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...thousand pounds!" squeaked a Yiddish humorist to start the bidding...
...divided between music and literature. He has "written reams of music since his twelfth year"?is now working on a comic opera in the manner of Gilbert and Sullivan. His degrees of M.A. and Ph.D. are for research in romance philology. He constitutes something of a pundit on Yiddish and Latin-American literatures, having served the Haldeman-Julius Co. ("Little Blue Books"?Girard, Kan.) in that capacity. Last year he published an exhaustive book on Editor H. L. Mencken of the American Mercury, for whom he has great admiration...
Broken Hearts. The proverbial melancholy of the Russian Jew is herewith condensed into a motion picture with Maurice Schwartz principally cast. Mr. Schwartz is the notable leader of the Yiddish Art Theatre in Manhattan. He makes a pretty good movie actor, and has at least had the courage to play a picture which is all sorrow. It is about a Russian youth whose Russian wife came to life after he had remarried in America...
...still showing antagonism to a man of German birth, as though that is the main fault in his writings. You show plainly your narrowed, bigoted, insulting mind, when you write a review such as you did in TIME. What difference does it make whether his parents were German or Yiddish or English or anything. I am not a German, but an American and I still will give due credit to an enemy, if he deserves...
Other questions which have been ranked in the happily smallest percentage of the group, are such as "How many athletic H's did Theodore Roosevelt win while at Harvard?" "Is Yiddish a language or a dialect?" "Where is Walla Walla?" One of the most, unusual requests came as a the result of Professor De Wolfe's return to Belgium after completing his lecture course of the first half year. The person inquiring was under the impression that Professor De Wolfe had returned to see Cardinal Mercier before the death of the Belgian prelate and wished to know...