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mg been able to kill the journalist in
me.
We Wish You All a Happy and Prosperous •
The informal talk with Berlin at
a half-deserted cabaret was indeed so
New Year.
genuinely human and illuminating
for the proper understanding of the
character of the Jewish musical
O r ig i n a l
genius of America that I simply could
not withhold it from the insistent
editor.
Irving Berlin apparently enjoyed
what seemed to him a perfect incog-
nitl, and greeted me with a smile.
After I sat there for a while, with-
! Jut making any attempt at conver-
sation, his smile grew broader, and
i with a sigh of relief he remarked
to me: "What a pleasure to escape
"You Make No Mistake When You Buy a Buick"
the questiOn-asking profession. For
the last few weeks they have been
on my trail, shadowing me like a
band of well-trained detectives, cor-
nering Mrs. Berlin or myself at every
—
opportunity and always shooting . at
us the same stupid questions, having
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their paper—forgetting that our
men in
nerves must be completely gone—
astern end Central Europe work shoulder to shoulder with the
farm
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gruelling pioneering work of road building, swamp clearing, ing, and besides, what could I tell these
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tc. This young woman is laying tiles in one of the many modern houses eager journalists, even if I wanted
of funds
es of Palestinee with the assistanceFund,
to
give
them
material
for
the
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Not hampered or made suspicious
by questioning on my part, the corn-
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thinking aloud:
We Wish All Our Jewish Friends and
"Even allowing for a certain pop-
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Patrons a Happy and Prosperous
I fail to
fat songs have given
A Private and .Confidential Interview With Irving Berlin.
see why my marriage to Ellin has
New Year.
1 unloosed such an avalanche of pub-
By RENEE STRAUS
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licity. Tell me, do you think that a
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Wishing You a Happy and Prosperous
similar case in Europe would have '
(Copyright, 1926, by Seven Arts Feature Syndicate.)
attracted as much public interest?" , ,
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Afraid to spoil in any way the
(Editor's Note:—"I am proud of„Any Jewishness," said the mu-
confessional mood of the persecuted
sical genius of America to the writer of this article during an in-
bridegroom by showing undue inter-
formal interview of unique interest which took place in a Paris
est in the conversation, I replied: "I
cabaret. There has never been a more human, unjournalistic article
do not believe so, but, of course, the
than the one by Mlle. Straus on the Berlin-Mackay test case. This
intermarriage of any Jew in the pub-
talk with Berlin was not intended for publication. That is why'this
lic eye is bound to get Jews and Gen-
sketch is of such unusual interest.)
tiles alike interested in an unusual
It was not a big night at the Caba-American vaudeville circuit, and the way M such an event." Berlin looked
Ch rlot The place was only half- guest, s of course, Americans hunting at me smilingly and nodded assent I
al Parisian atmosphere.
to my comment.
filled, and the orchestra was playing for re
"You must be a Jewess to feel
I was rather bored, until my inter-
in a sleepy, indifferent mood. I was
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that the essential angle of my case
est
was
provoked
by
a
party
of
Amer-
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in a party of Americans, who insisted
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the intermarriage question. In
on visiting a typical Parisian caba- icans at a nearby table, and especially purely American circles it was of
tical. The by a poetic-looking man of about 35.
ret. I t was certain ly yp rican hits His face looked familiar. He re- minor importance. That, at least, has
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been my impression. You see, Ellin
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provided by a negro jazz band, the minded me 'of our dramatist, Henri comes from the most exclusive soci-
years
solo dancers were from a second-rate Bernstein, as he looked some 10
a seen ety, the American aristocracy of
ago. It eeme
sd to me that
this face before. When one of our finance. In Europe you may have
table nodded to the group of which the idea that this group is very proud
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my familiar-looking stranger was a if one of its members boasts of a
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I inquired who he was, and very humble beginning. That's where
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received the answer: "That's Irving you are wrong. Humble beginnings
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Berlin, of course."
CHARLES W. GERBIG, Manager.
CHARLES S. KLEIN
And so, after having solemnly somewhere about the Mayflower
promised that I would not reveal period.
Takes this opportunity to thank
"As I say, I was rather under the
journalistic profession (because Mr.
all his friends and clients for
Berlin had made it a strict rule to impression that my self-madeness
their support and appreciation
avoid newspaper people) I was intro- was a handicap in these circles. My I
of his services in the architec-
duced to the greatest composer of Jewishness, so I thought, was only of
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I write these lines to be published, course, in the Jewish world it is pri-1
Year.
Manufacturers of
I feel pangs of conscience. But in mary. But strange as it may seenil
America
did
not
in
veiw of the fact that the sensation the Jewish world
CHARLES S. KLEIN
about Berlin's marriage has subsided, show any resentment and even friends
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and that I cannot fairly be accused of real orthodox sphere did not make
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sible yellow reporting, I hope that if having married a shickse. Am I not
ever this article comes to his atten- accepted because I am a Jew, or be-
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tion, he will forgive me for not hay- Cause I do not belong to that society?
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"When it comes to love, religion
passes to the background. It never
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struck me that I would be sacrificing
a parcel of my Jewishness by marry-
ing Ellin, and I suppose Ellin felt the
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same away about her religion."
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"But don't you think, Mr. Berlin,
that intermarriage • • ."
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ly: "I know what you mean. Inter-
marriage
is a fundamental step—that
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etc. Well, I am proud of my Jewish-
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serious difficulty. To make a
problem of intermarriage is narrow-
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temperament and character of the two
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people may be considered. But for
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"Now, Ellin (he pointed to his
young bride who was on the dancing
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floor
with one of the party) would
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never even discuss these things. She
says its all bunk, and talk about this
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subject mars her happiness."
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There was nothing to discuss. I
felt that Irving Berlin's outcry was a
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rather
pathetic plea for peace, and
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that what he meant to say to me was,
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should
everybody think it his
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life? Can't a fellow be left alone?"
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I heartily agree with hint. The dis-
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of
intermarriage
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to
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rabbinical students, to biologists, to
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national chauvinists, but surely not to
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young lovers. The happy or unhappy
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couple
might
serve
as
test
cases
for
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the unsolved theoretical question: "Is
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intermarriage a success?"
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pity
he related to me his adventures
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trying to escape news reporters on
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the ships, in hotels, in the street, and
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during the present expansion of Detroit's overseas
Treas. EsanoW inur.liebb
even in the theatres. Laughing like
CHARLES A. KANTER
a boy he told me: "The other (lay,
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commerce.
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Vire-President
Ellin and I were just hopping into a
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taxi, when a young newspaper report-
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with pencil and notebook in hand
favorable connections abroad, is exceptionally well
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stopped me. 'Mr. Berlin,' he said, 'do
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equipped to undertake all banking and exchange
you think that intermarriage in gen-
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Attorney, Clark, Emmons, pr,enIS
eral weakens or strengthens the races
transactions, large or small.
involved?' I answered, 'Try it and
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write a book about it.'"
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The dance music stopped, and Mrs.
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Berlin returned to the table. She is
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immediately sense her nationality, her
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milieu, her well-rooted origin. There
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was undoubtedly a striking contract
between
the Nordic-looking girl and
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President of Pont.
the Semitic, distinguished face of the
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creator of American songs. Both fine
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samples of their race, both intelligent
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splendid test case I thought. Much'
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it
last?
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happily, and were soon lost among
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