Friday, Maw 19, 1944

Lothar Wallerstein
To Teach in Detroit

THE JEWISH NEWS

Mrs. Katzen. Named
Chairman of Tickets
Committee for Opera

Dr. Lothar Wallerstein, emi-
nent stage director of the Metro-
politan Opera Association, will "The. Comic Opera" to Be
hold a 10-day. course in drama-
Presented May 3 I at the
tics and operatic stage experi-
Masonic -Auditorium
ence for singers and singing
teachers, starting Monday.
Mrs. Maxwell Katzen, daugh-
Dr. Wallerstein will bring to
Detroit his own accompanist, ter of Judge William Friedman,
Wolfgang Martin, well known the newly elected president of
conductor of the City Center the Jewish Welfare Federation,
Opera in New York. For infor-
mation call Archibald Jackson,
CO. 2870.

Workmen's Circle Ends
Year Featuring Belarsky

Henoch Kon, Composer,
Friend of Peretz, in Detroit

Rosofsky, Executive Head
Of Polish Jews, to Be
His Music Will Be Interpreted by Cantor Meisels at Center
Speaker, on June 6
Concert, Wednesday, May 24; Kon Tells of Association

A complete report on the .sta-
tus of Lithuanian Jewry_ will be
submitted at a mass meeting 'at
the Workmen's Circle Educa-
tional Center, Linwood and Bur-
lingame, on • Tuesday evening,
June 6.

With Great Author During Stay in Poland

Henoch Kon, widely acclaim-
ed composer, whose music will
be interpreted at a concert at
the Jewish Community Center
on Wednesday evening, May 24,

Cantor Robert Tulman of
Temple Israel and Miss Betty
Kowalsky, pianist, will present
a musical program.
The meeting is being arranged
by the Detroit Federation of
Lithuanian Jews. The public is
invited, admission being free.

Zesdakah Club Elects
Mrs. Davis President

MRS. MAXWELL KATZEN

Mrs. Esther Davis was elected
president of Zedakah Club at a
meeting held at the home of
Mrs. Ed Sklar. Other officers
are:
Vice- presidents, Mesdames
Doris Goldberg, Helen Trieger
and Tillie Knopper; treasurer,-
Mrs. Helen Sugarman; financial,
recording and corresponding sec-
retaries, respectively, Mesdames
Rose Klein, Ann Adilman and
Dorothy Sklar ; reporter, Hattie
Schwartz; 'representatives to
Community Council, Mrs. Sophia
Lefkowitz and Mrs. William
Hordes; trustees, Mesdames Eve-
lyn West, Bertha Sloan and
Nettie Deutsch.
Installation of officers will
take place at a luncheon on June
12 at the Statler. Mrs. Helen
Trieger, UN. 2-3994, is accepting
reservations. -

