Friday, December 10,
JEMSHI NEWS-10
Bond Buyers toS ee Gala BIG Skew
Met Songbird,
Advisor to Presidents
Top Star Program_
A tiny, exotic beauty who`'
possesses one of the world's
most superb soprano dices
and a Lincolnesque, hulkina
man who is rated one of the
finest economic brains top the
list of treats in store for Is-
rael Bond owners at the BIG
Show, Thursday, December
16, at Masonic Temple.
Fashions, History Add Up to Color, Excitement in Pageant
A new form of theatre entertainment will make its premiere at the BIG Show,
Thursday. It combines the excitement of a historical drama with the color of a fashion spec-
tacular!'
The provocative "New Look ' Eve, and a representation of the Sisterhood. Aonna Gracia, Mrs.
Through the Ages" is really two heroic spirit of Jewish women ; Gerald Goldberg, Greater De-
shows in one — a parade of throughout world history. I troit Bnai Brith Women's Coun-
Gluckel of Hameln, Mrs.
stunning styles depicting what' The performance will present ' cil;
women wore at every stage of the very feminine as well as the Dan Shapiro, American Jewish
world history since the time of history - making side of ten Congress. Henrietta Herz, Mrs.
fabled Jewish heroines Louis Kasle, Flint outstate worn-
The sweep of time will en- en's organizations. Rebecca Gra-
compass . the first woman, Eve, I etz, Mrs. Harry Spoon, Ada&
and such moderns as Henrietta Shalom Sisterhood. Henrietta
Szold and Channa Senesch—and Szold, Mrs. Morse R. Saulson,
the fashions shown will be cor- Hadassah. C h a n n a h Senesch,
respondingly kaleidoscopic.
i Mrs. Saul- Rose, Pioneer Women.
Representatives of ten leading
Mrs. Eli. Gross is the director
women's organizations will play , and Mrs. Norman Allan, accom-
the starring roles. The following .panist. The choral group of the
will take parts:
I Music Study Club will perform
Eve, Miss Arlene Heiman, the choral selections. •
NorthweSt Child Rescue Womend The author of "New Look
Ruth, Mrs. Peter Ohodoroff, Jew- , Through the Ages" is Avis Shui r
.Fig leaf, apple and all, ARLENE ish National Fund. Queen Es- man. She will fly in from New
-HELMAN will portray EVE in _ther, - Mrs. Victor Bloomfield, York to share the narrator's
.."The New Look Through the Mizrachi Women. Hannah, Mrs. duties with Mrs. William P.
I Ages," Mrs. Eli Gross directs.
Harry B. Aronow, Shaarey Zedek , Greenberg.
Chic and as lovely as the tones
she produces (one critic likened
her to "a spun - sugar confec-
tion"), Bidu Sayao, Whose con-
cert will be the feature of the
BIG Show, has won recognition
as one of the finest lyric sopra-
nos in Metropolitan Opera his-.
tory. It is a testimony to her
ROBERT R. NATHAN
musicianship t :i a t the great
Toscanini commissioned her first
American performance as a solo-
ist with his Philharmonic orch-
estra.
raw-boned and - lantern-
jawed, .Robert R. Nathan looks
like a prize fighter or a long-
Chen is an old and honored Chen who have purchased or
shoreman—anything but the top
economic expert he is. And he name for a new role of modern sold a minimum of $2,500 in Is-
rael Bonds. In Detroit, there are
speaks, not like a professor, but Jewish woman.
In Israel or in the United 33 such women—all but two pic-
in the colloquial and slangy
terms of the man on the street. States, Chen is the designation ' tured on this page. Many other
But he was the chief economic of women who have proven Detroit. women may enter the
planner of America's World War their devotion to the Jewish ranks of this select_ group by
II winning production effort, and state by hard work in a unique their sales on BIG Day this Sun-
day.
he provided the estimates of women's army.
As a .token of her achieve-
American productive capacity
In Israel, members of the
which guided Presidents Roose- Women's Army, Chen, serve un- ment, each Chen receives a
velt and Truman.
der military discipline and fill beautiful solid gold Chen Charm,
Glamorous Brazilian prima posts essential to the defense of especially designed. For - each
additional sale of $2,500, Chen
donna Bidu Say-
their homeland.
workers
earn an additional
ao is celebrated
In the United States; Chen' Charm. Each Chen Charm is
for such operatic
are members of a select women's symbolic of one of -the ancient
roles as Madame
group who contribute to the [Twelve Tribes of Israel whose
Butterfly, Juliet,
upbuilding of Israel by substan- decendants have returned to Is-
Manon, Mimi in
stantial sales of Israel bonds.
