THE JEWISH NEWS

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Music

Music Study Club
Event on Jan. 25

Symphony Members
To Provide Music
At Halevy Concert

Singing Society to Present
19th Annual Affair at
Miss Sidorsky to Be Featured
Masonic, Jan. 16
Pianist in Scholarship
Concert Program
The instrumental music for "Di

Music Study Club of Detroit
will sponsor a luncheon at the
home of Mrs. A. J. Seltzer of
Atkinson Ave. next Wednesday.
Mrs. Maurice Benyas and Mrs.
Harry Cohen will be assisting
hostesses.
Plans are being made for the
annual concert, proceeds of
which go to the Sylvia Simons
Scholarship Memorial Fund, to
be held Jan. 25 at the Detroit
Institute of Arts. Miss Judith
Sidorski, native Detroiter whose
r are gifts as pianist were recog-
nized when she was 12 years old,
will be featured at this year's
event. She is a Detroit Piano
Concert winner.
Working on the concert com-
mittee are Mesdames J. S. Sauls,
Maurice Morse, David Hubar,
Ezra Lipkin, Henry Weinberg,
Samuel Berman, Abraham Coop-
er, William B. Isenberg, Walter
L. Field, J. H. Schackne, Meyer
L. Prentis, Harry Stocker, Mark
Howard, I. Mendelson.

Two Performances
By Celia Adler at

Littman's Theater

Abraham Littman, manager of
Littman's Yiddish People's Thea-
ter, 12th and Seward, announces
that Celia Adler will conclude
her stay in Detroit as guest star
with his entire cast this Sunday
matinee and evening.
Miss Adler will take the lead-
ing role in the play "Chashe, the
Orphan from Korochikrok" by
Jacob Gordon.

Thompson to Direct

Detroit Symphony
In Own Opus, Jan. 6

Weekly Review of the News of the World

(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)

PALESTINE

See Also Page 3

tional Home in Palestine, it was announced
by Senators Robert F. Wagner of New
York and Charles L. McNary of Oregon,
co-chairmen of the committee.
Dr. Edward Lodge Curran, president of-
the International Catholic Truth Society
and widely known as "the Father Cough-
ling of the East Coast," has called for the
revival of the America First Committee in
a speech delivered at a luncheon in New
York.
In the past year the Zionist Organiza-
tion of America distributed over 1,000,000
pieces of educational and propaganda liter..
ature, it was announced by Simon Shetzer,
executive director.
Pvt. Charles L. McIntosh, whose
romance with the former Mrs. Alice de-
Tarnowsky, associated with native Fas-
cistS, was on government time, was sen-
tenced to 10 years of hard labor for
desertion and other violations of the
Articles of War, at Fort Sheridan, Ill.
S/Sgt. Harry Brown, 21, of the Bronx,
with 50 combat missions in the Mediter-
ranean area to his credit,, hglds the Air
Medal and 12 Oak Leaf Clusters . Now at
AAF Redistribution Station No. 1 in At-
lantic City, Sergeant Brown was a Flying
Fortress ball turret gunner, serving aboard
the "Sweater Girl."

The sum of £200,000 has been allocated
by Nir, - Labor Colonization Corporation,
for loans for the construction of dwellings
in labor settlements and for workers em-
ployed in villaegs and plantations. Nir, an
Tvei Brider," famous oratorio by
agency of the Histadrut, Jewish Federation
J. Schaefer and I. L. Peretz,
which Halevy Singing Society . of Labor, has raised the sum through the
will present at its 19th annual
sale of a new issue of debenture bonds.
The project is part of the Histadrut pro-
gram of postwar reconstruction.
The blackout in force ih Palestine since
the beginning of the war is being lifted.
Announcement of the establishment of
two memorials for the late Dr. Saul Tscher-
nichowsky, Hebrew poet, was made at the
11th annual conference of Hebrew writers.
One is a Tschernichowsky Memorial Foun-
dation to be established by the Jewish
Agency and the Bialik Institute for the
purpose of publishing works by contem-
portly Hebrew authors. The Keren Haye-
sod (Palestine Foundation Fund) simul-
taneously announced that it would partici-
pate in financing the establishment of a
Tschernichowsky House for writers.
AMERICA
The American Palestine Committee has
launched a nationwide drive to mobilize
American public opinion in support of the
movement
to re-establish the Jewish Na-
• REBECCA FROHMAN

