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THEDLTROITJEWISII ORONIGUE

Hughes Studios
Secure Famous
Art Collection

BUILDERS of DETROIT —

ALBERT KAHN

Two years ago a wealthy menu- 1
By LAWRENCE LIPTON
(adorer of Massachusetts passed
•
away
without having made a will.
Detroit
Athletic
Club,
the
Detroit
huge
structure
is
still
all
but
on
Albert Kahn was born in Ithuu-
nen, Westphalia, Germany, on News building, the Detroit Free surpassed in size and is famous the During the latter part of his life,
his
great
ambition had been to leave
March 21, 1869. He was educated l'ress building and the First Na- world over. Visitors to Detroi
never fail to see the General Mo to his home town a memorial art
in the German schools and came to
tional
building.
museum.
For many years he had
tors building which is notable no
the United States in 1881. In 1896
Perhaps the best known building only for its impressive height am bought bronzes and paintings un-
he married Ernestine Krolik of De-
til
he
had
one
of the largest collec-
size but also for the beauty of its
troit and has continued to reside in
tions in the country. But death
interior detail.
this city ever since.
The Detroit Athletic Club, too, came before he could build a gallery
Albert Kahn is a builder of De-
is one of the show places of De- suitable for housing these master.
troit in a literal sense. Many of
troit.
To this building Mr. Kahn pieces.
the city's principal landmarks and
The heirs of this vast estate de-
gave the full measure of his artis-
show places, office buildings, manu-
tic
genius.
It is ranged by all archi- cided to place the collection on the
facturing plants, public buildings
tectural critics as among the three market. Joseph It. Cleverdon, while
and private homes are of his handi-
or four finest club-houses in the on a trip through the East repre-
work.
senting J. W. Hughes, fine art pub-
United Staten.
The American Architect Scholar-
Mr. Kahn was appointed the of- lisher of this city, obtained the
ship for study abroad was awarded
ficial architect of the Aircraft right to dispose of the entire col-
to Mr. Kahn in 1890. Since 1901 he
Construction Division of the Signal lection, with the exception of the
has practiced his art in Detroit..
bronzes and a few of the paintings
Corps in 1917.
Among the principal buildings
Among the positions of respon- which had already been either sold
designed by Mr. Kahn are the Bur-
sibility and honor that have been or given to the town library.
roughs Adding Machine Company
How well the collection was se-
conferred upon Mr. Kahn in recog-
plant, the Packard Motor Car
nition of his talents as an architect lected is shown by the canvasses
plant, the Hudson plant, the Chal-
are memberships in some of the offered for sale at the new and
mers, the Lozier and the Ford Mo-
most important architectural and beautiful Hughes studios in the
tor plants.
art societies in America. Ile is a Maccabees Building. Among them
These industrial buildings are
fellow of the American Institute are representative works of George
considered models of their kind and
Bogert, George M. Bruestle,
of Architects and a member of the
visitors from all parts of the world
Fine Arts Society, the Arts and William M. Chase, Kenyon Cox, E.
are struck by their adaptability to
Crafts Society and the Scarab Club . Loyal Field, Winslow Homer and
the industries they are modeled to
Ile is also a member of the Detroit Thomas Moran.
serve, as well ea by the architec-
These paintings are offered at
Arts Commission and the National
tural beauty of their exteriors.
Building Code Committee of the such low prices that it should be
Among the well-known buildings
but a short time before the entire
Department of Commerce.
that Mr. Kahn has designed are the
His social clubs are the Phoenix collection is sold.
the Bloomfield Hills Country Club,
the Detroit Golf Club and the De-
Since you know everything, and
troit Yacht Club.
I know nothing, tell me what
ANNOUNCEMENT
dreamed this morning.

THE IMPARTIAL JUDGE

He Makes the Country Laugh

Some Facts On Milt Gross.

By ROBERT STONE

(Within the last two years, the name of Milt Gross has
become famous throughout the entire land. Not only has he
started a new method of cartooning, but he has the greater
honor of inventing a new language. There are few people
who have not laughed at the conversation of the wind-shaft
family, the Feitelbaums, who discuss life and people with
that inimitable dialect known as "lengwidge." This new dia-
lect which Gross has concocted is in reality but a verbatim
report of the conversation of a certain manner of Jews.
His reports of these conversations are never malicious; they
are designed to bring out the humor, the pathos, and even
the wisdom of these people. In the following sketch, Mr.
Stone gives a few glimpses of the creator of the Feitel-
baums.—The Editor.)