- rael from all parts of the world.
La Boheme, Vio-
Chen also means . charm in These Charms recall our link
letta in La Travi-
Hebrew. It is the traditional with the past and remind us
ata and Nedda in
word of praise or JeWish wom- of our present bond with Israel.
Pagliacci. She is
en, the spiritual quality more - Detroit Chen will meet Bidu
one of the fore-
Valued
than beauty.
Sayao and Robert Nathan at
most operatic in-
Only those U.S. women are brunch the morning of the 'BIG
terpreters of Mo-
entitled • to - bear the title of ;Show.
zart and an in-
dispensable Su-
sanna in any per-
formance' of The
Marriage of Fig - `:
aro and Rosina in
the Barber of Se-
ville.
It's quite a
switch from BIDU SAYAO
grand opera to the exotic,
rhythmic folk songs of her na-
tive Brazil but Miss Sayao makes
it easily. Her program at the
BIG Show Thursday will include
both operatic arias and several
lively, pulsating Brazilian folk Adimiring CHEN CHARMS are Women's Division co-chairman
tunes.
Slim, vivacious, dark- eyed, MRS. JOSEPH KATCHKE, CHEN Chairman MRS. JOSEPH NEW-
with red-gold hair, she has a MAN and National Sponsors Chairman MRS. ALBERT POTIKER.
Latin air and speaks English Charms are awarded for each $2,500 in Israel Bond sales or pur-
with a slight but charming ac- chase. Mrs. Katchke has already earned her 10th Charm.
cent.
She studied voice in secret for
years because her wealthy family
was opposed to a stage career.
Before World War II, Nathan,
though not yet 30, was chief of
the National Income Division of
the United States Department of
Commerce. He proved himself
an uncanny prophet of national
income, employment and busi::
ness prospects.
After Pearl Harbor, he was
named Chairman of the Plan-
ning Committee of the War Pro-
duction Board. He was respon-
sible for the economic planning
and programming of the nation-
al production effort.
Now a consulting economist,
'440,
his clients include the Jewish I
Completing
BIG Show plans are Mrs. Tom Borman, aided by Mrs.
Agency, the CIO and many of
Mrs. Albeit Potiker, Cash Col- Morris Tulupman, sold first
America's largest industries.
Co-author of the book, Pale- lection Chairman, and Mrs. Rob- Trustee Bond for BIG Show,
stine: Problem and Promise, he ert Drews, publicity chairman. earned her fifth Chen charm.
was one of the first to predict
that Israel - would be able to
absorb a tremendous influx of
A group of Detroit women who Detroit's National Sponsors,
immigrants without detriment to
have made outstanding contri- purchasers of $1,000 or more in
its economy.
Admission to the BIG Show butions to the Israel Bond drive Israel Bonds, and Chen, sellers
and the Bidu Sayao concert and will brunch with Bidu. Sayao and or purchasers of $2500 in bonds.
Robert Nathan lecture Thursday Robert R. Nathan at 10:30 I Following the brunch, Mr. Na-
will be by purchase of an Israel Thursday, the morning of the than will pin the special Spon-
sorship insignia on all .sponsors'
Bond or by the sale of $500 in, BIG Show.
Bonds. i Invited to •• the brunch are all present.
CHEN
Detroit Women of Distinction Help Speed Israel Growth
Mrs. S. Yagoda Mrs. J. KatchkeMrs. P. HelfmanMrs. A. Potiker
Mrs. M. Sterns Mrs. M. Steilman
Mrs. P. Stollman
Mrs. Waldman.
Mrs. H. Portnoy Mrs. Julius Ring Mrs. J. Sauls Mrs.. A. Schreier
Miss B. Levin Mrs. L. LittmanMrs. Mendelson Mrs. C. Milan
k
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Mrs. Harry Kay Mrs. Kurtzman Mrs. Ben Laikin Mrs. L. LaMed
Mrs. I. I. Co n Mrs. B. Dosie Mrs. B. Golden Mrs. C. Heiman
Sponsors, Chen Brunch- With Sayao, Nathan
Mrs. George Liss Mrs. Langwald
Mrs, N ., Allaa,n Mrs. Benj. Bond
CHEN not pictured are Mrs. Philip Cotter, Miss Josephine. Go
bin and Mrs. Joseph Newman.