Spotlight

Showhouse
Extraordinaire

This year's Detroit Symphony Designer Showhouse
and Gardens is at a Detroit historical jewel.

and Sheldon Toll, Rita and
he Volunteer
Gary Wasserman and Beryl
Council of the
Winkelman.
Detroit
Several local interior and
Symphony
garden
designers were
Orchestra is planning a gala
brought
in to creatively dec-
premiere party for the 1999
orate
the
mansion.
Symphony Designer
The
Showhouse
will be
Showhouse and Gardens in
open
to
the
public
daily
support of programs of the
CARLA JEAN
from Saturday, May 15,
Detroit Symphony
through Sunday, June 6
SCHWARTZ
Orchestra. Starting at 6
(closed Monday, May 24).
Local Columnist
p.m. Friday, May 14, the
Hours
are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m
event Will include a buffet
For
general
ticket or gala
and music, along with a
information,
call
(313)
576-5154.
tour of this year's showhouse at 1771
Balmoral Drive, Detroit.
NATHANSON GIFT
Guests are requested to wear
Benjamin Nathanson of
bowties, beads and '20s attire, and
Southfield has donated a gift of art to
antique car owners are welcome to
the Detroit Institute of Arts in mem-
drive their automobiles to the gala.
ory
of his wife, Marion, who passed
It will be held in a 35,000-square-
away
in September 1997. They were
foot Tudor Revival mansion located
married
for more than 60 years.
on more than two acres in the Palmer
Beverly
Fishman of Cranbrook's
Woods neighborhood, off Woodward
Academy
of
Art created the work, a
and north of 7 Mile. Architect
collage
entitled
"C.E.L." It was cho-
Richard Marr designed the house in
sen
by
Mary
Ann
Wilkinson, curator
March 1926 for auto baron Alfred
of the DIA's modern and con-
Fisher and his wife, Alma. It was
temporary art department.
completed 18 months later.
Nathanson
is a financial con-
Marjorie Saulson, 1999 Detroit
sultant
at
First
of Michigan
Symphony Showhouse and Gardens
Diviion
of
Fahnestock
& Co.
general chair, said the home is impor-
in
West
Bloomfield.
tant architecturally and historically.
The type of work by artists and arti-
LOCAL INSTALLATIONS
sans in this showhouse is not seen in
The Greater Detroit
contemporary homes today," said
Saulson, who has been active in the
Chapter of Hadassah will host
a musical salute in honor of its
Council for 15 years.
new officers 6:30 p.m. Tuesday,
Pewabic tile, Parducci plasterwork,
May 11, at Congregation
Indiana limestone and Virginia mar-
Shaarey Zedek. Some of the
ble are some of the outstanding fea-
officers include Beverly Apel,
tures visitors will see. The gardens are
Elaine Sturman, Barbara
beautiful and not to be missed,
Moretsky, Shirley Robbins,
Saulson added. Landscape architect
Judi Schram, Susan Luria,
Bryant Fleming was the original gar-
Marcia Bednarsh, Ellen
den designer.
Rothenberg, Hilary Isakow
The gala premiere host committee
and Evelyn Diskin. For infor-
includes Jean and Sam Frankel, Doreen
and David Hermelin, Jo and Charles
mation, call (248) 683-5030.
National Council of Jewish
Kessler, Geri and Mel Lester, Blanche
Women Greater Detroit
Pollack, Linda and Arnold Schafer,
Section will present its installa-
Marianne and Alan Schwartz, Roberta

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tion of officers 10 a.m. Wednesday,
May 19, at the NCJW office in
Southfield. Psychotherapist Sonia Pone
is the guest speaker. Some of the officers
include Myrna Edgar, Deane Salk,
Ellie Slovis, Joyce Siegel, Julie
Zussman, Roz Blanck and Sheila
Guyer. For information, call (248) 355-
3300.

FILM AWARDS
Aaron Berman, a senior at
Andover High School, will present a
short video he created for Gilda's
Club at its annual fundraiser on May
19. Aaron has received several film
awards this year. He will receive a
Student Emmy award, given by the
Michigan Chapter of the National
Academy of Arts and Sciences, at the
Local Emmys presentation May 22 at
Masonic Temple.
Aaron was chosen one of 18 out-
standing high school seniors in the
state in the category of Technical
Education by the Detroit News, in
cooperation with the Michigan Dept.
of Education. He also won a Best of
Show award at the Detroit Area Film
and Television's Michigan Student
Film and Video Festival, May 1 at the
DIA. He will travel to Cincinnati to
receive two national awards at the
1999 Hometown Video Festival.
Adam Harry Schwartz of
Bloomfield Township has been award-
ed the Sidney I. Winer Scholarship
from the University of Michigan Film
Department to use for his summer
internship in the entertainment

industry. Adam, a 1992 graduate of
Hillel Day School and 1996 graduate
of Groves High School, plans to
intern at the movie company for
Saturday Night Live in California. He
will be a senior at U-M in the fall.
Stefanie Sasson, a junior at Detroit
Country Day School, has produced
and directed her first independent
film, Tutto Por. Set in Italy, she pro-
duced the film while studying last
summer at the University of
California, Los Angeles.

NOTES
Variety Club presents the Gold
Heart Ball 7 p.m. Saturday, May 15,
at the Ritz-Carlton in Dearborn. Don
Shane, sports anchor at WXYZ-TV, is
one of the honorees. For informa-
tion, call (248) 258-5511.
Annetta Miller is one of the hon-
orees at the 18th Annual Wonder
Woman Awards 5:30 p.m.
Wednesday, May 12, at the Lafayette
Grande in Pontiac. For information,
call Nancy Kort, (248) 335-2685.
The Bloomfield Hills School
District will host Dr. Lawrence
Diller, speaking on attention deficit
disorder 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 11 at
St. George
Cultural Center,
Bloomfield
Hills. To regis-
ter, call Cheryl
Zielinski, (248)
645-4505. II

Clockwise from top right:
Scholarship winner Adam
Schwartz

Award-winning student film

producer Aaron Berman

Marjorie Saulson is the
1999 Detroit Symphony
Showhouse and Gardens general chair

The Symphony Showhouse is located in the Palmer
Woods neighborhood of Detroit

Ben Nathanson stands with Beverly Fishman, who
created the collage he just donated to the DIA

5/7
1999