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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 (PIease turn to page 24) WEST POINT MANUFACTURING CO. WEST POINT, GEORGIA Lanett Mill Shawmut Mill Langdale Mill Fairfax Mill Riverdale Mill WELLINGTON SEARS CO., Selling Agents 65 Worth Street, New York, N. Y. ¥ Ducks, Wide and Narrow Drills and Sateens H Suedes, Duveteens and Suitings in colors and stripes H The famous "Martex" and "West Point" Towels and Toweling T HE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE * [17]