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Every U. S. schoolboy knows Rebecca, the beauteous, unhappy Jewess in Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe. Many a little U. S. girl has felt sorry that Rebecca, whose figure "might indeed have compared with the proudest beauties of England," did not in the end marry Wilfred of Ivanhoe who saved her from being burnt as a sorceress. Thrilled by Rebecca's stout defiance of Brian de Bois-Guilbert ("I will not trust thee, Templar!") and his mollification by her fortitude (in threatening to jump off a parapet), most children are unaware, as indeed are many grownups, that...
...tragedy. At first Winston-Salemites had been ready to accept the suicide theory. Young Reynolds was known to have talked of suicide often. Then gossipy newshawks began to arrive from New York and spread stories about Libby Holman, darling of Broadway. It was learned that she was a Jewess, that her father had changed his name from Holzman. She had married a queer backward youth six years her junior out of pity, she said, more than love. Was she after his $15,000,000 share of the Reynolds estate? Manhattan tabloids playing up her stage life and loves got back...
...Author. An English Jewess, Gladys Bronwyn Stern Holdsworth was born in London in 1890, seven years later wrote a play mostly because the billiard room in her home made a good stage. She studied drama, soon decided on a literary career. In 1919 Geoffrey Lisle Holdsworth, English journalist, lying wounded in a hospital, read her Twos and Threes, objected so strongly to its hero that he wrote her a bitter complaint. Replying in her defense Authoress Stern asked him to come and see her; three months later they married. Now she lives in a lofty villa at Diano Marina, Italy...
...most amiable entanglement takes place between Rose Berman. a Jewess, and John Cooper, a gentile sailor boy who loves her on leave and off. Their affair scandalizes the Jewish section, who act as self-appointed sympathizers with Rose's invalid mother. Rose runs off to London, consummates her love for Cooper there. A telegram that her mother is dying brings her back to Magnolia Street in a hurry; but after her mother's death she marries Cooper, goes off to live with him elsewhere...
...Author. Joseph Roth's father was an Austrian, his mother a Russian Jewess. Because of what he now thinks "a ridiculous ambition" to better himself socially, Joseph went to the University of Vienna, left it after two years to go to War. His knowledge of Russian helped him to become an officer, a position he liked so much he decided to stay one. Revolution in Austria made him change his mind: he was glad to pick up odd jobs. Newspaper work for the Frankfurter Zeitung gave him leisure to write books. He has written eight: Job is his first bestseller...