Bnai Brith Snurs Molly Picon Wins Her Audience Public Services Just by Walking on the Stage Information Unit Drafts Directory NEW YORK—To mark the 14th year of its activity the Jewish Information Bureau of 103 Park avenue, New York, N.Y., will shortly issue the Jewish Commu- nity Directory which will serve as an index and guide to the na- tional Jewish organizations and to the central relief, welfare, edu- cational and cultural institutions and agencies of every type having their headquatrers in Greater New York. The directory will serve as a By GLORIA B. ROMAN Budget of Million Is Set for Program • Page Three 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 has continued to serve as a clear- ing house of information, giving a free service to the public, Jew- ish and non-Jewish, by answering inquiries of every type and sup- plying data on a large variety of subjects relating to the entire Jewish community in New York and other cities. 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 S 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 PASSOVER GREETINGS . . . 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. Wholesale Distributors of Seacap Fillets, Fresh Frozen 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- Smoked Fish MOLLY PICON The Bnai Brith has recognized rical game. She was more familiar when the war was over, she was CADILLAC 1065 this, and will continue to con- with the backstage maneuvers one of the first Yiddish actresses 1320 NAPOLEON 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 •• strains in the current postwar she ate theater, she talked thea- DP camps. 1•0111•118•11110.11.11.11.11111.01111111111.111111101.111.. . 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 AND 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 PASSOVER GREETINGS Pointed out was that, among theater manager, Jacob Kalish, Restyling • Repairing • Remodeling and Storage its activities during the past year, saved her from further starva- the Bnai Brith contributed 1,038 tion. De married her. TO. 8-4318 11350 WOODWARD AVE. 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- DISTRIBUTORS project. 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 Cadillac 6781 cial emphasis toward the return- court. This was, in those days, 1336 Napoleon 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 e'• a permanent group shunted from the darling of the Yiddish Theater the general American way of life. in America, too. Her stage mag- PASSOVER GREETINGS "It is our desire," he said, "to netism, her unusual creative abil- Best Wishes to All! 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. AMERICAN FISH CO. ,11111/ • • • Passover Greetings 1 Standard Fish Co. HERZBERG KEYSTONE MANUFACTURING ; FURRIERS Passover Greetings • • 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. ACE LETTER SHOP 603 CAPITAL PARK BLDG. 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