Friday, January 21, 1944 THE JEWISH NEWS Page Thirteen 4rme BUY WAR • BONDS This Advertisement Sponsored By KEYSTONE OIL REFINING 12800 Northampton Halevy With Shever Draws Big Audience Halevy Singing Society held its 19th annual concert at the Scot- tish Rite Cathedral Sunday night for an audience that grew larger as the evening progressed. By intermission time the hall was packed and those who came late missed some of the best spots of the evening's musical offer- ings. The first part of the pro- gram was made up of a group of songs done in the usual compe- tent manner of the group, in one of which Bella Goldberg, alto, carried the solo part in a capable manner. This was followed by "The Great Assembly Line" fea- turing the base-baritone Wallace Schonschak, "Assembly Line" is a patriotic cantata similar to "Ballad for Americans" which It closely apes. The second half of the concert was occupied by the Oratorio "Di Tzvei Brides,'' Schaefer's music set to the famous poem by J. L. Peretz. In this work Halevy was joined by a stringed ensemble of 14 members of the Detroit Sym- phony Orchestra, Cantor Samuel Mogill, baritone, and Emma Shever, soprano. This writer has no quarrel with the poem, nor even with the sentiments it expresses but the music itself is far from color- ful and, with the exception of a very few measures, it is dull and uninteresting. Whatever sparkle was present in the rendition was to be found in the presence of Emma Shever on the stage. Miss Shever handled her part with her usual professional ap- lomb and one could wish the oratorio had a larger part for the soprano. Yet, all in all, it was an inter- esting evening, the choir has quite a few fine voices and the two , piano accompaniment of Shirley Subar and Rebecca Froh- man was wholly satisfying, and while a little more contrast in general vocal shading could be desired, Dan Frohman, the direc- tor, can be complimented for the evening's musical entertainment. --- A. R. B. MUSIC Roth String Quartet Music Study Club Concert Features Miss Sidorsky Here Jan. 28 and 29 Annual Event Will Be Held Tuesday Evening at Institute of Arts The appearance of Miss Judith Sidorsky, brilliant pianist, in the annual concert of the Music Study Club, next Tuesday even- ing, at the Detroit Institute of Arts, is attracting interest here. A section of the auditorium MISS JUDITH SIDORSKY will be reserved for music stud- ents and for men and women in the armed forces. Miss Sidor- sky's rare gifts were recognized when, at the age of 12, she was awarded a Steinway Grand as winner of the Detroit Piano Contest. Her success was fol- lowed by the award of a fellow- ship at the Juillard Graduate School where she studied with Olga Samaroff Stokowski. As winner of the Walter W. Naumberg Foundation award, Miss Sidorsky made her. debut at Town Hall, New York. Among her appearances were perform- ances with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra under the late Ossip Gabrilowitsch, with the Phila- delphia Symphony orchestra un- The music department of the der Eugene Ormandy in Phila- Jewish Community Center an- delphia and in Carnegie Hall in New York. nounces that Julius Chajes, di- Proceeds of the concert go to rector of music, will lecture on "Popular Music" next Monday the • Sylvia Simons Scholarship at 8:15 p. m., at the Jewish Com- Memorial Fund and for philan- thropic work. munity Center. Music by Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, Earl Robin- son and others will be played by means of records. The Detroit Institute of Musi- cal Art is presenting a Chamber Music Festival on Jan. 23 and 29 at the Rackham Memorial Building. The artists, the famous Roth String Quartet, were in- vited to come to this country from their native Hungary in 1928, by the Library of Congress —Coolidge Foundation, W a s h- ington, D. C. The quartet was organized by its first violinist, Feri Roth, in 1922, and played with the same personnel until 1938 when Mr. Roth reorganized the quartet and invited two outstanding Ameri- can artists, Julius Shaier, violin- ist, and Oliver Edel, 'cellist, to become members of the group. The increased needs of Jewish refugees who have found a haven in Switzerland, and the recent influx of several thousand persons from Nazi-held Italy, have necessitated a rise in the Joint Distribution Committee's assistance allotment for that country to $150,000 a month, two-and-a-half times as much as its Swiss expenditure in May, 1943. Joseph C. Hyman, executive vice-Chairman of the JDC, an- nounced that the JDC's response to Jewish relief, rescue and re- habilitation requirements in other parts of the world has forced an overall! increase in its January allotment of nearly Perfection Lodge No. 486 $400,000 over that of the same month last year. To Honor Past Masters Of the 25,000 Jewish refugees in Switzerland, at least 50 per Perfection Lodge No. 486, F. cent require assistance, Mr. Hy- and A. M. at its third degree man disclosed. banquet on Jan. 26, at 6:30 p. m., at