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New Theatrical Life Planned
In Southfield's Northland Theatre
DANNY RASKIN
Local Columnist
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FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1990
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ack in the 1950s
when Northland Mall
opened, the then
"country" area was a big
boom favorite for shoppers .. .
Even outdoor events during
the warm months had the
highly popular Kenneth
Schwartz productions of Nor-
thland Playhouse in the
round that featured name
stars like Keefe Brazzelle
(The Al Jolson Story), George
C. Scott and a host of other
topnotchers . . . The resident
lead wasn't a biggie then, but
he certainly is today . . .
James Colburn.
Other events included art
fairs, a circus, music under
the stars, etc.
Later came the Northland
Theatre, built to present
Hollywood's latest flicks .. .
The beautiful structure, clos-
ed now, seated 1,400 and is
now divided into two theaters.
Should be sometime this
year when Downtown
Development Authority, City
of Southfield, its new
bossfolks, opens Northland
Theatre again . . . not to show
films . . . but as a legitimate
theater.
CONGRATS ... to Betty
Katzman . . . on her 65th bir-
thday . . . celebrated in North
Miami Beach Fla., with hub-
by Harry.
NICE TO KNOW that Ann
Arbor doesn't forget about
Father's Day, this Sunday .. .
Mainstreet in downtown Ann
Arbor will be roped off Sun-
day as a fine Father's Day
tradition continues . . . 12
noon to 5 p.m.
Full day of entertainment
with jazz and Motown sounds
by Paul Vornhagen, clowns,
face painting, jugglers,
balloons and 30 of Ann Ar-
bor's best-known restaurants
for taste treats along with
specialty samples.
Fifth annual Taste of Ann
Arbor benefits the
Washtenaw County Chapter
of American Red Cross, with
no taste item priced over
$2.50.
REUNION DEPT. . . . Oak
Park High class of 1970 shin-
dig, "Memories In The Mall,"
is 7 p.m. June 23, at Somerset
Mall on W Big Beaver, Troy
. . . For info, call Andi
Benderoff Wayburn,
258-5085.
CONGRATS . . . to plastic
surgeon Dr. Marshall Shapiro
. . . on his 50th birthday.
JUAN ALVARADO is the
songster Friday evenings, 7
p.m. to 9 p.m., at Old Mexico,
Drake and Walnut, to go
along with its new liquor
license for those margaritas,
etc.
CONGRATS ... to Fred
and Edythe Swartz . . . on
their 40th anniversary . . . He
is a former Internal Revenue
Service gent and she the
retired office manager of
Beau Jacks . . . They now live
in Lakes of Delray, Fla. . . .
Dinner party celebration was
at Gibbey's Restaurant in Ft.
Lauderdale . . . for friends of
Fred and Edythe residing in
Lakes of Delray, including
former localites Paul and
Ruth Newman and Sid and
Esther Schechter . . . The an-
niversary couple are spending
the summer in Farmington
Hills.
THE WORLD'S largest
"Golf Ball" . . . was recently
at Hyatt Regency Dearborn
. . . with the 18,500 square
feet Great Lakes Center
transformed into one huge
golf mania funfest . . . three-
hole golf course, dancing to
tunes from the 1960s and top
40s and a spectacular light
show.
ONLY 100 tickets are
available for the "Night At
The Ballgame" by Perfection
Mosaic Lodge 530 F.&A.M.,
slated for June 19 . . . Begins
with 5 p.m. supper at
Southfield Mosaic Temple,
Evergreen south of 11 Mile,
fast 6 p.m. cleanup and bus
boarding for Tiger Stadium
. . .Cost is $15 per person .. .
Call Irving Bernstein for
reservations, 557-0956.
BEST BET Of The
Weekend . . . tomorrow night,
8 p.m. . . . fundraiser for
Michigan Cancer Foundation
Partners at Englander's
Other Place on Woodward,
Royal Oak . . . $25 admission
at door includes live music,
hors d'oeuvres, door prizes,
fashion show and dream cars
(to look at and drool over) .. .
Also a cash bar.
MISS D.O.C. 1990 U 3
unlimited hydroplane that
ran in recent Budweiser AP-
BA Gold Cup races on Detroit
River was sponsored here by
Marty Fine and his Days
Hotel on Nine Mile between
Greenfield and Southfield,
and D.O.C. Optics . . . Nation-
wide, D.O.C.'s associate spon-
sor is Bausch & Lomb's Ray
Ban Division
OWNERS OF THE Mis-
sion Bay Shopping Center
where a second 3 GGG's
Delicatessen is located in
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Boca Raton, Fla., are Douglas
Feuring, son of Al and Joyce
Feuring, and Robert Schmier,
son of Regina and the late
Leslie Schmier.
COCO'S CORNER . . .
"How's this for a verse on
those restaurant Doggie
Bags? Oh where, oh where
have your leftovers gone? Oh
where, oh where can they be?
If you've had all you can
possibly eat, please bring the
rest home to me!!"
THIS IS THE 27th year
that Deanna Sperka,
daughter-in-law of the late
Rabbi Joshua and Yetta
Sperka, will be doing her art
The city plans to
re-open the
theater for stage
plays.
gallery and museum tour
class at Jewish Community
Center . . . Deanna is an ar-
tist in her own right, coming
here in 1961 from New York
and marrying Rabbi Sperka
and Yetta's son Shlomo .. .
Everyone invited . . .
members $40, non-members
$50 . . . Class meets
Wednesdays, 10 a.m. to noon,
in the six-week session that
begins June 20.
into
A LOOKSEE
yesteryears . . . When the
London Chop House used to
put a dime on each reserved
table to repay customers for
the phone call when reserva-
tions were made . . . Or when
change in newly-minted
money was given to
customers who paid their
house accounts in cash . . . Or
the busboy acting as a page
carrying a chalkboard with
the names of customers who
had phone calls.
45 YEARS AGO, Lou Kay
and Iry Lipson became free
men . . . That's when they
were liberated from the
Nazis, April 11, 1945.
Lou and Iry met on a train
going from Poland to Buchen-
wald, Dora and Northassen,
Germany . . . crammed into a
freight car like cattle.
One of the soldiers in
General Dwight Eisenhower's
102nd American division,
Detroiter Ruby Kress, was
among the liberators at
Northassen.
Localite Steve Lewkowicz
was also freed from Buchen-
wald on the same day.
Lou and Iry came to Detroit
in 1949 . . . Iry and wife
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