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Barber of Seville" as mere low buf- he is the father of 12 sons.
Chaliapin will appear here at Or-
foonery. Ile left at the end of the
season, declaring that he would never chestra Hall on Jan. 19, under the
management
of the Detroit Concert
return, but changed his mind last
Direction. Tickets will be on sale at
season.
the box office of Grinnell Bros. on
Chaliapin is 49 years old, stands
Jan. 13.
(Continued from page 1.)
six feet four inches and weighs 225
hem feel at home. Today, with an
of community houses, the pounds with apparently not en ounce
Too many captains sink the ship.
Samuel Goldenburg Scores a abundance
dance halls are gradually emptying of fat. Another member of the Chi-
The Talmud.
Success in Yiddish Plays
.hemselves and the Y. M. II. A. build - cago opera adds the information that
Here; .Plays Again
ings and other Jewish centers are be-
coming more filled every day.
on Sunday.
"It is such a need that we must
Samuel Goldenburg proved himself
a master of his art last Sunday in fill in our own community, and the
the two performances staged at Or- sooner we fill that need, the better
chestra Hall. "Shin Hashirim," staged will we be able to serve the cause of
in the afternoon, revealed this artist Jews and Judaism. We must begin
in his prime. Ile was master at the the immediate construction of a com-
piano as well as of his voice. lie munity center where every Jewish
was even more powerful in the even- element will find itself at home. The
ing, when a four-act drama by Zolo- building of such a home, a beginning
tarevsky, "Stronger Than Love," was for which has already been made,
played before a house that more than shall receive the immediate particu-
lar attention of my administration,
filled every seat in the hall.
Mr. Goldenburg proved a great at- end not until this aim is realized will
traction to Detroit Jews. For two we be satisfied that we have done our
hours prior to the opening of the duty by our fellow Jews in the De-
theater doors, people crowded the troit community."
Selig Addressee Lodge.
lobby to purchase their tickets, and
The meeting on Monday was also
by the time the first curtain rose,
addressed
by a visiting B'nai B'rith
every seat was sold.
While the cast in the play is medi- member, Mr. Selig of Amos Lodge,
Boston.
Mr.
Selig, who came here
ocre, Bernard Young, Miss Betty
Frank and M. Skulnik acquitted to organize the work for the Keren
Ilayesod
IF
a
l e s ti n e Foundation
themselves creditably.
Mr. Goldenburg and his entire cast Fund) drive, declared that his lodge,
with
a
membership
of 2,800, is a
will appear here for the last time this
Sunday evening, at Orchestra Hall, in leader in the country because there
single
movement
in the city
isn't
a
only one performance, "What Women
of Boston that doesn't get its sup-
Are."
port.
Ile
declared
that
there
isn't a
Announcement is made by Mr. Co-
gut that the Yiddish stage will, be- Talmud Torah or education move-
charity
or
Zionist
undertak-
ginning on Friday evening, Jan. 5, be ment, a
transferred again to the Circle Thea- ing, that isn't given the assistance of
ter, Hastings and Alfred, when E. Amos lodge.
Mr. Selig told Pisgah Lodge that
Rothstein and Miss Ida Dworkin are
to head it cast of star actors in the his own B'nai B'rith chapter was first
and
foremost in its representation in
new theater. The first play to be
he
staged will be "An Eye for An Eye." every communal undertaking, and
ascribed the success of that lodge to
such activities. Ile expressed the
Myra Sokolakaja at Orchestra hope that Pisgah Lodge will follow
the example of his organization. He
Hall This Wednesday.
'aid he hoped that his fellow B'nai
Myra Sokolskaja, famous European B'rith brothers will extend him their
character interpreter of Russian and courtesies in the work he came to ac-
Jewish folk songs, will appear at Or- complish for Palestine and that the
chestra Hall this Wednesday even- real Jewish duties of the lodge will
ing. She will be assisted at the start at once.
piano by Mlle. Lucienne Carron. Her
Yiddish songs on the program will
consist of "Zog je Rebenu," "Chei-
der," "Oif a Chasene," "Wieg Lied,"
"Shabes" and "Die Misinke."
Mme. Sokolskaja is one of the most
"From Boots to Boris" would make
noted of Russia's singers who has re-
cently arrived from Vienna, where a fairly good title for Feodor Ivano-
she was a popular favorite and where witch Chaliapin's memoirs when he
she has made over 200 concert ap- comes to publish them, for it is ex-
pearances in her career. She is the actly what happened in his life. The
granddaughter of a famous rabbi in most famous singer in the world to-
Russia. Her vocal talent disclosed day, he began his career, not as a
itself in an astonishingly clever bur- singer, but as an apprentice to a
lesque of her grandparents' florid bootmaker.
Chaliapin's first musical experience
style of singing the Hebrew liturgical
music. At the age of 14 she was came as a choir singer in Russia. In
placed in the care of a competent due course of time he was engaged
vocal instructor and at 18 was sent at the Imperial Opera of Petrograd,
to Petrograd to further her studies. and for two years he sang there
Soon after she made her professional without exciting any particular com-
debut in concert and won immediate ment. From there he went to the
recognition as an unusually skillful other great Russian opera company
interpreter of Russian folk songs and at Moscow, where for the first time
as the possessor of an exceptionally in his life he created an enormous
rich mezzo soprano. Tours through sensation, so much so that Petrograd
the provinces, Siberia and Central residents used to go to Moscow to
Europe followed, until the outbreak hear him sing and to cobitate on
of the world war. With the revolu- what they had missed by letting him
tion she lost her entire personal for- gee. This part of his career sounds
tune and was compelled to flee from like the efforts of an American com-
her native land. Until her arrival poser to gain recognition.
From Moscow he went out of Rus-
here, Mme. Sokolskaja has been so.
journing in Eastern Europe, singing sia to the great opera houses of Eu-
in Vienna, Budapest and Constanti- rope, and with one exception became
world famous. That was in 1908,
nople.
when he came to the New York Met-
ropolitan and was heartily disliked.
Italian Opera at Sunday After- The critics there discovered that he
over-acted in "Mefistofele" and ob-
noon's Pop Concert.
jected to his catching flies in "The
Victor Kolar, the assistant conduc-
tor of the Detroit Symphony Orches-
tra, who has charge of all the popu-
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from the usual routine in the concert
which he has arranged for this Sun-
day afternon, Dec. 31. Ile is devot-
ing his entire program to Italian
opera. This will make a very wel-
come change from the usual orches-
tral concerts that are given every
Sunday afternoon and will interest
not only the large Italian colony of
Detroit but the many others who
rightly enjoy hearing the luscious
melodies of Italian opera.
The management has been fortun-
ate in securing for this concert the
services of Lillian Poli and Thaddeus
Wronski. Both of these excellent
singers are resident of Detroit and
through their connection with the
Community Opera both of them have
made many friends here. Both of
them also have had excellent experi-
ence in operatic routine. The sing-
ing of opera and operatic airs de-
mands a routine of technique alto-
gether different from that used in
oratorios or songs and one must know
how to "put it over." Miss Poli has
had a wide experience in this coun-
try, while Mr. Wronski has sung in
many of the principal opera houses
of Europe.

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