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The Story of the Brilliant Philip Guedalla, One
Strangely Parallels
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t s like these of osercoats, while the PP
(buckets of the rest of us—black-clad,
law-ridden, lathy bourgeois that we
were—were flapped and Mai z offal.
"31y most recent memory is oddly
similar, f4,1. 1/11“' again it is a MOD- #
try of emphasis and clothes,It mmem-
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whose coat is slightly fuller in the
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enholly than mine.
is "As in clothes, so in all else. Philip ,
mistaboable Ile is the italic in I •
t he page o f ty,w; tho scarlet golf ball
s Om moo. At Rog' y he made his A
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headshi of his louse; th
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Al Balliol li elan' ssuige to the
of honor ill 1118 1 ' 01011 Society aud in
the polititol clubs until, one by sow,
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p ,hart :ii Oxford, taking every honor of crinptuting editors who want a col-
a 'thin his roat•li anti some not exactly ulna every week of witty t upicality
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reach-for , a id know that on him they • can n•l) •
his
within
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furuizeniN• Omer that his r"Iltl•IIIIIIINIT - Iiii•ll's of history tu \1 . 1' Ilf11111.1•11, 11111
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iI , sat blot; to wait patiently for him IVIIS VIlliet (It'd by (0101 its wor
to blow up. tones to be 11 1100k showing l'ittl
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still
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theproduct
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u•f If um billut; and now, at the urge of in existence. While uis • caustic and at once flamboyant and reserved. I FP
, 7 1:/, lit. stood, out as one of the natal humorous critic of things literary and
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ii, ■ , viint and reserved'--the epi-
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OFFICERS
p distinguish,' Of English nain of let- otherwise in the life about him, he I hets seem oddly coupled. Yet they
E. S. STOEPEL, Se, V I •
11. F. STEPHENSON, Pres.
; less, bailed not only in his own land cortain1y has few, if any, peers.
,justifiedby their very oddness,
are ,justified
O. F. TuTTLE, suc.Ic.• ,
CHAS. McINTOSII, lot V.-Prey .
'nit also here in America.
Stood Out Among Fellows.
for ludween Philip's outward and his
From the very beginning of his inward man is much of contradiction. A
Sparklingly Epigrammatic.
DIRECTORS
In the Fel d of the light essay, Cue- school life Guedalla stood out froni
CHARLES McINTOSII
e nhi snti rit'-uetssti, e dgrue's' sinettllyntthiwi''uliKkhe tah iel r DR. JOHN BLAKE
&dist with his brilliant, well-turned his fellows. Overcoming the preju- i lli:tristilo
l'. .1. THOMAS
now'
0W like the Lawyer
ROY HERA 11)
sentences, sparkling with epigrams dices that face
the Jew at Rugby and
"A
"A Fuel Without • F•ult."
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BURNETTE F. sTE1 , 111,:-.
LEO NOLPS
m ~haws
11'd satirical thrusts, has fe
(squabs Oxford, his
s remarkable equipment --
"u
g
F. S. STOEPEL
i s r a fnlII ° \titSIII PsitniLuthlin
° D. D. DUTCHER
among contemporary English writers. literary, forensic, and scholarly—
HAHN
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conspicuous,
aggressive,
wholly
self-
HARVEY
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Endowed with an amazingly versatile ',sought him every possible honor. At
JOS. A. -MARTIN
WILLIAM KRICIIBAU:11
scholarship, he writes wit h sureness Rugby he was scholar, exhibitioner concerned. But beneath the too asser•
the rasping
• and felicity on endless subjects. Ills and head of the school.
At Oxford live dress, the egoism,
.
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, are
capacity seems inexhaustible; article he was exhibitioner, took firsts in vigor of his voice 11111 1,,es
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Nt tollowa ii bole, book fe:1 , iwa book; but honor moderationa and modern his- kindliness and simplicity and an De -
' here quantity has not affected quality. tory, and was president of the Oxford' C 88411181 wistfulness that is the more
The brilliance of his rapier-like Union Society in 1911. In 1913 he engaging for its unlikelihood.
