December 19. 1941
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle
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BEN HECHT'S 1001 AFTERNOONS
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result of Harpo's trick.
Multi-colored New York has job as a
been stripped and is now on dis- "Don Harpo de la Mancha" fail
is
play in all its nakedness. the title of this story. Don't
h
A master does the trick: Ben to read it. It will do yourheart
Hecht describes the great Ameri- good.
Most signifificant of all the es-
can metropolis in his fascinating
"1001 Afternoons in New says is the one entitled "Run,
book,
York,"—a collection of sketches Sheep, Run," which is one of the
which originally appeared in PM most excoriating condemnations
and which is now out in its en- of frightened Jews who fail to e
tirety as a Viking Press publi- see danger ahead and who It 's
hide
their heads in the sand.
cation.
To enhance the value of this dandy.
These are merely samples of
book, George Grosz, one of the 100gems included in Ben IIecht's
most eminent of modern paint- the
"1 Afternoons in New York".
IMMO
This is the stuff that great litera-
ture is made of. Primarily it is
the stuff out of which is cre-
ated fighting material for de-
mocracy. Ben Hecht did an ex-
cellent job—perhaps the best of
his career.
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live of the intensified activity of
the Hebrew movement in Amer-
ica in rendering the classics into
the ancient language is the news
that Shakespeare's The Tem-
pest" has been translated into
Hebrew by Ephraim Lisitzky,
prominent poet, the Histadruth
Ivrith, National Organization for
Hebrew Culture, announced here.
Other plays by Shakespeare which
have been translated into Hebrew
are "Julius Caesar," "Macbeth"
and the "Merchant of Venice".
ers, has done the illustrations
for all of the sketches.
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If it were only for his famous
article on Henri Bergson, the
great French-Jewish philosopher,
the book would be worth its
price of $3. Remember that
story? It was a description, in
typical Hechtian style, of the
great Frenchman refusing to ac-
cept dispensation from the anti-
Semitic laws promulgated in
France upon the advent of
Nazism. At 80, Bergson left his
death-bed to stand in line and
to register with all other Jews.
This brief article is one of
the classics of our time. It is a
rebuke to Joe Kennedy who had
advised movie moguls to lay low
and not to cry out against indig-
nities.
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Only One of Many
But there are at least 50 more
articles just as effective, just as
powerful, just as stimulating.
These combine to make "1001
Afternoons in New York" a
truly great book.
But in speaking of the essays
and sketches, one must not over-
look the introduction. The latter
is a call to action, a declaration
of faith, a statement of princi-
Gov. Herbert R. O'Conor, of
ples by Ben Hecht.
He speaks of the "damnable Maryland, who hailed the Bnai
obfuscations" which permit Nazis Brith Hillel Foundation at the
to air their views and to abuse University of Maryland as a vital
agency for deepening the religious
the free press. "As a journalist loyalties of American youth.
practicing partisanship," he
writes, "I felt that such open
our cause must NTHANYA, Palestine.—(JPS-
treachery to
work only evil on it."
i He sees Palcor)—The phenomenal growth
danger and he warns that "the of Palestine's youthful diamond
wiliest admirers of our free press industry was graphically illus-
is the German engaged in his trated by the announcement made
anaconda devouring the world. here at a meeting of the Dia-
This goose-headed conqueror sees mond Cutter's Club that it ex- is
in our cat-fight journalism the estimated that the diamond
he has ports from this country during
promise of that disunity
the coming year will reach the
been able to use for his own
ends since the hellish invention $3,000,000 mark.
of the Third Reich."
Many Marvelous Pieces
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MY BEST WISHES TO THE
ENTIRE COMMUNITY FOR A
JOYOUS CHANUKAH. MAY
EVERY CANDLE LIGHT UP
A WORLD DARKENED WITH
BIGOTRY AND HATRED
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There are so many marvelous
pieces in this great volume—and
they are essays covering the
democratic front, the Jewish an-
gles--including some we took
serious exception to—and prac-
tically every coloration which
distinguishes New York from the
rest of the world.
"The Fable of Hymie Wein-
berg" was one of the sensations
of Ben Hecht's series when he
wrote them for PM.
And among the real good ones
is "How Do You Do?", the fam-
ous tribute to Sholem Aleichem.
Then there is a fine piece on
his friendly-enemy, Maxwell Bo-
denheim, under the title "A Poet
of Yesterday".
"Four Rabbis Speak" is the
statement that Jews will be
taught not only how to pray, but
also how to fight for their rights.
The Harpo Marx Tale
Within memory also is the
story about Harpo Marx, how he
fooled an anti-Semitic footman
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