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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
HITHER AND YON
with MYRA KAY
So! Adolf Shicklegruber, with
Greece already gobbled up, is
considering Turkey for his
Thanksgiving menu — then the
turkey won't be the only fowl
stretching out its neck this
Thanksgiving.
wyn said: "I want original
stories that are well known."
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•-•-•
Why do people insist on say-
ing, "Well, not that it's any of
my business, but—" when they
have every intention of making
it their business?
. . • --
The cost of a modern $10
beauty treatment would be di-
vided as follows: Improvement to
appearance, 50 cents; improve-
ment to morale, $9.50. I have
heard it inadvertently termed as
a beauty saloon—any woman will
testify as to its pick-me-up qual-
ities . . . everything looks good
with a fresh coat of paint . . .
the only time a woman's face is
her fortune is when it draws
interest . . . one reason advanced
as to why women pay more at-
tention to beauty than they do
to brains, is because no matter
how stupid a man is, he is seldom
blind . . . then there's the one
about Mrs. Ritzberg who didn't
want a shampoo . .. she wanted
a genuine poo or nothing at all.
stant nourishment . . . Hold
tight to that piece of mind you're
going to give somebody—you
never know when you'll need it
. . . the greatest danger to our
national safety is a mental, not
a physical, blackout.
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How they get the names of
somethings is beyond me. Take
the pineapple, for instance. The
pineapple is neither a pine nor
an apple.
My experience with it would
term it a vegetable porcupine.
November 20, 1942
••• STRICTLYCONFIDENTIAL• • •
by
Biron
j ont B"
• PALESTINE ECHOES Phisval Mhl
y feature Enrico Glicen-
landed
Dr. Chaim
in Northwest
Weizmann
Africa
is he
his stein's
fence sculpture of "National De-
" on . its November cover
old self again . . . But the night
the American expeditionary forces . • • GI censtein has too long
been the forgotten man ,
• • •
.
the Stutterers may look forward to
Did you know that:
was still convalescin g n
i
a
new
book
concerning
their
country, in a bungalow with
The first Jewish synagogue in
rather poor radio facilities . . . affliction, by none other than
New York was built in 1729.
So friends telephoned him the Jane Froman, the radio thrush,
It was a Jewish woman, Annie
who after years of hard work
Louis J. Horowitz, the sky- exciting news . . . And when finally succeeded in overcomite
N. Meyer, who started the agi-
tation which led to the founding
scraper builder, who in 20 years Weizmann heard of these sensa- her speech impediment.
has risen from a position of $3 tional developments, his com-
of Barnard College, the first
woman's college in New York.
a week to one of $100,000 a ment was: "Now we'll have to • MILITARY INTELLIGENCE
year, was talking about success. get our war news from Palestine
Broadway producer Hermit')
Petroleum was discovered by
. . . They have a front-row seat
"I go to bed at 9 o'clock," he over there." . . . Frank Gervasi, Shumlin, having finished his II01.
Abraham Schreiner, a Galician
said, "and I get up at 5 o'clock. the noted foreign correspondent. lywood chore, is preparing to
Jew, who used it for lighting
I play a little, but my play is who knows the Middle East in- leave the dimmed-out White Way
purposes, at Boryslaw, Galicia, in
1853.
exercise to keep me in good trim side out, tells us that the big for the duration . . . He'll be a
for my office. I play to work— battle of the war may yet be private in the U. S. Army . . .
The Zionist colors, white and
as other men work to play." fought in Syria and Palestine Also Army-bound is Jerry Finkel-
blue, are derived from the blue
stripes and white fringes of the
Mr. Horowitz mused a moment; . . . In preparation is a withering stein, the ambitious young man
tallith.
then in his terse epigrammatic answer, composed by outstanding who unsuccessfully tried to un-
way he said, shaking his head: Americans most of whom are seat New York State Senator
• • • —
"Success demands sacrifice!"
A Jew in the cafeteria rested
non-Jews, to the opponents of Frederic Coudert in this fall's
his tray before the meat-counter
Two men set out to achieve the Jewish Army idea . . . These elections . . . Bandleader Abe
Lyman Rot so tired of hearing
and pointed to his choice.
fame. One succeeded.
opponents, who believe they have
all the talk about the various
"Some of the ham, sir?" asked
The other lived.
won
the
first
round,
are
hereby
the server.
. . .
warned that a veritable bomb- Army and Navy commissions he
"Did I hesk you to name it?" MENTAL MUSINGS:
The wife was taking the cuff shell is being readied for them. was supposed to be getting that
was the angry reply.
he finally went down to the local
The narrower the mind, the links out of her husband's shirt.
. • .
induction center to enter the
narrower the outlook on life ...
"You have lost one of those • THIS AND THAT
.
