Held emanKriegerVows Local Scenic Designer to Recall Scheduled for Summer Good Old Days in Yiddish Theater MISS RUTH HEIDEMAN Mr. and Mrs. Philip E. Heideman of Pennington Dr. announce the engagement of their daughter Ruth Nina to Harvey J. Krieger, son of Mr. and Mrs. Saul Krieger of Mar- lowe Ave. Miss Heideman attended the University of Michigan and is now a senior in Wayne State Univer- sity's college of education. Her fiance received his bachelors deg- ree from Wayne and is presently attending the Detroit ,College of Law. An August wedding is planned. Selma Fraiberg to Open Franklin Series April 18 Selma Fraiberg, associate pro- fessor of child psychoanalysis at the University of Michigan Medi- cal School and a nationally noted authority in her field, will open the 16th annual Franklin memorial lecture series at 8 p.m. Monday, April 18, in the Community Arts Auditorium at Wayne State Uni- versity. She will speak on "Ori- gins of Identity." • Mrs. Fraiberg, a WSU graduate and former faculty member at the university, is a well-known child psychoanalyst. The author of the award-winning book, "The Magic Years," her writings have appeared in major psychoanalytic journals and in popular periodicals for par- ents. Formerly on the faculty of the Tulane University School of Social Work, Mrs. Fraiberg was the 1961 recipient of WSU's Alumni Award. Theme for the series is "Self Identity in an Uncertain World." Other speakers and their sub- jects are: April 25, Dr. Allison Davis, cultural anthropologist, Uni- versity of Chicago: "Is There a Negro Identity?"; May 2, Dr. Ar- thur M. Ross, commissioner, Bur- eau of Labor Statistics, :U.S. De- partment of Labor: "Work and Identity"; May 9, Dr. Rudolph Wit- tenberg, writer and psychoanalyst; "The Identity Diffusion . in the Young Adult." Mildred L. Peters, professor of guidance and counseling in WSU's College of Education and Frank- lin lecturer for 1966, will. give the final lecture, May 16, on "Find- ing or Losing Identity in School." The Franklin series was estab- lished in 1950 by Temple Beth El as a memorial to the late Dr. Leo M. Franklin, former Rabbi of the Temple. All lectures are scheduled for 8 p.m. on Mondays in the Com- munity Arts Auditorium. There is no admission charge and the public is invited to attend. As a result of the expansion of its agricultural production with the help of funds provided by Isr- ael Bonds, Israel now produces more than 85 per cent of its own food requirements, as compared with less than 50 per cent 15 years ago when the Israel Bond drive began. Agricultural production has gone up during this period from $83,000,000 to $450,000,000 per year, and the area under cultivation has risen from 800,000 to 1,125,000 a cres. An Irishman will discuss "The Yiddish Theater as I Knew It," at Center Theater 8:30 p.m. Wednes- day in the Jewish Center. Last December, after 12 years of night classes, Dr. James Miller received his PhD in speech, with a major in his at Wayne State University. Using as his_thes- is "The Resident Yiddish Theater in Detroit, 1920- 37," Dr. Miller drew on his ex- periences as a scenic designer in the Littman's Dr. Miller Peoples Theater, where he was employed for four years. He has worked for Hudson's display de- partment 22 years. Because so much of the source material for this subject is written in Yiddish, Dr. Miller taught himself to read that language and spent three years researching his subject. He is teaching beginning courses in general speech at Wayne and also has taught theatrical stage set- tings. In his discussion at Center Theater, Dr. Miller will reminisce about the techniques used in the theater of the '20s and '30s, about the Yiddish performers he. knew, and about audiences in the Hast- ings and Twelfth Street theaters. The program is open to the pub- , lie at a nominal charge for non- members. Coffee and conversation will follow the program. For in- formation, call the Center, DI 1- 4200, Ext. 40. * * * New 'Peanuts' Book Replete With Furl ; Social-Psychiatric gram to help the mentally retarded adjust to society will be conducted jointly by Yeshivah University and the New York State Education De- partment. The program will include estab- lishment of the nation's first cen- ter to develop social studies cur- riculum and materials for use in special class programs for mental- ly retarded children and youth. It will also include research into the nature and structure of the family of the retarded, atti- tudes towards the educable mental- ly retarded, and the social know- ledge of retardates of school age. Jean Anouilh, 8:30 p.m. May 7, 8, 11, 12, 14 and 15, in the Aaron De- Roy Theater. Bluma Siegal, Sylvia Josephson, Cheryl Bound, John-Allen and Rollon Parker will star in the ro- mantic satire, under the direction of Earl R. Matthews. Tickets may be purchased at the Jewish Center box office, Wayne State University, J. L. Hudson box office and at the door on perform- ance nights. For theater