKenna, screen and stage star . . . Kay,
by the way, helped Edward G. Robinson
look taller in “I Loved a Woman” by
wearing heelless shoes in all scenes that
did not show her footgear . . . Douglas
Fairbanks, Jr„ whose father is said to
be of Jewish descent, will play a Jewish
role in a movie, but all the Jewish char
acteristics of the part will be removed
. . . The part will be the lead in “Success
Story,’’ by John Howard Lawson, who
also is one of us . . . How many of you
knew that Warner Brothers are releas
ing George Arliss’ “Disraeli" again just
to counteract the forthcoming production
of the Twentieth Century Company’s
Rothschild picture? . . .
European and American Yiddish pa
pers made a bad break some weeks ago
when they ran feature articles celebrat
ing the 60th birthday of Dr. Chaim Weiz-
man, who was just turning 59 . . . The
feud between Weizman and Einstein
about the running of the Hebrew Uni-
ersity still persists, and may not be cleared
up until four or five members of the
Jerusalem faculty are dismissed . . . Nina
Gabrilowitsch, daughter of the Detroit
Symphony conductor and granddaughter
of Mark Twain, is taking an active in
terest in theatricals at Barnard College,
where she is a student . . . Immanuel
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