Excerpt from The Melting-Pot: Drama in Four Acts Mendel Good-bye, Johnny And don't forget to practise your scales. shutting door, shivers.] Ugh It'll snow again, I guess. he yawns, heaves a great sigh of relief, walks toward the table, and perceives a music-roll.] The Chump He's forgotten his music picks it up and runs toward the window on the muttering furiously] Brainless, earless, thumb-fingered Gentile throwing open the window] Here, Johnny You can't practise your scales if you leave 'em here he throws out the music-roll and shivers again at the cold as he shuts the window.] Ugh And I must go out to that miserable dancing class to scrape the rent together. he goes to the fire and warms his hands. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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The Melting Pot is the third of the writer's plays to be published in book form, though the first of the three in order of composition. But unlike The War God and The Next Religion, which are dramatisations of the spiritual duels of our time, The Melting Pot sprang directly from the author's concrete experience as President of the Emigration Regulation Department of the Jewish Territorial Organisation, which, founded shortly after the great massacres of Jews in Russia, will soon have fostered the settlement of ten thousand Russian Jews in the West of the United States. "Romantic claptrap," wrote Mr. A. B. Walkley in the Times of "this rhapsodising over music and crucibles and statues of Liberty." As if these things were not the homeliest of realities, and rhapsodising the natural response to them of the Russo-Jewish psychology, incurably optimist. The statue of Liberty is a large visible object at the mouth of New York harbour; the crucible, if visible only to the eye of imagination like the inner reality of the sunrise to the eye of Blake, is none the less a roaring and flaming actuality.

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