Swinging Down the Lane With Tea Leaves

Barbara Berger to Wed English for Foreign Born
Offered at Rackham
Michael Zonder in July Three courses in English for the

for a fact that some of the better- you will find any-where in the
BY CHARLOTTE HYAMS
foreign born are being offered this
Shades of Israel Zangwill, I quality items probably fell off a U-nited Kingdom. Just look at this
'ere genu-ine china, missus, 'ave
fall by the University Center for
thought times had changed since truck — by accident, of course.
Adult Education at the Rackham
London's Children of the Ghetto
This is not to imply that the you ever seen anything like it?
Building. Each course is designed
spent their last thruppence on a sellers in the Lane are semi-shady Come on, wot am I offered for this
to help the non-native speaker of
kipper for the Sabbath.
characters. On the contrary, the ex-cellent china, 99 pieces in all
English acquire proficiency in a
But no, time has stood still in members of the Stepney Traders (all 99 jump as he pounds the
particular aspect of his adopted
Petticoat Lane—that world unto Association are pledged to deal on cart) at o-nly 25 bob, ladies and
language.
itself near Whitechapel, East End, the square. That wind-up toy bear gents. No? All right, then, o-nly 20
bob
(pounds
cart)
for
the
entire
The basic course, Vocabulary Im-
wound
up
when
you
bought
it;
if
where British Jews once cried
lot. NO? Don't you know a good
provement for the Foreign Born,
their eyes out in poverty and now it refuses to wind five minutes thing
when you see it? Aw, get out
is offered at 8:10 p.m. Wednesdays.
return to for a salt-beef sandwich later, it's your own fault. Business of 'ere,
all of you; you've made me
Two more advanced courses are
is business.
at Bloom's.
bloody angry."
offered at 6:20 p.m. Thursdays
Take
the
chap
selling
"the
best-
Although London's Jewish popu-
Aunt Elsie recognized a fel-
Classes begin Monday.
lation has graduated to the West quality china, ladies and gents, low who's been selling old clothes
For information and registration
End and its posh suburbs, Petti-
for years. "Business isn't so good
on over 260 other courses designed
coat Lane lives on—from 11 a.m.
today,"
he
admitted,
"just
a
lit-
especially for adults, call the Cen-
to 2 p.m. Sundays—partly as a Designers to Lecture
tle 'ere and a little there." 'e
ter's offices, 831-4310.
nostalgic reminder of sadder days, at the Antique Show
shakes 'is 'ead, and the Ameri-
partly as a tourist guide must-see.
A lecture series entitled "How can visitor feels bad indeed.
Time always stands still if it'll to Decorate With Antiques" will
"What a pity," she says later,"
draw enough tourists, and there highlight the 14th Detroit Antique it must be very hard to make a
ARE YOU
MISS BARBARA BERGER
were plenty of them that Sun- Show, now through Sunday at Light living in the Lane."
,y1
SHOPPING M
Mr. and Mrs. Irving Berger of
day, disguised, of course, as na- Guard Armory, on East 8-Mile. The
"Oh, I don't know," says Uncle
tives. Mingling with the deni- featured speakers are all members Alf, "he just does this for fun. Curtis Ave. announce the engage- "FOR FURNITURE?
zens of the Lane and its alumni, of the American Institute of Inter- He's got a very nice house in the ment of their daughter Barbara ti
to Michael Zonder, son of Dr. and
the foreign freshmen streamed ior Designers and affiliated with West End."
Be Your Own
Mrs. Jack Zonder of Rosemary
into Middlesex Street, their shops. After each lecture, there
Ave., Oak Park.
trusty "macs" drooping over will be a question and answer
Miss Berger attended the Uni- 0 Interior Decorator
. their left arm to ward off rain.
session, where the audience may
versity
of Michigan and is current-
ET our experienced Interior
On their right arm, the ladies discuss their individual problems.
ly enrolled at Wayne State Uni-
clutched their handbags, patting
11 .• Decorating Staff tastefully
Sept. 17 will bring Mrs. Linda
versity.
Her
fiance
graduated
from
• custom-design your roam, giv-
them every so often to make sure Piet front and center at 2:30 p.m.
Wayne State and is now attending w ing you a floor plan showing
no "tea leaves" filtering through
Sept. 18 at 8 p.m., Ken K. Drei-
what kind and size of furni-
the mob had made off with their
Wayne Circuit Court Judge Vic- the University of Detroit's school N
m tore your room requires.
belbeis will speak on using antiques tor J. Baum urges his fellow mem- of dentistry.
travelers checks.
bers of the bench and bar to take . The couple plans to be married
Mow you can save money by
("Tea leaves," according to in present day decorating.
Sunday, 3:30 p.m., Robert Call- the lead in controlling "the di- July 31.
IN shopping where and when
Uncle Alf, who knows the Lane
you please with ease.
like the back of his hand, are what away will speak on proper ap- vorce epidemic" in a recent issue
Treachery, though at first very
of the Wayne
cockney thieves call each other. preciation of antiques and the cor
OR' IF you prefer, we will
cautious, in the end betrays itself.
Law Review.
In their own inimitable fashion, rect combination of the best of
r•1
help you select and buy
The U.S. De-
the cockney Londoners refer to the new and the old.
r..1 furniture at savings.
partment
of
Show Manager Ervin A. Steiner,
SAM ROSENBLAT
feet as "plates of meat," stairs as
Health, Educa-
