MS, THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS—Friday, August 14, 1959-22 IMP Curtain Going Up on Jewish Center Theater Season, Sept. 9 By CHARLOTTE HYAMS "There is no longer a magical distinction between a profes- sional actor and a well-trained amateur," claims Jerome Bayer, Director of the Jewish Com- munity Center dramatics de- partment. And the ambitious, energetic Bayer is out to prove it with the first complete drama season beginning Sept. 9. According to Bayer, "We don't want to make professional actors. But we do hope to achieve a quality of perform- ances the Jewish community can enjoy." Since he feels that good adult actors are often the result of years of training, Bayer's dra- matic program at the center begins with four children's groups in creative drama: three teams of youngsters and a fourth team of tween-agers. Another group of teen-age apprentices receives training in stagecraft and techniques. Then, as part of the Jewish Center's "Ladies' Day Out" recreation program, there are the Ladies on Stage sessions, including im- promptu acting exercises and periodic presentations. But it is the Center Theater itself that Bayer considers the "heart and center of the dra- matic department." Comprised of adults, 18 years and older, the group will en- gage in a cortiprehensive pro- gram of activities: Monday eve- ning acting clinics; two monthly membership meetings on Wed- nesday evenings; a "workshop on wheels" mobile unit which renders community service; in- formal "audience on stage" nights; and three major produc- tions. Bayer feels that a drama de- partment in a Jewish Center is "different" from other theater groups in that "we try to pre-. sent plays with a relationship to Jewish life, yet also empha- size the brotherhood of man by representing the finest of all cultures." He added that the troupe also should "get off the beaten track" by presenting fine plays not so frequently provided by Northland Playhouse Greenfield at 81/2 Mile Road thru SUNDAY, AUG. 16 Extra Performance Sun., Aug. 16, 5 p.m. KENNETH E. SCHWARTZ PRESENTS szoRroymEriln5114 SKULNIK CAWAND Mg. SIMON' Reservations EL 7-0220 Good seats at Playhouse Drive-in Box Office; Cass Theater, Down- town; Marwil's Eastland, Northland, $1.85, $3.85. other groups. "We want a bal- anced diet." The group's first public per- formance of the season, Bayer said, will be Sholem Aleichem's "Tale of Helm" to be presented during Book Week. Starring the same cast that performed the musical hit for the Book Week of the year be- fore, the play will precede a series of major productions: "The Curious Savage" by 'John Patrick, in December; "The Cold Wind and the Warm" by S. N. Berman in February; and a spring festival featuring some unusual play of world renown. The first of these plays; "The Curious Savage" will be read and analyzed at the Sept. 9 meeting. Bayer emphasized that the success of the season depends on the co-operation of the pub- lic. "We hope to sustain the in- terest of a large group of peo- ple to do all kinds of things— not just act." Born and reared in Califor- nia where he received two U. of C. degrees, Bayer has gath- ered experience from many sources: as a theater consultant for the national USO, as the organizer of an experimental theater in Hollywood, head of the department of creative dra- ma at Camp Robinson Crusoe, director of an experiment in creative dramatics for the New York Board of Education, and a student of theater in New York, Paris and Vienna. In addition, he has lectured at New York University, Cali- fornia's Mills College and the National Welfare Board, and has written more than 100 ra- dio and television plays and a number of critical articles. Bayer's first Detroit produc- tion was in January of this year when he was invited from Bal- timore, where he headed the Jewish Community Center, to direct the play "Grow Old Along with Me" on the theme of the Jewish Home for the Aged. At that time he organized the Cen- ter Theater. How does he feel about the coming season? "Excited." But, according to Bayer, that's the effect of the theater. "I remem- ber one girl telling me: 'When I first joined, I thought I'd be happy to get a little part in a play. But this is more than a little part . . It's a way of life !' " 12 Days of Parties, Games Spark Tamarack Carnival "Carnival Time" has been pro- claimed at Tamarack Lodge, of Greenfield, N.Y., by owner Dave Levinson. The annual 12-day celebra- tion, beginning Aug. 23, will. be held this year in honor of Lev- inson's new $1,000,000 night- club, Club on the Green. Highlights of the carnival will be numerous Broadway revues, house party, beauty contest, cocktail _party and the annual athletic competition, with prizes of a free weekend at the resort. AwER I CAN FESTIAL STATE FAIR GROUNDS BAND SHELL AUGUST 14, 15, 16 Executive Producer, Ed Sarkesian LEONARD FEATHER, M.C. Tickets on sale at Grinnell's, 1515 Woodward Ave. and Land of Hi-Fi, 8880 Grand River Box Seats $6.00 Reserved Section $4.75, $3.75, $2.75, $1.75 Please enclosed self-addressed, stamped envelope for mail orders. FRIDAY, AUGUST 14 • Max Roach Quintet • Dakota Staton • Dave Brubeck Quartet with Paul Desmond • Maynard Ferguson & Orch. • Thelonious Monk Quart. • Dukes of Dixieland SATURDAY, AUG. 15 • Chico -Hamilton Quint. • Chris Connor • Andre Previn Trio • Newport Jazz All-Stars with George Wein, Buck Clayton Pee Wee Russell, Vic Dickinson, Jimmy Rushing • Duke Ellington & Orch. SUNDAY; AUGUST 16 • Jack Teagarden • Four Freshmen • Ahmad Jamal Trio • Gene Krupa Quartet • Oscar Peterson Trio • Stan Kenton & Orch. Danny Raskin's LISTENING DR. ABE PEARLMAN and his "harem" of wife, Sylvia, and four daughters (Marilyn,' Linda, Judy and Carol) came back from a month's vacation to the West Coast extolling the exciting wonderments of Las Vegas . . . Former Detroiter Ed Moss, one of the owners of the Sahara, where the Pearl- man gang stayed, asked them what they wanted to see in Ve- gas and that was it! . . . Where- ever they went, people were lined up cramming to get in, but there was always a table for the Pearlmans. * * * HANK GREENSPUN of the Las Vegas Sun, mentioned to Abe, "It's not true that ev- erybody leaves here broke. I know one fellow who left here with $100,000. The fact that he came here with three hun- dred thousand had nothing to do with it!" SAM DICTOR, ex-Detroiter living in California, came to meet the Pearlmans in Vegas as a semi-retired businessman . . His son Larry, will take over the running of Camp Kio- wa, and ex-Detroiter Sid Stol- ler, with Sam all these years, will head his Kiowa Lodge health resort for women . . . But Sam is still keeping his fingers in a couple of other pots . . . He bought an interest in a super market and has also returned to his former Detroit ways and means . . . When Sam left here for California about 12 years ago, he sold his insurance business to Harry Bauman, and after all this time is finally back in it . . . as a west coast representative for Lloyds of London . . They also want him to open an of- fice in Alaska as their repre- sentative in the new state . . . but he just can't picture him- self behind a desk made out of ice! . . . * * * BLOOD BANK RALLY by Knights of Pythias, Detroit No. 55, will be held today, at the K. of P. Castle Hall, 15787 Wyoming . . . A Red Cross mo- bile unit will be on hand from 6 p.m. until 11 p.m. . . . The men of Detroit No. 55 will serve as baby sitters so that as many people as possible can come and donate some life-giv- ing fluid . . . Iry Aaron is chair- man . . . If you need baby- sitter arrangements for the night. call the Castle Hall, UN 2-9551. * * * SADIE POMERANZ was gar- dening in the back yard of her home on Woodingham, laSt week, transplanting trees and shrubberies that her neighbor, Shirley Malamud, was getting rid of . . . She had been dig- ging sizeable holes for trees all day long from early morn- ing until about 4 p.m. . . . The back yard was strewn with shovels and rakes, and. Sadie had just finished filling a large hole around a tree when the phone rang . . She rushed into the house and a gentle- man's voice said, "Is this Mrs Pomeranz? This is the Blank Blank Cemetery. We're calling all Protestants in the neigh- borhood. Have you selected your family plot yet?" Avait 1,200 Delegates for ZOA Convention NEW YORK, (JTA) — The 62nd annual convention of the Zionist Organization of Amer- ica will be held Sept. 10 to 13, at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., it was an- nounced by Abraham A. Redel- heim, ZOA president. Dedicated to the Herzl Cen- tennial Year, marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of the founder of modern Zionism, the forthcoming convention is expected to draw 1,200 dele- gates from all parts of the country, according to election reports already received in the Charge Israel with Trying to Scatter Arabs in Land NEW YORK, (AJP) — The Arab Information Center here charged that "the Israel gov- ernment's - decision to relax re- strictions on the movement of Arabs in Israel is a disguised attempt to disperse some 213,- 000 Arabs who, not choosing to leave their homes, have been suffering for the past 11 years under inhuman racial and religious discrimination." (Prior, the Israel Knesset ad- journed without taking any ac- tion on the bill to repeal the emergency regulations affect- ing the Israel Arabs.) CI national Z 0 A headquarters here. The four-day sessions will be given over to discussions and action pertaining to the vital problems confronting the Zionist movement, embracing such issues as the projected new structure of the World Zionist Organization, the role of the ZOA on the American Jewish scene, the relationship between diaspora and Israel, the enlistment of youth into the Zionist fold and the • fight against assimilation. Ben-Gurion Enters Hospital for Routine Examination , JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Prime Minister David Ben - Gurion entered the hospital here Wednesday for a routine check- up. After the hospital examina- tion, he is expected to complete his interrupted vacation, rest- ing for another week before presumably preparing for par- ticipation in the coming elec- tion campaign. MUSIC! ENTERTAINMENT! 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