Fraternity's f 'Fifth Season' Coming to Shubert,
Pioneer Women Set Program' Pharmacy
Original Members Help
Is Comedy About Garment Industry
For World's Child's Day
Celebrate 25th Year
MILKY, the magic clown, entertains seven-year-old SUSAN
MESSER (left) and ELAINE MESSER, 9, while looking on in back
are Mrs. JACK GOSMAN (left) and Mrs. JACK ABRAMSON, chair-
men of the children's program planned by Pioneer Women in be-
half of World Jewish Child's Day.
Detroit Council of Pioneer <1
Women has scheduled a three- on March 23, in the Veterans
way effort to provide funds for Memorial Bldg.
the rescue of children from Child's Day, which originally
North Africa on the occasion of was proclaimed in Israel, has
World Jewish Child's Day, to ft e become an educational and pub-
celebrated March 20 in Jewish lie relations event for Jewish
communities throughout the youth throughout the world. Its
world. Pioneer women locally spirit has fostered a solidarity
are planning a children's party, for American children with their
cannister collection and Spring brothers and sisters in Israel,
Ball. states Mrs. Gerson Berris, pres-
The first of the three events, ident of the Detroit Council.
Cooperating in the program
the children's party, is sched-
•uled for March 13, in the social of Child Rescue, or Youth Ali-
hall of Cong. Bnai Moshe. yah, are Mizrachi Women, Ha-
Harriet Berg, who will be mis- dassah and Pioneer Women,
Their joint e f f o r t s enable
tress of ceremonies, will intro-
duce the guests of the day: thousands of children to look
Milky, the Twin Pines magic forward to a home in Israel.
Once the rescue is effected,
clown, Gary Jennings Puppets,
Habonim and children of the funds made available expressly
through Youth Aliyah are used
United Jewish Folk Schools.
A coin book, which has slots to clothe, feed and educate the
for nickels, dimes and quarters, youngsters in various immigrant
has been issued by the organiza- training centers.
To date, 15,000 youth from
tion to be filled by the children,
entitling them to attend the North Africa alone have come to
Israel. Many of them have been
program without charge.
The cannister collection, in settled in strategic border areas;
which students at various re- graduates from Youth Aliyah
ligious schools throughout the schools are filling posts in im-
city will cooperate with Pioneer portant aspects of Israeli life;
Women, is planned for March about 65 percent of the gradu-
20. Concluding the Child's Day ates have gone into settlements
activities will be the Spring Ball or the Army Corps.
Twenty-five years ago 15 .
young students at the Detroit
College of Pharmacy pledged Al-
pha Zeta Omega, 'professional
pharmaceutical fraternity. Next
Sunday, they will celebrate their
silver anniversary as the Omi-
cron Chapter of AZO.
During the anniversary festi-
vities, the members will review
the spirit of fraternalism that
sent aid to the destitute in the
Louisville floods of the 1930's,
the donation of an ambulance
during Israel's fight for inde-
pendence and the fund which
permitted them to stock the
pharmacy wing of the Hadas-
sah Hospital in Israel.
The fraternity also has estab-
lished scholarship funds at both
Wayne University and the De-
troit Institute of Technology for
pharmaceutical students.
Of the 15 original members,
all but one still resides in De-
troit, most of them in the re-
tail pharmacy field. They are
Max Kbrnwise, Eppie Switzer,
Morris Starr, Harry Berlin, Jack
Borsand, Seymour Morton, Hen-
ry Raskin, Harold Ellias, Sam
Levitt, Gilbert Levy, Edward
Rothenberg, Sam Rappaport, Ir-
win Buchalter, Max Millman and
Sidney Ellias.
Phillip Neuman, who present-
ly serves as president of the or-
ganization, advises that Myron
Levine is chairman of the an-
niversary committee, with Joe
Whitefield and Burton -Platt,
co-chairmen.
The major program will be a
dinner-dance, at Bel-Aire Ter-
race, preceded by a cocktail hour
at 6:30 p.m. Dick Stein and his
orchestra will play for dancing.
Former members interested in
information or reservations,
should call Levine, UN. 4-4621.
