Imaginary Interviews: Sep. 17, 1923

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"Others who received votes enough to warrant their inclusion in the first 50 were:

"Sir Herbert Samuel, Nathan Sokolow, Oscar S. Straus, Baron Rothschild, Samuel Untermyer, Felix M. Warburg, Sigmund Freud, Simon Flexner, Julius Rosenwald, Irving Lehman, Julian W. Mack, Leon Trotzky, Max Lieberman, Adolph S. Ochs, Ahad Ha'am and Abram I. Elkus, Albert A. Michelson, Henrietta Szold, Jacques Loeb, Luigi Luzzati, Leopold Auer, Cyrus Adler, Herman Bernstein, Lee K. Frankel, A. I. Kook, David Belasco, Samuel Gompers, Israel Abrahams, Max Reinhardt, Joseph Rosenblatt, Sir Alfred Mond, Milton J. Rosenau, Jakob Wasserman, Jascha Heifitz, Maximilian Harden, Benjamin N. Cardozo, Otto Warburg, Jacob Epstein, Joseph H. Hertz.

"Mischa Elman, Leon Kamenev, Albert D. Lasker and Pugilist Leonard were among 33 more who received scattered votes.

"To a European it cannot but seem that American Jews have received too much preponderance in this list. Yet Henry Morgenthau, quondam U. S. Ambassador to the " Sublime Porte, received no mention."

John D. Rockefeller: "The Chicago Daily Tribune ran the headline: MRS. MAX OSER TO MAKE JOHN D. GREAT-GRAN'DAD. The news came from Lake Neuchatel, Switzer land, where Mathilde McCormick Oser, my granddaughter, and her husband, a Swiss riding master, have a chateau. The interesting family event is expected soon after Christmas."

Lord Birkenhead: "Weekending at Locust Valley, L.I., the guest of Paul D. Crayath (attorney), I played golf at Piping Rock with Percy R. Pyne, II, Harold S. Vanderbilt and another man. I wore a baby blue sweater and long dark trousers and smoked a fat cigar. At the ninth hole rain overtook us."

Fritz Kreisler, violinist: "In Berlin I convalesced after the loss of a great toe, accidentally injured while I trained Austrian troops in 1914."

The Bishop of London: " Investigators of a public morality society of which I am President spent ten nights in London public parks collecting data. They found 746 cases of impropriety, indecency, immorality. I then wrote a letter to the papers complaining of widespread immorality and at once became the center of a storm of indignant protest. The papers—particularly the Daily Express—inveighed against me for sending ' paid spies' to interfere with ' innocent courtships' and ' harmless wooings.' The papers called attention to the fact that I myself am a celibate."

Governor C. A. Templeton of Connecticut: "Tagging a runner between second and third base in our annual family baseball game, I fell, injuring both elbows and both knees. Six X-ray pictures showed that I sustained no serious hurt."

Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, cartoonist-actor: "Interviewed, said I: 'The atmosphere of New York is perfectly delightful . . . You can have no idea of the terrific mental pressure which exists in Europe today. In London we hear nothing but the Ruhr, morning, noon and night. In the theatre lobby we talk of reparations. And over our bacon and eggs in the morning we wrangle as to who can pay and who can't.' "