"He will be heard of again and of-
thrusts on all matters of contempor- was admitted to the bar, and was
! aro living becomes more radiant and made legal adviser to the contracts ten' his enemies will detest his egoism
and
decry the flashy brilliance of his
department of the War office and the
i fla• MENEM, original with each new work.
FEZINMENEMiflofl
"Philip Guedalla can be likened to Ministry of Munitions during the style; but his friends will know him
' nothing nu , re aptly than a syphon of war, In addition, he organized and for a man of worth and feeling, and
vichy," one critic wrote of him re- acted as secretary of the Flax Con- will forgive his studied cleverness for
• moldy.
"Press the valve and the trot Board front 1917 to 1920. In its novelty and finish, preferring
sparkling water bubbles forth. You 1920 he stood fur Parliament in the Philip cam fully prepared to many an-
are certain that it will continue to hopelessly Conservative division of other humorist spontaneous."
of I'hilip
Guedalla in the
he
sparkle and bubble until the syphon North Hackney, and was defeated, but •
T
from the
is exhausted— and so it is with Mr. not nearly as badly as his best friends world of letters in Europe and Amer-
ica
has
been
one
of
the
extraordinary
I (laudanum There is the same surety had expected, with the result that his
of continued tilers escense. His books political future is considered partic- literary phenomena of the past decade.
And extraordinary in another way,
open with an epigram and progress utarly bright.
through an unremitting display of
A man of so many diverse, yet too; fur while the younger Jewish
literary fireworks ti 1111 epigrammatic equally brilliant talents, Guedalla writers of note in America have been
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close." The syphon of vichy, how- seems to center his ambitions on pol- content to be Jewish merely on those
1 ever, is sum exhausted. Philip Gue- itics rather than on literature or law, rare occasions when they have dis-
Our organization is national. We are fully equip-
dallit's writings are too rich and mul- And because of his great qualities of covered a particular Jewish theme
ped through years of experience and service to ren-
ti-colored, too full of life, to be coin- perseverance, clear-headedn•ss and I which suits their talents and pleases
pared to a mineral water. self-control, his friends believe that if the editors, Guedalle, on the other
der to you the best possible moving facilities. Our
The gifted pen of this unusual he gees in for a political career, hand, has boldly entered into Jewish
members are careful of your property and courteous.
young man has touched upon the using law and literature at present " activities and has, thus far, except
most various subitucts. He has writ- as stepping stones for his later ad- : for the few times when he has sub-
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ten perhaps 10 books, (they have been vancement in public life, he will ', jected Disraeli and G. K. Chesterton
coming out so fast of late, since Gut:- achieve whatever ambitions he may to his characteristic acid treatment,
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left Jewish themes to his more timid
dalla has taken up the modern prac- have.
tire of gathering up his magazine and
literary brethren.
Not Unlike Disraeli.
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A bronze memorial tablet to Dr.,
fer a hunory 1,Y:dishes, that this ten been made on the striking simi-
weder c iirisse he hasn't been ruble larities thus far evident in the lives ' Jo seph Ransohotf, nationally known ;
to keep up with them); they range of Guedalla and the Jest who rose to Cif winnati surgeon who died in 1921,1
from a look of parodies to volumes. the foremost position in the British ha s heen placed in the entrance hall l
of verse, essays, and his truly mono- Empire—Benjamin Disraeli. Who of the Jewish Hospital of Cincinnati.
mental work, "The Second Empire,
can venture to predict how far this Be low a profile likeness of the doctor
which plac«i
• first rank of young Jew, whose life, step by step, is written his name and the follow-
him in the
inscription: "t'ompassion and I
historians. But (Medulla is that rare so amazingly parallels thus far the in
creature soling historians —a wit.
career of the young Disraeli, will ad- .min derstanding were his and a tleep I
e for all humanity—in the wards
Avoided Jewish Question,
ounce in the political affairs of his' hie
Strange to say, one subject he country? Certainly in a land where, 01 this hospital where he gave of
itself so unsparingly the spirit of
seems to have mysteriously avoided— i unlike the united States, there is 110 hi,
a subieet which is sadly in need of limit to the heights to which a Jew hi is service shall live."

