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Guiterman Makes You Like!
Poetry.
SONG AND LAUGHTER. By
ArthurGuiterman. Published by
E. P. Dutton & Co., 286 Fourth
avenue, New York ($2.50).
If you don't like poetry and are
willing to learn, begin with Guit-
ermines "Song and Laughter." lie
is certain to teach you to love verse.
Possessing a charming style all
his own, with a good sense of hu-
mor, Guiterman's collection in this
Dutton volume is a real treat. In
a certain sense it exceeds in beau-
ty even his previous volumes.
"Colds," "Lines for a Noah's
Ark," and his translation of Cap-
tain Mare LeClere's Ballad ''The
Passion of Our Brother, the Poilu",
stand out among the more interest-
ing selections in the volume, and
among the truly witty poems is
the following:
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The blond, gigantic Nordics
Unsheathed their shining swordlcs
On Viking trips
In dragon-ships
Agitinst the Southern hurdles.
'rho kind. longheaded Nordics
Preserved their conquered ward!.
But ruled their lands
With able hand,
And never paid their boardies.
Those supermen, the Nordics,
Remain our hearts ailoredies;
They keep us straight,
They guide our fate,
They dwell in sweet ...curdles.
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Here is a sample of his shorter
clever selections:
COWBOY AND BOY COW
The cowboy ropes the coy cow
And gives her tall • pull,
Out does not leave the boy cow,
For that would be • bull.
Don't fail to get this volume. It
is sure to cheer your reading hours,
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BLACK SUN, by Aben Kandel,
published by Harper and Bros,
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Aben Kandel, author of "Vau-
deville," presents his second
novel in "Black Sun." This prom-
ising young Jewish writer pic-
tures in this novel the trials of a
Bohemian who marries the girl he
attracted after she had been driven
from her home by her mother
when the latter learns how she
spent the previous night. This
Bohemian now turns to respect-
able life, settles with his wife in a
suburb, gets a job. A child comes.
There comes mental struggle,
hopes of becoming a great writer,
a great poet. Ile dreams of wo-
men, falls in love with his wife's
friend, makes a mess of his love-
making. lie loses his job, despairs,
finally turns again for comfort to
his home.
Mr. Kandel has failed in the re-
spect that he aimed at drawing
a noble figure of his hero and in-
stead produced a character to be
pitied. On the whole it is a very
well written book, but with a plot
that repells. Perhaps the author
was too zealous in his autobiogra-
phical chapters of the book. But
it is regretahie that he could not
have given us something better in
the same beautifully descriptive
language, in substitution for his
hero.
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Eight Performance. by Chicago
Civic Opera Company Scheduled
For Presentation Here.
The Carpenter Insurance
Agency, located at 502 Haman
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Detroit, is establishing
Businessman
Detroit is to have her greatest an enviable reputation for itself
season of grand opera during Feb- for the service it is rendering its
CORN IN EGYPT. By C. E. Beech-
ruary of 1930, when the Chicago clients. The offisees of the firm
hofer Roberts. Published by
Civic Opera Company conies to the
Bobbs-Merrill Co., Indianapolis, Masonic Temple for eight perform.
Ind. ($2.50).
ances. The season will open Feb.
To C. E. Ileechhofer Roberts, 17 and play for seven nights and
author of a number of biographies, a Washington's birthday matinee,
Joseph, the Hebrew of Egyptian closing on Sunday evening, Feb. 23.
fame, was not merely a lucky fel-
That great festival opera, no
low who succeeded by his prophetic abundant in tuneful arias and
interpretations of dreams. Joseph, choruses and sogorgeous in its
he tells us, was "a young man of pageantry, Giuseppe Verdi's
outstanding intelligence and enter- "Aida," has been chosen to open
prise, who owed to merit, rather Detroit's season. This work was
than luck, his brilliant career in selected to dedicate Chicago's new
the alien surroundings of Egypt"
$20,000,000 temple of music on
In "Corn in Egypt," his biogra- Nov. 4. 1929. The closing per-
phy of Joseph, he proceeds there- formance on Sunday evening, Feb.
