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...that a comic-strip cannibal chieftain named Gomquotz spoke out, astonishingly, in a mixture of Russian and Yiddish. So tickled were Jewish readers that Cartoonist Harry Hershfield shrewdly abandoned both Gomquotz and his setting?a strip called "Desperate Desmond"?and created a thoroughly Jewish character, Abie Kabibble. The new strip he named "Abie the Agent." For 18 years Abie appeared every day in the Hearstpapers (syndicated by Hearst's King Feature Syndicate), until last fortnight. On the day he disappeared, something new popped up in Bernarr Macfadden's New York Graphic. It was a strip headlined: HERSHFIELD...
...Taxi, Cagney's impudent Irish face is first seen sticking out from behind a steering wheel, spouting Yiddish at a customer. Leader of an insurgent group of cabdrivers who resent the methods of a racketeering corporation, Cagney has ample chance to perform his specialty?a short right-hand punch to the side of the jaw. He threatens his girl (Loretta Young) almost every time he sees her, takes a poke at the clerk from whom they get a marriage license. Right after the marriage, Cagney sets out to avenge a murder committed by the head racketeer of the taxi corporation...
Bloody Laughter is frankly intended for theatregoers with strong stomachs. Its characters wrangle, shout, spit in each other's faces. It is loaded to the muzzle with propaganda. Praise is due Actor Schwartz, usually to be seen in Manhattan's Yiddish Art Theatre, for the articulate vitality with which he plays a part that could easily have been just noisy...
...structure of Jewry and the Jewish Press in the U. S. may be expressed in generations. There is the proud old immigrant group, slowly diminishing, which lives strictly in the tradition of its fathers. Through it the great Yiddish language dailies (Forward, Day, Morning Journal) wield their power. A second generation (roughly preWar) shied away from the piety and solidarity of the oldster. To it the selfconscious, defensive Jewish weeklies address themselves. Many students profess to see now the beginning of a third generation, youthful and intelligent, proud but inquiring, race-conscious but dispassionate. For that group, and for inquisitive...
...Harvard collection at the Widener Room now includes works of Kipling in the following 22 languages: Bohemian, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Servian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrapian, Yiddish...