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. . . An opinion about a dying man's dreams might be expressed but to tell us baldly that the editor knows what a man was dreaming as he jumped to his death is just a little too much.
Oh well.
JOHN B. NORTON
Lancaster, Pa.
"Yait Till Ve See"
Sirs:
Being a subscriber and a consistent reader of your much-admired "mag" I think it is within my province to criticize your remark on p. 23 of your Nov. 16 issue of TIME in regard to motion picture heads commenting on RKO-Radio combine in which you state and comment upon comic-strip remarks of Jewish motion picture heads such as "Vait till ve see vat Radio vill do/'
May I ask where you get authority that Jewish motion picture heads talk as you state, whether comically or straight? 1 can't imagine persons of the type of David O. Selznick or Jesse Lasky speaking like that: or is it possible that you take figures of speech of Jews for granted.
People coming from Europe and other countries to us all speak with an accent, but very seldom do you see it joked about as when the Jew speaks. Still I would like to know if they spoke as you printed? (Possibly the Scotch as much.)
HARRY R. ROSENTHAL
Durham, N. C.
TIME'S cinema editor is well acquainted with the cinema industry, meant no offense.-ED.
Discriminators
Sirs:
Our thanks for the excellent story on The Current Jewish Record (TIME, Nov. 9). Your staff writer has compressed a wealth of material into his half-column story.
Incidentally it may interest you to know that letters quoting TIME as their source of information have been received in amazing numbers. Which may prove that Jews are discriminating readers.
SIDNEY WALLACH
Editor
The. Current Jewish Record New York City
Surprised v. Astonished
Sirs:
In TIME of Oct. 19 under Animals the police-man was "surprised'' to behold the old gent peering through the binoculars. It strikes me that your writer has fallen into the same error in the use of the word surprise as did Mrs. Noah Webster, who was duly corrected by her erudite husband.
Noah, at least the story goes, was caught by Mrs. Webster in a somewhat compromising situation with the housemaid. "Why Noah." she exclaimed. "I am surprised"; to which he replied "No dear, / am surprised. You are astonished." . . .
HARRY J. TROXEL JR.
Great Neck, N. Y.
Eternal Cinema
Sirs:
. . . Did you notice that Plato in Timacus states "Time is the moving picture of Eternity."
Of course, Plato must have been one of your subscribers 2,400 years ago.
C. H. CHAPLIN
Cincinnati, Ohio
Prediction
Sirs:
An Indian recently made a prediction in northern Minnesota that the coming winter would be long and cold; when asked how he knew, he said that he had seen a white man putting up a lot of wood. . . .
H. MCCARTHY
St. Paul, Minn.
Fitzgerald's Frogs
Sirs: