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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Coffeehouse Has Added Program

The Oasis, a drop-in center
and coffeehouse, will be open an
•additional night this week, Sat-
urday, in response to requests
by its patrons. Dinner will be
served beginning at 6 p.m.

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PRIVATE BANQUET FACILITIES

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CLOSED SUNDAYS

17630 WOODWARD (4 Blks. N. of 6 Mile)

Attendant Parking

For Reservations

869-3988

The • coffeehouse, located at
the Labor Zionist Institute,
28555 Middlebelt, Farmington,
is open to Jewish adults and
features dinner, light refresh-
ments and' entertainment.

There is a nominal charge
which covers the cost of refresh-
ments, but dinners are extra.
For dinner reservations, call the
Institute, 851-2324.

Entertainment includes Is-
raeli folk dancing, pianists,
singers and films. Saturday's
program will feature free re-
freshments after 8 p.m., a
Chinese auction and Shara, a -
Middle ✓ astern dancer. Avha-
ham BenZeev- and his ensemble
will be featured. The evening
will be sponsored by the
Growth Foundation. The Oasis
also is open 7:30 p.m.-midnight
Wednesdays.

1403
S. COMMERCE

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Near The
Intersection at
Maple (15) and
Pontiac Trail

EVERY WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY

DINNER FOR TWO

Choose From Any One of These

DOUBLE ENTRES

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$895

• Beef a La Deutsch
• Veal Scallopini
• Filet of Sole
• Barbeque Ribs
• Chicken with Dumplings

Dinners Include: Soup or Juice, Our Salad Bar,
Home-made Bread & Rolls and ; Coffee, Tea or Milk

Your Favorite Cocktails & Wines at Modest Prices

And While You're Dining, Enjoy

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Reservations
Suggested

624-6660

OPEN SUNDAY.

Swanson

The Motor City Theatre Or-
gan Society will present Gloria
Swanson, in person and on the
screen today through Sunday at
the Redford Theater, and Mon-
day and Tuesday at the Royal
Oak Theater.
In one of her rare public ap-
pearances, Miss Swanson will
sing, talk with the audience,
and show clips from some of
her famous films. In addition,
there will be a 'first time in the
Detroit area' showing of her
192$ silent film "Queen Kelly",
with musical accompaniment
on the Barton' Pipe Organ by
Lee Erwin.
Advance tickets are available
at Hudson's or may be pur-
chased at the box office the
nights of the appearances.
Show time is 8 p.m. except Sun-
day at 7 p.m.

Olympia Slates
Wrestling Bouts

A double main event featur-
ing a title bout and a grudge
match will highlight the wres-
tling card 8 p.m. Feb. 23 at
Olympia Stadium.
Popular favorite Dick the
Bruiser will challenge the
champion, The Butcher, for the
United States Heavyweight Ti-
tle and Tex McKenzie and Pam-
piro Firpo will face Baron Van
Krupp and Ox Baker in the
grudge battle. Tickets are on
sale at the Olympia box office,
Grinnell's, Hudson's and Sears.
For information, call Olympia,
895-7000.
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Greco to Perform

Spanish dancer, Jose Greco,
will present his troupe of sing-
ers, dancers and musicians 8:30
p.m. Saturday at Masonic Audi-
torium. Greco's wife Nana
Lorca, also will be featured.
Tickets are available at the
Masonic Auditorium, Hudson's
and Grinnell's.

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Wilder's 'Front Page',-a Surprise

By HERBERT G. LUFT

(Copyright 1975, JTA, Inc.)

Billy Wilder's screen adapta-
tion of the Ben Hecht-Charle
MacArthur stage classic "The
Front Page," a satire on the
sensationalism in newspaper
reporting in Chicago during the
late 1920s, comes as a surprise
to all who had felt that the ag-
ing writer-director was on the
decline with such films- as
"Sherlock Holmes" and
"Avanti."
Walter Matthau as editor
Walter Burns, and Jack Lem-
mon as his top reporter; show
another side of the odd couple
they portray currently' on the
stage of the Hollywood Mark
Taper Theater in the revival of
O'Casey's "Juno and the Pay-
cock.P
* * *
PETER FALK, whom we
met through Lippert in 1960
when he made his first screen
appearance as a ruthless killer
in "Murder, Inc.," a portrayal
which won him his first "Oscar"
nomination, has returned from
the TV series of "Columbo" to
the theatrical screen. He is ap-
pearing as - the much harassed
husband to Gena Rowlands in
the psychological drama, "A
Woman Under the Influence,"
directed independently by .John
Cassavetes and previewed to the
rave of Hollywood. ,

Falk had displayed consid-
erable talent in the Broadway
productions of "The Passion
of Joseph D" (portraying
Stalin) and more recently in
Neil Simon's award-winning
"Prisoner of Second Av-
enue."