The wise rabbi who sat as judge
in the Jewish community of a town
in Poland was too kind-hearted to
decide between two litigants when-
ever a case came up before him.
After listening to one of the par-
ties he would invariably say, "Yes,
you are right." But he would give
the same answer following the re-
cital of the second party's tale. In
consequence the wise but tender-
hearted rabbj never received any
fee from the litigants who left
without securing a verdict.
The wife of the rabbi, observing
the situation and seeing that there
was no income, one day could con-
trol her wrath no longer and burst
forth with a tirade against her
venerable husband's lack of judg-
ment.
After listening to his wife's in-
dignant harangue, with the same
patience he always displayed to his
litigants, he carefully stroked his
long beard and calmly replied:
"My wife, you, too, are right!"

Specht and Artists
Leave For Vacation

Denying rumors that they w,
going to Berlin to fulfill a 11,s
months' engagement in the C...
man capital, l'aul Specht and i..
artists are planning a
send-off Saturday night on tic
casion of their two hundred s
ninety-eighth consecutive perf,,,
ance at the Regent, just 1,,
they begin a well-earned
weeks' vacation. Specht and s s
internationally famous Artists s
return to the Regent stage on .
tember 4.
During their absence from tl...
Regent, Specht and his boys will s
to New York to make new record
and to secure new stage till, t.
During the vacation period, the .
gent will offer a policy of live s
of vaudeville and the best in pi s s._
plays.
Marion Davies holds the srr.,
this week in the title role of "T ■ H
the Toiler," her newest com e dy
hicle, in which she is support,,! s
Matt Moore as the long-soil, r ,
Mac; George K. Arthur as the :s.f
sufficient Whipple, and Goo
Fawcett, Bert Roach, Gertrude
Short and others.
Upon the stage is presenbs1
featured bill of live vaudeville a. t..

