Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1960-12-16

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COLUMBUS EDITION
ONICLE
COLUMBUS EDITION
iJlyj/    Serving Coiumous. Qayion ana Gemrai Onto Jewish Co?
Vol. 38, No. S2
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, I960
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Bess Wilts Our Editor With Her Charm And Looks
BY LARRY SOPPEL
It was 12:53 p.m., 32 degrees outside and I waa persrpirlng a little. The big four-engine TWA airliner waa pulling up to Gate B-4 at Port Columbus and soon Bess Myerson would appear. I was nervous.
Here was this beautiful Miss America, coming to Columbus to oominentate the Israel Bonds, French-Israel Fashion show, and here I was waiting to see her and to ahake her hand.
I WASN'T alone, for there waa the society editor of the Citizen- Journal and the lucky person chosen to sweep Bess away from the airport to the Deshler-Hilton, where the luncheon was already in progress.
Charlotte Curtis, she's the so¬ ciety editor, was amused that I, a man, was going to interview Miss America, and then take in my first fashion show.
Well, I managed to gather my composure and lose my nervous¬ ness when she approached. She waa beautiful.
"^HE HUNTER College gradu¬ ate and only Jewish Miss America Is just as charming, beautiful, pleasant and (I can't think of any more adjectives right now. but maybe later) as anyone could expect.
She wore a black and white tweed coat, carried a handbag large enough to hide most any¬ thing   in   and   her   brunette   hair
COLLEGE FINDER
Mrs. Murray Edison is shown presenting the B'nai B'rith Col¬ lege Finder to Gil Feiertag, vice-president of the Teenage Coun¬ cil at the Jewish Center TAC "So You Want to Go to College?" program. Members of the panel shown left to right are from Ohio University, Eastmoor High School;, with Dr. Jerry Welner, mod¬ erator; Capital University and Ohio State, (story Inside)
Bess Myerson
was covered with a scarf. And, oh yea, just what a man is sup¬ posed lo notice, her sWrt length was Ln perfect style I guess—at the knees. Well, maybe a little above.
NEEDLESS TO say I was im¬ pressed by this "celebrity." Here she was right In front of me. She shook my hand and made con¬ versation. She told of her new book on beauty. In which she hopes to Include beauty secrets of some famous women.
But I really wasn't interested in that, so I began looking her over, and that's an understate¬ ment She. la tall, in fact I, at six feet, two inches, had to look straight ahead, something which I am not accustomed to doing.
SHE WORE a black wool dress
with a jacket trlnuned In black leather. The Israel Bond spon¬ sor pin wea attached to her, ah, chest. Encircling one of her fin¬ gers was a large turquoise type phenomenon of a ring.
Settling down to conversation on the trip from the airport, I approached her, verbally, on her experiences in Israel last sum¬ mer.
HER LIOHT brown, or hazel, as you would have it, eyes looked at me and she said, "I went to Israel last summer for 12 days, expecting then to go on to my first tour of the continent But. I was so impressed, I stayed for five weeks."
At this I was Impressed, so I asked her more. "What impressed (ContInu*d   on   p«ge  4)
Final Chances To See 'Ondine' Dated
Columbus will get a final chance to see the Gallery Players pro¬ duction of "Ondlne" at the Jewish Center on Saturday night Dec. 17 and Sunday night Dec. 18. Curtain is at 8:40.
Turning In a sensitive performance In the title role is Harriet Slott, graduate and scholarship winner at the Goodman Memorial Drama School in Chicago. Mrs. Slott went on to work extensively in summer stock, radio and television in the Chicago area. She received audience  acclaim  also  this  year
in a special Gallery Players per- strouss, who has appeared in sev- fornmnce for the United Jewish "al seasons of summer stock on Fund and Council when she ap- "^« ^'^ '^«t, is at present peared as the heroine of Meyer teaching drama classes at the Levin's novel. "Eva." i Childrens'   Creative   Theaier   at
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Opposite her in the role of Rlt-, _   .        _ ,
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love with the water nymph in the piayers appearance was as Shem Jean Oiraudoux poetical version in the critically acclaimed pro¬ of the old Teutonic fairy tale, is duction of "The Flowering Peach," Roger Allen. Allen is well known returns bo play the part of the Im- to Ooiumbua theater audiences mortal King of the Sea. for his many performances with j Marilyn Samelison, well known Stadium Theater and the Players   to  Gallery Player  audiences  for
°u^r.^  ^r"'   "^  fPPf ^^'^   her many itellar roles in the past
with Gallery Players as the long-   , „       	
suffering author in "Once In a Including Esther in "The Flower- Lifetime." He was also seen in the ^B Peach," and William Bush- Gallery Players musical, "Flnian's neil, theater manager of the Ohio Rainbow." | State   University   Theater,   play
In "Ondhie," Lillian Strouss the parts of Ondine's foster par- makes her first appearance as a ents. Bushnell has a background Gallery Player In the role of Ber- of many seasons of summer stock tha, the symbol representing the and was the director at Denlson practical side of womanhood. Mrs. I (Continu.d on pig. 4)
Angel Luncheon To Feature Girl Times' Reporter
From the tjrplcaliy feminine world of fashion to the overwhelm¬ ingly masculine world of news reporting was a step that Nan Robert¬ son of the New York Times negotiated with breezy assurance. After all, the same hectic pace of meeting deadlines and trying to beat out the competition are characteristics of ijoth types of endeavor.
