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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.’" • * * 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. « * * * - 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. The Scandinavian Jewish Experience 1980 Enjoy the charm and beauty | of Denmark, Sweden, Norway ] md Finland while you experiem an intimate introduction to Scandinavian Jewish life.. 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