For our guests age 60 and over, daily after 11:00 A.M.
ENTERTAINMENT
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Served with garlic toast and your choice of a
bowl of soup or a salad.
Hot Roast Beef Dinner
Thin slices of roast beef over white bread
covered with brown gravy.
Hot Turkey Dinner
Grilled Ham Steak
with pineapple rings.
Hot Hamburger Dinner
Our regular hamburger served on white
bread and covered with brown gravy.
Grilled Beef Liver & Onions
Broiled Cod Dinner
Broiled Sweet & Sour Chicken
Thin slices of white meat turkey over white
bread and covered with country style gravy.
A portion of broiled boneless skinless
chicken breast served with sweet & sour
sauce.
Above entrees (except spaghetti) served with choice of whipped potatoes
or French fries, vegetable and biscuit.
Soup or salad may be ordered with these entrees for an additional 69q.
Senior discounts can not be used with these specials.
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From Rabbi To Ribald
ew York — On Satur-
day, the rabbi went
funny.
Or at least Jackie Mason did.
The erstwhile rabbi is serving
a new congregation these days.
Jackie Mason's The World Ac-
cording to Me! has opened for a
limited Broadway run.
Mason's world is neither flat
— definitely not flat — nor
round. It is just hilarious.
"This is a different show," he
says of the one-man act he puts
on. "There's no furniture."
"Albert Einstein — he
created the theory of relativity.
He was one man." Given the
accomplishments of Einstein,
"tell me, a show like this needs
two people?"
What it needs it has: a spi-
rited Jackie_ Mason delivering
his lines with a staccato brav-
ura, punch lines that hit not
below the belt but right in the
stomach, causing audiences to
literally double up with laugh-
ter.
His is a performance of warm
wit and wise wonderment. "I
don't care if this show stinks,"
he says. "I got in for nothing."
Not for nothing is he hoping
that his World will be bought
by many. Mason was a popular
comedian who, in 1964, was
fingered for hard times. While
doing his shtick on The Ed Sul-
livan Show, he allegedly made
an obscene gesture with an er-
rant finger.
The welcome guest was soon
given the boot from the show
for his handiwork. He still
made a living appearing on
talk shows, doing club work
and some films (The Jerk), but
the former rabbi had lost a
major congregation.
He is back in a very big way.
Did you ever notice, he asks his
audience, that "in Beverly
Hills they're always talking
millions, billions. Then the
check comes for a dollar and a
quarter and everybody runs."
Mason ran too — from the
rabbinate, which "just didn't
offer me the opportunities to
exploit my personality, to ex-
press myself. I was limited.
People would think it was ir-
reverent for someone in the
rabbinate to say the things I
wanted to say."
His move from pulpit to play-
ing clubs was viewed as some-
what of a sacrilege by his fam-
ily, whose roots include the
chief rabbi of Minsk.
"When I rebelled," said Ma-
son, "it was as if I had decided
to become a Nazi." His decision
to play his life for laughs "vio-
lated every one of his (father's)
principles."
But Jackie Mason, the
former Catskills lifeguard, has
found comedy is his lifeblood.
He has toughed it out.
He may be the only tough
Jew he knows. "Jews were
never fighters," he says. "Ever
see four black people walk on
the street and say, 'Watch out!
There's a Jew over there'? They
don't want to walk into a
Jewish neighborhood because
they're afraid of being killed by
an accountant."
But Israel's strength has
surprised Mason, who is obvi-
ously delighted that Israelis
are viewed as strong and win-
ning warriors. But there's a
reason for that, he says. "They
look like Puerto Ricans."
He has other ideas on what
makes the world the way it is.
So much of the world, he tells
his audience, is made up of •
water. Why? "So people can
charge more for oceanfront
rooms."
And he is not particularly
enamored of Chinese people. "I
hate Chinese," he says, tongue
going futher in his cheek.
"They never eat in a Jewish
restaurant."
What could rectify all this
nonsense? A Jewish president!
"We need a Jewish president,"
says Mason. "We need someone
to show a profit. We haven't
had one successful season yet."
Mason, 55, is on a roll. In a
moving coda to his wonderful
performance, he thanks the
audience for listening to him.
"God bless you!" he says.
"And God bless you!" a joy-
ously overcome woman nearly
sobs in response.
"Please lady," says Mason
the kibbitzer. "This is a one-
man show. I work alone."
Oak Park Plans
Family Outings
Oak Park's department of
recreation will take a trip to
see the Harlem Globetrotters
at 12:30 p.m. April 4 at Joe
Louis Arena. Ticket fee in-
cludes transportation.
A trip to the Muppet
Babies Live is planned for 10
a.m. April 18 at Cobo Arena.
Families are invited to both
trips. For information, call
the recreation department,
545-6400.
Family Concert
At Temple Israel
Children and families are
invited to a special concert to
be held 7 p.m. March 22 at
Temple Israel.
Sponsored by the temple
Couples Club, the concert
will feature pianist David
Syme. Following the concert,
there will be an afterglow.
Tickets are free. For infor-
mation, call the temple, 661-
5700.