Nila Magidoff, Russian-born
wife of former National Broad-
casting Company correspondent
Robert Magidoff, will relate her
personal experiences in "Siberia
to Broadway" at a program
planned for 1:15 p.m., Monday,
in Temple
Beth El.
Under spon-
sorship of the
Beth El Sister-
hood, Mrs.
Magidoff will
describe h e r
wi del y-d i ver-
gent experi-
ences in Rus-
sia, during
which she de-
signed clothes,
worked in fac-
tor i e s, ex-
plored the wil-
Mrs. Magidoff der n e s s of
central Asia, traveled around
Europe as a Merchant Marine
sailor, became an author and a
Moscow newspaperwoman.
Her interesting life was the
subject of the book, "Nila,"
which is being made into a
musical comedy to play Broad-
way during the next season.
Originally planned as straight
drama, the play's producers
were so impressed with Mrs. Ma-
gidoff's "show" at New York
Town Hall that they are re-
writing it as a musical and even
asked her to play the lead
which she turned down.
For a time, Mrs. Magidoff
was exiled in Siberia. She re-
turned to Moscow where she
met her husband, and they
were married in 1937. After
coming here before Pearl Har-
bor, she rejoined her husband
in Moscow during the war. They
both left in 1948, when he was
expelled on charges of spying
for the U.S. Government.
Mrs. Major Siegel, who is
chairman of the afternoon's
program, invites the public to
attend at no charge.
Plan Dance to Swell
Louis Marshall Fund
The annual fund-raising pro
gram of the Louis Marshall
Benevolent Fund will this year
take the form of a Spring
Dance, to be held on Sunday
evening, at the Sheraton-Cadil-
lac Hotel.
The fund, now in its Bar
Mitzvah year, was organized 13
years ago to aid members of
Louis Marshall Lodge and
Chapter of Bnai Brith in fi-
nancial distress because of pro-
longed or serious illness.
According to Ludwig Boraks,
president, the non-publicized
fund has provided funds with
"no red tape or strings at-
tached." Most of the cases in-
volved people who could not
or would not accept public
charity.
Planned for this year's dance
are music by Sammy Woolf
and his orchestra, entertain-
ment and prizes. Tickets are
available from Boraks, TY
8-8100, or Mrs. Ben Dorf, fund-
raising chairman, UN 3-7186.
activities in Society
Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Hack, former Detroiters now of Cali
fornia, have sailed for an extended tour of Europe, during which
they will spend three months visiting in 15 countries including
Israel. Mr. Hack, chairman of the board of the Ripple Sole Corp.
and founder of the Hack Shoe Co. here, will, during his travels,
talk to and inspect facilities of franchised merchants of his
famed Ripple Sole.
Mr. Jules Doneson, manager of the travel agency bearing
his name, left last week for visits to Copenhagen, Athens,
Vienna and Tel Aviv. Mr. Doneson was one of 20 travel agents
in the Western Hemisphere to win a winter sales contest free
trip to Athens, inaugurating the Scandinavian Airlines' Services
from New York to Greece. After visiting Copenhagen and
Athens as the guest of SAS, Mr. Doneson will fly to Israel for
his fifth visit to the Jewish state and will spend several days
in Vienna before returning home.
Miss Evelyn Gurvitch, Detroit pianist and teacher, will join
with Shirley Lachman Fink in a piano recital at 8:30 p.m.,
Wednesday, in the lecture hall of the Detroit Institute of Arts
for a benefit performance for the Children's Leukemia Folinda-
tion. They will present for the first time in Detroit a Sonata by
Francis Poulenc, in addition to works by Mozart, Saint-Saens
and Rachmaninoff. Tickets may be obtained at Grinnell's or the
Evelyn Gurvitch Studio, 2633 W. Grand Blvd., TR. 2-2900.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Zide, of 18214 Ohio, have just concluded
a stay at the Riviera Hotel, in Las Vegas, Nev.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Yanich and their children, formerly of
this city, are now residing at 12680 N.E. Miami Ct., North Miami,
Fla., where Mr. Yanich is a field representative with the Greater
Miami State of Israel Bond office. Before moving to Florida,
the Yaniches were in Jerusalem, where he worked as chief
community organizer for the Hadassah Medical Organization's
division of community health services from 1953 to 1957. Mr.
Yanich's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Yanich, also former De-
troiters, are residing at the same address.
Cardinal Owner Supports Project
to Bring Baseball to Israel
August A. Busch, Jr. owner
of the St. Louis Cardinals base-
ball team, will be honored at a
dinner here June 4 to hail his
support of the introduction of
baseball in Israel.
Among those attending the
dinner will be Herman Fish-
man, of Detroit, a member of
the national board of the U. S.
Committee for Sports in Israel,
who last spring was one of the
originators of the idea to start
baseball in Israel.
In organizing the Detroit
Chapter, Fishman and other
sportsminded Detroiters had
agreed to work for this idea,
and are currently working up
Wayne State to Hold
Seminar on Professors
A two-day symposium on
"The College Professor" will
be sponsored by Wayne State
University this Wednesday and
Thursday, in the Rackham
Bldg. and the Detroit Institute
of Arts.
