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trusting my bootleg liquor with a
bunch like this who ain't used to it; I
much—I'm
bad I
preserve, transmit and enrich the
and don't
get in t
nd financial support. The challenge
enough with the churches already with
a the coneunit y will then be direct. heritage of several thousand years, so
to
Get Your Money's Worth
m
that
it
will
again
flourish,
this
time
my
'Turkish
Bath'
without
leaving
all
nswer must be clear.
upon the soil of America. We have
The a
my extras saying I made ens' drunk.
By ELMA EHRLICH LEVINGER
All eyes are turned to America. It suffered through a long night--a new
And he says he knows where you can
At
the great vital center of
light is breaking forth.
get those little books we used to read
(Copyright, 1926, by Elma Ehrlich Levinger.)
has become
lfe outside of l'alestine. Let
the Seder out of. And a chaxan to
-----
Jewish e said that we have fallen prey "Watchman, what of the night?
the tired man visioned a dingy little
l
lend with the singing."
Watchman, what of the night?"
it Mt
And what for do I pay you for?" ,
across the sea, a long table cov.
to
the materialistic philosophy of life
"But who's coming to your Seder?"
The Watchman said:
shriekd
Adolph Wetstein, czar of the
e Film
_that we are become merely geld-
Company, to Morris Abel- Fred with a white cloth, an oeld man gasped the somewhat startled Abel-
The morning cometh, and also the
World
man, his chief lieutenant. Ile was a dressed in a white robe, a skullcap on
s eekers• is the glorious opportunity to
night,
queaky voice, his head. The old man looked strange
"All them extras we got in our
,
If ye will inquire, inquire ye,
Our
little bald man with a s
ep faith with Jewish history and so
ke
but in his rage he appeared rather ter- to him for a minute; with a start pawnshop picture if they ain't got
L communal life that we may Return, Come."
rible
to
the
trembling
Mr.
Abelman.
Adolph
realized
that
it
was
his
father.
homes
of their own. And if they get
order L jr
And, stranger still, that little boy in fresh and kick, offer tee pay 'cm regu-
"A hunch of loafers you hire for me,
and the sun's shining like I paid it a the outlandish clothes, piping some lar rates, but they've got to come. And
salary, and now you say they're going long forgotten questions above the each man can tiring a girl, and each
toff the lot. Tell 'em they're all fired; pages of a yellow book. "My God," girl a fellow, but no goyim. I'm go-
hear me, they're fired, and the next murmured the long de-Judaized - ing to give a regular Jewish party
time you pick me a lot of tramps who Adolph, and he did not speak profane it for once."
"You don't mean to say you're cool-
quit me cold, you can get fired with ly for once; "my God, did I ever s
'e at a Seder?"
ing?"
m."
He turned to the waiting Mailman,
"I one; and you are too if you know
"But they're the best Jews I could his eyes snapping with energy. "Tell
what's go: el for you
Every Tuesday at
get in Cal ifornia," pro tested AIR'IMRR.
"But we're both invited . . ." Abel-
"I've run around till I was ready to all of 'ern that's lucky enough to got
drop on my face just tee get you the a home to go to, they can stay off as man'e eyes wandered to the orchid in
long as they need to," he commanded the silver vase. The pretty star whom
best types for 'The Rose of the Pawn- I
shops: And now just when we're "And you could have reminded nee it gossip had selectee' for Wetstein's sec-
ready to shoot the best scenes, when was Pesach before; I got enough ond wife was giving a week-end party.
"Call un we got another elate," com-
her father, who's a rabbi with a long i worry on my mind with that censor
heard, is going to marry her to the I cutting out one out of every three manded Wetstein. Perhaps he had
been
in the theatrical game see lone it
wrong man, and her right lover es- L scenes in 'Love in a Turkish Bath'
to he theatric
capes from Ellis Island iust in timerwithout looking up of .lowish dates WAS hard for him not
even
when he felt deeply. Ile took
to prevent him, now with everybody I every month. So you tell the extras
right f-r the wedding in the shawls that are Jewish to go bole to their the orchid from the silver vase and
-0400-000000,00
and wigs and beards, you want me to' Seders. And I ain't going to take it threw- it into the waste basket. "I 0-000-0000-00000
out of their pay, neither."
don't like them strong smelling flow-
fire 'ens. I'll never get a bunch of I
ers,"
he
said
with
meaning,
"so,
Mail-
Left alone, he tried to busy himself
has like that together again if I live '
to he a thousand," he ended in breath-' with the papers that flooded his glass- man, the next time one of 'ens comes
'topped desk, a desk bare of ornament to my office--and one will come to-
less indignation.