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his penetrating talents and on which can ascend, where it Jewish sailor boy
i two (of his brilliant contemporaries, has risen to tie Viceroy of India,
I have spilled oceans 14 ill-directed ink. second only to the king in rank—•ho ''; "
, • can say what the years have in store "
G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Benue
h"e• • see" fit to "lye the Jewishfirm' for Philip Guedalla, whose youth has
lent. Would it not be interesting to been ushered in so auspiciously?
sty Philip Guedalla turn for a time Commenting on Guedalla's political
firm
e Napoleon III, the Victorians, lit- future and his relationship to the life
crature, law and politics, to his 1/W,,11 o f t h e pa, ,,g Disraeli, Michael Sad-
', PI , "Pt' defend them f r"i" the we"' her, one of his close friends, writes:
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; thou? Cheitort ,n versus Guedalla— the young Disraeli? The latter, when
what a duel it would make. first he forced himself upon the con-
News dispatches recently announced sciousness of London, had brilliance,
that Philip"'le halo was elected Ares- firm ambiticn, and a capacity for en-
hIctit of the English Zionist Fedora- during enmity or insult with calm
, Gen. So it is and l•eause of indi.f- reserve. He made his name by writ-
' bouque t . to Jewish p,•obleins that he ing books and articles that were no
!has thus far ignored Je:vish themes less pungent for their rhetoric, no,
in his vast literary tuut put. He has less exciting to the reader for their
I for 11181 1 y y ors been an :take Zionist insolence. lit , stood for Parliament
i ; in England. In fact, he grew up a and failed-snot once, but several 1
I Zictikt, for his father, the late David times; and when at last success was •
Guedalla, was dine of the Piidiee r his, he nuisance(' steadily in the face
' Zionists of England. And leadership . o f prejudice, trickery and hatred to'
sf the English Zionist organization the highest place the British Empire
came t , (Medulla only after he had had to offer.
I rendered valiant service in the Zion-
Of Devout Jewish Family.
ist ranks. His pen may have been
"I ant not prophesying far Philip
A bril- • the
;silent, but his voice, near.
rank of autocrat of Britain; rat h-
• liant and gifted twat ir, who won his er ant I seeking to indicatel/ow like
spurs in the exacting deflates a (fx- , in some ways are his beginnings to
; ford, Guedalla has lung been -ranked
those of his great co-religionist. Like
,• as one of the leading Zionist speak- Disraeli, he sheaths great sensitive-
' ors in England. news in apparent indifference to at-
I A man of many talents, Guedalla,
tack; like Disraeli, he is rococo, with
because of his industry and his con— a racial tendency to overload alike his
scientious application to any subject, style of writing, speech, f0111 life; like
: large cr small, that he decides to min- • these of Disraeli, his books infuriate
I dertake, is master of them all. 11ti is ; an
alien public but are widely read
; a lawyer, and a most excellent one.
It can at le th
ast
As a politician he was considered one and widely spoken of. rl
be said that in their early y phases
e
'if the bright hopes of the Liberal
careers are oddly similar."
!party, and it would not tie surprising
Yet in one respect the young I/is-
; if he emerges as one of the future
raeli and
Guedalla
differ widely. The
,
,
lenders of the Labor party. In lour ,
outer s early poetical efforts were of
I ;i
;l , • nalism, as one writer friend of
a high order. The young Disraeli, it
,
seems, wit also it poet, but when he
, ens te the lyre, a tragedy in verse,
"('ount Ala roes,' was the rimult —
which, happily for the reputation of
' the great Beaconsfield, is fairly well
unknown today. But quite naturally
(Medulla himself makes this extra-
ordinal y tragedy the subject of one
of his biting humorous essays, in
"Masters and Men," (Putnam's),
• laNded "31r. Disraeli. Poet," wherein
he mentions that "Count Alarms" ran
for five weeks, in !Snit, "with the
"Buy Direct From Factory"
• loudest demonstrations of applause
from delighted audiences," and ob-
serves, "one feels that sometimes we
fluty love our Prime Ministers too
won." "The spirit of blank verse so
dominates the drama," Guedalla cruel-
Manuacturms of
ly points out, "that its last broken
line is finished for him by the stage'
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