Word: yiddishe
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...inevitable, was implicit even in the antagonists' physical appearance. Trotsky, haranguing his troops, his outsize, intellectual, goateed head cocked above his flaring military coat, looked like a blend of a broker who has just made a killing on the Paris bourse and an actor from the Yiddish Art Theater. Stalin, with his low forehead, ferally cautious manner, soft but searching eyes (says Trotsky: "The jaundiced glint of his eyes impelled sensitive people to take notice"), might but for his size (5 ft. 5 in.) have been a heavy from the Grand Guignol...
Divorced. By Sylvia Sidney, 37, cinemactress and onetime wife of Publisher Bennett (Try and Stop Me) Cerf: Luther Adler, 42, actor son of famed Yiddish Actor Jacob P. Adler; after seven and a half years of marriage, one child; in Los Angeles...
...Asch, born in Warsaw, brought up in Brooklyn, schooled in Germany, once installed sound equipment in burlesque houses and Yiddish theaters on Manhattan's Lower East Side. His first recording (in 1939) was In the Beginning, his father's Bible stories for children. He released it under the label "Asch Records," then recorded Leadbelly's songs of bad men and worse women...
Next week: Dame May Whitty playing the washboard in Spike Jones's orchestra. After a suitable buildup, the famed stage-&-screen dowager with the impeccable enunciation will address the mike in a slightly Yiddish accent: "You were expecting maybe Mrs. Nussbaum...
...Lublin radio, in a Yiddish broadcast, announced last week that it had been decided to create a camp for Germans "and members of the German ethnical group" in the former Warsaw ghetto. The camp would be "a place of isolation on which everybody would look with disgust, a place to house those who wanted to murder and rape the entire world, a camp for men who have no right to the name of man but should be called beasts...