Pincus Wins

ONE HAPPY JEW--Nat J. Ferber--Farrar & Rinehart ($2). The Marmelsteins lived in the ghetto of a small Galician town, but Papa Mayer worked away at his grocery, traded and saved, brought up his five sons to look down on their orthodox neighbors. Dream of his life was to get himself and family to the U. S. and its Canaanitish but liberal ways. With every step up they moved a little nearer--Vienna, then Paris. There Sons Moishel and Abraham became Marcel and Armand de Belvedere. Son David-Yusel married a rich and masterful girl, departed for points east. Son Julius went to England. Arrived in the U. S. at last, Mayer and faithful Son Pincus sought and found friends in Jewry. Not so Marcel and Armand, who turned Episcopalian, went from prep school to post-graduate society and married rich goys (who later turned out to be almost as purely Jewish as their husbands). Julius turned up with an English wife and a new name: Justin Marmaduke Gooderson. Papa Mayer and Son Pincus shook their heads but made the best of it. But when Son David-Yusel came to town disguised by his wife as the Mohammedan Prince Yusef ben Mameluke, the shock was too much for his father. Whether or not he had died laughing, he left his chief blessing to the honest son who still rejoiced in his given name of Pincus Marmelstein.

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