The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1942-02-27
Heard In The
LObbies
BY DAVID DEUTSCH

OOheS on the rubber StOck-pile"
issue is Sam Taub, of Houston, Of
ten regarded as the right-hand
man of the Secretary of Com
merce $1,OOO,OOO worth of
knitting machines are being scrap
ped by G. A. FfrOymsOn, head of
the Indianapolis Real Silk Hosiery
Mills, so that sleeves can be made
for parachute bombs instead of
hosiery for milady's gains
According to Harold Guinzburg
it's unnecessary for a firm to have
a president. Even though Guinz-
burg is working as an assistant
to Robert Sherwood in the For
eign Information Service Division
of the CO-OrdinatOr of InfOrma-
ton, Viking Press, of which he is
president, expects 1912 to be one
of the best years i'm it's history
Send message to Uncle Sans
Army for Edward M. M. Warburg,
who insisted on being indicted as
private although he could have
had a commission Those "ref-
ugee" paintings the Kansas City
art museums have been showing
are from the New York collection
of Robert Lehman, of the bank
ing firm-part of the transfer of
works of art to the interior
Wonder what made the civic
defense agencies in the prewar
days give a "kOsher" label to Agfa
films and cameras? Our own
Government didn't think so, be-
cause the Treasury Dept. has
seized General Aniline and Film
Corp. of Delaware, parent Agfa
firm, on the ground that the basic
owners are Germans.
CHONA OUT OF THE NEWS
1t just amt right that Chona,
famous throughout the world as
der Bewusster" (the well-known),
should in his most glorious hour
be der Unbewusster." It seems
that this great FranKenstein of a
man was the real hero of the
Dorothy Thompson fracas at Cafe
Royale, New York East Side rem
devious. The fact that the famous
column ION The Record" appears
without break is due to Chona's
heroiSm.
If YOU don't know ChOna, he
can't be described. He has the
body of a CaIiban, the wit of a
Hershfield and the acid tongue of
a Jesuit. When Dorothy ThOmp-
son got tired of the tea and pOta-
to pancakes at the Cafe ROyale,
to which she had TAXED after see
ing Sam Jaffe i'm "Cafe Crown"
she lowered out toward the door.
ChOna, who always smells out
important events before they Oc-
cur, naturally escorted her. For
neither God nor man can Overawe
ChOna. When the drunken blonde
reached for Miss ThOmpSOn's hand
and bit it and then tried to kick
her, ChOna interviewed his power
full body and showed the woman
away. Just look at his hand and
the fear of death is on you.
Moreover, like a BibIican figure,
ChOna raised DOrOthy's arm high
so that the bleeding of her finger
would stop. And tall as Miss
Thompson is, she was dwarfed by
this strange figure of man.
PICTURE BUSINESS
Louis B. Mayors nephew, Jack
Cummings, is one of the principal
hackers of the new M-G-M enter
prise, a record business which
hopes to cash in on the enormous
boom in platters Well, well,
neither Hollywood nor the prize
ring gets discouraged. Max Baer
has been signed for his second
film, Brooklyn Orchid" Be-
fore flying back to the Coast to
be by his sick wife's bedside,
Melvyn Douglas gave another
demonstration of his ace-high
character. Talking at a luncheon
of the National Press Club at
Washington, the great actor said
he would have preferred to have
go ;o+rod,,ced as MELVIN Hes