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Friday, November 9, 1934.
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The Southern Israelite
INTERESTING
SIDELIGHTS
By MARTHA NEUMARK
A MODEST RABBI
A unique figure In the Jewish
community life of New York Is
Rabbi Mordecat M. Kaplan, ptump-
ish. goateed. sparkling-eyed minis
ter of the Society for the Advance
ment of Judaism, whose keen, cur
ious intellect is in sharp contrast
to that of the majority of the
parishioners whom he serves.
Recently he startled staid social
workers throughout the land by
warning that Federations and Jew
ish Welfare Funds are threatened
with financial drought unless they
revise their fund-raising methods
and undertake to »ducate their con
tributors.
Such carefully considered state
ments on public policy are the only
aperture through which Rabbi Kap
lan may be viewed by the curious.
He is averse to personal publicity
and has not been known to pre
pare weekly resumes of his sermons
for the Monday metropolitan pap
ers. He published a monumental
book recently and gave orders to
his publishers that under no cir
cumstances were photographs of
him to be sent to reviewers. Nor was
biographical material to be submit
ted. Not that his physiognomy is
objectionable or that his life story
is not dramatic. But he wants his
book to be Judged on its Intrinsic
merits. Like almost half of the
spiritual leaders of New York, he
depends very largely on the cur
rent status of the mercantile busi
ness for his remuneration. But the
strength or clarity of his logic isn’t
affected. He still writes the smooth
est and mast sensible prose of any
New York rabbi.
MUTINY AMONG THE SOCIAL
WORKERS
The latest unionization project
under way involves the workers in
the Federation of Jewish Social
Service, whose budget is paid large
ly by the New York Federation of
Jewish Philanthropic Societies.
These men and women who investi
gate the indigent and the afflicted
feel that they are underpaid and
overly-tyrannized. They threaten
that unless they get better working
conditions they will revolt and par
alyze the complete social welfare
machinery in the Jewish communi
ty.
"Go ahead!" says the officers of
the Social Service Federation," and
we will replace you overnight with
other social workers—more willing
to listen to reason." “Communists"
is the epithet being applied to these
hard-working folk by the leaders
whose notion of rates of pay is of
ten guided by the pittance distribu
ted to those on their relief rolls.
This is the first time that social
workers threaten to organize on a
big scale to resist the philanthropic
leadership of “the vested interests."
A BILL FROM THE GRAVE
One of the greatest publicity
men of modern times may .be in
his grave, but his fame—and its
price—lingers after him. For Lu
cinda. the widow of the late Har
ry Reichenbach, is now suing
Jeanette MacDonald, screen star,
for money allegedly due her hus
band. Mrs. Reichenbach claims
that it was her husband’s genius
that put Miss MacDonald where
she is today in the flickers. The
arrangement is said to have been
that Reichenbach was to get ten
percent of all the film money she
earned between April, 1929 and
April, 1931. That percentage to
tals a mere $20,000. And even
though Reichenbach made famous
more theatrical folk than any oth
er press agent, he left behind so
little money that the proceeds in
this court suit would come in very
handy to his widow.
There are many other Manhat
tan celebrities whose obituaries
sound like biographies by Emil
Ludwig, but who leave behind lit
tle concrete remembrance of their
activity and ability.
NEW YORK’S CHARLES LAMB
Having left his uncle’s Jewelry
business far behind in order to
devote himself to literature. Louis
Untermyer is probably the busted
MUSIC BANNED BY NAZIS
TO BE HEARD IN CHICAGO
Berlin (WNS)—New music for
Shakespeare's 4 4 A Midsummer
Night’s Dream,” to replace the
so-called "Jewish" music of Fe
lix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Ger
many’s famous Jewish compos
er, has been ordered by Dr. Al
fred Rosenberg’s Nazi Culture
Chamber. A bitter dispute is
raging in Nazi circles over Men
delssohn's incidental music for
the famous Shakespearean play.
The culture chamber has turned
thumbs down on Mendelssohn
as a “non - Aryan", while the
music chamber, headed by Rich
ard Strauss, regards Mendels
sohn's music as a work of gen
ius.
It was with the production of
"A Midsummer Night’s Dream"
with Mendelssohn's music that
Max Reinhardt first became fa
mous and spread the theatrical
fame of Germany. Oddly enough,
Reinhardt, who is now an exile
from Germany, scored a sensa
tional triumph with this very
production in Hollywood. It will
shortly be shown In Chicago.
Jewish Legal
Fraternity Elect
Ginsberg Leader
Atlanta Attorney Elected Chancel
lor of Zeta Chapter, A S. K.,
writing man in the city. If he
isn’t editing an anthology for his
publishers, Harcourt, Brace, he is
writing a book of travels or crit
ical commentary.