heads the ticket committee for
the presentation of Johann
Strauss' • comic opera, "The
Gypsy Baron" which will be
given on Wednesday evening,
May 31, in the large auditorium
of the Masonic Temple.
The scenery was especially de-
signed by Richard Rychtarik of
New York, and painted in the
Shields Studios in St. Louis. •The
famous waltzes, "Tales of the
Vienna Woods," danced by the
Wayne University Ballet, "Wine,
Women, and Song," sung by
John Garris: and "Vienna'
Dreams" sung by Marguerite
Kozenn, will be interpolated in
the third act.
Added patrons for the pre-
sentation are:
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bielfield,
Mr. and Mrs. Laurence V. Britt,
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Brown, Mr.
and Mrs. H. Cherniak of Wind-
sor, Ont. ; Mrs. Harry Farbsten,
Miss Gertrude Healy, Mr. and
Mrs. Jerry Hickey, Mr. and Mrs.
I. Himelhoch, Mr. and Mrs.
The music -department of the
Harry Jacobson, Dr. and Mrs. Jewish Community Center an-
David Kallman, Mr. and Mrs. nounces that Kurt Saffir, 14-
Peter Lustgarten of Windsor,
Ont.; Rev. and Mrs. Joseph Q.
Mayne, • Mrs. Michael W. Mar-
shall, Dr. and Mrs. Gustave L.
McLellan, Mr.-and Mrs.
•
Cameron
McLean, Dr. and Mrs. Willard
Meyer, Joseph Michaud, Mr. and
Two Films to Be Shown
Mrs. Robert L. Neydon, Hon. and
at Center on Wednesday
"Film Communique No. 5" and Mrs. Louis C. Rabaut, Mr. and
"Earthworm," a U. S. Navy,film Mrs. Charles Robinson, Mr. and
depicting the work 'of the Sea- Mrs. Jacob H. Schakne, Mr. and
bees, will be shown at the next Mrs. Nate. Shapero, Mr. •and Mrs.
film program of the Jewish Max Schayowitz, Mrs. Harry" B.'
Community Center on Wednes- Sharkey, Mr. and Mrs. Nedwin
day, May 24. The programs are L. Smokier, Mr. and Mrs. Philip
held in the Adult Lounge and Slomovitz.
begin promptly at 8:45 p. m.
Infants Service Group
Mothers' Clubs
The Council of Mothers' Clubs Elects Mrs. David King
calls attention to the following
Mrs. David King was elected
fUnctions.
president of Infant Service Group
Monday, May 22, all day Insti-
at a meeting at the .home of Mrs.
tute, on Race Relations at Jew-
Nathan Rothenberg, 2654 Elm-
ish Community Center.
hurst. Other officers are:
KURT SAFFIR
Tuesday, May 23, Dexter
Vice-presidents, Mesdames S.
Mothers' and Daughters' banquet L. Merson, M. M. Schare and Eva year_ old pianist, will give his
at Jewish Center.
Sherman; treasurer, Mrs. Sarah debut,:ecital on Sunday, at 3
Wednesday, May 24, 10 a. m.,
Guttentag; financial, correspond- p. m. in. the Center's Auditorium.
War Efforts' Breakfast, JeWish ing, recording and social secre-
On the program will be Bach's
Center.
taries, respectively, Mesdames Italian Concerto, Beethoven's
Wednesday, May 24, 1:30 p. m.,
Julian Grace, Abe Young, David Sonata, Opus 31, in D Minor, and
Book Tea sponsored jointly by
Mattes and Sol Abels; case chair- compositions by Brahms, Chajes,
the Woodward and Young Worn-
man, Mrs. Jack Freeman; happy • achmaninoff and Liszt.
en's Study Clubs. Frances Boddy
Admission is free.
day fund, Mrs. Sam Gross; mem-
will 'be the reviewer.
orial fund, Mrs. Sam Katz- dele-
Thursday evening, May 25,
gate, Mrs. Maurice Shepard.
`Seeds of Freedom'
Fenkell Mothers' and Daughters'
Mrs. Eve Sherman, UN. 2-8188,
banquet, at Jewish . Community
Featured
at Cinema
is accepting reservations for the
Center. An eight-piece orchestra
installation party to be held.
will provide the music.
"Seeds of Freedom," a story of
Tuesday, June 6, at the Book
Wednesday evening, May '24,
Odessa, is the current attraction
Cadillac.
Center Mothers' Club, at Jewish
at the Cinema Theater. The third
Community Center.
summer of bursting bombs and
Conference Sessions
whining shells, or roaring planes
Labor Day Week-End
and lumbering tanks has ended
UHS Auxiliary Election
NEW YORK (JPS)—A second on. the long Russian front. "This
At Meeting on Wednesday session
of the American Jewish time we will drive out the Nazi
Mrs. Jack Tobin, -president of Conference will convene in Chi- beasts," the heroes declare.
the Women's Auxiliary of the cago Sept. 2-3-4 in accordance
The story of the "Potemkin,','
United Hebrew Schools, and her with the decision of the first played by Aline MacMahon, as
staff of officers will present their session that a second be culled' told by the great Soviet film di-
reports at the auxiliary's annual "at least within a year."
rector Sergei Eisenstein and the
.election meeting to be held at 2
The program will be worked people of Odessa, is part of the
13. m. next Wednesday at the out by an Administrative • Com- history of Odessa and a central
Rose Sittig Cohen 81dg. The pro- mittee, headed by Louis Lipsky. part of the film "Seeds of Free-
gram will feature 'dramatic read- The Administrative Committee dom." The second feature is
ings by Melba Sklar. Weiner.
is also• to act for the Conference. "Soviet Frontiers on the Danube."