"But why do they want to quit nee save a single orchid in a silver vase morrow—tell the office boy to give 'ens
to the telephone girl. I ain't got time
for?" demanded Adolph Wetstein.' an d a picture of a stout matron in a
frame; incongruities these or- for ouch stuff."
"Ain't I paying 'em right, ain't I hir- silver
Abelman made a mental note of the
naments. The lady in the frame was
lunches,
ing a kosher cook for their
"mamma," who had gone to her re- fact. "And where are you going to
and letting the women bring their ,
kids along even when we don't need ward when Adolph was still struggl- give your Seder?" he demanded.
Wetstein considered. "I know," he
ins tee gain a foothold on the ladder
'em to make it all look natural? Why ' d
do they say they want to quit on us which led to his present throne in the brought out triumphantly. "We got
the
sets up yet, ain't we, for the kit-
flint world; the orchid was from a lady
today?'
"They've got to go home and get , well known to picture fans the world chen in 'Rose of the Pawnshop'? You
iust
fix up your Seder there. And tell
a
lady,
so
the
gossips
about
ready for Seder," explained Abelman. over,
hinted, raised from the role all the extras you invite to wear the
"Seder?" Adolph pricked up his ears', Hollywood
under the derby so shabby that only I of an extra to a star by Adolph Wet- clothes they do on location; no dress-
n , whose near-sighted eyes were ing up, mind you. Just like they do in
a millionaire could afford to wear it I ste i
"Seder?" I not entirely blind to her many charms. the wedding scene in the picture; but
day she sent him an orchid; they don't need is mind about make-
very
I
E
"I guess one Jew don't need to tell
another Jew what a Seder is," grinnedjevery day he put it in the silver vase up, except a few beards. And. Ahel-
on his glass-topped desk; every day, man, you have this old fellow take you
the henchman.
to the second-hand store where he
The czar of the World Film Com- often subconsciously, he told the n
must have picked on his coot, and get
pany leaned back in his tapestried ture of "mamma" that he wouldn't
you one just like it; and don't let it
armchair; his blinking, near-sighted marry the lady to whom he had so
often
been
reported
engaged
until
fit too well."
eyes no longer saw the office fitted so
This was vas much for Abelman,
their
one
and
only
daughter,
Muriel,
exotically and at the same time so
who prided himself on being one of
luxuriously that it was a cross be- was safely and happily married. Ile
tween a medieval cathedral and the always thought of Muriel with a stab the snappiest little dressers in Holly-
bedroom of a reigning beauty of e of self-reproach; during the first few d wood.
"What are you going to wear?" he
time of one of the frivolous Louis's of years he had left t h e c h i
now an over-dressed, over-con- demanded.
r ranee There were early Italian help;
Clog.. W. Bennett, Vice l'reg. end glen. Mgr.
"It's all right for me to lee in full
&lent
miss
of
twenty,
she
t
oug
masters--even a bid-eyed Madonna—
Clifford at Bagley
and bits of bronze and an almost him only as a check book, giving him dress," answered Adolph Wetstein
easily,
"'cause I'm giving the party.
none
of
her
confidence,
little
of
her
priceless rug hung between the win-
BlIANCIUSt
And in my pictures the public don't
dows; a marvelous room over which love. "A fine family I got after all
recognize
me if I ain't in full dress
my
hard
working,'
he
thought
bitter-
many a lady reporter had sobbed as
with a carnation in my button hole."
Ilarntrarncli
she described its glories in some movie ly
Boulevard
"Pictures!
You ain't going to have
u707 Joberh Camp.
bute
i
tr
a
But why couldn't he work today?
magazine, a room which was
General Moon Bldg.
most he keep thinking of those pictures taken of your Seder?"
to the taste of a certain interior dec.
"Sure
thing!
You just stop on your
orator from the East. But today in- I Ifanatical
Why
Jews who insisted on going
way out and send somebody from the
Vg'vanclotte— 76 North Biddle Ave.
stead of the alien beauty about him, ' home to make Seder . . . as though
publicity department in here. We've
— I such back-number Judaism weren't
got to get some grand flashlights of
,out of place in America. Adolph had
the Seder table with us all around it
never denied his Judaism—he had
simply forgotten it; lately he was and this old fellow leading the serv-
And pick up a kid at the ornhan
very glad that he had grown "Ameri- ice s.
asylum for the 'Four Questions.