The news reporter comes to the National Council of Jewish Women's third annual Angel Birthday Luncheon to be held on Feb. 7, at the Fort Hayes HoteL
NAN ROBERTSON is one of five women reporters on general assignment at the New York Times among ISO male colleagues. She Is the first of her sex to join the Times city staff in a decade, singular proof of her keen news sense.
When she first went to work for the newspaper in 1954, Nan covered fashions and did feature stories on the personalities in this field. Transferred to general re¬ porting in 1959, she recalls that when she first entered the bustling Times city room, her male con¬ freres decided that they were going to "treat me like the Shirley Temple of the newsroom." There were all sorts of offers to lend a hand to the good-looking "cub" i
reporter   who   "might   get   lost   Robertson  has had  a  seasoning among  the  teletypes." of  more  than  a  dozen  years  of
BUT THE hardened newsmen Journalistic experience both here were soon to learn that the young and abroad. In fact she says, she woman they had adopted as a has reversed the usual order of mascot could easily hold her own progression from city reporter to on any type of stp.O'^jvJiether it foreign cortess^^ii^t. was covering Juvenile crime, po- | "t OTAJitTBJD rny career at the litical gatherings. Jewel robberies Peak most reporters work to- or interviewing celebrities of the , wards," says Miss Robertson. "My ''ay. I (Contlnutd   on   pago   A)
Nan Robertson
Still in her early thirties. Nan
Leaders Of UJFC Women Are Named
MODELS SHOW OFF FRENCH, ISRAEL FASHIONS
The finale at the Israel Bonds French-Israel Fashion show shows Columbus women modelling various French and Israeli- designed dresses and gowns. Over 300 women attended this first annual event on Thursday afternoon, Dec. 8 at the Deshler-Hil¬
ton. Comments after the show showed the women surprised at th^ beauty of the Israeli dresses over the French ones. The women were enchanted by Bess Myerson's Informal commen¬ tary and witty and precise descriptions of the dresses.
The announcement that Mrs. Abe I. Yenkin was selected to serve as chairman of the Women's Division for the 1961 United Jew¬ ish Fund and Council campaign was made by William V. Kahn, president. Kahn also announced that Mrs. Armand Abel will serve as co-chairman of the Women's Division  for  1981.
The Women's Division plays an important part in the annual cam¬ paign of the UJFC to raise funds for the over 40 local, national and overseas t>eneflciary agencies. Last year the Women's Division raised the highest amount in its history, over $91,000. Plans for a successful campaign in 1961 are now being formulated.
Mrs. Abe I. Yenkin, co-chair¬ man of the Women's Division In 1960, la a member of the Board of Trustees of the UJFC and the Jewish Family Service. She is a past board member of the Council of Jewish Women. Hadassah, a life member of Hadassah and Brandeis University. Mrs. Yenkin has served as president of Agudas Achlm Sisterhood.
Mrs. Armand Abel, active In the Women's Division of the UJFC for many years, was chairman for "Bellerlngera" last year, and Is a member of the Women's Divi¬ sion Advisory Board.
She Ja vice-president of the Council of Jewish Women, a life member of Brandeis University and a member of Hadassah, B'nai B'rlth Women, and City of Hope. Mrs. Abel is a member of Temple Israel and is a past president and member of Temple Israel Sister¬ hood.
MiB. Abe I. Tenldn
Mn. Armand Abel
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