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17, 1942

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of ogee Talent

By JULIUS CHAJES

ChaiesSoloLstat theater
Center Tuesday Molly Picon In

European artists were always wel- Will be Featured With WPA
Symphony in Final Spring
me in this country; in fact,
re was a time when American
Concert Series

rusts had to change their names
order to secure an audition for
rt, stage, screen and radio
k. Although this was true
tin a few years ago, today the
rican artists are regarded as
lily as the European ones.
In the recent war crisis, the situ-
tion of the many European artists,
ho live in this country, is not
cry favorable. Score of the artist
fugees: are scattered all over the
nited States, and have received
e positions. The greatest num-
r reside in New York, and find
t very difficult to get along. How-
ver, talent makes its way. .
I refer especially to Hugo Kauder,
ustrian composer. When he ar-
ved in this country only two
ars ago, his name did not mean
uch to the American musician, in
to of the fact that his composi-
have been published by the
ous Universal Edition, played
his possessions and most of his
Haled works in Vienna. Yet,
was not desperate and did not
ve up the hope of an early change
f his social position, as long as he
had his creative ability and a
1 to write down his musical
. Today, Kauder's name is al-
y known to the musical world
this country. His Symphony
performed in Chicago last year,
his Horn Concerto was played
Boston by members of the Bos-
Symphony Orchestra.
A few months ago, when Yehudi
enuhin played at the Masonic
emple with the Detroit Symphony
hestra, he told me that he had
t received Kauder's Violin Con-
rto, which he is going to perform
at season as a first presentation
this country. On April 14,
uder's Oboe C o nc e r t o was
yed by Lare Wardrope, of the
troit Symphcny Orchestra, at the
swish Community Center.
True talent must make its way
matter how bad conditions are,
he is fortunate enough to be in
country. with its appreciative
pie. and its many possibilities.

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- JEWISH NEWS

Performing Beethoven's "Em-
porer Concerto;" Julius Chajes, bril-
liant:Pianist and composer, will be
the 'featured soloist with the Mich-
igan WPA Symphony Orchestra, on
Tuesday, April 2L at 8:30 p.
at the Jewish Community Center,
Woodward at Holbrook. The all-
Beethoven program to be presented
on this occi-sion. will mark the fifth
and final performance of the Cen-
ter's spring concert series.
The orchestra, under the baton
of Valter Poole, will play the "Eg-
mont Overture" and the "Seventh
Symphony" • in the all-Beethoven
program Tuesday evening.
Although no admission is charged
war stamps ,and bonds are on sale
In the Center lobby preceding the
concerts. It is expected that $5,-
000 worth of stamps and bonds
will have been sold when the baton
is raised for the concluding per-
formance April 21.

2 Performances
Here This Sunday

.

Molly Picon and a cast cC 35 ap-
pear in "Such a Life" Sunday mat-
inee and evening at the Wilson
Theater. The matinee performance
was contracted for by the Russian
Relief Fund.
The biography of Molly Picon
reads like a synopsis of a spectacu-
lar play.
Molly Picon was born in New

ENTERTAINMENT

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You are a stranger
here but once!

From a Corn
Beef Sandwich
to a Complete
Meal.

Direction of

JOE

FREEDMAN
WILLIAM BOESKY

LOUIS FREEDMAN

Hosts to Detroiters for •

Quarter of a Century

Detroit Workmen's
circle Chinos

Sunday Evening, April - 19

In Main Auditorium of

Detroit Art Institute

Kirby and Woodward

Soloist: MASHA BENYA

Polish-Jewish Opera Star
15 Numbers by the Chorus
Under Direction of
Dan. Frohman, With Evelyn
Gurevitch at Piano
Feature Number:

Ballad "Once Upon a Time"

Admission: 55c, 83c, $1.10

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Second, Cor. Canfield

All Night ...

