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Stories About Hecht and Chaplin, A Rosenbach Item and a Tribute

An American Jewish Press Feature

Leonard Lyons is authority for
the information that "when A.
S. W. Rosenbach, the rare book
dealer, died recently, his inven-
tory showed that the contents
of a couple of his rooms were
worth more than the full inven-
tory of R. H. Macy & Co."
• • •
A new novel by Maurice Sam-
uel, due off the press soon, will
be on a non-Jewish subject.

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•

"In a letter which I received
from France, his son, Professor
Jacques Schwartz, wrote that the
chief rabbi was buried in an an-
cient cemetery, two kilometers
from Westhoffen, the little Alsa-
tian village where he was 'born
and where his ancestors had re-
posed for generations."
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•

The tennis championship at
the du Cap, in Antibes, was won
by Mrs. David Sarnoff, wife of
RCA's chairman.

Ben Hecht has delivered to
Simon & Schuster the first 600
pages of manuscript of his auto-
biography, "A Child of the Cen-
tury," scheduled for publication
in 1953. The completed manu-
script, which will have. about
1,000 pages, will deal with
Hecht's reporter days in Chica-
go, his experiences in Hollywood
and his activities in behalf of
Israel.
• • •

Ben Hecht Buys a Book

Leonard Lyons is authority for
the following:

Ben Hecht, whose last movie
work was at $10,000 a week—
he gave it up, voluntarily—
will spend the next three
months completing his 1,000-
page autobiography. He says
that he then will devote him-
self to his newly-discovered
profession, writing musical

comedies for Broadway . . .
Hecht has been the highest

priced writer in the world, and
once he had a million dollars
—but he made it, not with
story writing but in the Flor-
ida realty boom of the '20s. He

lost it all, and when he and

his wife returned to N. Y., they
had little left. They paid a
month's rent in advance, and
spent their remaining $20 on
the one thing Hecht wanted—
a copy of Gibbon's "Decline
and Fall of the Roman Em-
pire."

Even the black cat won't help
and your
. watch your step
Deadline . . .

"In the hook of life, blessing peace and good.

ststenance„ may we he remembered and inscribed

—and a Chaplin Item

before Thee„ we and all Thy eo e of the house of

Lyons also tells this story
about Charlie Chaplin:

Israel, for a happy life and for peace. Blessed art

Charlie Chaplin showed his
new movie, "Limelight," to
three of his children who ap-

Thou, 0 Lord who makest peace.

—From the Rosh Hashanah Liturgy

Best Wishes for a Happy and Prosperous

New Year to Our Guests and Friends

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An Israeli Explains

An American industrialist met
an Israeli official during a visit
to Tel Aviv. "I'm very much
impressed with what I've seen
here and I'd like to make some
investments. But tell me, how
can I best make a small fortune
here?"
"The only safe way to end up
with a small fortune here," re-
plied the Israeli, "is to come
with a large one."

pear in it. Geraldine, 8, was
"I
self-conscious And said:
don't like me." The 6-year-old
Michael's reaction was: "Show
me my funny daddy again."
The 3-year-old Josie behaved
like a true actress. She said:
"I want to see Josie again."

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A Tribute to a
Ch ief Rabbi

In a letter to the New York
Herald Tribune, Sidney Z.
Searles pays tribute to the mem-
ory of the late Chief Rabbi of
France, Rabbi Isaie Schwartz,
and expresses regret that little
notice had been given to him.
He states that "in his passing,
liberty-loving people everywhere,
as well as the Jewish community
in France, have lost a valiant
fighter and a spiritual leader
whose self-effacement, dedica-
tion and strength of character
were rare qualities--,---rarer still in
one man." He honors him for
his aid to victims of Nazism,
Jews and Gentiles alike, and
pays him honor for his courage,
writing in part:
"It was my privilege to know
him when I was attached to the
36th Texas Division. I remem-
ber coming out of the small
synagogue in Lyons, following
that city's liberation, attending
New Year's services which the
chief rabbi was conducting in
the place of the rabbi who had
been taken way by the Nazis and
never heard from. Too modest
and unassuming to make known
the predicament that . he was
without food, Rabbi Schwartz
and his wife were preparing
after the services to spend the
evening of Rosh Hashanah with-
out food, since he did not wish
to impose himself and his wife
upon other families who were at
that time frightfully short of
food rations.
"Rabbi Schwartz's escape from
the Nazis was accomplished
through the aid of a Catholic
hospital where he was concealed-
and sheltered until it was safe
for him to depart to the south-
ern part of France. This act of
Catholic hospitality recalls to
mind the story of the rabbi of
the town of Remiremont who
was shot by a German while he
was trying to fashion a cross of
twigs for a dying French Catho-
lic soldier.

Water Without Pipes

Lanky six-footer Wayne Miles
who describes himself as a farm-
er although he is actually one
of America's top irrigation ex-
perts, has helped develop for Is-
rael a new system of irrigation
which can be worked with a
bare minimum of pipes. Of top
importance, due to the scarcity
of irrigation pipes and high
prices on the foreign market,
the land is divided into sections,
and each section is then flooded
for about two hours.

THE JEWISH NEWS-39

Friday, September 19, 1952

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