fore to describe the supposed 23, will be another Verdi opera,
shrewdness of the Hebrews and "Rigletto." In the intervening six
their business unscrupulousness to days Detroit will have three of the
achieve their own ends. Had he old-time favorites, "Lucia di Lam-
not followed closely the Biblical mermoor," "La Traviata" and
story, with the incorporation of "Tannhauser," and three new
Jewish, Christian and Mohamme- works, Massenet's three-act lyric
dan legends, his method might have miracle play, "l.a Jongleur tie
been interpreted rather as that of Notre Dame," halo Montemezzi's
DeW1TT E. CARPENTER
a twentieth century anti-Semite in marvelous music drama in three
some backward East European acts, "L'Amore del Tre Re," and are DeWitt E. Carperstox and Cecil
country.
Donizetti's sparkling comic opera, II. Carpenter, who are winning new
At the very beginning of the "Don Pasquale."
friends every day by virtue of their
story, Joseph, who is later describ-
Among, the new faces to be seen congeniality and intense desire to
ed by his brother "as slippery as a with the Chicago company in De- please their clients.
snake and fifty times as cunning," troit this season will be Tito
DeWitt E. Carpenter entered
is presented squeeling on his broth- Schipa, who is making his first tour into the insurance business Decem-
er in order to achieve his ends of with the Chicago Civic Opera Com- ber, 1921, in Detroit, after having
replacing Reuben as his father's apny, and Margherita Salvi. several years' experience as spe-
successor as chieftain of his tribe. Schipa, the phenomenal lyric tenor cial agent for companies writing
Ile tells his father of Reuben's re- of the Chicago forces, is known automobile insurance and various
lations with Bilhah ("It came to from coast to coast as a concert other lines. He has built a Icrg,e
pass, while Israel dwelt in that artist, and has appeared in this ca- clientele of agents as well as pol-
land, that Reuben went and lay pacity in Detroit several times. icyholders through his fair deal-
with Bilhah his father's concubine" Margherita Salvi is the dainty ings with both his agents and pol-
—Gen. 35:22), and tales about his Spanish coloratura soprano who icyholders in adjusting their
other brothers. Thus he achieves joined the Chicago Civic Opera claims and underwriting their
his desired ends, resulting in his forces last season. Claudio Muzio, business.
Ile has been an outstanding fis
being sold into slavery and his the great lyric spinto soprano, re-
later successes in Egypt.
turns to Detroit after an absence of ore in the insurance field in this
city since 1921 and has made many
Everything, according to the au- 'three years.
thor, was well planned in advance
Mary Garden° , America's darling Jewish friends through his fair
by cunning Joseph, whether in Ca- of the operatic stage, returns this methods of writing and adjusting
naan or in Egypt. Had it not been year with two plays, neither of insurance of all kinds.
In December, 1927, his brother,
for the fact that this author has which she has presented before De- •
taken the romance out of this Bi- troit audiences. "Le Jongleur de Cecil 11. (Carpenter, joined him,
blical story and has rehashed the Notre Dame" and "L'Amore (lei making the organization a co-part.
story of Jewish unscrupulousness Tre Re." Rosa Raise, the great nership known as Carpenter Insur-
in it, it would have increased its dramatic soprano of the Chicago ance Agency, with offices at 502
value, The manner in which the company, will be heard in a German Holman Buildinng,
For a number of years Cecil II.
author brands all Hebrews as role this season, that of Elizabeth
scheming and cunning is illustrated in "Tannhauser." Edith Mason, Carpenter lens an official of two
in such expressions as this one of the ever popular lyric soprano, has insurance companies operating in
Joseph's: "I'm a Hebrew; isn't been assigned the delightful role of I many states and developed a large
volume of business for the two
bargaining in my blood?" Or the Gilds in "Rigoletto."