Masonic Temple, will honor New Jersey Federation its past masters, and in particu- Blasts White Paper lar its newest past master, Harry JERSEY CITY (JPS) — In a Zausmer. Mr. Zausmer will be presented resolution adopted at its sixty- with a past master's Apron and fifth convention, the New Jersey Jewel by the past masters Louis State Federation of Labor fol- Shapero and David Colman. A. J. lowed the action of its parent body, the American Federation Blumenau will be toastmaster. Harry Mason, tenor, and the of Labor, in condemning as "a champion Detroit Barber Quartet flagrant violation of the British Mandate over Palestine," t h e will provide entertainment. White Paper which would pro- hibit all new Jewish immigration WAGNERIAN MUSIC into Palestine after March 31, ON GM SYMPHONY The music from two of Rich- 1944. The resolution was intro- ard Wagner's greatest operas, duced by Mayor Vincent J. Lohengrin and Die Walkuere, Murphy of Newark, secretary- and a ballet work of the contem- treasurer of t h e New Jersey porary composer, Paul Hinde- State Federation of Labor. mith, will be performed by the NBC Symphony Orchestra, under Leopold Stokowski's direction, on the General Motors Symphony of the Air progratn Sunday, Jan. 23 (NBC, 5 to 6 p. m., EWT). Buy War Bonds! `Bitter Sweet' Star By Hillel at U of M On Jan. 22, Bnai Brith Hillel Foundation at the University of Michigan will hold a mixer. The evening will include danc- ing to the tunes of popular re- cordings. Hillel members will serve as hostesses for the event. Novel entertainment and refresh- ments will be added attractions. The occasion will serve to in- troduce servicemen who have re- cently arrived on the campus for newly organized army units. An invitation, in co-operation with • the Jewish Welfare Board, has been extended to 15 servicemen stationed at Fort Custer. Social chairmen for the affair are Faye R. Bronstein of Cheyenne, Wyo., and Shirley Levin of Akron, 0. A major social event of the year will occur on the following week-end, Jan. 29, when Hillel Foundation will sponsor its win- ter dance at the Michigan League Ballroom. Due to the large num- bers of new servicemen, a date bureau has been set up, directed - by Lois Newman of Grand Rapids and Edith Kohn of Long Island, N. Y. Gardenias will be sold at the door, proceeds to be given to the Jewish National Fund. Ad- mission will be the price of a war stamp. An attendance of over 500 couples is expected. GIVES 515,000 FOR HILLEL MEMORIAL TO AVIATOR SON CHICAGO (JPS) — A gift of $15,000 by Max Karasik, Chicago businessman, to the Bnai Brith Hillel Foundation at the Uni- versity of Chicago, for the estab- lishment of a Hillel House at the University as a memorial to his son, the late Raymond Karasik, U. S. Army Air Corps, who was killed in an operational flight, was announced here. The Women's League For Sabbath Observance 19 Groceries and 15 Bakeries Are Now CLOSED on SATURDAY — GROCERIES — Russia's Guerrillas "Blossom Time," a great mu- sical production, is the current attraction at the Cass Theater. The 1944 all-star revival of this musical romance celebrates the 23rd year of its continuous pres- entation on tour. The company seen here is the same that presented the revival on Broadway at the Ambassador Theater last summer. It has as its :Leading member the youthful Detroit prima donna, Barbara Scully, who is just out of her 'teen age, but already accounted a star of the musical stage. 2 Events Sponsored Is Happy to Announce That the Following Chajes to Lecture On Popular Music 'Blossom Time' Current Attraction at the Cass JDC Expense Up In .Switzerland MARTHE ERROLLE "Bitter Sweet," Noel Coward's captivating musical romance, is the second offering of the De- troit Civic Light Opera season at the Masonic Temple this week. Two performances w i 1 1 be given Sunday—the matinee at 2:30 p. Lovely Marthe Errolle, nation- ally known lyric soprano, sings the stellar role of Sari Linden. Rubenstein Musicale Sunday Rubinstein Piano Studios will present a number of pupils in a musicale on Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. There will also be a demonstration of the work done Mikhail Zharov—Guerrilla Warrior in "We Will Come Back" in their theory and ear-training JOSE ITURBI SOLOIST classes. IN MASONIC CONCERT Cinema Theater, Elizabeth near Jose Iturbi, noted pianist, will Woodward, this w eek features CARD OF THANKS be presented in a concert at the the great film, "We Will Come The family of the late Jacob Masonic Temple on Monday eve- Back Again." Levin acknowledge with grate- ning. Mr. Iturbi, who is also a The film shows t h e heroic ful appreciation the kind re- noted conductor, is well known guerrilla w a r r i or s in Soviet membrances and expressions of to Detroit audiences, having ap- Russia. sympathy shown them by the peared here on numerous occa- Among the brave warriors are community in their bereave- sions. the women guerrillas. ment. Linwood: M. 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