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 q•s• 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.