Bnai Brith Snurs Molly Picon Wins Her Audience
Public Services Just by Walking on the Stage
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NEW YORK—To mark the 14th
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By GLORIA B. ROMAN
Budget of Million
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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Friday, April 4, 1947
means of identifying the multitude
of New York public activities and
make more accessible to students
and would-be applicants all the
agencies with which they are not
sufficiently familiar and which
they are constantly seeking to
contact.
The Jewish Information Bureau
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THERE'S AN OLD saying in
Jewish theatrical circles that
when Molly Picon comes on the
WASHINGTON, D.C.—A budget stage, everybody in the audience
of $1,020,184 to support an ex- automatically laughs. That's not
panded program of service to the because of Molly's appearance.
nation and to many parts of the (She's a trim, magnetic brunet.)
world during 1947 was adopted by It's because Molly Picon has made
the Bruit Brith national executive herself the most loved comedienne
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committee.
in the Yiddish theater today.
Major items of earmarked ex-
She is recognized as the great-
penditures include $315,751 for the ::st in her field of comedy that
Hillel Foundations, $142,183 for the the Yiddish theater has ever
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youth organizations and $91,000
produced.
To Our Relatives, Friends, Patrons and All Israel
for the vocational service bureau
Molly Ls the theater in her
Commenting on increased outlay
blood.
She
was
born
in
New
for the intensified 1947 program.
a
Henry Monsky, national president York's East Side. Her mother,
of the Bnai Brith, emphasized that wardrobe mistress in vaudeville
the period of postwar readjust- units, took little Molly on all the
me-night stands that the troupe
ment is not over.
"It is evident and inevitable played.
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When Molly was two, she knew
that the war has left its mark on
the population of this country. all the ins and outs of the theat-
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MOLLY PICON
The Bnai Brith has recognized rical game. She was more familiar when the war was over, she was
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this, and will continue to con- with the backstage maneuvers one of the first Yiddish actresses
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tribute wholeheartedly to help al- than she ever became with school to go over to entertain the miser
leviate the numerous stresses and maneuvers. She breathed theater, able and wretched people of the
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ter, and she lived theater
era," Monsky said.
From Warsaw to Buenos Aires
He pointed out that the return-
from Russia to South America,
ing veteran must not be forgotten
on at least four continents, Molly
or permitted to shift for himself. SETS UP OWN UNIT
Picon's name is the assurance for
Monsky said in part:
WHEN SHE WAS in her early Jews everywhere of great enter-
"Many of our young men are teens, this theatrical routine led tainment—entertainment in a way
in our military and veterans hos- her to organize a vaudeville unit that brings back the traditional
pitals nursing the wounds of of her own. The members of her and high standard of Yiddish cul-
battle and others are still in the troupe were all teen-aged young- ture.
process of adjusting themselves to ;ters and they played all the one-
Ask Molly Picon what the theory
civilian life."
night stands from Boston to Los of her art is and she will reply
In regard to the hospitalized Angeles, from Maine to California. very simply: "To make people
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veteran, the president of the But when they reached California, laugh, to bring them a little bit
Bnai Brith said that the organiza- the trouple broke up, and Molly of happiness, and to bring them
tion has not forgotten its pledge was stranded.
that happiness when they need it
to Gen. Omar N. Bradley, director
An offer to play in the Yid- most."
of the Veterans Administration, to dish theater in Boston saved
go all-out in aiding morale and her, at least for a while, from
recreational programs.
starvation. In Boston, the young
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Pointed out was that, among theater manager, Jacob Kalish,
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its activities during the past year, saved her from further starva-
the Bnai Brith contributed 1,038 tion. De married her.
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pieces of equipment to veterans
Together, she and Jacob toured
and military hospitalS through a United States, and then Europe.
nationwide "serve-a-hospital" The notorious Queen Mary of Ro-
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mania invited the famous Yiddish
Monsky declared that although actress to play in a command
the Bnai Brith is asserting spe- performance before the Romanian
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ing veteran, its desire is not to the acme of success for an actress.
set off the ex-GI as a member of
By 1923, Molly Picon had become
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a permanent group shunted from the darling of the Yiddish Theater
the general American way of life. in America, too. Her stage mag-
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"It is our desire," he said, "to netism, her unusual creative abil-
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return the veteran to a peacetime ity, her pantomimic art made her
nation where he can reassume his the foremost Yiddish comedienne,
rightful place in the community the greatest ever to have acted In
and assert himself as a recognized that mecca of Yiddish culture in
member of the community.
New York—the Second Avenue
Theater.
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Polish Jews Set up
Restitution Bureau
WINS AUDIENCE FAST
THE MINUTE MOLLY walks
WARSAW (World News) — The out on the stage, the audience is
Central Committee of Polish Jews immedictely won ovet. She per-
has organized a restitution bureau forms with pathos, charm, and
to aid in the return of Jewish keen understanding, and always
fortunes and property to their with humor and sensitivity. Out-
rightful owners. The restitution side the theater, she combines
bureau will work with the state these same qualities, in large pro-
institutions that are working on portion.
During the war, she was famous
this problem and also with the
World Jewish Congress. A lead- for her matinees for the boys in
ing Polish Jewish advocate, Mr. the army. She adopted a British
Gutmacher, is the head of the child, one of the first to do so.
She toured army camps. And
restitution bureau.
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