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By PHINEAS J. BIRON
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
Washington Pipeline:
The controversial civil rights
bill which will finally be passed
will be meaningless according
to those in the know. . . . The
amendment which is sure to
be tagged on to me bill will
make a sad joke of the Attor-
ney General's authority to in-
tervene in local. matters of dis-
crimination. . . In other
words, our Department of Jus-
tice will have to be "invited"
by the local authorities (such
as local schoolboards), to enter
any civil rights dispute, except
in voting cases. . . . All of
which adds up to interminable
delays in any Federal attempt
to enforce the Supreme Court
decision . . Both major po-
litical parties have placed po-
litical expediency ahead of
democratic principles. . . .
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The Lake Michigan Scrolls:
When archaeologists of the
future poke around a cemetery
near what is now Arlington
Heights (a suburb of Chicago),
they may announce a signifi,
cant discovery—the Lake Mich-
igan Scrolls. . . . At a cere-
mony held last week 30 parch-
ment scrolls were buried in the
new Shalom Memorial Park
Cemetery. . . . The scrolls , were
placed in clay urns protected
by waterproof plastic bags,
sealed in wooden boxes. . . The
"difference" between the Lake
Michigan and Dead Sea Scrolls
covers a wide area. . . But if
the now modern scrolls were
to be "discovered" in about
2,000 years, they would prob-
ably arouse as great a sensa-
tion as the finding of the now
famous Dead Sea Scrolls.
It Actually Happened:
When Margaret (Truman)
In a Lighter Van
BY S _ HIN FEY SAMACH
An AJP Feature
Berle's Daughter — 'A Sinner'
Leonard Lyons tells this story
in his column, "The Lyons
Den," in the New York Post:
"Milton Berle's 11-year-old
daughter, Vicki, told him she'd
attended Billy Graham's meet-
ing at Madison Square Garden.
`And, Daddy,' the youngster
added, 'I went up on the stage,
too" ... 'Alone?' asked Berle ..
`No, said Vicki. 'There were
200 otherS on the stage with
me' . . . Berle asked what she
was doing on the stage. The
child said: 'He asked for sinners
—and I came up'."
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Gershwin. Episodes
In the same column, Lyons
relates these episodes about
George Gershwin:
"This week George Gersh-
, win's friends marked the 20th
anniversary of the clay that
death cut short the most bril-
liant career in modern Ameri-
can music. George White told
of hiring Gershwin as a
rehearsal-pianist, and then sign-
ing him to write the second
`Scandals' at $75 a-. Week. Andre
Kostelanetz told of asking
Gershwin how many tunes he
wrote each day, and the com-
poser replied: `Oh, about 15.
That way I get the bad ones
out of my system.'
" 'Rhapsody In Blue' was in-
troduced on the -West Coast by
Tosha Toloes, soloist for the
Hollywood Bowl orchestra, who
wrote me: 'I rushed to. N ew
York to meet Gershwin, to
have him teach me the Rhap-
sody. I'd- never played jazz.
Gershwin was delighted, but
said he couldn't teach me be-
cause he wasn't a teacher. I
told him all he needed to do
was walk around, listen, and
if it didn't sound right, to hol-
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"Gershwin once asked Ravel,
in Paris, to give him lessons
in serious compositions. `No,'
said the French composer, 'it's
better to be a first-class Gersh-
Win than a second-class Ravel.'
He also asked Igor Stravinsky
for lessons, and Stravinsky
said: `No, you teach me.'
"IrVing Caesar, who has. a
new Coral album, 'And Then I
Wrote,' played and lost heavily
in an all-night poker game, and
determined to break even.
Gershwin was composing a song
in the next room. Caesar would
leave the game only to join
Gershwin at the piano and
supply a line for a melody, then
return to the game until the
composer needed another line,
`If I'd have been a winner in
that poker game,' said Caesar
later, `I'd never have gotten my
name as a lyricist on Gersh-
win's Swanee.'
"During the 'Porgy and Bess'
rehearsals Rouben Mamoulian,
the director, spoke of a 'fugue.'
The composer challenged - him
to define it, and Mambulian
said: 'A fugue is a musical
composition in which an origi-
nal theme is repeated and
initiated.' Gershwin told him:
`No. Fugue is a musical theme
which keeps coming in and in
and in, while customers keep
going out and out and out.'
"He admired Oscar Levant's
talent and said it was latent
only because Levant wouldn't
practice enough. 'The differ-
ence,' Levant replied, 'is not
in our practicing. It's just that
you're a genius and I am not.'
