Sheila Tobias Engaged `5th Horseman' Recalls War's Horror
to Robert Wassermann
The tragedy that befell Euro- way. A sanitarium is filled with
pean Jewry during World War II halls of blank faces detached from
is now history. For members of a tragic environment.
the generation born after the war,
Young girls are being herded
the bizarre massacre of the Six to entertain a room full of
Million is a difficult concept to drunken Nazi soldiers. Looking
grasp.
for his sister, Braun enters a
"The Fifth Horseman is Fear,"
room in which he finds a girl
written and directed by Czech lying undetected, wrists slashed.
Zbynek Brynych, now showing at
the Studio-One gives the viewer
an intimate glimpse of a few indi-
viduals of those tragic times.
The scene is a tenant house in
Nazi-occupied Prague. Dr. Braun,
played by Mirostav Machacek, is
a bespectacled aging Jewish doctor
forbidden to practice medicine.
Braun has been reduced to a
worker in a warehouse for the
confiscation of Jewish property.
Bit by bit he sees his friends'
MISS SHEILA TOBIAS
and patients' belongings pile np
Mr. and Mrc. Sander J. Tobias
among a multitude of others.
of Whitmore Ave., Oak Park, an-
Awaiting deportation at any
nounce the engagement of their moment, Braun's means to san-
daughter Sheila Iris to Robert G.
ity are his violin and his con-
stantly active mind. His mind,
Wassermann, son of Mrs. Helene
he realizes, is the only thing the
. Wassermann of Tracey Ave. and
Nazis
cannot touch or control.
the late Mr. Marcus Wasserman.
A member of the "underground"
The bride-elect attended Oak-
land Community College. Mr. Was- is found with a bullet wound near
sermann attended the Electronics
Institute of Technology.
A March 9 wedding is planned.
5 Detroiters Hope
to Vie in Tel Aviv
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When 28 nations compete in the
International Paralympics at Tel
Aviv, Wayne State University will
be right up there with five of its
own handicapped athletes—if they
can raise the money to get there.
The five students have qualified
for the wheelchair olympiad as
part of the 70-member U.S. delega-
tion to Israel, which leaves Nov. 2.
Called the Wayne State University
Roadrunners, the five are Jack
Donaldson of Birmingham, Miriam
Harris of Grosse Pointe, Bill
Griggs of Wyandotte, Karen Gor-
man and Joe Gianino, Detroiters.
Twelve Roadrunners competed
in the 1968 National Wheelchair
Games after winning the Michigan
games for t h e second straight
year.
The five local winners in the
national games are led by captain
Donaldson, who has started a Road-
runner Olympic Fund. They have
raised S2,000, but need 52,000
more.
Those who would like to help
them can send checks to Roadrun-
ner Olympic Fund, c/o Disabled
Students Office, David Mackenzie
Hall. Wayne State University.
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the house and Braun is asked to
save his life. As he sees himself
already doomed, he performs the
illegal operation. In this man's re-
covery there is seen a hope for
the future.
After the operation, morphine is
needed to reduce the pain. The
drug is scarce in a world of de-
spair, and Braun puts his life in
jeopardy as he searches the streets
of Prague. It is through this
search, the viewer receives insight
to human pride and dignity crum-
bling under torment, doom and
pending death.
Fear and tension trail Braun in
his search. Seemingly thousands of
eyes follow his every step as
Fascist radio messages break the
air.
Along with the doctor's search
is seen human reaction in the face
of doom. A "desperation bar,"
where Jewish people, dressed in
their finery are seen drinking,
dancing, gambling and even smil-
ing in a half-crazed, horrifying
Nathan Gordon Begins
7th Year With Women's
Symphony Orchestra
Detroit Women's Symphony Or-
chestra will open its 22nd season
8:30 p.m. Nuv. 19, featuring con-
cert pianist Gizi Szanto, at Rack-
ham Auditorium.
The only male member of the
orchestra is Nathan Gordon, solo
violist of the Detroit Symphony
Orchestra, who begins his seventh
season as conductor of the DWSO.
Roma Riddell, soprano, will
appear March 4. The final concert
May 6 will feature the orchestra's
concertmaster, Emily Mutter
Austin.
Although the scenes are typically
tragic and tension-laden, human-
ity's hope is found in Dr. Braun,
well portrayed by Machacek. His
admirable courage and pride
emerge as everything crumbles I
around him. Along with a study in
courage and despair, "The Fifth
Horseman is Fear," gives insight
into the past, with a remarkable
parallel to the present.
—PAM SHRIMAN
Ala rcia Reinitz- 31a rries
M r.Goldberg of Chicago
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, October 25, 1968-31
Arthur Miller's "DEATH OF A
Tower. The three-act play is direct-
SALESMAN" will open the Uni- ed by James C. Rodgers, chairman
versity of Detroit Theater season of the U. of D. Theater depart-
ment, and continues for three
8:30 Nov. 1-3 in new quarters in
weekends.
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In a ceremony Sunday at the
Town and Country Club, Marcia Jo
Reinitz became the bride of Joseph
Michael Goldberg of Chicago.
The newlyweds' parents are Mr.
and Mrs. George J. Reinitz of W.
Roycourt Rd., Huntington Woods,
and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Goldberg
of Gary, Ind.
The bride wore a gown of silk
peau de sole with an Empire
waist bordered in seed pearl-
braid trim, and long sleeves and
bodice of re-embroidered Chan-
tilly lace. The gown featured a
square neckline and drop-back in
matching trim with a chapel
train. A molded seed pearl tiara
held her silk veil.
Mrs. Bernard Stahl served her
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sister as matron of honor. Brides-
maids were Jacqueline Terner of
New York, Sharon Katz of Shaw-
nee Mission, Kans., Mrs. Barry
Briskin of Los Angeles and Mrs.
Ronald Scott Clement of Chicago.
The bridegroom's brother, John
Goldberg, was best man. Gary
Bisel of Beaumont, Tex., Ronald
Scott Clement of Chicago, Bernard
Stahl, and Mark Gellman and Ben-
jamin Schulman, both of Gary,
were
ushers.
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After a honeymoon in Acapulco,
bronze sculptures is being display-
ed now through Nov. 2 at GARE- the couple will make their home in
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The feminine side of the planning for the annual Balfour Con-
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(from left) seated: Mesdames Alex S. Friedlaender, Sanford A.
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Bunny Klein, Sidney Z. Leib, Carmi Slomovitz, Louis Panush and
Samuel Gold. Not pictured are Mrs. Ira G. Kaufman and Mrs.
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