Friday, September 12, 1947
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players were starred. Toward
the hour of the preview, it sud-
denly dbwned on everyone that
the author of the book ought to
be invited. So she was.
"How did you like it?" Mr.
Lasky asked her when the pre-
Penchant for Mirth
view was over.
She reflected a moment. "Mr.
Keeps Them Alive
Lasky," she said slowly, "do you
remember that hit half-way
By ELYEII NATIIANS
through when the phone rings
HUMORISTS
UNKNOWN
and it's the wrong number?
abound. They are the people Well, I do think you took that
who, on the spur of the moment, straight from my book."
Russell Helps Boost UJA Gifts
Jewish Humor
Is Spontaneous
said,
"Here you go busted, and
only this morning I read where
the president said business was
definitely improving."
"Maybe," ventured the owner,
with a sad smile, "lie has a bet-
ter location than ours."
IN THE SAME category of
spontaneous wit belongs this
story about the young cheder
boy who was asked, during a
history class, to name the prin-
cipal contribution of the Pho-
necians.
His answer, given without
AMONG OUR PERSONAL hesitation, was: "Blinds."
favorites we like Rabbi Stephen
Wise's acid reply to an imperti-
THE BUSINESS MAN picked
nent young woman who asked
him if he had read the latest up the phone. His end of the
conversation went like this: "No.
best-seller.
When he said he had not, she No. No. No. No. Yes. No. No.
said rebukingly, "Oh, you'd bet- No." Finally, with a long ex-
ter hurry. It's' been out three plosive "No" he hung up.
His son-in-law overheard the
months."
"Young lady," he answered conversation, and asked curie. -
severely, "have you read the ly, "Why did you say yes i
book of Ruth yet? No? Well, the fellow?" "Had to," the oth,..."
you'd better hurry. It's been grumbled. "He asked me if I
out over three thousand years." could hear him."
unrehearsedly, make the perfect
remark or ask the blissful ques-
tion which turns the normal in-
cident into a provoker of laugh-
ter.
Not surprisingly, they are to
be found in great numbers
among the Jewish people, whose
penchant for mirth helped to
keep them alive long after their
enemies had said the obsequies
over their tombstone.
A brilliant young composer
(we won't mention his name)
once spent a hectic period on a
radio job that forced him to
turn out one new song every day
for twenty-nine weeks.
BOOKS BRING to mind book-
"Doesn't that take a lot out of
you?" an interviewer asked him. sellers. Last week we dropped
"Sure it does," he. answered, into one in the neighborhood.
"but . it takes a lot m ore out of The owner was in a dismal
Bach, Beethoven and Brahms," mood. His clerk stood near him
in tears.
"I can't understand it," she
JESSE LASKY once made a
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Philadelphi a; ar mless
of 131.11....11..3..1.:,
irmit us
eleven-year-mu ilCILIC 0A-1-1-
World War II veteran Harold Russell is a very great man.
When Jackie saw Harold in the movie, "The Best Years of
Our Lives," the little boy made' up his mind that some day
soon he would meet this courageous man , who • has done so
much despite his great handicap. Jackie's opportunity came
I; when Russell went to Philadelphia to address a meeting of the
Allied Jewish Appeal. Jackie, who had made up his mind to
contribute a month's allowance to the Philadelphia campaign
on behalf of the United Jewish Appeal, listened intently to
Russell's description of the Jewish crisis overseas. When
Russell had finished, Jackie jumped up and made a simple
' -announcement. He would increase his contribution four-fold.
Jackie Strick theieby became the youngest pace-setter in Phila-
delphia. Others at the meeting followed Jackie's example.
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