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Finally, with a little fist-in-the-face encouragement from brother Dominic (Herschel Bernardi, I must interject, looks and sounds about as Italian as Menasha Skulnick), Steve proposes. To everyone's amazement except ours, Natalie rejects him. A wedding without love would be intolerable. Footloose Steve, feeling his duty discharged, ducks out the back door leaving Natalie's relatives in anguished pandemonium. You never heard so many Mama Mias...
Last week, as the automakers got ready to shut down the lines for the changeover to the 1962 models, the major move was from the small compact to the big compact, or "intermediate"; not BIG, as Comedian Menasha Skulnik would say, but big. And since the buyers are hot for it right now, Detroit is also supplying lots of pizazz (sports car touches) and is adding improvements that reduce maintenance requirements...
...office attraction and nominal star of the evening is Menasha Skulnik, for whom the supporting part of Menelaus has been not-very-gracefully beefed up. Instead of a characterization, Mr. Skulnik offers Mr. Skulnik. He understandably refuses to give up the accent and mannerisms which have served him so well over the years (probably he is unable to give them up); but as a result, he is wildly miscast as a gentile, and out of key not only with La Belle Helene, but even with the bastardized Helen of Troy. Worse yet, he debases his authentic and endearing talent...
Detroit, Northland Playhouse: Comedian Menasha Skulnik in a new comedy, The Law and Mr. Simon...
Uncle Willie (by Julie Berns and Irving Elman) is Comedian Menasha Skulnik, long a favorite with Yiddish-speaking audiences and lately also on Broadway (The Fifth Season, The Flowering Peach). In Uncle Willie his extraordinary appeal does what it can to offset a miserably sleazy play. Cast as a turn-of-the-century do-gooder who deals in everything from pins to cemetery lots, he marries off immigrant cousins, assumes family mortgages and is good to little children. But above all he gradually converts a feuding two-family house, half Irish and half Jewish, into a bower of sweetness...