party information, call Lorraine Ernst, LI 5-0761. * Pianist Kottler to Solo at Symphony Concert Mischa Kottler, pianist, music director of Station WWJ and teach- er, will be soloist at the Center Symphony Orchestra concert under the direction of Julius Chajes 8:15 p.m. April 19 at the Center. Detroit Symphony Orchestra member Irving Gilman on the flute, Don Zwuickey, flute, and Emily Mutter Austin, violinist, will be soloists in the Brandenberg Concerto No. 4 by Bach. The pro- gram will also include Mozart's "Liuz" Symphony No. 36. . * * * 4 Speakers in Center `Town Hal,' Series There are three sexes: men, women and clergymen. — French proverb. MISS GAIL MASH Mr. and Mrs. Jack B. Mash, 18237 Lesure, announce the en- gagement of their daughter Gail Beth to M. Daniel Pikstein, son of Mr. and Mrs. Boris Pikstein, 20128 Mark Twain. The bride-elect is a graduate of Detroit Business Institute. Her fiance is a senior at Detroit Institute of Technology and is af- filiated with Tau Epsilon Phi Fra- ternity. An Aug. 21 wedding is planned. Music the Stein-Way DICK STEIN & ORCHESTRA LI 74770 HOWARD TRIEST SAYS: AFTER YOUR SIMC.HA YOU'VE STILL GOT OUR MOVIES THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Next Thursday, 8:15 p.m., ,at 18—Friday, April 8, 1966 the Jewish Center, the "Town Hall" series will present Hon. Frank J. Kelly, attorney general; I. Goodman Cohen, attorney-at-law; Sherwood Colburn, former com- missioner of insurance, and John C. Parker, legislative agent of the Automobile Club of Michigan. Center Theater to Stage `Ring Around the Moon' Dr. Bing Cites Progress Center Theater will present its at City of Hope Before final major production of the sea- Businessmen's Group son, "Ring Around the Moon," by Mash-Pihstein Wedding Yeshiva U. to Join State Program for Retarded Planned for _zlugust 21 in NEW YORK—A pioneering pro- From two tents in the desert in 1913 to the internationally known hospital and medical center it is today, City of Hope was applauded in its progress by Dr. Richard J. Bing at the spring meeting of City of Hope's Detroit Businessmen's Group March 31. Dr. Bing, chief of medicine of Detroit General Hospital, is also chairman of the National Medical and Research Advisory Council for City of Hope, located in Duarte, Calif. Introduced by Jack Beckwith, president of the Detroit Business- men's Group, Dr. Bing charac- terized the climate of vigor and vitality between scientists and doctors at City of Hope as the key to new techniques and dis- coveries in the field of diseases of the blood and genetic surgery. A graduate of the universities of Munich and Berne, he is professor of medicine and chairman of the department of medicine at Wayne State University. Morris Sukenic paid tribute to the late Max Spoon for his service to the organization. Adults have much to learn from children, and some lessons, even when offered in humor—as long as it is good, wholesome humor—can go a long way in moulding think- ing and pragmatic action. That's what can be said about "You Need Help, Charlie Brown," the New Peanuts Book by Charles M. Schultz, published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. This is a book of cartoons that will delight youngsters, and their elders are certain to share the entertainment provided in the dialogues, in the exchange of ideas, the puns, the vast experi- ences in sports and other activi- ties. It all commences at a booth marked "Psychiatric Help 5c" and the "analyses" are in good humor, inoffensive, conducted by a young "doctor" with the help sometimes of the dog Snoopy and by others It is a skilfully done book. It is all in fun, with a natural bent MOSAIC LODGE, F&AM, will for children and an understanding of youngsters as well as an appli- will present its Past Masters' night, cation of the current trends in honoring Mitchell A. Goldstone, immediate past master, at the social experiences. Latin Quarter April 24. Paul Axel- rad, junior warden and entertain- Aerial View of Israel ment chairman, stated entertain- From Tel Aviv Building ment, as well as a dance band, will TEL AVIV (ZINS) — For the be provided. Herman Streit, senior price of two Israeli pounds (66 deacon, is accepting reservations cents) one will be able to see vir- at UN 4-4119. * * * tually the entire country from atop the tallest building in Israel — BNAI MOSHE MEN'S CLUB will Migdal Shalom — 34 stories high, hold its "Gala Spring Dance" 9 located on Ahad Haam Street in p.m. April 16 at the synagogue. A Tel Aviv. hot petite buffet dinner and cham- This new sight-seeing attraction pagne cocktails will be served. for tourists is situated on the 34th Dick Stein's orchestra will play floor of Migdal Shalom, from which the dance music. Sidney Nickin is the Carmel mountains, the moun- chairman and Eugene Friedman, tains of Abel and Grizirn, the Jude- co-chairman. The dance is open an mountains, Mt. Hebron, Ashdod to the public. 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