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The Detroit Jewish News, 2002-08-02

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Jewry's Role in
Human Affairs

Sheldon Larky In Running
For County Commissioner

Editor's note: Jewish candidates seeking
elective office this year are welcome to
announce their candidacy in the Jewish
News. In the primary election on
Tuesday, Aug. 6, Sheldon Larky is run-
ning against Democrats Robert J. Boyd
III and Helaine M. Zack. Republican
Eurick Crayton is unopposed.

Sheldon Larky is seeking the
Democratic nomination to become
Oakland County Commissioner in
the 22nd District. He
would represent residents
of Huntington Woods,
Oak Park, Pleasant Ridge,
Royal Oak Township and a
portion of Southfield.
"I am actively involved
in the community and
have a broad background
of service," Larky said. "I
know county government
and how it works. For the
past 30 years, I have dealt
with county officials and
know I can work well with
Sheldon
other commissioners."
Larky, a 33-year resident
of Oak Park, is a mediator
and arbitrator of civil matters as well
as a professional soccer referee. He
serves as a member of two mediation
committees for Oakland County
Circuit Court, in family law and civil
law.
Hi's community involvement
includes service on the board of direc-
tors of the Southeast Oakland
Community Credit Union, member
of the State Bar of Michigan
Representative Assembly, co-chair of
the Oakland County Bar Association
(OCBA) Legislative Committee, vice

chair of OCBA's Alternative Dispute
Resolution Committee and member
of OCBA's Public Advisory
Committee on Judicial Candidates.
A past president of OCBA, and edi-
tor for eight years of the monthly
magazine Laches, Larky received
OCBA's professionalism award in
2000.
With soccer, Larky is president of
the Soccer Referees Association, secre-
tary of the Tri-County Soccer Referees
Association and legal
counsel for the Berkley
Youth Soccer
Association. He edits
the Tri-County News, a
publication of the Tri-
County Soccer Referees
Association.
When the Michigan
High School Athletic
Association televised the
boys and girls soccer
finals, Larky was the
color commentator on
the final games for
many years. In 1997,
Larky
the National Federation
of Interscholastic
Officials Association named him the
Michigan soccer official of the year.
Larky has been a member of
Congregation Shaarey Zedek for more
than 30 years, currently serving as a
gabbai (lay assistant).
He and his wife, Barbara, are mar-
ried 37 years and have two married
sons and a 3-year-old granddaughter.
"I understand the issues and know
the residents of the 22nd District will
be well represented by me," Larky
said.

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United Way OKs JFS Funding

Southfield-based Jewish Family
Service has received an allocation of
$822,643 from United Way
Community Services in Detroit for
the fiscal year ending June 2003.
The allocation includes dollars
toward the Kids First program,
focusing on children and youth in
crisis, and the Road to Health pro-
gram, focusing on inaccessible
health care.
United Way dollars also support a

full range of JFS client services,
including outpatient counseling for
individuals, couples and families, out-
reach programs and on-site counseling
at local schools and care management
services for older adults.
The United Way's allocation to
JFS is made possible through the
generous individual, corporate and
foundation contributors to the
United Way Torch Drive.

STELLAR MAGIC ON STAGE AND SCREEN
Not until the Renaissance did Jews in central Europe begin to evolve a
theatrical tradition entirely their own. At first, the stages were filled with
dramatic religious works performed in Yiddish and Hebrew. As the art
gradually spread across the Continent, comedies were added to repertoires.
Like minstrels of earlier times, Jewish storytellers, vocalists, puppeteers
and carnival clowns toured shtells .and urban neighborhoods. Through the
ages these entertainments developed into a refined theatrical culture for
sophisticated audiences, giving birth and sustenance to many Jewish
performers who lent glitter to theater and films. Among them were:
SARAH BERNHARDT
(1844 1933) b. Paris, France The love child of a
Jewish-Dutch music teacher and an unidentified
father was educated in a French convent, but
." remained proud of her maternal blood lines--even
as she became the best-known stage personality of
her day. Affectionately called "Divine Sarah" by
•I admirers onfive continents, Bernhardt dominated
de, world theater for more than a half-century. Her
emotional range, charming and lyrical voice, and captivating, sensuous
presence on stage led to triumph after triumph in virtually every leading
role she played.
13ernhardt's career flourished following her 1866 contract with the
Odeon theater and her appointment to the Comedie-Francaise in 1872. Her
reputation soared as the unsurpassed classical and romantic interpreter of
plays by Jean Racine, Alexandre Dumas., Victor Hugo, and in title roles of
Shakespearian drama in French translation. Forming her own company in
1872, the slim beauty toured widely and became an international idol from
Egypt to Australia. Nine notable visits in the U.S. brought her to New York
City before clamorous audiences.
Her public mystique reflected a tempestuous personality and
reputed liaisons with Victor Hugo and the Prince of Wales. And her
indomitable and courageous spirit prevailed, despite the 1915 amputation
of a gangrenous leg injured years before in a stage accident. With dogged
determination, Bernhardt was borne by litter on battlefront visits to World
War One soldiers, and she once again toured America. The multi-talented
star also wrote several plays and a memoir, and was a gifted painter and
sculptor. She was made a member of the Legion of Honor in 1914.

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PAUL MUNI
(1895 1967) b. Lemberg, Austria. How one of
America's leading Yiddish performers reached
equal prominence in Hollywood and on Broadway
is the mark of a consummate actor who
transformed himself into widely varied stage and
screen characters. At once a Russian aristocrat or
crafty lawyer, Muni could easily recast himself as
an aged Orthodox Jew, an American gangster,
a Chinese farmer, an armS , deserter or a piano teacher. "The Man of Many
Faces" received a 1936 Academy Award for The Story of Louis Pasteur,
and such classics are replayed in film libraries and museums worldwide.
Muni began his stage career in Chicago at age twelve, and while in
his early twenties he joined the Yiddish Art Theater founded by Maurice
Schwartz. But as immigrant Jews assimilated, English grew in favor and
Murii made his first English-speaking Broadway hit We Americans in
1926. fits exposure to the cameras came several years later while filming
The Valiant and Seven Faces, two of the first talkies. A deep, resonant
voice and remarkably versatile and powerful portrayals became his
trademark.
Typecast as a criminal in the acclaimed 1932 features, Scarface and
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, Muni was later seen sympathetically
in The Life of Emile Zola and Juarez_ In some ways his career mirrored the
"Americanization" of another famous Yiddish-speaking actor whose roles
mellowed in time: Edward C. Robinson. Alternating between theater and
films, Mum appeared in nineteen stage dramas and 22 motion pictures.
some of which are memorialized in entertainment history: Key Largo
(1939), Death of a Salesman (1949) and htherii the Wind (1955) in live
performance, while The Good Earth (1937), Commandos Strike at Dawn
(1943) and The Last Angry Man (1959) were screened. - Saul Stadtmauer
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