Word: russian-jewish
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...that Mark Twain did not stay around Boston long enough to again meet his Russian-Jewish counterpart, Sholom Aleichem. Sholom Aleichem was the greatest of Yiddish folk writers and there will be no more great ones. Sholom Aleichem and Isaac Peretz, another master storyteller, have provided Arnold Perl with the material which Perl has transformed into excellent theatre. The Boston six day engagement is an all too brief revival of the 1953 New York hit. It is a world of bittersweet laughter, presented in the form of three short sketches...
...fireside and meals every night at 6," says Harry, but Marguerite knew little else. She now has custody of their two children, Adrienne, 9, and Shari, 4, although they spend their summers with their father. Belafonte's second wife is Julie Robinson, the 3O-year-old daughter of Russian-Jewish parents, once the only white member of the Katherine Dunham company. She and Harry have a 16-month-old son, David...
...Chicago she didn't bother to enroll, and talked-mostly, it turned out, to Mike Nichols, another cellar-dwelling semi-student. The son of a Russian-Jewish doctor, Mike was born in Berlin, came to the U.S. as a refugee from the Nazis. In Manhattan Mike shunted in and out of progressive schools, worked as a shipping clerk, disk jockey, even a jingle judge. "It was easy-throw out the dirty ones, and the one that was left was the winner," remembers Mike. He took acting lessons from Broadway's Methodman Lee Strasberg, then in Chicago teamed with...
Born. To Harry (Harold George) Belafonte Jr., 30, Harlem-born calypso crooner, and his second wife, Julie Robinson Belafonte, 29, pigtailed, Russian-Jewish dancer (Katherine Dunham troupe): a son, their first child (his third); in Manhattan. Name: David Michael...
Personal Life: An Anglican, he is married to tiny, dark, vivacious Dora Creditor Frost, a divorcee of Russian-Jewish descent. They live modestly in a twelve-room house in Hampstead, rent five rooms to a tenant. They have two teen-age daughters, one son by Mrs. Gaitskell's first marriage. Gaitskell has blue eyes and pale red hair, loves parties, likes to dance. "My dancing is notorious," he admits. In Parliament, he is sharp, often witty, but occasionally suffers from a tendency to lecture his colleagues like the economics professor he is. He disdains backroom political intriguing, is usually...