It’s very likely, however, that
a volume intended largely for
children will be his greatest mon
ument of fame for a long time
to coe. Coincident with the suc
cessful visit to this country of the
D’Oyly Carte company, Unter-
meyer has published “The Last
Pirate," which recreates — in
Charles Lamb style—the more
fascinating operas of Gilbert and
Sullivan.
Writing simply, condensing ef
fectively, he distils every ounce of
humor from Gilbert and Sullivan.
Untermeyer is one writer who
seems to prove that inspiration is
lorgpely perspiration. He certainly
works hard enough.
Cardozo Was Pioneer
Of Brain Trust System
Albany, N. Y. (WNS)—Supreme
Court Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo
was the pioneer of the “brain trust”
system in American government,
according to an article in the State
Bar Association Bulletin by Pre
siding Justice James P. Hill of the
Appellate Division. Justice Hill
points out that fourteen years ago
Justice Cardozo. then an associate
judge of the Court of Appeals,
wrote an article called “A Ministry
of Justice" in which he proposed
an advisory body of two or three
scholarly men.
Drop in German Exports
To U. S. In First Nine
Months of Year 1934
Washington, D. C. (WNS) —
American imports from Germany
declined 33 per cent in the first
nne months of 1934 as compared
with the same period in 1933, ac
cording to figures made public by
the Department of Commerce. In
the first nine months of this year
American imports from Germany
were valued at $5,637,230, as com
pared with $8,506,065 in the same
period last year.
CITY COLLEGE FRESHMEN
MOST INTELLIGENT IN U. S.
New York (WNS)—Freshmen
at the College of the City of
New York, where 95 per cent of
the student body is Jewish, have
a higher average intelligence
than freshmen in 203 other col
leges In the United States, ac
cording to a survey prepared by
the American Council on Edu
cation. On the basis of intelli
gence tests given- to 40,299 fresh
men in 203 colleges, the average
score of 1,514 City College fresh
men was 216, as compared with
155 for those of other colleges.
“HITTLER” CHANGES NAME
WITH COURT’S APPROVAL
New York (WNS) — “Hittler
is not a proper name for a Jew,
Supreme Court Judge Peter P.
Smith admitted when he grant
ed permission to Morris Hittler
of Brooklyn to change his name
to Hilton. On and after Decem
ber 14, Mr. Hittler may legally
call himself Hilton. In his peti
tion Hittler declared that he “is
a member of the Jewish faith
and it is desirable for your pe-*
titioner to change his name for
the reason that because of his
present name your petitioner
has been, and continually is,
subjected to scorn, ridicule and
embarrassment."
Minister Pleased With
Bulgarian - Palestine
Trade Development
Sofia (WNS) — In receiving M.
Slutz, Bulgaria’s Jewish consul in
Palestine, Premier Georgieff ex
pressed satisfaction with the in
crease in trade between Bulgaria
! and Palestine and voiced his sym
pathy with the Zionist movement.
After the audience with the Pre
mier, Slutz was presented to King
Boris.
Nazi Press Vilifies
Montefiore
PERSONALITIES
FIDDLES TO DEVELOP
IIIS STROKE
This is by all odds my favorite
story of the week. It may be press-
agent inspired. Even in that case
it’s still a good story. But if the
celebrated ping - pong player
thought it all up by himself—well,
in that case, my hat’s off to him.
You may think you know all
about Jasche Heifetz. “Oh the con
cert violinist," you nod wisely But
you slipped up that time. Nothing
of the sort. The ping-pong cham
pion, you mean. And a real cham
pion at that, as well as a newly
discovered humorist of the first
water. For his trophy room in the
same midtown New York apart
ment that houses his ping-pong
parlor is filled with cups won main
ly in tournaments aboard ship.
Champion Heifetz generously gave
away his trade secrets, animated no
doubt with a zeal to inspire others
to go out and do like wise.
“I play the fiddle,” he said.
“Every day for an hour or two
I practice. I find that it makes
for concentration and co-ordin
ation of the muscles. In handling
the bow I learn to handle the
paddle. I must cultivate a strong
Berlin (WNS)—While world Jew
ry was engaged in celebrating the
150th anniversary of the birth of
Moses Montefiore. famous English
Jewish philanthropist of the Vico-
rian era, the Nazi pres3 seized upon
the opportunity to brand him as an
exploiter of the German people,
with particular reference to the
Continental Gas Company, which
Montefiore headed for some time.
PAUL GINSBERG
Paul Ginsberg, well known At
lanta attorney, was elected Chan
cellor of the Zeta Chapter of the
Alpha Sigma Kappa fraternity at a
meeting of the fraternity held at
the Ansley Hotel November 4. The
Alpha Sigma Kappa fraternity is
the oldest and largest Jewish legal
fraternity in existence, having
Chapters in the University of
Maryland, Georgetown University,
University of Baltimore, George
Washington University, Washing
ton School of Law, National Law
School, University of Pennsylvania,
University of Richmond and the
local Georgia chapter.
