THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
16
Irving Berlin and Charley Chaplin
Two Jews Who Have Made a Fortune Amusing the
American Public
The brief story of two Jews at
present ill the public eye, who cater
to the amusement of the people,
one as a writer of popular songs
:and the other as an entertainer-
•Irving Berlin and Charley Chaplin.
There is scarcely any doubt but that
the former is accumulating more
wealth than (lid Guiseppi Verdi and
Richard Wagner combined, and
that the latter's earning capacity in
one year is greater than that of Ed-
win Booth, Edwin Forrest, Ma-
cready and all the other compara-
tively recent Shakespearean actors
combined in the course of their en-
tire lives.
It also may be added incidentally
that Goldberg, the newspaper car-
toonist, also a Jew, rakes in a
greater fortune every year than did
Michael Angelo and all the other
old masters rolled in one from the
day of their recognition as artists
until they passed to the great be-
yond.
This is not a speculative, philo-
sophical argument, but merely a
statement of hard, cold facts.
Irving Berlin is probably the most
successful writer of popular songs
in the country. Berlin has never
written a grand opera or a senti-
mental song about somebody's grave
where the lilies grow, or about some
rippling stream in the sunny south,
but he has written ragtime and sim-
ilar songs that netted him a fortune,
and he goes about it in a thorough-
ly businesslike manner. Some of
these went through editions of a
million copies, and as a matter of
fact Berlin himself claims a song
does not pay and cannot be called
a real hit until at least 500,000
copies have been sold. Berlin says
that when his "Alexander's Rag-
time Band" was a big hit the re-
port was started among publishers
that he paid a negro $10 for the
manuscript and published it under
his own name. "I told them," Ber-
lin said, in telling the story, "if they
could produce the negro and lie had
another hit like Alexander in his
system I would choke it out of him
and give him $20,000 in the bar-
gain."
It doesn't seem possible, does it,
that Berlin realized many, many
times over more for his Alexander's
Ragtime Band" than did Verdi for
his El Trovatore."
Everybody knows Chaplin, his
moving picture antics, his feet and
his mustache and everybody has
read of his recent half a million per
annum contract. He is English by
birth and they say that his father's
name was Caplan.
Neither is it necessary to expati-
ate about Goldberg's cartoons and
their accompanying printed expla-
nations, which would do credit to
the best huniorous writer.
The reason ? There doesn't seem
to be any except that they caught
the public taste at the psychological
moment.
Or did they create a public taste ?
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Mr. David Hirsch, a well known
business man of Louisville, Ky., and
prominent in civic affairs, has re-
cently been re-elected a member of
the Louisville Board of Trade. Mr.
Hirsch has also been made a direc-
tor of the Louisville Publicity and
Convention League.
Jewish Life in German Poland.
Henry P. Runkel, a representa-
tive of the American Red Cross,
who has just returned from his sec-
ond visit in Poland, declares that
while economically the condition of
the Jews in the occupied provinces
is very bad, politically the Jews fare
very well under the German regime.
The Russians had practically deso-
lated the provinces before their re-
treat. In Lublin alone, 20,00() Jews
are without homes and 5,000 Jew-
esses are nervous wrecks from the
maltreatment to which they were
subjected by the Russian soldiery.
The bread line every day in Lublin
extends over several streets, and
consists mainly of poor, emaciated
women and children. On the other
hand, the Germans have practically
liberated the two and a half mil-
lions of Jews in the province. Je•-___
ish children are now allowed to ob-
tain an education. Jews are al-
lowed to rise to high offices in the
civil government. He related that
the Germans found hundreds of
prisoners tied hand and foot, ' in
some of the underground prisons of
Warsaw, who have been in the
same condition for weeks,
The Woman's Club, of Sinai
Temple, Chicago, Ill., surprised
their rabbi, Rev. Emil G. Hirsch,
last Sunday morning. They sent
a $5,000 automobile to his resi-
dence, and the chauffeur was in-
structed to inform Dr. Hirsch that
the car was his.
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