Friday, September 7, 1945 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Jews in Music (Continued from Page 6) he decided he didn't want to be a business man and so he went to study under the dean of Jewish c omposers, Zavek Zilberts. After becoming cantor for the Temple Emanuel in Passaic, N.J., and Temple Adath Israel in the Bronx, he took a fling at opera and sang five times in New York and Bostoit. A private audition with the Met's Wilfred Pelletier followed and Tucker made a glowing debut Jan. 25 in "La Gioconda," at the age of 31. But this month he will be back sing- ing the Passover songs at the Brooklyn Jewish Center, as ever. And his friends are proudest not of his operatice accomplish- ments but of his refusal to sing Friday nights and Saturday mat- inees at the Met because of his religious convictions. In contrast, Lechner, who was born in Stettin, Pomerania, came to this country in 1936. He had been starred, like List, in his na- tive land for five years before Hitler and almost form the start he was engaged as cantor at tho Central Synagogue. He made his operatic debut two years ago at the age of 38. Tucker, Peerce, Resnik and Benzell hail from Russian stock, but most Russian of all is the Basso Kipnis, who was born in Jitomir in the Ukraine. He be- came an American citizen in 1925 and treasures his naturalization above all for it is with sadness that he looks back on the years that he wad the star of the Wag- ner Festivals at Beyreuth and the Mozart Festivals at Salzburg. ibine 011(1, con. the es As veers thing Came to U.S. in 1920 the World War had disillusioned him with Germany and he came to America in 1920 to make his home and sing here. Altman first appeared at the Metropolitan's opening night of the 1943-44 season when "Boris Godounoff" was presented as a grateful gesture to Russia. It was the first time in the history of the Met that an American had made a debut on an opening night and she came through with flying colors. Lipton one year later was a belated counterpart of Altman, for she, too, made her Met debut at an opening night in "Faust." Vivacious, dark- eyed, she is one of a family of artists and musicians long asso- ciated with the theatre. Directed by her mother, who was a concert artist herself, Lip- ton won a scholarship to Juilliard Graduate School and it wasn't long before she had reached the exalted ranks of the Metropoli- tan. Judging by the number of Jew- ish men and women who in the past several years have embla- zoned their names imperishably on the pages of American mu- sic, a glorious future faces others like them. Schmeling, Boss of Murder Camp, Picked To Reeducate Youth It has been learned that Max Schmelin g, former heavywleight boxing champion, who had been selected by American authorities to reeducate German youth, was in charge of the notorious Oswie- icm murder camp for a year, dur- ing which time he supervised the Nazi extermination program and was also personally responsible for brutal treatent of the doomed in- mates. Music has been second nature with him all of his life. He grad- uated as a conductor from the Conservatory in Warsaw and when he began his professional career he, like List and Lechner, sang in most of the leading He prayeth best who loveth opera houses in the world. But best.—Coleridge. p • Large numbers of Jewish men, women and children brought into Palestine from Europe with the aid of the United Palestine Appeal have been absorbed by the agricultural settle- ments established by the Palestine Foundation Fund on Jewish National Fund land. The ex- pansion of agricultural settlement is essential to provide for the integration of the hundreds of thousands of Jews in liberated Europe who are pleading for entry into the Jewish homeland as their only hope for complete rehabilitation. In addition, provision has been made for the settlement of returning Jewish servicemen in new farm villages. Of some 35,000 Palestinian Jewish men and women who enlisted in the British armed forces 10,000 have registered their intention to settle on the land following demo- bilization. The agencies of the United Palestine Appeal require $35,300.000 this year to carry out their program of large-scale immigration and resettlement and to sustain and expand every aspect of the upbuilding of the Jewish National Home. ti Hearty Greetings for Rosh Hashonah New Year's Greetings GEORGE KAY DRUGS To Our Friends Geo. J. 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