One night Oscar stayed late
after a Gershwin party, ig-
noring the hints that it was
time to go home. Gershwin
yawned, put on pajamas, but
Levant stayed. At 5 a.m. Gersh-
win brought Oscar's hat and
coat into the kitchen, where
Levant was munching a sand-
wich, and told his last guest
of the night: 'Oscar, I'll pardon
you for eating and running.'
"Sonja Levine, the screen-
writer who knew him well, tells
of the day Gershwin, in the
midst of rehearsing a new show,
was told distressing news: the
lady he was wooing had just
eloped. 'Well, I'm certainly glad
I'm in the middle of rehearsals,'
said Gershwin. 'Otherwise I'd
be terribly upset.'
"His brother, Ira, said that
when George needed money
quickly, his agent, Archie Sel-
wyn, reported difficulty in get-
ting him a Hollywood job: 'They
all say you've become high-
brow—concert pieces, and now
an opera, 'Porgy and Bess.' At
Selwyn's suggestion Gershwin
wrote him a letter to show to
RKO: 'Dear Archy, I have
written hit popular songs be-
fore, and I'll write them again.
I am not a highbrow.' With this
proof in hand, RKO signed
him."
Daniel gave birth to a son a
few months agb, she received
a message from two rabbis who
asked for the honor tos send a
mohel to perform the circum-
cision of the grandson of Presi-
dent Harry Truman. . . . Mar-
garet, with her usual tact, re-
plied in friendly fashion, ex-
plaining- that her son's brish
had been arranged for with the
surgeon of the hospital and
that she regretted very much
the rabbinical message had
been received too late.
Jewish Architecture:
The current issue of Com-
mentary carries an interesting
article on Jews in modern
architecture. . . . The editors
point out that almost immedi-
ately after emancipation, Jews
rose to prothinence in the arts,
sciences and professions, but
for various reasons it was not
until the last decade or so—
with the boom in synagogue
building—that the question of
what could be called Jewish
architecture began to be raised
in earnest. . . . Percival Good-
-man has designed several of
the new synagogues (among
them Temple Beth-El, Provi-
dence, R.I.; Congregation Beth-
El, New London, Conn.; and
the Temple of Aaron, St. Paul,
Minn
Among the tradi-
tionalists there are many who
assert that Goodman's archi-
tectural conceptions- are not
Jewish although quite original
. . . Now, while in Chicago,
we learned that the young,
brilliant architect Zalman Al-
per, has designed a Jewisla
)
.
cemetery chapel (now under
construction) which is shaped
like a Magen David.
Hollywood's Participation
in Israel's Anniversary:
Under the chairmanship of
Barney Balaban, head of Para-
mount, a committee Of distin-
guished motion picture per-
sonalities is studying plans to
align the American movie in-
dustry With Israel's Tenth An-
niversary Festival next year.
.. . A delegation will be leav-
ing within the' next few weeks
for the Jewish State to survey
the situation and after the re-
port is in, appropriate action
will begin. . . . Which reminds
us that Dore Schary is seri-
ously considering a picture
baser* on the recent book,
"Hundred Hours to Suez."
A Gift Of Gratitude
THE HAGUE (JTA)—Nathan
Strauss, American Jewish phil-
anthropist, contributed $10,000
for the restoration of a student
hostel in Delft in gratitude for
the aid which the Dutch people
gave to Jews during the- Nazi
occupation. The hostel will be
used by students attending Hol-
land's Technical University.
Polish Probe
Uncovers Fear
of Country's Jews
VIENNA, (JTA) — Insecur-
ity and-fear reign among Polish
Jews as a result of widespread
anti-Semitism, Gerard Skok, a
member of the Polish Sejm
(Parliament), has charged in
testimony before a Sejm com-
mittee.
A report received here from
Warsaw said that Skok called
punishment of anti - Semitism
"too mild." He related that of
some 50 known incidents of an-
ti-Semitism the perpetrators of
only 10 were brought to court
and that in half of these cases
the court meted out insignifi-
cant sentences.
Insecurity has increased, the
deputy charged, since Polish
families were installed in -the
apartments of Jews even before
the Jews emigrated from the
country. In a review of the sta-
tus of Jews left in Poland, the
deputy said that 52 per cent
I were manual laborers, 20 per
cent work in state-controlled in-
dustries and institutions and 12
per cent are craftsmen.
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