All the new questions books be re-written—the change perhaps
have one question about Milt necessitating a change in an entire
Gross. And the appropriate answer chapter of stanza.
is: "bunt esk." A thorough cen-
Those who have the habit of
sus of the country would reveal comparing photographs declare
that a general portion of the peo- that Milt Gross and Charlie Chap-
ple of the United States have lin look almost enough alike to be
heard of Milt Gross, and that at taken for brothers. Both aim after
Rabbi Simeon ben Yohal said:
least nine out of 10 Jews know of the same type of bonier. Asked
his work. Milt Gross has pub- what he thought of the great "It once happened that they found
lished several books, but his fame comedian of the screen, whom he 300 kurs of wheat that the ants
had gathered in summer for the
came with his newspaper drawings is said to resemble, Gross said:
and stories.
"Charlie Chaplin—there is a winter." (lb.)
Gross started his newspaper real artist. He has worked and
work back in 1912, with the New worked hid to arrive at the point
York American, then with the New he has, and to me the result is
York Journal and the New York amazing. Charlie is a man whose
Tribune. In 1922, he joined the life and sincerity of art anyone
staff of the New York World, with could choose for an ideal."
Gross can be serious—very seri-
which he is now connected. His
rise to fame is a story which harks ous, and he was when speaking of
(Formerly with
those
whom he particularly ad-
back approximately three years,
and this is the way the record runs, mires, but when the conversation
Peoples State Bank.)
how Milt Gross made a virtue out turned to recreation, Milt smiled
Has been appointed Manager
of a necessity, and became cele- broadly.
"I certianly have a devil of a
brated over night by an accident.
of the
time
trying
to
recreate.
In
the
The whole trouble was that
Hastings-Frederick Branch
when the feature page of the New first place, I'm the laziest individ-
CEMETERY
DESECRATED
Dexter Kosher
ual
in
the
world.
When
I
start
to
ALBERT KAHN
York World was made up, Milt
of the
It is an exceptional greatness to Gross was given a space bounded recreate all I do is sit around and
Delicatessen
BERLIN—(J. T. A.)—Seventy-
worry about the work I should be
that Mr. Kahn designed is the Gen -
on
the
top
by
one
column
and
on
utilize
wise
men.
Full Line of Dairy Products.
eral Motors building which, when one tombstones were damaged in
the side by eight inches. Within doing. Then when a dead-line
10210 DEXTER BLVD.
stares me in the face I toss every-
it was completed, possessed the the Jewish cemetery in Cologne.
You cannot catch trout with dry that area was to be placed a car- thing out of the way and do some
Near Glynn Court.
greatest amount of door space o Those responsible for the outrage
toon—or rather, a series of car-
breeches.
any building in the world. This I have nut been apprehended.
toons. Possibilities were limited. more work. Then when the work
22 Convenient Branches in Detroit.
Mental gymnastics refused to mus- is finished I turn to recreation—
ter imaginative images of a series and worry sonic more about what
By virtue of his long banking experience, Mr. Prujansky is
hasn't
been
done."
of cartoons. So Milt Gross took
able to give excellent service to his friends, especially in the
Which means, in other words,
the problem to Louis Weitzenkorn,
natter of forwarding money to all foreign countries.
managing editor, who viewed the that Milt Gross, though he makes
angular impossibility for cartoon- the whole country laugh, utilizes
ing and said: "Why don't you fill every bit of energy he has in do-
up your space with copy instead of ing so. It is the law of compensa-
tion. Milt Gross gets all tired out,
a cartoon?"
furnishes the opportunity for
That's where it started. Two and
to restore their energy.
days later the Yifnifs, the Feitel- others
Gross insists that he is lazy. But
baums, Looy, Isidore & Co., were it is a very dangerous statement
born and the wind-shaft dialect as to make as for as an interviewer
written by Milt Gross has become is concerned. Yes, he'll give you
known throughout the country— an interview. "But really I can't
all within the space of two years. see , you for several days. You see,
Gross, now in his thirty-second I'm working on some copy. Then
year, was born in Manhattan. He I've a comic strip and a page. And
attended the public schools of New the day after tomorrow I have to
York and then started out to get spend with my publishers." Yes,
a job—any kind of a job. That Gross is lazy!
proved easy—too easy, so Milt
There was a conversational lull,
quit.
and then the question:
"Getting the job so easily,"
"What of the future, Milt?"
Milt said, " gave me an idea. I
"Ummmmm," he said. "Dunt
started out to specialize on getting ask."
jobs. I'd work a week on the line
of chatter, then I'd get the job Select Frigidaire for
and the next day I'd leave. I prac-
Made-to•Order Capital
ticed more psychology getting
places to work than most people
do to hold them. 'I know you
CANBERRA, Australia. — Frig-
haven't advertised,' I would say to idaire has been selected as stand-
a prospective boss. 'That's why ard refrigerating equipment for
I'm here.' Then I would proceed government buildings to be erect-
to offer 17 different reasons why ed in this new made-to-order capi-
the company couldn't get along tal of the Commonwealth of Aus-
without me. It was easy. But tralia. installations have already
spending a week preparing to ge t been made in a number of recently
a job that I kept one or two days completed government hotels and
wasn't so profitable.
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in the new Parliament Building.
"I liked to draw. Writing never
Growing suddenly from gently
entered my mind. I had a number rolling sheep pastures, with the
of things in Judge and Life and nearest large city 209 miles away,