companies and made many friends
mock exclamation of the King:
I
through the territory in which the
"You damned bureaucrat! I free
you from slavery, and you retor t fanatic Polish Jew, and an absorb- companies operated. The wide
experience
held by Cecil II. Car-
by enslaving all my subjects. Yo u ■ ing tale of the escape from Siberia ,
frighten me, Zaphnath (Joseph s makes "Chains" real fascinating penter in the agency field, together
with
that
of
DeWitt E. Carpenter,
Egyptian name), with your cob I- reading. There are also two other
blodded efficiency. I wonder ho w story threads intertwined within makes a combination hard to excel.
long you'll leave even me free!"
this novel, the vengeance of Sonya
This rehashing of an age-wor n on the Russian noble who had or- VIENNA COMMUNITY
indictment against an entire pe 0- tiered the pogrom in which her fau-
SHOWS A DECLINE
pie considerably detracts from a n ily was wiped out, and the story
otherwise excellent biography of a of Dovidl, the baptized Jewish army
Biblical hero.
VIENNA.—(J. T. A.)—A de-
musican in search of his Mitzi who
had fallen into the hands of white cline in the numerical strength of
A Good Reference Book for slavers—lesser stories which in no the Jewish community of Vienna
wise detract from the main tale, was shown by statistics published
\ Students of Jewish
but gives It a great deal of beauty for the quarter ending with Au-
\
Ethics.
gust of this year.
and color.
In June 172 births and 193 deaths,
It is too bad that diction is mar-
THE FOUNDATION OF JEW- red by such expressions as "it be- were recorded, in July 116 births
ISH ETHICS. By Armin H.' hoved , " and "the children
were and 210 deaths and in August 86
Koller. Published by The Mac- woken." Not knowing whose fault, births and 157 deaths. In th e
millan Co., New York and Chi- the author's or the translator's, let same period 91 persons entered the
cago ($2.50).
Jewish faith, as compared with 195
us blame it on the proofreader.
—D. W.woo ten c.
The reviewer expected to find a
real treatise on the origin and
foundation,. the psychology, eco-
Bible Lessons by Correspond
Mean Israel Challanty,
nomic or even historic discussion
of those rules of moral conduct
ence.
which have made of Judaism a dis- HOUR UPON THE STAGE. By
tinctive religion. But he was dis-
Ann Pinchot. Published by
Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein,
appointed. There is even a dis-
Dodd, Mead & Co., 443 Fourth president of the Union of Ortho-
crepancy in the statement that
avenue, New York ($2.50).
dox Jewish Congregations of
this book was written by Armin
America, announces that the Un-
Miss Pinchot told an interviewer ion will conduct a class in Bible
II. Koller, who is assistant profess
nor of German at the University shortly after the publication of her study by correspondence.
"Hour Upon the Stage" that she
of Illinois. Doctor Koller mere!
Dr. Ilenry S. Morale prepares
translated a compilation of Dr is through forever with writing the Bible lessons which may be se-
'
books
about Jews. "Jews refuse to cured by writing to the Union of
Simon Berenfeld of Germany.
The book is nothing more than' understand that one cannot stop Orthodox Jewish Congregations of i
a source book from the Bible, Tal- from writing a realistic story of America, 50 West 77th street, New
mud, writers during the Jewish. one type of Jew simply because one York City. A nominal fee of $2 is
Hellenistic Period, the Middle is born Jewish."
charged for a year's service.
The cause for Miss Pinchot's bit-
Ages and later Christian writers
on ouch concepts as Morality, Pur . ' ter remark is the reaction in many
quarters to the hideous characters
ity of Soul, F reedom of Will, R
Love Affair in a Boom
e
ward and Punishment, Equality i in her first novel. Israel Challanty,
Town.