Among the featured panelists
will be Dr. David Riesman, so-
ciologist from the University
of Chicago, and Dr. Norbert
Wiener, mathematician and cy-
berneticist from the Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology.
Dr. Riesman is widely known
for his "The Lonely Crowd,"
an analysis of the changing
character of American Society.
He was a former law clerk
to the late Supreme Court Jus-
tice Louis D. Brandeis.
Dr. Wiener and Dr. Riesman
will join with Dr. Harold
Taylor, philosopher and presi-
dent of Sarah Lawrence Col-
and Dr. Helen White,
Northland ORT Group lege,
chairman of the University of
Slates Fashion Show
Wisconsin English department
Northland Chapter of Wom- in a panel discussion which
en's ORT will hold a fashion concludes the parley at 8 p.m.,
show on Wednesday afternoon, Thursday, in the Art Institute.
April 23, in the social hall of
Temple Beth El, announce co- Mrs. Joshua Sperka
chairmen Mesdames Richard
to Review Eban Book
Lurie and Robert Stone.
Mrs. Joshua Sperka will re-
Twenty-four children and 15
mothers will model the latest view Abba Eban's "The Voice
in children's and women's of Israel," at an open meeting
of the Sisterhood of the Young
clothes.
President Mrs. Robert Metz Israel Center of Oak-Woods on
announces that a luncheonette Wednesday.
A slate of officers will be
will be served at 12:30, preced-
ing the show and prizes will be presented for the coming elec-
tion, and the Sisterhood con-
awarded.
For tickets or further infor- stitution will be read for ratifi-
mation, call Mrs. Norman Stern, cation. A social hour will follow
the business meeting.
UN 3-0137.
a substantial local membership
to back the baseball project.
Although seriously handi-
capped by a dearth of "big
money" support, the Detroiters
are helping to select coaches
and players who will go to
Israel to teach the game and
bring Israeli players here to
study techniques of playing.
At a luncheon meeting last
Thursday, University of Michi-
gan track coach Don Canham,
who has been in 37 foreign
countries to help develop sports,
spoke of the "absolute neces-
sity for sports interrelationship
between Israel and America."
Meanwhile, in New York,
Marvin Kratter, chairman of the
"Baseball in Israel" group of
the sports committee, stated
that the central baseball sta-
dium to be established in Israel
will be named Busch Stadium in
honor of Busch and his contri-
butions toward the project.
The stadium will be con-
structed on the grounds of the
Orde Wingate Institution for
Physical Education, which will
overlook the Mediterranean
Sea some eight miles north of
Tel Aviv.
An enthusiastic supporter of
the baseball promotion cam-
paign is U. S. Ambassador to
Israel Edward B. Lawson, who,
impressed with the results of
basketball, track and swimming
projects, is given credit for
initiating the idea of sponsoring
baseball in the new democracy.
Dr. Maurice Shudofsky
to Speak on Israel
Dr. Maurice Shudofsky,
Wayne State University profes-
sor of Semitics, will address a
meeting of the Zionist Organiza-
tion of Detroit at 8:30 p.m.,
Wednesday at the Esther Ber
man branch of UHS, 18977
Schaefer. His topic is "Gazing
into Israel's Future."
Dr. Shudofsky is a noted
Semitics scholar and the au-
thor of several books, the lat-
est, "The Hebrew Impact on
Colonial America," now in the
process of publication. He has
also lectured throughout the
U.S., Israel, Canada, France
and Italy.
ZOD president, Milton Mar-
wil and program chairman
Rabbi Milton Arm invite any-
one interested in Jewish cul-
ture to attend.
Betrothal Told
Mattathias Tent Hive
to Hold Family Night
Mattathias Tent Hive,
of the Maccabees, has sched-
uled a family night program at
8:30 p.m., Thursday, at Lutzker
Hall, on James Couzens. Live
entertainment and refreshments
will be featured. Friends are in-,
vited at no admission charge.
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Charlene Faith, to Myer J.
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Bloom,- of Harrisburg, Pa., and
the late -Mr. Bloom. An August
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the couple will reside in Harris-
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Harold Berke to Speak
in Habonim Series
Harold Berke, of the Israel
Bond Office and formerly as-
sociated with the Detroit Israel
Histadrut Campaign, will be
guest speaker at a meeting of
Habonim this Sunday evening.
The program, open to the
Bonim and Noar groups (ages
15 to 23), is the fourth in a
series of lectures on Histadrut
and American labor. The meet-
ing will begin at 7 p.m., in the
Hayim Greenberg Center, 19161
Schaefer. Berke will speak on
"Histadrut Policy Toward Pri-
vate Enterprise."
Following the program, there
will be a rehearsal for a four-
part cantata, being presented as
a feature of Habonim's 19th
annual "neshef" (conference),
which is slated for May 3, in
the Greenberg Center.
Applications are currently
being taken for Camp Habonim,
Three Rivers, Mich., for youth
between 10 and 17. For in-
formation, call DI. 1-9666.
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Nila Magidoff Here
for Beth El Women
on Monday Afternoon