THE JEWISH NEWS Page Fourteen 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 Here is one resolution that's easy to make and easy to keep: That you will keep yourself informed about the Jewish news of the nation and world. AN you need do is subscribe to The Jewish News . . and we'll do the rest! We'll gather the news from all over the world, through the fa- cilities of the TEN newsgathering and feature agencies of which The Jewish News is a member (no other paper in the mid-west has such complete coverage), we'll boil it down for quick, compre- hensive and easy reading and we'll send it to your home _EACH FRIDAY! . RESOLVE that you and your family shall have The Jewish News every week! 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. _ • 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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