8 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." • • •-•-• 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. • • . — 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 • . -- 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 . . . • . 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. .6