Pictured here in a scene from "The Fifth Season," comedy
about models in the New York fashion industry, are, left to right:
JOSEPH BULOFF, ALLEN COLLI, MELISSA WESTON, RENE ROY
and RITA BERNARD The play comes to the Shubert Theater for
two weeks beginning Sunday.
*
, "The Fifth Season," Sylvia
Regan's hit comedy which co-
stars- Chester Morris and Joseph
Buloff, will open at the Shubert
Theater on Sunday for a two-
week engagement. The play has
been singled out by Oscar Hand-
lin, professor of history at Har-
vard University as being one of
the best representations of Jew-
ish life in modern times, as told
in theatrical terms.
Tribute to the play appeared
in Prof. Handlin's "Adventure in
Freedom," published last Octo-
ber as part of the American
Jewish Tercentenary celebra-
tion. Handlin wrote, "A comedy
like 'The Fifth Season' ; . ; deals
with the positions (of Jews) as
Jews is human, realistic terms,
for all the world to see."
"The Fifth Season" is the
story of two partners who man-
ufacture women's suits on New
York's Seventh Avenue—a firm
named Goodwin and Pincus.
The senior member of the firm
is never specified as big Jewish,
but the theatergoer suspects he
chose an Anglicized name.
Max Pincus, however, is clear-
ly a Jew, and so is the girl
named Miriam Oppenheim who
comes to work in his office as a
bookkeeper and with whom he
falls in love.
The play ran for 82 weeks in
New York, and for four months
each in London and Chicago. It
has played to mixed audiences
of Jews and non-Jews, and it
has met with equal enthusiasm.
22-DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, March 4, 1955
Cincinnati Columnist Wins Honors
For 50 Years of Service with Paper
Alfred M. Segal, a columnist
for the Seven Arts Syndicate,
English-Jewish weekly feature
•
service, and for 50 years a news-
man on the Cincinnati Post, was
recently honored by the Nation-
al Conference of Christians and
Jews with a citation for exem-
plary work.
The honor accorded the col-
umnist, brother of Mrs. Malke
Gage, of Detroit, was given a
place of prominence in Time
Magazine (Feb. 28 issue) and in
the trade publication Editor and
Publisher, on Feb. 26.
Segal who has conducted the
Post's "Cincinnatus" column for
34 years was
cited by NCCJ
and the Cincin-
nati Chamber of
Commerce with
0 the praise: "His
writings and his
personal life
have been t h e
ideals and aims
of the NCCJ. He
has done much
and is still do-
Segal
ing much to
make Brotherhood more mean-
ingful and more alive to the
wide audience for which he
writes."
In the past, other groups
have referred to Segal as a
"Ch a mp ion of Minorities,"
"Good Neighbor of the Year"
and he was even made a Grand
Duke in the Hoboes of America.,
Inc., for writing "the most con-
vincing column."
Segal was given a gold wrist
watch from the Post, with the
inscription, "To Al, the Consci-
ence of Cincinnati." The '11-
year-old columnist was forced to
miss a golden jubilee party
thrown for him by the News-
paper Guild because of illness.
A student for the rabbinate,
Segal gave the idea up ‘.`for the
wider pulpit in print" where he
could spread his ideas to the
multitudes. When he graduated
from Hebrew Union College, he
started on the Post, and within
three years was city editor. He
did not like the desk work, and
went back to reporting. In 1931
he started his column.
The "warmth he gave his col-
umn, Cincinnatus, which relates
everything about the city from
a warm, nice summer day to
exposes of graft and corruption,
has won Segal a wide and re-
spected readership.
Among the notes he cherishes
most, however, is one from a
Protestant clergyman who said:
"I envy you, Al Segal. You have
the largest congregation in the
city, and you don't have to live
with it."
Brandeis GIts 1,000 Volumes
WATHAM, Mass.—A consign-
ment of 1,000 volumes, primarily
in the field of Judaica, has been
presented to the Brandeis Uni-
versity library by Rabbi Louis I.
Newman. of T•'m p 1 e _Rodeph
Sholom, New York.
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