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...become a sort of club, and you go to certain places and there you always meet certain people. At one place you see Robert Benchley who is incidentally the hard- est working man in New York, and all of that crowd, and at another there is George Jean Nathan and his gang. The staff of 'The New Yorker' has its hang-out as well as 'Life' and 'Judge' and 'Time'. It is really the backbone of a certain phase of social life. And in this crowd stage people are continually mixing. When one is forever bumping into authors, budding...
...matter of critics, I'm afraid they're a rather unhappy lot. For instance, I have always had a vague suspicion that Mr. Nathan wants to act and can't. They all seem to be writing their criticisms not because they particularly want to but because they have nothing else to do. But far be it from me to advocate taking away from them this last escape mechanism. Anyway, acting is lots of fun. When the show is good, you are amused with the audience; when it is bad and they laugh anyway, you can be amused at them...
...writing of the critics that Mr. Brown is most entertaining and keen. He speaks of criticism as that "lean-to in literature." Woolcott. Young and Nathan who wrote of the modern sex play as "The Adventures of Phallus in Wonderland" are all considered in the light of their critical idiosyncrasies. This section is one of the high spots in the book...
...Died. Nathan Straus, 82, great philanthropist and Jewish leader; of heart disease and high blood pressure; in Manhattan. He was born in Rhenish Bavaria in 1848, son of Lazarus Straus, who came to the U. S. in 1854, settled in Talbotton, Ga. Eldest brother was Isidor (later famed in the building up of Straus stores, victim with his wife of the Titanic disaster in 1912); youngest was Oscar Solomon (first Jew to hold a cabinet post, Secretary of Commerce & Labor, 1906-09, twice Minister, once Ambassador to Turkey; died in 1926). Ruined by the Civil War, the family came...
Beginning in his own stores, Nathan Straus gave spontaneously, individually. His great benefaction was the establishment of world-wide stations which provided pure pasteurized milk at a low cost. Other great philanthropies: food, coal, lodging to Manhattan's destitute during the panic of 1893-94; the first children's tuberculosis preventortum (1909); first Pasteur Institute, first health bureau in Jerusalem; Committee for the Defense of Jews in Poland (of which he was chairman); widespread relief during...