Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bride & groom, students at New York University, were hunting for a place to live in upper Manhattan. The landlady at one rooming-house tried to interest them by saying that she never took in Jews. She said the wrong thing. The alert, bright-eyed little groom was of pure Hebrew stock, born in Russia, educated in Palestine. His bride, also Jewish, said as they walked away: "If we ever have a son let us call him Yehudi [which in Hebrew means "a Jew"], and let him stand or fall on his name...
Yehudi (A Jew) Menuhin was nine months old when the family moved to San Francisco and his father started working as a day-laborer in a lumberyard until he proved himself sufficiently well-educated to get a job teaching in a Hebrew school. Moshe Menuhin and his wife liked to go to symphony concerts but there was no one to leave the baby with. One day they decided to take him with them and strangely enough young Yehudi stayed perfectly quiet. Thereafter he attended the concerts regularly, developed a great interest in Louis Persinger who sat in the first violin...
...ready to be marketed. They allowed him only one public appearance a year until he was nine, then two a year until he was twelve. They have had able tutors for him and his sisters Hepzibah & Yaltah. He is good at mathematics and history. He knows five languages: Hebrew, which he spoke before English, French, German, Italian. He has been kept out of doors so that he could learn to swim and play tennis. Even now he goes to bed at 8:30, practices only three hours...
...presently discomforted to learn that the inventor, upon whose formulas the company's production plans depend, has disappeared. He is even more discomforted when the inventor reappears and proves himself to be a lunatic. While manipulating his concern, Powell is harassed by the incompetence of his staff, a fat Hebrew whom he names Col. Ginsberg (George Sidney) and a suave dummy president equipped with frock coat and toupe (Guy Kibbee), and by the justified suspicions of an attractive brunette (Evelyn Brent), whom he is prepared to marry at the end of the picture. High Pressure, well directed by Mervyn LeRoy...
...including Clarence Hungerford Mackay, Otto Hermann Kahn, Theodore Steinway. Patron Lewisohn declared that he "would like to see a more general interest in music . . . more glee clubs and more music in homes." At 80 he is taking vocal lessons, loves to gather his family about him to sing old Hebrew melodies of which he knows by memory an enormous number. He did not sing at the testimonial concept...