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HANNA AHARONI AT O'KEEFE CENTRE
A gala Variety Show sponsored by the Wc«nen's Auxiliary of the Jerwish Home For the Aged wm take place at the O'Keefe Oentre on Sunday, June 4 at 8.30 pjn. The show, produced by" Al Slegel. owner of the BMxday Ho-
tei, wlB feature Israeli songstoess^.,^^ her sing in Paris
Harma Aharonl, comedians Alan King and Larry Alpert, The Diamonds quartet and many other top talent. The Women's Amdiia-ry was foim^ in 1955 and its first president vfss Mrs. Morris TIM. The present president is Mrs. Samuel Gans, who is co-%nvenor of the show with Ate: Morris Z\^"eig. Immediate past president is Mrs. Arthur Soles. .MI proceeds of the June 4 Variety Show go towards the day-care centre of the Jewish Home for the Aged.
Harnia Aharoni was bom in Eritrea of. a Yemenite father and Eritrean mother and was raised In Jerusalem. A Wg hit in New York and Las Vegas night clubs, Miiss Aharoni sings in Italian, Portugese, Spanish. Afrikans, Bigliah, French, Yiddish Mid Hebrew. She can speak and write in the latter five. Her voice can | range over fbur octaves wif: a power amiadng for a mere five
foot, one inch taH gtrl who weighs 105 pounds. She has re-co^ed songs in Europe in Spanish, Preoch, Yiddish and Hebrew and has appeared in most European countries, Israel, South A-fricai Cuba, Mexico and North America.
She was dlsoovered by the famous Spanish composer Mon-
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The long awaited , "GYPSY", staiTing dynamic EHhel Mennan, was presented by David Merrick and Leland Howard at the QTCeefe (Centre from MaylSth through. Jylay 27th.. The. musicale is adapted from the book by Arthur Laxuents, with music by JuleStyne and lyrics by Stephen Bondheim.
liie play Itself, based upon the We of the mother of sjixlpper Gjiisy' Rose Lee and June Havoc, is oomy in spots. But any weakness can be overlooked when Ethel Merman assumes the role of Blama.
The trials and pitfalls of show busJhess before the advent of or-
not take pupils ,but made an ex-ceptton In Hanna's case. He taught her Spani^ songs and wrote Hebrew music Xbr her as
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Hanna was ■ aheiAerdesB in Isra4. Her fOur brothen anA three sisters and ahe aU tended their father's ajheep when they moved from AAnara, Biitrea to the hills cf Jerusalem and later to Tiberias, Hanna caught fish in Lake Kinnereth and wtth other cbMreo grtJled them for passing 'tourists. One of them. Moehe Waldn. an imprasairio, heard her sing before he saw her and came to buy her fish. Walln describes tt thus: "It did not sound like a human voice. It was so exquisite I thought it must be from th€ sky, an angel's. I went and saw this little 10 year-oid girl, sdnging her own improvisation, and with 12 other Uttle girls sealing fish, and beating the rhythm with their hands. It was unbelievable, this scene, and this girl, the feeding of her singing, and her eyes, like fire."
ganlzed unions are plainly depicted. One sympathl2es witti the little. sisters, Louise (Julienne Marie). and June (Merle Let-owt). Being dragged from agent to agent, from city to city, by an adamant mother, an extrpviert, is ho picnic. However, there never is a dull moment. .
Miss Merman portrays Oie epitome of a mother who: would not take "no" fOT an answer. By hook or crook, she matiages .to exploit- her children, on any st^. Fortunately she Immorally, and sometimes financially, abetted by Herbie (Alfred San-dor). Poor, wondefftil Herbie wants to marry Maima, so badly. He is anxious for the girlis to have an ordinary, ntunial life. But not Miama! She has a one-track mind — the stage. She wins, Herbie loses.
Miss Merman's voice is as stupendous as it was years ago. It Is tall, deep and resonant—unlike the voices of today's thrush who depends upon the mlcro-
phoiK for volume. Her personality is. projected towards every comer. -, .