' can" and modern enough to make him-
kid or an animal makes it look more
, self—along with his millions—accep-
tong. We'll get pictures in every
table to the pretty film star whose apprr
newspaper in the country and it ought
i ancestry, said her press agent, could
to go over big. Jehudim will like it
I be traced back to certain solemn no-
t tables arriving in the "Mayflower." and it don't hurt the goyim neither to
know I'm religious and ain't ashamed
! As for intermarriage . . . he had of it. And it's going to be' grand ad-
stricken the word from his vocabu-
vance publicity for 'Rose of the
lary; in America a Jew •aa lust like
anybody else. . . . And yet today he Pawnshop'."
But when the little, bald-headed
couldn't keep his mind on his papers,
man sat alone before his desk he was
, or even on the lady whose orchid filled
not thinking of publicity; maybe his
I the silver vase before him; he kept
mind turned again to that dingy little
seeing instead a picture of a dingy
room where he had once recited the
little room and a boy he hardly recog-
nized as himself any more reciting the "Four Questions"; or that first Seder
he and "mamma" had known in their
four questions.
East Side tenement; or Muriel, smart,
Abelman stood before him again greedy, discontented in her fashion-
grinning nervously, as though about able finishing school. And then he
to make a request. "Maybe he'll know turned to the picture of the fat mat-
'he's Jewish again and won't run off ron in its silver frame. "I wish you
with some shicksa for over the Pe-
coming to our grand Seder, mam-
' =rich," thought Wetstein. But this was
ma," he said.
Cole the henchman's petition was not
•
for himself.
PROSPERITY IN PALESTINE
"I Veld all of 'ens to go home," he
BRANCH OFFICES:
' announced. "But would you believe
All indications point to the fact that
I it. there's about thirty drifters who the crop this year will be a splendid —
live in boarding h• uses and ain't got one all over Palestine. The harvest' —
a place to go for Seder. And one of in Northern l'alestine will lee particu-
'em . . .' he Inked a little sheep- larly rich, it is stated.
ish. "say. but he makes me think of
my father May shalom, honest to God,
he does. A long beard and a little
black cap and everything."
"Well?" impatiently.
"Ile's out in the hall now, crying
like a baby. He says this year his
wife's dead, and their two children
ditched him or something, and he's
peddling and living In a furnished
room with goyim. I offered him five
dollars to go and have a celebration by
himself, and, would you believe it, he
wouldn't take it?" The fact of any-
body refusing money in Hollywoeed
seemed too much for Abelman: he
shook his curly, black head, speechless
over the miracle.
"Bring him in," ordered the czar.
Looking over the bent figure in the
shabby coat, nodding with artistic
pleasure over the wild beard and tra-
I • eyes, Wetstein, much to his an-
I g c i
' noyance, began to share his beaten-
• di.
', ant's emotion. They had plenty of
, shabby old men like this around the
'lot every time they put on a Jewish
I picture; but today the pedlar who was
Ito have no Passover seemed to have
. stepped out of Adolph's dream picture
of his own boyhood Seder. His voice
I was unusually gentle as he asked:
"Ain't it true, you've got no home for

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Passover?"
The old man answered in a flood of
Yiddish, a flood that startled but did
not dismay Adolph Wetstein. It was
a long time since he had spoken the
language of his boyhood; but he had
spoken it at his father's Seder table,
. he had made love to "mamma" in that
I despised tongue, when they had come
over in the steerage together. But it
had all seemed so long ago!
"Tell me all about it," he answered
the old man in the same language,
"but go slow; I ain't so up in it any
more.''. And, seeing the look in the
czar's eyes. Abelman beat a hasty
I retreat to the hall. but stood at the
door ready to be called back when his
chief pushed the button.
The summons came in exactly fif-
teen minutes. The old pedlar, com-
fortably established in one of the
tapestried chairs, sat smil'ng through
I his tangled beard. Adolph Wetstein
stood behind his desk, his eyes snap-
I ping with excitement.
"We got to move quick," he an-
nounced. "Mr. Fiengold here says he
can read the Jewish - for the Seder;
you jump right away in my machine
and take him down to the market and
him all the Muff we need, and
don't spare no expense. He says we

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can't use the dishes they use for lunch
in this picture; I should worry—get
can get cheap
some more but they you
if we don't need to use they only for
Seder. Go to the rabbi he knows and
get a certificate for some wine; I ain't

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