some newspapers. I kept shifting Canberra has been self-sufficient
around from one paper to another, from the first. It is designed en-
doing cartoons and always finish- tirely as a governmental city and
ing them up at the last minute. its industries are limited to those
That, of course, was all after I supplying citizens with necessary
had given up Horatio Algering my services, such as electric power
plants, laundries and the like.
way into and out of jobs."
Government supervision of pri-
Gross has done cartooning of all
sizes and shapes, and now full vate enterprise affecting public
pages in comic sections. "Banana health is very complete. In addi-
Oil" he believes to be the best car- tion to safeguarding foods in gov-
ernment hotels by Frigidaire elec.
tooning he has done.
UST what does simplicity mean in connection with
The popularity of his writing true refrigeration, the government
spread rapidly, and with the pub- has placed all kinds of provisions
an electric refrigerator? It means that it can be in-
lication of "Nine Baby" his name under strict supervision.
stalled in a few minutes, that it will run indefinitely with-
became known as one of the fore-
most of American humorists. "Ili-
The commandments and ordinan-
out oiling. It means lower current consumption and
awatta" came next with such pass- ces were not given in order that
more constant temperature. And it means perfect re-
ages as:
those who obey them shall receive
"So it grew opp Iliawatta.
direct personal benefit. (See Erub.
frigeration that keeps food fresh, luscious and wholesome
Went itch day to keender-
31a.)
gotten
Over a period of fifteen years General Electric engineers
Loined from all de boids a
King Agrippa yielded the way to
lengwidge
a bridal procession, saying: "I can
and scientists worked toward the development of this
From de boids wilt bists a
wear nip crown every day, but she
remarkably simplified refrigerator.
lengwidge
can wear hers only one day in her
All de critchures from de for-
life. (Sem. xi.)
est
Models for every home are now on display. Come in and
One does not usually expect
He should be on spicking
see them. In the meanwhile, mail the coupon below for
trouble and prepare for it. (See
toims wilt.
Git. 18a.)
an interesting descriptive booklet.
Gave a hoot de howl 'Goot
monink.'
One eye on the frying pan, one
Honked a honk de Booze 'Iloi-
on the cat.
lo Keed'
Gave a scritch de Niggle, 'Yoo
hoo'
Quecked a queck de dock
LOUIS KWALL
'flow guzzit?'
3098 East Grand Boulevard at Woodward.
Louis Kwall of 5392 I.ivernois
Gave a bozz de bizz 'Hon
avenue passed away on Wednes-
beezness?"
Empire 10177.
"bunt Esk" is the latest book to day, July 27, at the age of 44. Ile
be published. In ''Dunk Esk," is survived by his parents, Abra-
Please send me your descriptive book on the simplified I
Gross carries on. There are the ham and Esther Kwall, and a
General klectric Reli.6erarot.
same characters that appeared in brother, Hyman, all of I'ittaburgh.
the cartoon-intended space of two His body was shipped to Pitts-
Name
years ago. There are new ones. burgh, where the funeral took
And there is a parody of Poe's place on Sunday, July 31.
Address
"The Raven" that is even funnier
than "Iliawatta" (although Gross
believe Iliawatta to be the best
thing that he has written). "De
Saul Lew!s
Desiel Lewis
Raven" opens with:
Detroit's Finest Funeral
"Wance oppon a meednight
drirry
Home
While I rad a Tebloid chirry-
'Pitches II innan gatting
lirry-
Odder peectures on Page
FUNERAL
Calvin H. Newman, President
Fun;
DIRECTORS
Detroit
Frank Cody, Superintendent
•
Gredually
came
•
whecking,
Griswold
First
State
Bank
Detroit
• •
Free Use of Our Chapel
Detroit Public Schools
Tutt I: 'Feitelbaum is smeck-
Harry J. Redwood, Vice-President
ing,
7739 John R. St.
J. L Dryden, Treas. and Gen. Mgr.
Detroit
Detroit City Service Company
Witt a razor saw, shellecking
Detroit
•
•
Long Mfg. Company
Goot for notting Isidore!
Phone Empire 2114
John N. Stalker, Vice-President
Smeeks heeni where de pents
Detroit
Georg• Lew,s
W. K. Hoagland
Seymour Lew s
•
•
Union Trust Company •
is lacking
New York City
Hoagland Allum & Company •
In de rirr from Isidore.
Carl B. Tuttle, Treasurer
Wheech hez happened hurt
Detroit
George H. KI-in
S. S. Kresge Company
beton'!"
Emmons, Klein, Ferris & Cook, Attorneys . Detroit
The absurd themes and dialect
Reformed and Strict-
of Gross' writing may appear to
ly Orthodox Funerals
have been easy in preparation, but
Gross assures one that the writing
Personally Supervised.
is not easy. To obtain the proper
Latest Type of Limousine
effect from each line, the word'
Hearse and Packard Equip-
must not only be spelled to convey
ment used exclusively.
the dialect and still retain their
identity, but the words have to be
placed in • completely different
Mortician.
order. To gain this effect, the
author has to visualize entire pass-
604 DELAWARE
and
ages, write them hurriedly
[nap,• 6533.4
At S•vend Blv4.
then go back over them to insure
N• Conneeiwn •it ► an, when fry..
consistency with similar parts.
sou
Frequently entire passages have to

1-1 CITY

Alex J. Prujansky

COMMONWEALTH COMMERCIAL

s

STATE BANK

Simplified,
Quiet, Economical

40 COMPANY

ICE

COAL

a New Company
New Management

GENERAL ELECTRIC

Refrigerator

The Detroit City Service Company announces

J

Greater "Absopure" ice and fuel service for
Detroit

A new board of directors composed of men
well and favorably known to Detroiters

Additional capital, new resources, and a very
definite program of expansion and improve-
ment of service.
May we serve you with the two great necessi-
ties of life—ice for summer and fuel for winter?

OBITUARY

Electric Utilities Corp.

Offices removed from General Necessities Building to

7th Floor Lafayette Building

Phone RAndolph 5960

BOARD OF DIRECTOR S

Lewis Bros.

PALACE
MODEL
LAUNDRY

28 Convenient Branches

DETROIT CITY SERVICE
COMPANY

Glendale 5680

Edmund G. Lewis

