Molly Picon

[Lori Cahan-Simon <l_cahan...>]

Khaveyrim,

I wanted to share this maykhele with you.  I was speaking with an 
elderly friend of mine, Mabel -- a violinist, who was telling me a story 
about Molly Picon the other day.  Mabel's father used to own a few 
Yidish theaters here in Cleveland in the 1920s and on, and Mabel 
remembers when Molly Picon came to play Yidl.  Mabel was about 5 years 
old then.  She remembers sitting up front on her father's rolled up 
overcoat and every night Molly would come out into the audience and walk 
over to a gentleman, take his jacket sleeve button in her hand and ask, 
"Di darfts dos knepl?" (Do you need this button?)  If the man answered 
"Neyn", she would yank it off the sleeve and run away.  If he answered 
"Yo", she would pull it off anyway and say, "Na!" (Here!) and put it in 
his breast pocket and run away.  The audience would roar.  Isn't that 
adorable?  I can just picture it.

Lorele

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