He is following up his per-
formance with another feature
starring in Elaine May's
"Mickey and Nicky," in which
he appears with John Cassav-
etes, his long-time friend who
directs his current picture and
happens to be the husband of
Gena Rowlands, the woman
Peter is slapping around
"Under the Influence."

Sidney Lumet has done it
again, making exciting film
fare from a dusty old play, thi
time Agatha Christie's "Murd
on the Orient Express," photo-~ —
graphed in England, France
and Turkey.

The director guides his cast
of stars, all of them in impor-
tant character parts, on a
level between dream and re-
ality, between the serious'
business of breaking a murder
mystery and outrageously
funny situations.

Albert Finney, in the odd
make-up of a hunch-backed,
mustachioed, rather cunning
private-eye, Hercule Poirot,
shows an unerring insight into
the folly of a snobbish assort-
ment of first-class passengers
crowding the international din-
ing room car and compart-
ments.

There are Ingrid Bergman,
Sean Connery, Vanessa Red-
grave, Wendy Hiller, Rachel
Roberts, Jacqueline Bisset, Mi-
chael York, Lauren Bacall,
Jean-Pierre Cassel, Sir John
Gielgud, Anthony Perkins,
George Coulouris, and as the
enigmatic U.S. millionaire who
is mysteriously stabbed, Rich-
ard Widmark plus Martin Bal-
sam in the novel role of an Ital-
ian director of Wagon-Lits.

In television he garnered his
first Emmy for "The . Price of .
Tomatoes," but the long run of
"Columbo" stamped him as a
stereotyped detective, a guy in a
raincoat with his head bent to
Symphony Sets
the floor who knows all the an-
Sweetheart Ball
swers. "A Woman Under the
Influence" has re-established
Women's Symphony of De-
Palk, the many-shaded charac-
troit, Inc., will have its seventh
ter actor.
annual Sweetheart Ball 6:30
p.m. Saturday at the Pontchar-
train Hotel. Dinner will be
served at 8. Al Baker and his
Orchestia and Rosalie Vor-
triede, accordionist will enter-
tain. The public is invited. For
information, call the sym-
phony, 642-7758.

lobster 'Dinner

Tomb of Rachel

By RABBI SAMUEL FOX

(Copyright 1974, JTA, Inc.)

Rabbi Solomon bar Isaac
(Rashi) in his commentary on
Genesis (48:7) explains that the
unusual situation where Rachel
is buried outside of the buri
cave of the patriarchs and rr
triarchs was due to an order by
the Almighty himself. As it
appears in the book of Jeremiah
(31: 15,16), when the Jews were
being led into captivity and
passed this burial place, a voice
came forth from this tomb. It
was Rachel wailing over the ex-
ile of her descendants.

Shrimp Cocktail, Soup, Salad, Potato, S () I/1
Vichy Water, Coffee, Tea or Milk
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That's the most expensive meal of over 52
different seafood dishes . . . prime steaks too!

The Ctaftt Slu) t

Lunch from 11:30 a.m. Dinners 'til midnigh .

FREE Valet Parking. Limousine service to and from the Fisher Theatre.
Reservations accepted
3077 W. Grand Blvd.
(across from G.M. Bldg).
872-3111

•

The rabbis explain that Rach-
el's lament was the only appeal
that evoked the mercy of the Al-
mighty even moreso than the
pleas of Moses and Aaron,
Abraham, Isaac or Jacob. Per-
haps it was meant to show that
even in a remote place, there is
always a source of grace for the
Children of Israel because of
the sympathy and lament of
mothers such as Rachel who
.earned their reward and their
due with difficulty, and whose
life was - comparatively brief in
this world but whose impactis
eternal on all generations.

