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Of Brilliance" gala by Juvenile
Diabetes Foundaton is Oct. 30
at Ritz-Carlton, Dearborn .. .
The black tie event will feature
Mel Ball's Broadway cabaret
revue production . . . $175 tick-
ets also include hors d'oeuvres
and cocktails, 7 p.m., dinner at
8 p.m. and dancing to music of
the Cutting Edge . . . $50 raf-
fle tickets will win someone
$10,000 . . . Proceeds from the
event go toward research in
finding a cure for diabetes .. .
Chairpersons are Judie Sher-
man and Lorraine Schultz.

GOLDEN MUSHROOM,
10 Mile west of Southfield, has
entered the world of entertain-
ment . . . At 7 p.m. every Sat-
urday evening, through Nov. 27,
the 70-seater, lower-level Mush-
room Cellar brings fun along
with its excellent food.
Fungus Follies is an upbeat
musical review with songs and
skits from the 1930s to today
. The cozy intimacy allows for
audience and waitstaff partici-
pation.
The $45 per person din-
ner/show package is by reser-
vation only.
AFTER FOUR, months of
recuperating from "accidental
tourist" status, former Detroiter
Sylvia Frommer Mracky is back

Bangkok provided
the secret to Thai
cooking.

in her professional traveler
mode ... Now a California trav-
el agent, she recently complet-
ed a six-day tour of Ireland with
friend Marion Conway, former
Miss America, plus a cane for
support . . . Sylvia happily left
behind the wheel chair and
crutches used since she became
a "Vietnam casualty" in June.
Sylvia has traveled safely in
84 countries, but found that
didn't guarantee her well-being
in the 85th . . . After 15 days of
adventure cruising with cousin
and longtime travel buddy, lo-
calite journalist Shirlee Iden, to
Brunei, Sarawak, the South
China Sea, Malaysia and Thai-
land, the gals arrived at Ho Chi
Minh City (Saigon) on the ship

MS Explorer.
They looked forward to Viet-
nam's capital as the frosting on
their expedition cake, but 90
minutes in the teaming city of
6.5 million and the whole cake
crumbled . . . Sylvia was run
over by a motor bike, thrown to
the ground, and suffered a bro-
ken left femur . . . her first
mishap in 17 years as a travel
agent . . . After a grueling trip
by rickshaw back to the ship,
the Explorer's doctor, Dana Daf-
nis, diagnosed a broken hip,
later confirmed by X-ray .. .
Seven hours later, following two

ambulance rides and two hos-
pital stops, Sylvia's leg was en-
cased in plaster and she rested
in a hospital bed.
"You've broken something
they can fix. It will be all right,"
was Shirlee's repeated counsel
. . . Never more than two feet
from her injured cousin, she left
once to call Ron Mracky,
Sylvia's husband . . . Two hours
later, he wired $19,000 to an in-
ternational insurance company
for a private jet and a medical
team to escort the women to
Singapore.
The next day, their 1993
evacuation was carried out in
a sleek, red-and-silver Lear Jet
35, not via what would have
been a very cramped helicopter
from the embassy roof . . . The
trip from Tan Son Nhut Airport
to Singapore took an hour and
45 minutes . . . 48 hours later,
Dr. Krisna Muti operated on
Sylvia at Singapore General
Hospital, inserting a screw and
a plate in her fractured hip .. .
He personally oversaw Sylvia's
care during her weeks in the
hospital until Ron came to es-
cort his wife back to California.
Sylvia joked about setting off
alarms in the next airport se-
curity system she would walk
through, but her screw and
plate didn't give a peep going to

Ireland.
BACK IN 1926, it was start-
ed as a means to assist area
refugees by giving them a
chance to sell their native arts
and crafts . . . The 67th annu-
al Old World Market, at South-
field Civic Center Pavilion, Civic
Center Drive and Evergreen
. . . Oct. 15, 10 a.m.-9 p.m.; Oct.
16, 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; Oct. 17, 10
a.m.-6 p.m. . . . is today much
more than just that.
It now draws thousands and
is a metro-area celebration of
ethnic entertainment, arts,
crafts and foods . . . 25 music
and dance groups are featured
in continuous performances,
plus 40 world-class shopping
booths with imports and items
from around the world; chil-
dren's booths, craft demonstra-
tions and a nationality apparel
show of more than three dozen
authentic costumes.
Proceeds benefit the Inter-
national Institute of Metropol-
itan Detroit's ethnic enrichment
fund for new immigrants to the
area.
BEST BET Of The Weekend
. Black-tie event by Michigan
Cancer Foundation's Angels
. . . tomorrow night (Oct. 16)
. . . at Ritz-Carlton, Dearborn
. . . Cocktails 7 p.m., dinner at
8 p.m.
GOOD WAITRESS Dept.
. . . Rochelle Rabin at Stage &
Co., Orchard Lake Road in
West Bloomfield . . . A pretty
smile to go with her efficient,
personable and customer-pleas-
ing ways. ❑

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