••Some people", • "Small World'!, "Mr.Ooldstone, I Love You", ."Everything's CkJmJng Up Roses" are some of the songs one wMit easliy iforgef.
The production is directed and choreographed in a manner as only Jerome Bobbins can do. The transition of the children from chUdhood to young adulthood is airanged in a refreshingly novel
way,. ■
One unforgettable scene depicts Gypsy Rose learning how to strip-tease, Her twushers^are Tessie (Betty Bruce), MsaSppa. (Julia Ross) and Electra (June Squibb). They are a bowl when they sing "You Gotta Have A Gimmick".
Though it wouldn't particularly change the course of daily events, "GYPSY" nevertheless provides an evening of good, wholesome entertainment.
Walln persuaded Hanna's parents to let him train her. He put her and her eight-year-old sister in an eJementary scdiort-tn Tel Aviv and six months later Walln enrolled Hanna in a n\usic school. At 14 she made her first public appearance and by the time she was 18 she became Israel's firet lady of soi^ and had to join the army, where she sang for the troops, After two years of miilltary service Miss Abarand worked tor a year in Israeli theatres and made her first tour a-broad. Her family still lives In Tel Aviv. Her father does a little farming and her moUier hand-sews all the beaiitiful dresses, brocaded and beaded, that Hanna wears while singing, "niey vrite long letters to each other twice a wed(.. Before she left home, Hanna% mother gave her a beautiful Itttle book wtOi only one psalm, the 3l8t. Before she goes on stage, Hanna al^ys kisses the book and also her mother's picture. ^
SOL GRANEk HEADS UNITED ISRAEL APPEAL
Althou^ IJie official announcement has not yet been made, we can reliably report that Sol Gra-nek, 'caialrm^n of the Executive Board of the Zionist Organlzar tion of C^aiiada, has^ be^n. op-pointed as national executive director of the United Israel Appeal ctf Canada.. Mr. Graitek, a veteran Zionist l«ider for many years, has sold his business in St. Catharines and will assume his new duties to Montreal in September.
Bom in Poland In 191(1, 8oI Granek came to Ctmada In 1923. He has been in business in St. Catharines since 1938 sihd was president of Niagara Motor Sup-ply Ctompany. Prom the begin-n&g he berame active in com-murial affalns in St. Catharines and was a leader of the United Jewish Welfere Pimd and Canadian Jewish Congress, as a member of the Dominion Council and vloe<5bairman of the Owimitie* on Communiiy Oiiga°i^on. He
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also has been active on the Na. tional CJbuncil of the Joint Dis^ tribution Conamittee and on the executive of iihe Canadian Committee . ot Jewish Federations and Welf^ Funds, as well as being a Past President of B'nai B'rlth Lord Melchlott Lodge.
Prcwn 1952-57 Sol was President of the Z.O.C. CJentraJ Division. In 1956 ai the National Conventicn of the Z.O.C, held in Ottawa, which we Extended, he was elected to the high position of Z.O.C), National Vice-President and was re-elected foir a second term in 1958. At the 35tli Na, tional Z.O.C. Convention held in Montreal in 1960, Sol Granek was elected to the No. ? position next to President Lawrence Prei-man.. that of Chairman Of the National Executive Board. He will relinquish this position up<m coriunencing his new position in September.
Mr. Granek has visited Israel four times - in 1951, 1956, 1958 and 1960. In 1958 he represMited (?anada on the Actions Committee of the World Zionist Organization. His trip to Israel in 19.56 was combined with a visit to South Africa, which gave him a special insight into*Jewish problems in various fields. His long association with the Z.O.C. has qualified him as an expert speaker throughout Canada on Zionist, as well as Israeli; problems.
At the 25th World Zionist Conr gress held in Jerusalem in December, I960 Sol Gran^~W]Bs • member of the Canadian ^delegar tlon. He was honored by bdag appointed as a deputy tnember of thei Actions (Tommittee of the World Zionist OrgBnizstion, which is the gpyemliig body of the World Zionist Congress between official meetings.-., Mr. Gran^ is married and has two daughters.
