Friday, May 5, 1944

THE JEWISH NEWS

Page Six

Fondiller, Noted Electrical Engineer, Talks
Here in Behalf of Haifa Technical Institute

MUSIC

Jennie Tourel

In "Samson"

Frohman to Direct
Workmen's Circle
Concert on May 14

Detroit Oratorio Society was
The annual Workmen's Circle
formed here to develop an or- choral concert, to be held at the
ganization that can do for the Detroit Institute of Art on Sun-
great choral literature what the r
•
Symphony Orchestra does for in-
strumental music.

This new group will present
Handel's "Samson" in the Scot-
tish Rite Cathedral on May 19
and 20.

Arthur Gnau, a three-genera-
tion Detroiter who has degrees
from Harvard and Michigan, and
who has studied under Nadia
Boulanger in Paris, is the di-
rector.

Costs of monthly rehearsals
have been covered by dues paid
by members. The entire project
is aimed at making a cultural
contribution to the community
and is not profit-making. '

The featured soloist in Handel's
"Samson" will be Jennie Tourel
of the Metropolitan Operp Co.
CAMPUS OF HEBREW INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY IN HAIFA, PALESTINE
Miss Tourel sang for eight sea-
Louis
G.
Redstone,
president
Among his inventions is the
Detroit Chapter of the Amer-
sons in the Paris Opera Comique.
ican Society for the Advance- first transcontinental telephone of the Detroit Chapter, an- She escaped to this country just
ment of the Hebrew Institute of line which opened for public use nounces that admission to Tues- ahead of the invading Nazis.
day's meeting will be free and
Technology in Haifa, Palestine, in 1915.
that the public is invited.
Studied in New York
-will sponsor a public meeting
Regina Resnick, New Met
Plan Kisch Memorial
Born in Russia, he received
next Tuesday, at the Rackham
Mr. Redstone calls attention to Soprano, to Sing Here
Auditorium, Woodward and his education at the College of
Farnsworth, and will present the City of New York and the the fact that interest was -recent-
Jewish Yolk Chorus, through
William Fondiller, national Engineering School of Colum- ly focused on the Haifa Tech-
president of the society, vice- bia University. He is research nion when General Montgomery its conductor, Henri Goldberg,
president of the Bell Telephone associate of the Department of assumed the chairmanship of a announces that it has secured the
Laboratories, as guest speaker. Electrical Engineering at Colum- project to, build. and equip lab- dramatic soprano, Regina Res-
Mr. Fondiller, who holds one bia University, Fellow of Amer- oratories for electrical and in- nick of New York, as soloist for
of the most responsible tech- ican Institute of Electrical En- dustrial engineering in the name its annual concert on June 18, at
nical positions ever given to a gineers and American Associa- of Frederick H. Kisch, late Chief the Scottish Rite Cathedral. Miss
Jewish scientist, was formerly tion for Advancement of Science Engineer of the British Eighth Resnick has just signed a con-
head of the Physical Xaboratory He is a member • of Bnai Brith Army and trustee of the Haifa tract with the Metropolitan
Opera Co., being one of four
of the Western Electric Co. and and the Zionist Organization, Institute.
The project is carried on un- winners in the Met Auditions of
director of Electrical Aparatus serves on the board of the Pal-
Development of the Bell Tele- estine Foundation Fund and was der the auspices of the American the Air.
phone Laboratories. He is one one of the founders of the So- Association for the Advancement
of the country's outstanding ciety for the Advancement of of the Haifa Institute of Tech- Shaarey Zedek Red Cross
nology, 154 Nassau St., N. Y.
the Haifa Technical Institute.
electrical engineers.

Chajes to Lecture
On Hebrew Music

Garris, Refugee
Singer,.:Met Star,
In `Gypsy. Baron'

-Julius Chajes, director of music
at the Jewish Community Center
and Temple Beth El, will give a Detroit Friends of Opera to
Present Opera in English
lecture o_n Hebrew music on
Here May 31
Tuesday, May 9, at 8:15 p. m. at
the Center. Records will be play-
ed as a means of illustrating the
lecture. Admission is free.

•

' Starting Sunday, there will be
"Jewish Music Week" through-
out the country, as advocated by
the National Jewish Welfare
Board. An exhibition of recent
musical publications, new syna-
gogue services, Hebrew songs,
and books on Hebrew music, will
be on display at the Center dur-
ing the entire week.

GM Signs New Contract
, ' To Continue Concerts

Another full year of radio
symphony music under t h e
sponsorship of General Motors
was assured in the announce-
ment by Alfred P. Sloan Jr.,
chairman of the corporation, that
G-M had signed a contract with
the National Broadcasting Co.
for continuation of the G-M
Symphony of the Air program
for a second period of 52 weeks.
Arturo Toscanini, for whom
the NBC Symphony Orchestra
was created seven years ago,
will return to the podium for a
series of concerts during- t h e
winter months.