Samuel Goldwyn, motion pic- No, you just can't put a great dinky little ships off your links,"
Army as a private . . . And
You
don't
have
to
be
a
devotee
ture producer, whose wordy mix- idea into a• narrow mind . . . she said.
got the shock of his life when
of
astrology
to
concede
that
he
was sent back home with
ups are legion, is responsible for And what fertile ground for the
star-
o she 4-F rating . . . Champion swim- a
en rc a Holmes,
s o m e tH h ollywood
in
"Hush!" said her husband,
this one:
development of prejudices . . .
gwhen
mer Abrasha Brainin of Mon-
At a story conference, Gold- minds, like bodies, require con- who was listening to Haw Haw gazer, had
on the radio. "Don't let him told Sidney Skolsky late last treal, 19-year-old grandson of the
hear, or he will claim to have imnontthhe B thstaatrs"thfoe r e Ha irtelerbad . days. late Reuben rainin , has volun-
sunk the blinking British fleet."
teered for service in the Cana-
Winchell reports with glee that than Artillery, and is now in an
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e Japanese
pa nesetheradinoewshr of his officers' training camp . . . His
Sholom Aleichem.
th
broadcasting
s father, Moe Brainin, w s a ser-
death to our forces in the a Pacific grant in Vladimir Jabotinsky's
war theater . . . The rumors are, Jewish Legion in the last war.
Mosaic Chapter DeMolay
of course, as trustworthy as all
O ficers Are Elected
the rest of the Japanese f
propa- • STAGE AND SCREEN
ganda . . . One Herman Raeder,
Composer Kurt Weill is a very
an election held at a recent nephew of Hitler's Admiral Rae- busy man these days . . . Not
meeting, Mosaic Chapter, Order der, is in trouble in connection only is he writing the music for
of DeMolay, elected Harold Ber-
with
with
a Federal
a Federal
tax tax
matter,
matter,
we we a show that is to star Grace
ry as master councilor, for the learn . . . And the lawyer who Moore on Broadway, but he is
coming term. The other two line is trying to get him out of the distinguishing himself as an ac-
officers elected were Stanford jam in Baltimore, where Herman complished airplane spotter
. • .
Abromovitz, senior councilor, and lives, is a gentleman by the name Playwright Lillian Hellman
is
Herbert Slobin, junior councilor. of Sam S. Levin . . . In the na- right up to the minute . . . She's
Jack Hurwitz was elected tress- lion's capital they have started doing a new script for the films
urer and Warren Coville retain- experimenting with a woman trot- —and very carefully has made
ed his post as scribe. Other of- ley car operator . . . And the all her male characters either
ficers chosen to serve the chap- woman they picked for the ex- under 18 or over 45 years of
ter were: David Buegeleisen, periment is one Mrs. Helen Blau, age, to spare casting directors
chaplain; Joe Broder, senior des- who
who little dreamt, when she took
headaches . . . When you
con; Milton Firestone, junior her master's degree at Columbia see the
film "Hitler Children,"
deacon; Samuel Goodman, senior University, that running a street- take a good look at the storm
steward; Lester Fader, junior car would some day be her claim troopers in the picture . . . Of
steward; Saul Friedman, marshal. to fame.
200 extras hired for these parts,
The seven preceptors are Sam
over 100 are non-Aryans . . .
La Fond, Melvin Wasserman, • READER'S GUIDE
Who says that movie moguls are
Moe Traurig, Albert Goldfarb, Have you seen "The Pocket- strictly commercial-minded? . . .
Bertrand Horowitz, Morris Bray- Book of America," the latest ad- Warner Brothers have decided
Listen to Gus Haenschen's All-
erman, and Robert Schwieger. dition to the two-bit series? . . . not to revive the late George
String Orchestra—WM—Tues-
The officers have announced In addition to stories, poetry, M. Cohan's "The Phantom Presi-
that an open meeting will be held articles, songs, etc., editor Philip dent," because it isn't good
days 7:3o P.M., E.S. T. —760 Kilos.
at 8:30 p. m., Thanksgiving Van Doren Stern has included enough . . . An excellent prin-
bight, in the Jericho Temple, in this volume nine important ciple, and one that could be in-
Joy Road between Lawton and American historical documents, yoked to advantage to call off
Linwood. Herbert Slobin' and from the Declaration of Inde- the release of many a Hollywood
David Buegeleisen are in charge pendence to Vice President Wal- product . . . That $25,000 limit
of all arrangements for enter- lace's speech on "The Price of on net salary (after payment of
tainment and refreshments. The Free World Victory" . . . That taxes) is going to deprive film
Chapter cordially invites all boys was a gracious gesture on the tycoon Louis B. Mayer of one
interested in DeMolay to attend. part of the National Jewish regular source of publicity . . .
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Someone
Just Enjoyed a
Marvelous Bottle
of Beer!
NRS TRAINING FITS REFUGEE WOMEN
FOR JOBS VITAL TO U. S. WAR EFFORT
In the machine shops, in the laboratories, In hospitals and
factories and civilian defense, refugee women are working for
America—releasing men for war duty and aiding war produc•
Hon. The woman at the milling machine Is the first woman to
be trained In a National Refugee Service machine shop course.
The laboratory technician and the nurse on the right are also
refugees being traltied through NRS help—they'll save lives
for America. In the 10 months from Pearl Harbor to Septem•
ber 30, the National Refugee Service initiated retraining for
540 persons in fields valuable to the war effort, made nearly
5,000 general job placements, and an additional 635 place•
ments for professionals. The National Refugee Service is rep-
resented, together with the Joint Distribution Committee and
the United Palestine Appeal. in the national campaign of the
United Jewish Appeal.
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