Human Beings, The Will to Live, the hero is a very mean fellow. He
and Knowledge of Morality. The was a bad egg already in Kimock, TUMBLING MUSTARD. By liar-
author takes up a concept say Poland. The peasant girls fared ill
old Loeb. Published by Horace
"Freedom of the will," gives it a at his hands and as a result of his
Liveright,
61
West Forty-
commentary editorial, and follows escapades he was forced to take
eighth street, New York ($2.50)
flight
to
America,
where
he
estab-
it up with quotations first from
Harold Loeb, author of "The
lished
himself
and
continued
his
the Old Testament, Palestinian
Apocrypha, Jewish-Hellenistic lit- unscrupulous dealings. His many Professors Like Vodka," visited
children introduce new angles in the Far West and as a result of his
erature, writers of the Middle
Ages, Modern Jewish Literature the story, making a tale of one evil experiences penned the story of a
thing after another.
boom town and of the love affairs ,
and Christian authors, all attempt-
Realistic as this story is, it is of Dan and Flossie. Ile derived
ing to show the Jewish view point
nevertheless too brutal in that it the title for the book from the
of that particular concept.
presents a class of Jews without western tumble-weed, which
This book will make a good ref-
principle and devoid of the finer caused hay-fever. Dan and Flossie
erence book for students of Jewish
things in life. Miss Pinchot is an are bits of tumbling mustard
ethics who cannot read the original
able writer, and if she were to brought together by unusual
in German, and for Rabbis as a
modify her resolution not to write forces, caused to hate by uncon-
source book for sermon topics. Ex-
about Jews, not to write about the trollable conditions and left tumb-
tensive indices and bibliographia type of Jew emphasized in "Hour ling.
IMg.
add additional value to this book. Upon the Stage," we may expect
Mr. Loeb has penned a great
—D. W.
something fine from her in the story. His picturization of a love;
near future.
affair, later torn to shreds, in a
A Novel of Russian-Polish
boom town, makes an excellent
Jewish Life.
The Psychology of a Re._ American novel.
A
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New York
Joseph Painted by a Modern
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CHAINS. By Joseph Delmont.
Published by Lincoln l'ilacVeagh,
The Dial Press, 152 West 13th
street, New York ($2.50).
I started to read "Chains" with
some apprehension, feeling that I
was going to get a lot of propos
ganda, and sob stuff poured down
my throat, but I was agreeably sur.
prized to find here a novel of Rus-
sian-Polish Jewish life under the
Czar, so intensely interesting, that
despite some horrible blunders of
diction, and a good deal of repeti-
tion, I could not lay it aside until
I had completed reading the book.
The story is a simple one. Has-
chel, a bright young Jew living in
a Russ-Polish little village, mar-
ries the girl of his choice, and then
goes to St. Petersburg to study
philology. He joins one of the stu-
dent secret societies—there is an
assassination of a Russian official,
a betrayal of his secret society, and
a fleeing of its members from St.
Petersburg. Hostile] returns to his
home, is imprisoned immediatel:
and although innocent is tried and
convicted on perjured testimony of
implication in the assassination. lie
is condemned to ten years impris-
onment in Siberia, taken there, and
finally makes his escape. On arriv-
ing home he finds that his wife
had given birth to an illegitimate
child, as the result of a beastly at-
tack on her by one of the Russian
officials of the village.
But the manner in which the
story is told, the realism of the
action and the dialogus, the re-
markable fidelity to actualities in
the case of the village life of the
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LIVES AND DEATHS OF RO-
LAND GREER. By Richard
Pyke. Published by A. & C.
Boni, 66 Fifth avenue, New
York ($2.50).
This study of the Jew Roland
Greer is an excellent psychologi-
cal portrayal of a life spiritually
checked and restrained.
Mr. Pyke shows great psycho-
logical insight and understanding
of the neurotic ways of the Anglo- =
Jewish Greer.. The children in =
the story are those sufferers from
the ill-tempered ways of the moth-
er whose distorted love for her =
dead husband affects the young
Greets. Thus Roland is a double
or split personality suffering from
t he viciousness affecting his physi-
al and mental make-up. The
many powers that dominated hi =
—his mother, brother, sister—sup-
pressing his own personality, make
for a complex character and ■
great psychological study by Mr
Pyke.
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