Comiled

Workmen's Circle
Concert Sunday

Chorus to Give 15 Numbers;
Masha Benya,
Soloist

theater. The man-
ager of the the-
a t e r. passenger

With Masha Be'nya as soloist, the

on the same trol- Detroit Workmen's Circle choir

will present its ninth annual con-
cert next Sunday evening in the
main auditorium of the Detroit Art
Institute.
Miss Benya came here from Po-
land a year ago and has attracted
wide attention with her singing in
New York and elsewhere. Prior to
the war, she appeared in Warsaw
with the Polish Opera company.
The choir will present 15 musical
numbers and will feature the bal-
' lad. "One Upon a Time", music of
which was written by Michel Gel-
! hart.
Dan Frohman directs the choir
out as Topsy in an "Uncle Tom's
Cabin" company playing the back- Iand Miss Evelyn Gurevitch is the
piano
accompanist.
woods.

ley, engaged her
to play children's
parts and reluc-
tantly remunerat-
ed the child at
the rate of 50
cents a perform-
ance. This rate
rose subse-
quently and all through her child-
hood, Molly did songs, imitations.
and dances from time to time at
the Arch Street theatre. At the age
of 15, believing the time had codie
to conquer other worlds. she struck

In Boston she heard Jacob Kalich
was running his own Yiddish Stock

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company and asked for a job. He
hired her to substitute for a sou-

brette ill with influenza. A few
months later Kalich proposed ("in
six different languages," Molly re-

members■ and they were married.
Since then they've been a constant
team. he being, her manager and
often her director and librettist. I

Most of her successful shows were
written, directed and produced by

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Kalich sent back streams of
news stories to New York's Yid-
dish press about their tour. Con-
sequently Molly was a famous per-
sonage on Second Avenue before
she had ever appeared there. When
she finally made her Second Ave-
nue debut. in "Yonkele" written by
Kalich and well-tested preciously
on the European trip, she scored

an enormous hit.
Molly became the toast of Yid-
dish-speaking New York, and also
a part of English-speaking New
York, for uptowners went down-
town to see the phenomenon on the
Yiddish Musical stage. The World
Telegram wrote an editorial about
her being a New York institution.
She began making annual trips
to Europe to play the music halls
of London, Paris, Vienna, Berlin,
Budapest, Warsaw, Bucharest, etc.
In Paris and London especially
she soon became a favorite, as in
Buenos Aires. Rio de Janeiro and
even South African cities like Cape-
town and Johannesburgh.
In "Such a Life" many of these
episodes are coming to life. In this
compilation written by her gifted
husband, Jacob Kalich,' the epi-
sodes and characters are not en-
tirely fictitioas.
Joseph Runshinsky wrote the
scores to most of the musical
shows for Molly and composed the
music to "Such a. Life."

Zionists Sponsor
Jewish Music
Evening May 5

The Zionist Organization of De-
troit will sponsor a festival of Jew-
ish music on Lag b'Omer, Tuesday.
May 5, at 8:30 p. m.. at the Shaar-
ey Zedek.
Traditional liturgical selections
will be presented on that occasion,
which will be. set aside as "An
Evening of Jewish Music." Exam-
ples of great classical music by
Jewish composers and songs of

and North American Newspaper
Alliance who has spent most of the
past 20 years in Russia; Leland modern Palestine will be featured.
Stowe. ace roving war correspon-
The program will include an in-
dent for the Chicago Daily News, strumental trio, cantors and other
and Pierre van Paassen, crusading Detroit singers.
journalist and best-seller author.
Father Hubbard, Alaska's famous
"Glacier Priest." will bring vital Student Group of 'Music
documentary films of America's Study Club Meets Friday

in a sudden burst
of exhibitionism.
she burst out
, singing "I'm
Afraid to Go
Home in the
Dark" in a street-
car on the way
home from the

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Ninth Annual Concert

Walter Duranty, noted foreign cor-
respondent for the New York Times

Arctic stronghold. Also booked are
Hallet Abend, 15 years chief Far
Eastern correspondent for the New
York Times; Krishnalal Shridha-
rani, distinguished Indian, author
of "My India, My America"; and
Archduke Okbo, son of Emperior
learning to read. Karl and Empress Zita and heir to
the crown of Austria-Hungary.
At the age of five.

