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...Constant Nymph. Currently she is in Escape Me Never, a companion piece to The Constant Nymph which will bring her to Manhattan this spring. When this opened, critics talked of another Duse but some galleryites booed, under the impression that Miss Bergner is a Nazi. She is a Jewess...
...They had heard that she was coming, knew that she was Miss Hall-Miss Helen Hall -the new Head Worker. She had come up from Philadelphia to run the Henry Street Settlement as successor to Lillian Wald who founded it 40 years ago. When Lillian Wald, a well-born Jewess who had been studying nursing and medicine, first visited the squalid East Side and saw a sick woman lying neglected in a stinkhole, she resolved to do something about it. With a friend she moved into the slums. Two years later, in 1895, the late Jacob Schiff was so impressed...
...worked as a baker's boy, bought out the bakery, turned it into a restaurant, opened another, built up his business until he had put "a chain around England." Meanwhile his prostitute died of consumption and Julius learned to like good living. He married a well-born Jewess named Rachel, had affairs with actresses until he was 50. After that his daughter, Gabriel, became his inamorata. When she fell in love, Julius, a lonely old man tasting the futility that in most aphorisms is indelibly associated with using selfish methods to become a millionaire, crept off to Paris...
...Gandhi's romantic disciples thought he would die. A German Jewess, Dr. Margaret Spiegel, having fled to him from Germany and the Nazis, went on a counter fast. She thought he would end his fast because "he cannot let me die." On the third day another disciple told her she was making Gandhi worry, persuaded her to take a glass of milk and two oranges. A Buddhist monk. Tan Yu-shan, began a sympathy "fast unto death...
...dishonorable intentions. Pen, jilted by a naval officer, married Bob out of pique. When the rich aunt died she left them very little, and they had a hard time. Soon Bob realized he should have married null No. 5, his sister-in-law Julia, a placid and motherly Jewess. Pen, after presenting him with Woman No. 6, his daughter Barbara, pined for snappier society and insisted on divorcing...