Congressman Dickstein assures us that his resolution calling for an American housecleaning will be passed about the middle of the current week. He says it was delayed because of congressional consideration of “more important measures.”
Considering the growing strength of the Nazis and their affiliate American groups, Congres can find few issues of more pressing important than the Dickstein resolution. We understand that with every passing week, the Nazi group grows in New York and elsewhere.
Speaking of Dickstein, we called his office a short time ago to inquire whether or not he would be celebrating his birthday, which was due within the next few days. “Birthday?” queried the congressman. “That’s news to me.” Checking over his calendar, however, he learned that another milepost was in sight. He said, “You birds know everything. I haven’t planned any celebration.”
We shall shortly hear of a slightly remodeled plan upon which the Minute Men, commanded by the Jewish war veteran leader, Edgar H. Burman, will be formed. For one thing, they will take no stand on the boycott. “We have enough organizations in that already,” Burman recently told this department. “I believe we can work more effectively along other lines.”
About the latter part of the week or early next week we shall hear much about something new in methods of keeping the price of poultry down during the Passover. We are told by one who knows that racketeers will have a hard time raising their prices this year to the old gyp level. Enforcement will come through the Department of Public Markets.
The kashruth situation is serious. Well meaning rabbis for two or three years have been striving to gain city cooperation in their efforts at enforcement of the state kosher law. We understand that the city now is prepared to lend every cooperation, but that the various influences on the enforcement planning side can not come to agreement. The other day kashruth authorities were cautioned against prolonged disagreement because “it will certainly make a bad impression on the Mayor and President of the Board of Aldermen.”
Many parties are awaiting the arrival of the issue of Petit Parisian in which Nazi propaganda machines abroad were exposed. A respectable sheet in New York was mentioned, although not an English-language newspaper; and a few days ago it ran to cover in ## editorial which set forth the defense without detailing the charges made in the French paper.
Incidentally, it is rumored there is more to the situation than even the frank Petit Parisien set forth. From a recent arrival from Berlin we hear that correspondence and salaried work for the Ministry of Propaganda in Berlin is being undertaken simultaneously by at least one scribe on this newspaper.
“The Perfumed Lady,” which received but scant praise from the dramatic critics, was set to close last Saturday night, but the management has decided to keep the play open for another week or so at least…. “Four Saints in Three Acts,” which bowed out of New York Saturday night for a road tour, is expected back in New York in a month or so…. Last night a benefit preview performance of “Gentlewoman,” starring Stella Adler, was given for the Cassia Chapter of the Eastern Star. The play will open officially Thursday night at the Cort Theatre…. The next Erskine Caldwell novel to be dramatized will be “God’s Little Acre.” The author’s “Tobacco Road” continues its cut-rate way. Max Gordon, one of the more successful of its producers, has recovered sufficiently from his recent operation to undertake a two months’ European trip….
FROM THE CINEMA
Elizabeth Bergner, German-Jewish actress, will be seen in America before the year is out. Joseph Schenck has the lady’s signature to a contract and she will make a series of pictures for his company…. Arthur Kober, a young, stocky fellow who a few years ago could be found press-agenting shows and Broadway, making wisecracks and writing dialect stories for the New Yorker about the very, very common people, has managed to keep a Hollywood studio job these past two years….
GOOD DAME
The Jewish Sylvia Sidney, who escaped just a few months ago from the sudden loving and parental concern of an almost forgotten father who discovered that his daughter was ???in the bucks,??? is the star of ???Good Dame,??? now at the Paramount. She plays the part of an innocent showgirl who, finding herself stranded in a small town, is literally forced to go to work for a carnival, run under the
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