him.
Before launching her on the Yid-
dish Broadway (New York's Se-z-
ond Avenue). Kalich decided Molly
needed grounding in Yiddish stage
Molly Picon and her cast of 35
took her for a three- •ear
will stage a special matinee per- art and
tour of its sources—the towns and
formance of "Such a Life" this Sun-
villages of eastern Euro -ie.

just pay food
finest liquors

Detroit Town Hall will open its
1942-43 season in the Fisher Thea-
ter Oct. 14 with Carmen Amaya,
volcanic Flamenco .dancer and her
company of Gypsy dancers and
singers'.
Eve Curie, direct from North
Africa and the Near East, will be
and of the noted authorities cover-
ing world events. Others include

mistress in a Yiddish repertory
company. While still an infant, her
family moved to Philadelphia and
continued their callings there.
Taken by her
mother to t h e
- l Arch Street The-
atre, (where Yid-
dish repertory was
given), Molly
': leanerd about
acting before

The San Carlo Company, prob-
ably the best known, and certainly
the oldest extant touring opera, is
now in its last weeks of a trans-
continental tour which included the
Pacific Coast and the far north-
west, into British Columbia. Fortune
Gallo brings this popular organiza-
tion to Detroit for a seven-day en- I
gagement at the Wilson Theater,
beginning Monday, April 20. and
'closing Sunday evening, April 26.
Coe Glade. most famous and
most convincing of the present-day
Carmens. will again be heard in
Bizet's opera.
Dates of the eight events are:
"Aida" (Monday, April 20). "La
Traviata" (Tuesday), "Carmen" in
French (Wednesday). "Rigoletto"
(Thursday), "La Boheme" (Friday),
"Martha" in English, followed by
I Ballet Divertissement by the Ballet
(Saturday matinee) and "11 Trova-
tore" (Saturday night). "Faust"
, closes the engagement (sung in
French) Sunday Night, April 26.
Carlo Peroni, one of the best con-
ductors of opera. will direct the
1 eight performances. The st:-..ge will
1 be under the direction oy Raybaut,
as in past seasons.

day at the Wilson Theater, the pro-
ceeds of which will go for Russian
war relief.
The performance is sponsored by
the Folks Committee of the Russian
War Relief Fund.
Appreciation is expressed by the
Folks Committee to Miss Picon
and her cast for their generous and
patriotic gesture.

Fisher Town Nall
Will Open Oct. 14

York. Her father was a needle-
worker, her mother a wardrobe

8 Operatic Events
Here April 20-26
At Wilson Theater

Picon Matinee
For Russ Relief

Page Sever'

The Student Group of the Music
Study Club will meet this Friday
evening at the home of Henry B.
Hermann, 14908 Washburn. Begin-
ning a series of two meetings de-
voted to a study of the life of
Beethoven. Mr. Hermann will be
guest speaker. Gershen Konikow,
pianist. and Max Weiner, violinist,
will play a sonata by Beethoven
for those two instruments. Bee-
thoven piano sonatas will be played

by Zalmon Konikow and Muriel
Moskowitz. An original sextett by
William Milner will also be per-
formed.

"Watch On The Rhine"
At Cass Theater

An estate near Washington. D. C.
was chosen by Lillian Hellman as

SPECIAL MATINEE
Performance

Sunday, April 19

MOLLY PICON

Milton Berlesque: "When
the
Yanks get through with
Japan

in

"SUCH A LIFE 99
at Wilson Theatre

there'll be Gaps where there were
Japs."

AL MILLER

Madison and Brush

Proceeds for Folks Committee
Fund for Russian War Relief.

7:20 MeNICHOLS ROAD,
Near Santa Barbara

The Folks Committee Gratefully
Acknowledges the Cooperation of
Molly Picon and her cast in arrang-
ing This Special Performance.

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locale of her newest play.

the

"Watch On The Rhine" which
Herman... Shumlin will present at
the Cass Theater for one week be-
ginning Monday. April 20. direct
from its eleven month engagement
in New York, with the famous
original cast including Lucile Wat-
son, Paul Lukas and Mady Chris-
tians.

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Phone: CHerry 2110

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