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...sharp Swedish cartoon last fortnight flayed the Jewish scientist's plight in Nazi-land. The cartoon showed two browbeaten Germans eyeing a burly lout in the Nazi uniform who was striding through a university hall. First citizen: "What is the policeman doing here?" Second citizen: "Sh, sh. That is the man selected to succeed Einstein...
...Scripps-Howard News, divorced wife of Lumberman Hugh Fenwick. Los Angeles looks to Mrs. Juana Neal Levy of the Times for social guidance. Hearst's Examiner has "Cholly Angelo" (Mrs. Jean Loughborough) and gives prominent bylines to Princess Marie de Bourbon, cousin of Spain's Alfonso. Sh" tells most of her information to Mrs. Loughborough who ghost-writes it for her. In the Examiner the cinema colony has its own society department, run by Reine Davies (real name: Douras), sister of Film Actress Marion Davies. Headline-of-the-Week In the New York Times...
...Rabbi Harry Wolf, who had come from St. Louis to solicit funds for the Poor Orphans Home of Jerusalem. Day after Merchant Bormaster's death, Rabbi Wolf gave this up and began the prayers. Daily, for nearly seven months, Rabbi Wolf would intone: ". . . Deevroh Be'olmoh Rabbo Sh'mai Veyiskadash Yisgadal" (Magnified and sanctified be His Great Name in the world he created . . . ). After that the Bormaster family told Rabbi Wolf they could finish out the eleven months of Kaddish themselves. Fortnight ago, charging he had been promised "reasonable compensation" for his services, Rabbi Wolf brought suit...
Some Gibbonish of the first day: "You know this columning business is SH-S-H! It's a racket. The boys all have their territory charted out, with grim red lines marking the boundaries ? 'OH, YOU TAKE THE HIGH BROW AND I'LL TAKE THE LOW BROW'? That's the way the system works ? and as the dirt comes to me, an amateur starter is about as welcome as a stray Hip Sing in Mott Street. . . . Discovery that K. K. K. stood for 'Ku Klux Kon' has reduced the membership in the Klan from...
Last week this disciple set foot in Manhattan. Clad in a robe of orange silk he stepped softly down America's gangplank in small felt slippers. His eyes behind heavy spectacles were incurious. He is Tai Hsu (pronounced Ty Shü), onetime abbot of the Pai-Yun-Se Temple near Canton, and conceded China's foremost Buddhist...