THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Two Young Writers Prepare Scripts for Passover Special
Creative talents of two young
Jewish college students are being
utilized for the presentation of two
Jewish Community Council-spon-
sored television specials on Pass-
over themes April 11.
The first, "Some Speak . . .
Some Are Silent," written by Lois
Clamage, 20, is a contemporary
drama, to he filmed on location
in a suburban home by Channel 4,
with film time scheduled for 4 p.m.
April 11.
The second special, an adapta-
tion of Sholem Aleichem's "Pass-
over in a Village," was written
by Michael Parnos, 23, and will
be presented by Channel 7 at 5 p.m.
evory on tize
This Week's Radio and Television Programs
PASSOVER SPECIAL
Time: 1 p.m. Sunday
Station: Channel 7
Feature: "A Feast of Freedom."
The Passover theme of freedom
will be celebrated in readings and
song. Participating will be Theo-
dore Bikel, host and narrator;
folk-singer Odetta; and actress
Marian Seldes. The historic role
of Martin Luther King Jr. also will
be noted on this, the anniversary
of his death. The program, part of
ABC's Directions Series, was pro-
duced in cooperation with the
Jewish Theological Seminary of
America.
PASSOVER SPECIAL
Time: 5 p.m. Sunday
Station: Channel 4
Feature: "A Conversation With
Justice and Mrs. Arthur J. Gold-
berg." The Goldbergs will discuss
their own specially compiled
Hagada and traditional family
celebration of Passover with Dr.
Bernard Mandelbaum, president
of the Jewish Theological Seminary
of America. Henry Rosenblum, a
student at the seminary's Cantors
Institute, will sing holiday selec-
tions.
ETERNAL LIGHT
Time: 10:30 p.m. Sunday
Station: WWJ
Feature: "A Conversation with
Hugo •Weisgall." Music and drama
critic Martin Bookspan will inter-
view the noted composer, Weis-
gall. Known for his operas and
other compositions, Weisgall also
is chairman of the faculty of the
Cantors Institute at the Jewish
Theological Seminary.
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HEAR OUR VOICE
Time: 11:30 p.m. Sunday
Station: WCAR
Feature: "Contemporary Can-
torial Music." Metropolitan opera
star, Cantor Richard Tucker, will
be heard in a seder service. Series
host Cantor Harold Orbach of
Temple Israel will comment on
his renditions, Jewish traditions
and the holiday of Passover—tak-
ing note of the conditions of Soviet
Jewry today with recitation of
"The Matzo of Hope."
April 11. For this production, the
station is creating a set depicting
the shteti of which Sholem Aleichem
wrote.
The play by Miss Clamage, who
like Parnos is a student at Wayne
State University, will be taped in
the home of Cantor and Mrs. Har-
old Orbach in Bloomfield Twp.
Evelyn Orbach, broadcasting as-
sociate for the Jewish Community
Council, commissioned both writ-
ers to prepare their scripts.
For the Clamage play, a tele-
vision mobile unit will com-
pletely wire the Orbach home, *
providing a variety of settings
for the scenes. It is considered
highly unusual for a station to
make such extensive—and ex-
pensive—preparations for a
locally taped television play.
*
The set for the Parnos script *
is being designed by the head of
Channel 7's graphics department,
with attention to such details as
live chickens for the shtetl yard.
Mrs. Orbach, who is directing
both casts, has prepared hundreds
of radio and television scripts for
Jewish Community Council-spon-
sored programs, as well as holi-
day specials at frequent intervals.
Miss Clamage, who is majoring
in creative writing at WSU, won
the '1970 Frank G. Tompkins
Award for Creative Writing at
Wayne. She is co-editor of the
Wayne Women's Liberation mag-
azine, co-editor and publisher of
Lamb-Rags, an independent prose
magazine at Wayne and read her
own material at the Jewish Center
Book Fair last year.
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HIGHLIGHTS
Time: 9:45 a.m. Sunday
Station: Channel 2
Feature: "Passover With Goldie
Adler." Mrs. Adler will discuss
the traditions of the seder and
the involvement of the family in
Passover celebrations. Evelyn Or-
bach is program producer.
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Feature: "The Passover Sacri-
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lamb sacrifice. Also,' "The Com-
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and renditions of old Hasidic
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Parnos, a graduate of Mumford
High School, attended Michigan
State University for two years and
graduated from Wayne with
majors in journalism and psy-
chology. He is making his debut as
a playwright with the production
of "Passover in a Village."
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