The Alpha Chapter, which is the
mother Chapter of the Alpha Kap-
Kappa fraternity, was organized
in 1920 at the University of Mary
land, in Baltimore. Maryland by a grip and learn to wiggle the wrist
Polish Court Frees
Person Charged With
Insulting Goebbels
group of young Jewish students,
knowing that by forming such a
body it was the best way to foster
and propagate the spirit of friend
liness which had manifested itself
among them. The activities of this
group soon caught the attention of
practicing attorneys throughout the
States and also attracted the at
tention of the undergraduates in
various law schools and they per
ceived the need of such an organiz
ation tf the interests of the young
Jewish, lawyers were to be best sub
served.
A manifold and vigorous program
was adhered to and the fraternity
taking in new members each year
slowly gathered strength and even
tually took its place among the
leading legal fraternities. Mr. Gins
berg has been practicing law in the
City of Atlanta for the past five
years, and has earned a
reputation. Coming to
deftly, and all of this is fine train
ing for ping-pong. I frankly ad
mit that without this daily exer
cise with the fiddle I should not
be the ping-pong player that I
am.”
Though Champion Heifetz is
planning no ocean voyages be
fore spring, he intends to keep in
training till then. "I am going to
give concerts with my violin all
winter,” he confided. “I find that
playing the fiddle in corcert halls
filled with people promotes the
steady nerVes and self-confidence
which are necessary for hitting a
celluloid ball accurately on a
rolling deck.” And perhaps if he
comes to your town he won’t mind
if you come to his concert and
watch him train. Most great ath
letes permit visitors to their train
worthy 1 ing campe.
Atlanta PERSONALITIES IN THE NEWS
Warsaw (WNS)— A person
known as Feigenberg, who had
beeiT arrested for arranging a
demonstration against Joseph
Paul Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda
Minister, during the latter’s vis
it here some time ago, has been
freed by the court before which
his case was brought.
Nazis Outlawed In
Southwest Africa
Cape Town (WNS)—Under a re
cent law empowering the govern
ment of the Union of South Africa
to ban any organization that
threatens to upset peace and order
liness, the administration has now
outlawed the Nazi movement in
Southwest Africa, which was for
merly a German colony and where
it was necessary, last summer, to
ban the Hitler Youth movement.
from Boston, Mass., where he at
tended Suffolk Law School, he
married Jean Cuba, sister of Max
Cuba, City Councilman, and con-
Gertrude Stein, who, returning to
America after an absence of thirty-
one years, turned out to be a hale,
hearty, likable woman of sixty who
when New York’s supposedly blase
youngsters are released from school.
There’s one difficulty—the shows
are far too short. But as Mr.
Schirmer grows into his new pro
fession he will undoubtedly re
form.
Molly Picon, whose new show has
broken all financial records. To
such an extent that neighboring
Second Avenue producers are hav
ing a great big headache—out loud.
(Copyright 1934 for the Sou
thern Israelite.)
tinued to pursue the study of law proceeded to clarify her writings
at the Atlanta Law School, from
where he received the LL. B. de
gree.
Mr. Ginsberg is a member of the
State Bar Association and the At
lanta Bar Association and is an in
teresting figure in local politics^
having been very active in the re
cent elections for Solicitor General
and the judiciary posts.
Mr. David Block, the only other
practicing atorney elected into of
fice. was elected Recorder, while
Arthur Frieberg was elected Vice-
Chancellor; Felix Shapiro, Exche
quer; David W. Krasner, Bailiff.
The undergraduate officers are stu
dents in the Atlanta Law School
and are leading their respective
classes in scholastic activities.
The national convention of Alpha
Sigma Kappa will be held in Balti
more Maryland, on December 9-14,
1934.
and utterances by muddling every
one more than ever. Her repartee
as she crossed verbal swords with
the reporters was swift and sure—
but no one but she had the faint
est notion of what she was trying
to say. And there were some doubts
as to whether she actually under
stood herself. Which is exactly the
reaction that any Stein opus leaves
with any person as incurably norm
al as your correspondent.
Robert Schirmer, grandson of the
founder of the famous music-pub
lishing house, who has ventured in
to the theatrical field and con
founded all the old hands at the
game. While in Europe last summer
he noted one good thing which they
have there and we don’t—or, rath
er, didn’t. For when Mr. Schirmer
returned to Manhattan he opened
up an all-cartoon movie house,
with continuous showing from
morning till night. The idea clicked
and business is more than brisk
especially during the week-ends,
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