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Like the Tribune, the American Hebrew was partially subsidized by race-proud Jews. Its advertising revenue nearly met expenses until the current Depression. As advertising fell off, the editorial content grew sloppy. Publisher Bernard Edelhertz worried himself ill over the problem, went into his closet and hanged himself (TIME, July 27). The magazine's president & editor, Isaac Landman, editor-in-chief of the forthcoming Jewish Encyclopedia, already had accepted a call to return to the rabbinate. Who, then, could take the American Hebrew's burden upon his shoulders and lead it out of its wilderness? He should...
...ends of stage tackle. Men in shirt sleeves, girls in bathing suits walk about chattering, apparently oblivious of the spectators. The job of selecting a chorus begins. Mortality was high among the sketches when first-night critics had done with them. Even the old hide-the-lover-in-the-closet blackout is exhumed. Boisterously the audience laughs at a burlesque of the unctuous radio announcer. Of the songs, all donated by their authors, four promise to be hits. Prolific Irving Berlin con tributes "Begging for Love." Others acclaimed with spirit: "I'm Just a Doorstep Baby," "Hot Moonlight...
Portraits in Miniature is a short book (214 small pages) but contains 18 biographies in parvo. They are like unusually well-written, extremely urbane short stories. Some of their subjects: Elizabethan Sir John Harington, who, "suddenly inspired," invented the water-closet. Jacobean Dr. North, Master of Trinity College (Cambridge), whom illness transmogrified from a scrupulous moralist into a ribald debauchee. The Président de Brosses, the man who got the better of Voltaire over a bill for firewood. Mary Berry, last survivor of the 18th Century, who "could even make Frenchmen hold their tongues; she could even make Englishmen...
...Washington Mrs. Rita Nickel sued a department store for $50,000 because a male employe opened the door of a closet in which she was trying on a dress...
...prideful parents who remind her of the duty she owes the memory of her sainted forebears. In the meantime, the forebears are busy stealing, seducing, murdering one another right under the modern Barringtons' noses. Finally, not one but two grisly skeletons are discovered in a hidden family closet, the elder Barringtons are crestfallen, the girl gets...