Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-06
Heaven to Hand

NEW YORK-Judge Learned
Hand, who is celebrating the
50th anniversary Of his APP
pointment to the Fedora
bench, was at a dinner where
he was asked to define heaven.
He told them that heaven was
q place where in the morning
there'd be a football game,
with Hand scoring the VIM
ming touchdown: in the after
noon. polo game, with Hand
scoring the winning goal, and
in the evening a public dinner
addressed by Voltaire, where a
heckler would shout: Jaw, sit
down and shut UP, Voltaire-
and let Hand speak"
Judge Hand, now 81, said to
his son-in-law, NewbOld Nor
ris, well. I'm ready to CO."
Morris told him, Take me
with you, when you CO." j
you don't know what you're
saying" Judge Hand replied.
He said that he'd heard Justice
Oliver Wendell Holmes say,
I'm ready to 60" on his 95th
birthday. And when Hand had
said, Take me with you"
Holmes replied. You don't
know what you're saying, No
man really feels he's ready to
60. I'm sure when my time
comes and I'm beckoned, III
say Couldn't you make that
a couple of weeks from now?'"
Ten years ago the then Mayor
Of New York, Bill O'Dwyer,
phoned Newbold Morris home.
He heard that Mrs. Morris was
i'll and offered to send an cleo
trio, artificial lung to their
home. Morris thanked him,
said that this wouldn't help her
illness-then added, by the
way, in 10 minutes I'm an
nouncing my candidacy for
Mayor. that I'm going to knock
your block off," DO that"
ODwyer said, land when it's
over, let's have a drink" :.
Morris never saw O'Dwyer
again until two weeks ago,
when o'Dwyer phoned him
and they had the drink.
Kiss Me Kate" was a sem
sational hit in Germany and
Austria. Bella Spewack assigned
all the royalties due her as
authorize a sports center
named in her honor in Tel
Aviv. She went there for the
ground breaking ceremonies :.
Fannie Hurst finished her new
est novel last week From
old newsreel-clips and pianola
rolls George Gershwin made,
Goth Century Fox will release
an album of Gershwin playing
in high-fidelity. 1t will include
his Rhapsody in Blue" five
pop songs and his rehearsal
scenes in Strike Up the Band"
y X
Eric MaschwitZ, the play
wright-lyricist and BBC-TV
executive arrived in New York
on a business trip. His ex-wife,
Hermione GingOId, is co-star-
ing here in First Impressions.
One of Maschwitz's song hits
was These Foolish Things"
which starts, "A cigarette that
bears a lipstick's traces" He
was asked If this, had been in
spired by Miss Gingold. "Of
course not" said her ex-hus-
band. "Hermione smokes ci-
CARS"
Walter Pidgeon will play the
fathers role in the musical ver-
sion of "Ah, Wilderness!" Rob-
ert Morse and Eileen Herlie also
have been signed D.. Gauguin's
Man With the Axe" owned by
Alex Lewyt, will be used in the
new movie about the artist.
Rebel in Paradise" /. George
Jessel agreed to speak at the
Garden View Old Folks Home,
He told the audience of aged
people: There must be some
mistake. I came here to en-
terrain old folks, but I guess
they didn't come. So III do my
best to entertain you people" "
At the Albert Lasker Medical
Journalism awards last week.
DIR. Howard A. Rusk quoted
Bernard Baruch: Il am in
terested in physical medicine
because my father was. I am
interested in medical research
because I believe in it. I am
interested in arthritis because 1
have it.
Senator Neuberger told the
Lasker Award audience about
his cancer operation. No one"
he said, can recover from q