"apples and pears" and other Jr., announced that the Detroit
Master of Ceremonies
DI 1-3700
tion and Welfare
equally 'overly cadences. It is said Antique Show will make a con-
And His
asked Judge
the real cockneys are Londoners tribution to the A.I.D. scholarship
Dance and Entertainment
rICUSTOM INTERIOR
Baum to reprint
born within sound of the bells of fund. The lectures will be held in
Band
and circulate the
Bow Church, and since the old the Designers Theatre, on the lower
Party Arrangemefit Specialist
DESIGNERS
3 0-p a g e article.
Jewish quarter was in that area, level of the Armory, while the
UN 4-0237
KE 8-1291
Pointing out
the original cockneys were Jews.) main level will house the largest
■ ■
there are 15,000,
The first item on the agenda for Antique Show in the midwest,
000
living
Amer-
-the visitor is to be grabbed by a bringing dealers from five dif-
icans who have
photographer, have two terrified ferent states and offering over 70
been divorced,
monkeys thrust into her arms, and individual exhibits.
Judge Baum im-
have herself taken. Ten shillings
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Judge Baum presses upon
worth. Even in real money ($1.40), Yeshiva U. Opens Year
• Moth Proofing FREE
lawyers
their
"heavy
responsibility
that's a lot for three snapshots-
With 6,000 Enrollment
to call into play those skills which
including-postage.
• 35 Yards — $15
NEW YORK — Yeshiva Univer- are best adapted to ameliorating
But, like the "tea leaves," you
42 Years Experience
sity will open its 80th academic the marriage which has become
learn fast in the Lane.
unbearable."
Recommending
pro-
Most of the pushcarts still be- year with a burst of activity high-
long to the Jews; a number of lighted by occupancy of a new fessional marriage counseling by
them have been acquired by In- graduate center and a new dormi- a behavioral scientist, he suggests,
dians. In all fairness to the lat- tory for students at Stern College is particularly effective in a great
ter, it should be pointed out that for Women, as well as start of con- number of cases.
Judge Baum complains that
their merchandise looks better. struction of a science center and
law schools pay too little atten-
Actually, the whole idea of the Central University Library.
These developments, designed tion to this important aspect
Lane isn't quality, it's variety:
lampshades, belts, pletzels and to meet an expanding enrollment of civil litigation and asks that
bagels (not like Detroit's), house- that has reached a record 6,000 the bar "join in upgrading the
dresses, laces, shoes, old clothes, this year, are part of the "Blue- teaching and practice of domes-
pots and pans, toys, jellied eels. print for the Sixties" expansion tic relations law."
He writes of the necessity for
Anything you could possibly want program set in motion by Dr.
—and an equal amount of anything Samuel Belkin, president, on the a "canon of legal ethics which re-
occasion of the University's 75th quires the lawyer to review, in
you could not possibly want.
good faith with his client, the
Where some of the goods came anniversary in 1961.
Returned from
possibility
of improving the mar-
from only God and the vendor
riage
and
the
wisdom
of
such
a
Want ads get quick results!
know. Cousin Brian says he knoWs
Interlochen
course."
Some divorce law reform is
Bay View
French
advisable, writes Judge Baum, but
_
Provincial
"making
a
divorce
harder
to
get
Summer Music Schools
GL_ASSIC EB
Fruitwood
does not improve marriages and
may well lead to family disintegra-
VERY SPECIAL PRICES!
tion without formal divorce." He
recommends family life courses
These instruments have been used by some of the finest
and pre-marriage counseling for
students • and teachers this past summer only at the Bay
young people, at the same time
View and Interlochen Music Schools . . . Only once a year,
condemning "the unwholesome in-
can we offer Baldwin at these prices and they are being
fluences of the mass communica-
tions media."
reduced in number very quickly.
In referring to the importance
of religious commitments to a
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that the "most stable marriages
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THE OUTSTANDING CONSOLE: BUY
Judge Baum also is the author
it is about impossible to locate a used
of an article, "Government Im-
Use our Home Design or Your Own
console piano that compares in value with
munity in Michigan," published
our own sale-priced console piano . . . 50 Mah. or Wel.
NORMAN N. SNYDER LEOPOLD J. SNYDER
in the Journal of the State Bar
With
year guarantee on sound board and 10
Bench
Sales
Construction and Design •
of Michigan, in which he deals
year warranty on workmanship and material.'
with problems raised by the bar
Phone: 863-9629
exams, the lawyer and the Civil
Rights Commission and other
DETROIT
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recent legal developments.
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5510 Woodward
This article, also reprinted in
MI 7-117Z
TR 3-6800
Eves. Mon.,
pamphlet form, is richly annotated
Daily 9.9
Thurs., Fri.
and .quotes relevant statutes.
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Article on Divorce
by Judge Baum
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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
34—Friday, September 17, 1965

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