Peerce in Ilth Appearance
On Kostelanetz Program

Jan Peerce, Metropolitan Op-
era tenor, will be heard Sunday
(CBS, 4:30 p.m., EWT) on "The
Pause that Refreshes on the Air"
with Andre Kostelanetz.
He'll sing "The Touch of
Your Hand" by Kern and Victor
Herbert's "Thine Alone." Sunday
will mark Peerce's 11th appear-
ance on the program.
_The tenor, 36, born in N e w
York City, was a violinist until
the late "Roxy" Rothafel heard
him at a party and decided he
was a better singer. He made
his Metropolitan debut in Verdi's
"TraViata" in November, 1941.

and Mrs. Maurice Benyas, Mr. and
Mrs. Gus Braff,• Mr. and Mrs. H. C.
Broder, Edith Brown, Mr and Mrs.
Charles Bruce, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert
T. Cobey of Galion, Ohio; Mrs. Frank
Coolidge, Mr. and Mrs. Abraham
Cooper.
Dr. Aaron Farbman. Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Frank, Judge William Fried-
man. Dr. and Mrs Marcus Frost, Dr.
and Mrs. Albert C. Johnson, Dr. and
Mrs. Sol Q. Kesler, Mr. and Mrs.
Maurice Klein, Mr. and Mrs. Benja-
min Laikin, Dr. and Mrs Sam Lewis.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry A. McDonald,
Fred Nagel, Miss Henrietta O'Brien,
Max Osnos„Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Purdy, Judge and Mrs. Charles Rubi-
ner, Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Simons, Mr.
and Mrs. Abraham Srere, Mr and
Mrs. David Wilkus, and Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Wineman.

day evening, May 14, will -be di-
rected by Dan Frohman, well
known choral conductor.

Sidor Belarsky, opera, radio
and concert artist, will be the
guest soloist.
The choir will be featured in
three cantatas — Peretz's "Mein
Nit Die Welt Is a Kertchme,"
with Gelbart's music arranged by
Fr o h m a n; Reizen's "Kirchn-
Glocken," music by Schaefer-
Frohman, and Robinson's "Ballad
for Americans," with Belarsky as
soloist.

Roland Hayes in Concert
At Masonic This Saturday

Roland Hayes, noted tenor,
will appear at the 'Masonic Aud-
itorium Saturday evening in a
concert after several years of re-
tirement. He left the stage five
years ago. He had been practic-
Unit Starts Work May 9 ing for an entire year before
making his comeback. Since his
The Red Cross Surgical Dress- return, the great Negro singer
ing Unit of Congregation Shaarey is in more demand than ever.
Zedek will re-open on Tuesday
at 10 a. m. Mrs. Sidney Frank,
MICHIGAN'S LARGEST
GZ,
FLORSHEIM. DEALER
chairman, urges all who have
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taken the course again to par-
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ticipate in the work. The sur-
gical dressing workroom will be
■
open every Tuesday and Wednes-
mi-ls Woodward Next to Fox Theatre
day, 10 a. m. to 3 p. m.. start-
Open Evenings
ing May 9.

SIBLEY'

The New - Detroiters, headed
by Mrs. Alice Schwab, recrea-
tional director, also are repre-
sented on the ticket committee,
_, Dr. Moses
with Mr. Paul Cohn
Wieser, Mr. Alex Roberg, and
others.

Margie Reardon . . . if you re-
call . . . had one of the two
femme leadi in "Stage Door
Canteen." Margie , . . whose
mama branches from the Mosaic
JOHN GARRIS
tree . . . is doing right well . . .
Detroit Friends of Opera, Inc. is under contract both to War-
announces the engagement of ners and Sol Lesser.
John Garris, member of the Met
ropolitan Opera Co., and former-
ly of Frankfurt on the Main, for
the leading tenor part in the
opera "The Gypsy Baron" by
Johann Strauss, to be given in
the Masonic Temple on May 31.
Mr. Garris wron the Metropoli-
tan Opera auditions on the air
two years ago, and since then
has been singing leading roles at
the Met, as well as on the West
Coast. It will be his first ap-
pearance here.
Another artist who will come
to Detroit to help with the pre-
sentation will be Carlton Gauld,
a native American, formerly
with the Metropolitan, and now
with the New Opera Co. of New
York.
He has been leading baritone
at the Grand Cpera in Paris un-
til the war broke out.
The entire opera will be given
in English for the first time in
this country. Ruth and Thomas
Martin have made the transla-
tion especially for this perform-
ance. Mr. Martin, a refugee from
Vienna, is a well-known con-
ductor in the East, and special-
izes in the translation of famous
operas into English.
Patrons for the presentation
of the "Gypsy Baron" are:

Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Allen, Dr..

10FALO

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