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PAGE 22 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE September 19, 1986 Linda Gold stationery Service Outstanding Service & Selection A V 20% Discount 252-8006 invitations • stationery • announcements napkins • placecards • favors • embossers calligraphy • Hebrew lettering • art work STEVE GREENBERG INSURANCE 329-0674 (office) 325-8606 (home) Your independent agent who serves the community. PO Dox 5557 Arlanro. GA 30007 AUTO-HOME-HEALTH-GROUP-UFE-DUSINESS-PERSONAL CERTIFIED MOHEL Cantor Akiva Ostrovsky approved by leading rabbis and doctors CALL 636-7303 24-hour answering service AJCC Center Players present “Come Blow Your Horn 99 a Neil Simon comedy directed by Ted Manson September 18 8 p.m. September 20 8 p.m. September 21 7:30 p.m. September 27 8 p.m. September 28 3 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Adults: $5 Seniors & Students: $4 add $1 at the door; group rates available For information call 875-7881 Our Film Folk by Herbert G. Luft — HOLLYWOOD Danny Kaye, recently in Paris with Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur, was presented with the same decoration in a special cere mony at the home of Bernard Miyet, consul general of France, at a Beverly Hills reception attended by this columnist. I had watched Danny some 40 years ago when, at the Samuel Goldwyn Studios, he starred in “The Kid from Brook lyn,” The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” and later as “Hans Chris tian Anderson.” Danny was honored for his life time commitment to humanitarian works as well as for his artistry as an actor. The French government has recognized his 33 years as UNICEF’s ambassador-at-large during which he toured the world to bring a sense of hope and a moment of laughter to children. Over a period of 23 years he has raised close to $8 million for musi cians’ pension funds by conducting symphonic orchestras, though he never learned to read music. Born Daniel Kaminsky in New York City Jan. 18, 1913, the son of an immigrant Russian-Jewish tai lor, he adapted his name from the label Danny K that his friends gave him in his youth. He got his start in show business by “tummeling” at summer resorts in the Catskill mountains. He was clowning about the premises for the enjoyment of the guests at all hours of the day and night. He first came to the attention of theater-goers in the Kurt Weill-Moss Hart musical, “Lady in the Dark,” when he up staged Gertrude Lawrence with his “Tchaikovsky” rendition, rattling off the names of more than 50 Rus sian composers in 38 seconds. Much of his earlier material was written for him by Sylvia Fine, daughter of a Brooklyn dentist for whom Kaye had worked briefly as an errand boy. Sylvia married him in 1941 and continued to write his special material for many years. From the show-stopper in “Lady in the Dark,” Kaye jumped into stardom on Broadway with “Let’s Danny Kaye Face It,” a musical revue which was made into a film with Bob Hope. But his stage appearance had been caught by the late Samuel Goldwyn who brought him to Hol lywood in 1943 for his first motion picture, “Up in Arms,” with youth ful Dinah Shore at his side. He proved to be a completely novel kind of song and dance man, with an inventiveness Hollywood had not seen since Eddie Cantor. For Goldwyn, Kaye appeared in a number of musicals, later made films on a more serious note, most notably “Me and the Colonel” and “The Madwoman of Chaillot” for other production companies. He went into television in 1956, appearing on Edward R. Murrow’s “See It Now,” after he had an even dozen starring films behind him. Four years later, he made his debut in TV entertainment with three specials, “An Evening with Danny Kaye,” one of them co-starring Lucille Ball. In the same period, he made his first Las Vegas nightclub appearance, toured the Orient and performed as guest conductor in Boston, Detroit, Los Angeles and Washington and visited Russia at the behest of the State Department. “The Danny Kaye Show,” start ing on CBS-TV in September 1963, had a four-year run, bringing him four Emmy awards for himself and his collaborators. His television performances include “Pinocchio,” “Peter Pan,” The “Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus,” “Dis neyland,” with guest appearances on the “Twilight Zone.” They also include an Emmy-winning “Look at the Met,” from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House. But his most significant dramatic per formance was in “Skokie,” where he appeared as a grim survivor of a Nazi concentration camp. In June 1967, during the Six- Day War, he flew to Israel to visit hospitalized Israeli soldiers. He performed with or conducted or chestras to let the Israelis know that there were people out in the world who cared for them. Visiting children’s day camps and kibbut zim, he also spent time with the military, political and civilian segments of the population, re maining friends with them to this day. On our visit to Israel earlier still, in 1961, we heard that Kaye had inaugurated the golf course in Cae- saria (the only one in the country at that time). After the Six-Day War, he toured three continents, con ducting the Israel Youth Sym phony. For his devotion to the young democracy in the Middle East, he received virtually every honor awarded by that nation, including the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Ben-Gurion Uni versity in 1982. He has seen as many battlefields as most Americans in uniform, over some 33 years, entertaining troops in World War II, the Korean War, Vietnam, as well as the Mid dle East. In 1984 he was the recip ient of the Kennedy Honors, pres ented before the president at a special awards performance in Washington. Some years ago, he was Noah in the biblical play, “Two by Two," in which he reiterated the dream of a better society, a dream he helped to facilitate in many ways. The im poverished offspring of immigrant parents, product of the streets of New York, he became ambassador of laughter to an entire world and pied piper to its children. JAGUAR “Over 35 Years Experience I offer all my new Jaguar customers... • Free loaner while your new Troncalli Jaguar is serviced • 4 years free oil changes (limit 12) • Saturday Service • 24-hour emergency road service • Over 35 years experience at Atlanta s oldest Jaguar dealer Nobody but nobody ever underleases or undersells me 1 >■ V I ■ V\l III 1625 Church St., Decatur, GA 30033 Irving Silver Salesman of the Year 1985 Fleet Manager Sales & Leasing Personal sales of over 51,000.000 Days: 292*3853 Night: 391-95*7 Keep the faith, buy your Jag from a Jewish grandfather—everyone else does! A purr-feet ending TEL AVIV (JTA)--A cat stuck at the top of a 30-foot tree in the Defense Ministry compound in Tel Aviv for 10 days was rescued by rappelling amateurs last week after the profession als— including the army, the police, the fire brigade, the local zoo, and nature and animal lovers societies—had failed to get the angry, frightened and hungry feline down to safety. The soldiers in nearby bases and offices could not get to the top of the tree. And neither could policemen. The fire brigade failed to move the cat by spraying water. The SPCA called on experts from the Ramat Gan Safari Zoo. They fired tranquilizer darts at the feline but missed the target. I he Nature Protection Society finally suggested appealing to young rappelling enthusiasts, whose pastime is handling steep drops down cliffs by the use of ropes— this time thrown over the treetop. The SPL A reported that the cat, which had nothing to eat or drink for 10 days, was recovering from its ordeal, — Hugh Orgel mmmumummmmmmmmmmm* ■\