ammo -I 11. 1 - v7 i _ THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Fleischman Residence Takes Applications With construction mov- ing ahead on the Edward I. and Freda Fleischman Re- sidence in West Bloomfield, applications are currently being accepted from the community. Occupancy is set for Feb- ruary 1984, according to Robert . A. Steinberg, president of the Jewish Home for Aged. As part of the complex ris- ing on the Jewish commu- nity's Maple-Drake site, Fleischman Residence will be linked to the Samuel and Lillian Hechtman Federa- tion Apartments by the Louis C. and Edith B. Blumberg Plaza. Together, they represent a major step forward in the community's provision of a continuum of care for the elderly. The complex is the culmination of years of planning by the Jewish Welfare Federation, United Jewish Charities, Jewish Home for Aged and Jewish Federation Apart- ments. Designed as a home for more than 100 elderly persons, Fleischman Re- sidence offers an interim An artist's drawing of the Fleischman Residence and Hechtman Federation Apartments, linked by Blumberg Plaza. step between indepen- gious services will be pro- dent apartment living vided at Blumberg, Plaza, - and round-the-clock which will house the dining nursing facilities. It will room, synagogue, music and feature 96 carpeted suites other activity rooms, coffee designed specifically to shop and administration Meet the needs of the el- offices. The residence will derly. The interior, de- be staffed 24 hours a day, signed by Ruth Schnee, - and personal care services will incorporate the will be available. Various latest concepts in com- outreach programs for the fort and function for the community will be coordi- elderly, with special at- nated at Blumberg Plaza. tention to lighting, fur- nishings and color. The community capital Recreational and social fund-raising drive for the activities, meals and reli- project will continue through the summer. The complex, in part, has been funded through the generosity of the Fleis- chman and Blumberg families, as well as other community members. Steinberg announced that applicants will be con- tacted for interviews begin- ning in August, with notifi- cation of acceptance in Oc- tober., He also said that tours of the new facility will begin this fall. For information or to re- ceive an application, call the Fleischman Residence, 661-2999. 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Mayer, Goldwyn,.Selznick The volume, Which was . . . dreamed hopelessly of completed by Miss being more American than Schwartz's mother Sheila the Gentiles who came be- following the author's sud- fore them . . . I remember den death, is based on an occasion when Myron diaries, letters and hun- Selznick (David's brother), dreds of recent interviews then Hollywood's most pow- with writers, actors, direc- erful agent, attacked me tors and producers who and my friend Budd Schul: played key roles in the form- berg for creating anti- ing of the guild. Semitism because we were The author captures the involved in the left-wing political turmoil that rudely struggles . . . awakened Hollywood from " 'His view of fighting its "golden era" and led to anti-Semitism, one he the advent of the House shared with many other itif- UnAmerican Activities luential leaders, was to hide Committee in Congress and our identity, keep quiet, the blacklisting of dozens of change our names . . . and writers and performers for disguise in our films any- alleged Communist ties. thing that might suggest The cast of characters that Jews -were involved in involved in the battle the uncertainties of the stretched beyond the times.' movie community to in- "In 1979; John Howard clude labor leaders and Lawson recounted the newspaper publishers. following story in an The roles played by issue of the Authors' Helen Gahagan Douglas, Guild Bulletin: When I Lillian Hellman, Ronald arrived at RKO, I was in- Reagan, John Collier, formed that the studio Abraham Polonsky, Ring would insist on only one Lardner Jr., Dorothy slight change in my play Parker and Budd Schul- (Processional); the lead- berg are among those ing characters must not outlined by Miss be Jews. I had always Schwartz. known that the play In laying the background would be cheapened in to the story of the guild, the the film version, but the author also touches on the Jewish theme was clearly anti-Semitism that often the heart of the play . . . " 'By this time my per- ran rampant through- the Hollywood community de- sonal plans and my Guild spite the fact that the film activities were already industry was, in a large under way . . . I felt I had part, run by Jewish men no choice but to accept the like Sam Goldwyn and Dar- conditions imposed and to salvage what I could_ from the original work.' " Miss Schwartz began re- search on the book after re- ceiving a grant from the Na- tional Endowment for the Humanities. Sheila Schwartz, who completed the book, is a professor of English Education at State University College in New Paltz, N.Y. That's the common fate of your Machiavelians; they draw their designs so subtle that their very fineness breaks them. —Dryden 28585 Telegraph Rd. Across From Tel-Twelve Mall Southfield, Mich. , 0# 13)353'11:30 The Jewish Home for Aged is pleased to inform you that applications are now being taken for the Edward 1. and Freda Fleischman Residence at Maple and Drake Roads, West Bloomfield For further information please call: 661-2999 fff ,'•tift* cfggligt, 4/11aal“..t.