- 144 Friday, September 13, 1985 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS May the coming Best wishes for a happy, healthy New Year year be filled Ronald, Rochelle, Lisa & Scott Markus with health and lanpn 113111 ‘13`2 happiness for and friends to all my friends and relatives Bill & Elaine Stoler Tola Schwarzberg all our family 0 Best wishes for a happy, healthy New Year Lincoln Barber Shop THEATER From New York Mayor To Milwaukee Dad BY MICHAEL ELKIN lann raiz rum'? Special to The Jewish News to all Our friends and relatives Joseph & Sara Grossman Wishing all our family and friends a year of health and happiness 1271311 Mr. & Mrs. Jules Doneson . op. r #., ' ' . , , Wishing all our family and friends a year of health and happiness Avrum & Clara Feinstein J , • . t tf t T r . t . . i s ' , • , Wishing all our family and friends a year of health and happiness Janet & Ben Korn & Family to all our friends and relatives Mr. & Mrs. Rubin Herman & Son Ron 1111311 111113 M113`2 to all our friends and relatives Drora & Shimon Kleinplatz & Family 1'111371 A Very Happy and Healthy New Year to All Our Friends and Family The Dunn's Jeffrey, Judy, Jamie, Jeremey & Jordan Andrew & Ella Foltyn Esther & Dave Goldstein i11113`2 Richard & Judie Moss, Dave & Sue 111113 rutn to all our friends and relatives Nathan & Maxine Ossepow lartnn A Very Happy and Healthy New Year to All Our Friends and Family 112,111 to all our friends and relatives 111311 A Very Happy and Healthy New Year to All Our Friends and Family nalll mu3'.2 111113 711113"2 to all our friends and relatives Aaron & Dorothy Reitman Tom Bosley Tom Bosley is filled with Broadway dates ( The Education stage presents; indeed, he was of HYMAN KAPLAN, Catch Me mine for my 11th birthday. If You Can) and television, Much-older cousin Gloria numbering about 500 prod- plucked me out of the hot uctions among his credits. streets of Logan, Pa. one sum- But the happiest days on tele- mer day for a trip to New York vision have to be those Bosley to see Bosley in Fiorello!, the spent on Happy Days, the long- Pulitzer Prize-winning musical running (1974-1984) show that about New York's legendary initially used the 1950s as a mayor, Fiorello H. LaGuardia. It backdrop and unleashed the was not my first show, but it "Fonz" (played by Henry Wink- was the first time I had seen a ler) on the viewing public. play on Broadway, and from the As Howard Cunningham, also tenth row of the Broadhurst known as "Mr. C," the harried Theatre, Bosley loomed larger papa whose Milwaukee home than life. Had anyone told me seemed more a teen hang-out that the portly performer was a than did the local pop shop, Bos- king, I would have been the first ley was a calming force, the to throw flowers in his path. balm for his kids' hurts. He was "You were 11 years old when the show's Clearasil when the you first saw me perform?" acne got out of hand. Bosly asks, his eyes mocking a In reality, Bosley never sense of hurt that comes when years fly by all too quickly. He likened himself to "Mr. C," that the character re- turns to a companion. "This claiming sembled more own brother. guy," he says, pointing at me, When it comes his to coping with "is making me feel so old." Old? Never. Bosley, who was problems thrown his way by 31 at the time he first portrayed daughter Amy, now 18, Bosley New York's "Little Flower," was is not programmed with quips his television character. back at it again this summer, like taking Fiorello! to the stage of "It's all ad-lib in real life," he the Valley Forge Music Fair says. "Who's the boss in my fam- southeastern Pennsylvania. Bosley smiles. "My wife The intervening years have ily?" been very, very good to Bosley, lets me think I am." But in reality ... "Unlike me, a Chicago native whose optimis- tic view of life is tempered only my wife" — Bosley's first wife by some inexplicable love for his died of cancer five years ago — hometown Cubs. Since 1959, "has this marvelous ability to seven or eight things at when director George Abbott handle once. I've only been able to take chose the unheralded Bosley to one step at a time." portray LaGuardia, there have One giant step. At 57, Tom been appearances in many films (Love With a Proper Stranger, Bosley commands attention in a Divorce American Style), other business that measures banka- bility as a measure of respect.