concert, Sunday, Jan. 16, at Ma-
sonic Temple, will be provided
by an orchestra composed entire-
1:'
members of the Detroit
Symphony Orchestra.
The personnel of the Halevy
Concert Orchestra will be as fol-
lows: Messrs. Siegi, Shapiro,
Hochberg, W e 19n e r , Grossman,
Resnick, and Epstein, violins;
Messrs. Schwarzman. and Argie-
wicz, cellos; Messrs. Zimberoff
and Elkind, basses; and Miss
Krokos, harp.
The soprano soloist for "Di
Tzevei Brider" will be Emma
Lazaroff Schaver, who has just
returned from appearances in
Toronto and Montreal. Her ac-
companist was Rebecca Frohman,
who, with Shirley Subar, will
provide the piano accompaniment
for the Halevy chorus.
Dan Frohman will direct the
program.
Tickets are being sold by
Halevy members. Organizations
and individuals desiring tickets
should phone TO. 6-3374 or TO
8-6633.

Great and popular opera arias,
with ringing high notes and lift-
ing melodies that appeal to
everybody, will be included on
the program- of the Columbia
All-Star Opera Quartet when
that array of fine singers appears
here in concert on Monday eve-
ning, Jan. 10, at the Masonic
Auditorium.
The fotir famous singers in the
quartet include Nino Martini,
tenor; Igor Gorin, baritone;
Helen Olheim, contralto, and
Josephine Tuminia, coloratura
soprano. They like to dance to
General Platoff Chorus
our popular music, and each of
At Masonic on Jan. 8
the . has sung more than one
The General Platoff Don Cos- popular tune over the radio.
sack Chorus, one of the most
famous body of singers in the
world, will appear on Jan. 8, at New Year Event Planned
-Masonic Temple.
At Grand Star Casino

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STOKOWSKI TO DIRECT
HANSON'S SYMPHONY
The radio premiere of Howard
Hanson's "Symphony No. 4" and
the "Love Music" from Wagner's
"Tristan and Isolde" comprise the
General Motors Symphony of the
Aair program Sunday, Jan. 2
(NBC, 5 to 6 p. m., EWT). Leo-
pold Stokowski leads the NBC
Symphony Orchestra in what will
also be the first New, York per-
formance of the Hanson Sym-
phony.

Grand Terrace Casino, the new
night club, had its opening at
East Grand Blvd., east of Wood-
ward, on Tuesday, with a 50-
people cast presenting an out-
standing revue. The stars include
Ann Corio, Monogram Picture
star; Hollywood Cover Girls,
dancers and variety stars. Doro-
thy Nutter is the producer. A
gala celebration is scheduled for
New Year's eve.

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Karl Krueger announces the
appearance on Jan. 6 of Virgil
Thomson, the first of two com-
poser-conductors who will lead
the Detroit Symphony in works
of their own this season. Both
Mr. Thomson and Eric Delamar- Columbia Opera
Quartet
ter—the latter conducts his opus
Feb. 3—are American born and Appears Here Jan. 10
.lave kept their compositions in
as American vein as it is possible
to do so.
Thomson was born in Kansas
City, Kans., studied in this coun-
try and in Paris, and his music is
chiefly chaterized by a witty,
ironic style. He has worked in
many mediums—chamber music,
opera, choral arrangements and
piano works. He is music critic
for the New York Herald Trib-
une. He will direct the Detroit
Symphony in his Suite from "The
Plow That Broke the Plains."

Liberty Ship Launched
In Honor of Jack Singer
WILMINGTON, Calif., (JPS)—
A liberty ship named for Jack
Singer, of International News
, Service, who died in the course
of his duties as a reporter as-
signed to cover the war in the
Southwest Pacific, was launched
here r ec ently. Singer was
killed when a Japanese torpedo
sank the aircraft carrier Wasp.

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