The task of fund-raising to CTanada is not an easy one. Especially at this time when Israel is in a poUtical crisis, the maximum of funds mmt be raised to bolster its economy. Sol Granek will have a tough road ahead as national executive director of the-United Israel Appeal In Canada. But-wlth his lengthy experience In Zionist affairs and with his tremendous nel and energy, we feel certain that he wm be well-equftjped to face the Onerous duties that lie ahead. -
week. Nathan has been entertainment editor of the Star the past t^vo years arid has done a terrific Job in bringing hew, lively features and ooJumns to the paper. His Fighting Words TV show ends its eighth season on the CJBC in June, a record for one show.
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Nadine Levin' is certainly an avid fan of BtheJ Merman. She was a patron no less than four Umes at O'Keefe Centre last^ week to see La Merman perloim in "CJypsy". Ever since Nadine
saw Ethel Merman in the movie "Call Me Ma^m" she has. cofl-leoted every Merman album or recprd she could itod; Alter Thursday's performance Nadine
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Alfred de Liagre, Jr., will present Saily Ann Howes and Johnny Sekka in the new musical "Kwamlna" at the'O'Keefe Centre for three weeks prior to New York, commencing Monday night, September. 4th. "Kwamlna" has a book by Robert Alan Aurthur, music and lyrics by Richard Adler, and will be directed by Tony Richardson.
Mr. de liagre is one of Broadway's most distinguished producers. His list of hits includes "The Voice of the Turtle", "The Mad Woman of ChaiUot", "Three C!omerfid Moon", *Yes, My Darling Daughter", "Mr. and Mrs. North", "The Golden Apple", "The Deep Blue Sea", "Janus", "The Girls in 509", and the recent Pulitzer Prize winner, "J.B.".
lish comedian Bobby Howes, flj>-peared as "My Fair Lady" on Broadway for the second year of Its run. Jctomy Sekka is ah j African aotor-slhging star, edu-Mr. Aurthur is one of the most {cated in England, who has made successful and inspired U.S. TV i several notable appearances on
was ihiaxxluoed to Miss Merman and presented with an original Broadway cast album of "Happy Hunting" . . . Versatile Toby Robins > cast opposite Leslie Nielsen, Oanadianrbom star of American television and films, in Power Proxy, by Joe C3Tar ham, to be seen on General Motors Presents, Sunday, June 25, on the CBC-TV network . When salesman Marc Berkowitz went to tlie Rdvoli Tlieatre in New York recently, Uttle did he realize tlie grim shock in store for Wm. The picture was "Mein kampf", newsreel olips and other films that recreate the days of teriOT when Addph mtter cast his darK, detnented shadow over the world. As Berkowitz watched the ghastly scenes of Nasi sad-iisn unfold on the screen, Ms eyes fastened on the face of a half-starved boy at the Auschwitz death camp in Poland. The boy was looking at him, pleading, ly. as *f searching for someone with a soul. Suddenly, Berkowitz leaped to his feet and cried out:   "It's me!   My C3od, Itls
toer ... V lAm of Aotlon, Suiidaiy, ^lune. 18, at ^p-m. on GBOTV describes one of the most controversial figoies; to emerge during the
test ivttr. MaJ.-<S«n. OMa ataa-Uf6 Wlngate. He te retnembered in Britain as the man who formed and led the Chlndlts, and In lOTael he is regarded as the • virtual tounder of the Israeli anhy. In 1936, he formed the Special. Night; Squads, which included British soldiers and Jewish sot». Uers . . . Moe Koffman and his trio return to George's Spaghetti HoUs6 this week ... Producer Syd Wayne had to iwomlse-ooitt. Unental singing star Annie Oordy a trip to Niagara Falls to get her to guest star on "The World of Music.. ■.
ler's songs played a great part in the success of the hit musicals ,"Pajama Game" and "Damn Yankees". Miss Howes, • well-known star on the British musical stage, daughter of the Eng-
writers. He has won a host of awards and accolades. Mr. Ad-
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