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Tim Boxer
NEW YORK—MOLLY PICON spent a couple of weeks in Israel this
winter, visiting her four adopted children, three women and one man and
a lot of grandchildren. Two are doctors at Rambam Hospital in Haifa.
This Pesach, one of the adopted women
returned the visit. Meira Abulafia came with
her husband Shlomo and two children.
Shlomo sells fertilizer from the Dead Sea
around the world. They plan to rent a car
and see the U.S.
But first they’ll see Molly perform at
Town Hall in a program of humor and
music. Molly performs this weekend and
next. .
One thing they’ve learned here, they told
Molly, it that “we’re afraid of our borders,
you’re afraid of your streets.’’
Now 82, Molly has no intention of
retiring. She retains her marvelous sense of
humor. “My grandmother used to say, a
young person should use makeup, an old
person must.”
When she did “Majority of One” in Nyack, N.Y., Helen Hayes came
backstage to congratulate her. Hayes lives in tha-area.
“I’m glad you Uked the play,” Molly told her. “You know. I'm called
the Jewish Helen Hayes." .’
“From now on,” Hayes replied, “1 shall be pleased to be known as the
shikseh Molly Picon.
In 1946 Molly starred at the Palace Theater in Chicago. She sang
“The Immigrant Boy” with such feeling that a gentleman named A1
Capone was moved to tears. He invited Molly to his cabaret in Cicero, a
suburb that served as his headquarters.
“When Capone invites you. you run,” Molly related. “There he was
with his gang and here I was with my gang. 1 sang the song again, and this
big Italian gangster cried like a baby. A paper headlined, “The Moll Who
Sang for A! Capone.’"
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WORTH MENSHtNING: “I'm probably the only Jewish
Baptist in the United States,” PoUy Bergen said atthe
Amendment. The Emmy 1 Award winning actress and businessperson is
co-chairperson of the National Business Council for ERA.
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JOSEPH LEON, who understudied Zero Most el in “The Merchant’ in
Philadelphia and then assumed the star role on B'way when Zero suddenly
died, remembers him lovingly: “We became very good friends only
because we talked about art, not theater.
Joseph was director of the Woodstock Playhouse 30 years ago.
Woodstock is a painter's community, he said, and he got toJmow many of
the country’s famed artists. Zero, an accomplished artist, was enthralled
by Joseph’s stories of the Woodstock painters.
“When Zero was stricken in Philadelphia,” Joseph recalled, “we
waited at Dave Shore’s restaurant opposite the Forrest Theater. We knew
it was grave. Sam Levene brought him some chicken soup to the hospital.
Also some art and men’s magazines. Zero threw out the art magazines,
saying they were old. He took the racy men's magazines. He fell out of bed
and died. Levene came hack and said, “1 killed him, 1 killed Zero.”
Besides having done “The Merchant” and “Once a Catholic” .on
B’way, Joseph can be seen io the movie “Just Tell Me What You Want,"
starring Alan King. He just opened ofT-Broadway in a new play called
“Second Avenue Rag" at the Marymount Manhattan Theater.
“It’s a comedy,” he said, “about a man who works in a dress factory
and falls in love with a lady who happens to be a star of the Yiddish
theater. It’s based on the Bintel Briefs column in the Yiddish newspaper
The Forward." -
Born in Harlem, Joseph was a cantor at age 12 at Tiferes Hagroh in
Brownsville. He was a bright Torah scholar there. His brother, David
Leon, was a cantor in Bridgeport, Conit., until he retired to Ft.
Lauderdale. David's son Stephen is a rabbi in Paterson, NJ.
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