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BY OBSERVER (New York Special to Th* Canadian J twit h R*vi*w)
In the last issue of the Review, we spoke of Reisen, the Yiddish writer. Perhaps your interest has been sufficiently awakened to wish to know more of that remarkable group who slave away neither for lucre nor glory, for of each their reward is slim.
The hero for this week shall be taken from his ancient desk in the offices of "The Day," and placed before you as an example rare in Yiddish journalism, an example of an interviewer.
A Jewish newspaper serves its readers as newspaper, - daily and monthly magazine and family journal.    For a combination of various features, Hearst's output  has  no  superior  claims  over the Yiddish newspaper.    Perhaps because of this, the reporter is a person practically   unknown   to  the   Yiddish editor.    Reporters are ignoble individuals to be passed by with a corner smile by the staff of a Yiddish paper; in a Yiddish newspaper everyone is a writer   and   everyone   feels   editorial responsibility heavy on his shoulders. With the omission  of the  report,  it naturally   follows  that  the  reporter's closest relation, the interviewer, should also be taboo and so it is as a matter of double interest that we can introduce you to Mr. J5. Dingol, whose chief duty on "The Day" is to write dramatic criticism, but whose main literary love at this writing is to bring the. art of interviewing as we  "goyim" know it, to the Yiddish world.
Mr. Dingol has succeeded in bringing at least this one phase of journalism up-to-date in a Yiddish newspaper, In 1918, he was the first newspaper man to interview Major-General Bell, Commander of the 77th Division, which at that time was training at Camp Upton. From what we have written above, you will su mise that this required enterprise on Mr. Dingol's part. Then, again, he is one of the very few men to whom Justice Brandeis has ever granted an interview. Of course, to the average reader, an interview with Justice Brandeis may not be epoch, but those who have felt the tide of our politics will understand that such an interview is of sui passing interest. The Brandeis stbry was written at the time of the famous split in the Zionist ranks and it was broadcasted throughout the Jewish world.
Recently Mr. Dingol established a record for lengthy interviews. He spent fifteen hours with Prof. Weitzman on a story. It was begun in one town, continued through several intermediary stops and ended many hundreds of miles from where it started. This interview also was of such news value as to be reprinted in most of our journals.
The case of Henry Ford also absorbed his interest and he took a trip to Ford-land, where he conducted an investigation as to the Ford Jewish complex
In London Mr. Dingol obtained a �tory.froft Baron Leopold de Roth-�chUdf and attached to this interview there'it a curious anecdote. After the topic under discussion hack been finished
with, Mr. Dingol noticed that the baron was directing at him some personal queries, the leason for which he found it hard to understand. _ He hinted at the remuneration the paper paid and was it sufficient? Was his family well? And questions of a similar nature. And as the newspaper man replied in each instance that conditions were satisfactory with him, the baron became more and more irritated until at last he burst out: "But at least you must take some cigars with you!" He touched a bell and soon a butler brought down a box of fifty choice cigars with which the bewildered interviewer was presented. Later Mr. Dingol learned of the tradition that no one who visited the Rothschild home for the first time must leave empty-handed.
Aside from his work in interviewing, Mr. Dingol also conducts the art of the sob-sister on his paper. This is no derogatory remark, because, let us acquaint you with a professional secret, the head of a well known newspaper syndicate told us recently that the best features he could sell to his news-paper clients were those written by the ladies of the press, more endearingly remembered by the fraternity by the title we have quoted above.
Two of these articles Mr. Dingol wrote on behalf of a fresh air fund for the needy children of the East side of New York and a man in impoverished circumstances, and in both cases the response was well above the thousand mark.
Here we have introduced you to a newspaper man who writes in Yiddish, and the spirits of Greeley,-Dana and Webster and the other of our respected forefathers of printer's ink know how few of them there are.
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As far as we know, F. P. A.'s column is an exclusive privilege to New York readers and is not syndicated. There-foie we will take the pleasure of distributing a sample of Mr. Franklin P. Adam's "Conning Tower" from the "World" far and wide and take some credit for his popularity. Below you will read a burlesque on Wagner's "Walkuere." Incidentally it will afford you somewhat of a change from the stuff which you must read here week after week.
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DIE WALKUERE
(Dedicated to Montague Glass) A schone roashpocha, them Hundings! That rosher '".
Old Marcus Hunding,^ never knew it such a feller in my life". And his wife Siegel Hinda ain't just what you'd mavbe call kosher, The way she carried on with that guy Sigmund, believe me, you should now have it such a wife! Wie heists Siegel Hinda?   In the old country yet was it Hinda 'Siegel good enough for her before she got swell. When herhusbandboughtita bungieioaf up  in   Sullivan   County   (ten dollars a month and twenty-five down on deport)
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