Jewish Center
Activities

MUSIC

The speaker will be I. Rosof-
sky, executive director of t h e
Federation of Polish Jews. There
will also be a. local speaker.

.

The annual concert of the De-
troit Workman's Circle Chorus
ending their 11th season, was en-
thusiastically received by a good
attendance on. Sunday at the In-
stitute of Arts, under the direc-
tion of its capable director, Dan
Frohman.
- With the popular Sidor Belar-
sky as guest soloist, the entire
evening moved along at a pace
rarely met with among such
groups. •
Belarsky, evidently working
--under the difficulties of a bad
cold, turned in his usual master-
ful performance.
The chorus distinguished itself
especially in the section of the
program that provided "Kamf
Gezang," "Tuku," "Lath Polka"
and "Kirchin Glokin." In the last
named the chorus disclosed an
excellent tenor with a fine nat-
ural voice and promising dra-
matic qualities in the person of
Sam Pecherer who sang the solo
lines. In other selections solos
were carried by Lillian Martell,
Casendra Fishbain and Edith
Lempert.
Especially fine and deeply
moving was the way Dan Froh-
man conducted, and the way the
, chorus responded in the final
selection, "Ballad For Ameri-
cans" with Belarsky as the solo-
ist.
A word must be said for the
competent piano work of both
Rebecca Frohman and Evelyn
Gurvitch who did their full share
in making the presentation an
interesting and entertaining eve-
ning of music.
—A.R.B.

Lithuanian Jews
To Hear Report
On Their Status

Page Thirteen

Kurt Saffir's Debut
Recital This Sunday

by Cantor Saul Meisels of Cleve-
land, is a guest in Detroit and
the large number of people who
have become interested in his
works are being inspired by his
experiences as a personal wit-
ness to the tragedies of the last

Soloists Announced for
Symphony Night Concert

Gladys Swarthout, famous
American Mezzo - Soprano, has
been signed to be the first soloist
at the Detroit Symphony Twi-
light Concerts to be held in the
University of • Detroit Stadium
with Karl Krueger, the orches-
tra's permanent musical director,
conducting.
The first concert will be given
June 17 and will continue there-
after on Wednesday and Satur-
day evenings for four weeks,
with •different . programs and
soloists each night.
-Grinnell Music Foundation,
expressing appreciation of the
orchestra's 1944-45 season and
confidence in 'future triumphs,
has made the Summer Season
possible by its sponsorship.
Other soloists who will appear
with Mr. Krueger are John
Charles Thomas, Sigmund Rom-
berg (with Margaret Speaks and
Conrad' Thibault), Oscar Levant,
Alec Templeton, Gus Haenschen,
an. All-Vienna Night with Stolz-
Glaz-Berini, and Ezio Pinza.

MOZART, GOULD MUSIC
ON GM CONCERT SUNDAY
The works of four noted com-
posers, each with widely differ-
ent backgrounds, will be per-
formed by the NBC Symphony
Orchestra, under Dr. Frank
Black's direction, on the General
Motors Symphony of the Air
concert Sunday, May 21 (NBC,
5 to 6 p. m. EWT).
Highlighting the program will
be Mozart's Symphony No. 28
in C .Major, and American Sa-
lute (When Johnny' Comes
Marching Home)) by the noted
, young American compoSer and
pianist, Morton Gould.

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as well as the present war in
Europe.
On the eve of the First World
War, Mr. Kon began his career
as a song-writer after graduat-
ing from the Berlin Royal Aca-
demy of Music.
Associated with Peretz
Upon his return to Poland in
1913, he began writing Yiddish
folkssongs, and one of his thrill-
ing experiences was his associa-
tion with the great writer,
Judah Leib Peretz, the outstand-
ing intreperter of Hassidic lore..
Together with Mr. Peretz and
other great Jewish leaders of -the
pre-war period, in 1913 and 1914,
Mr. Kon laid the foundation for
the new theater in Warsaw.
Since that time, he had writ-
ten more than 100 folksongs and
36 settings for theatrical produc-
tions. At the present time, his
music is used as a background
for the play by H. - Leivick,
"Orime Menschen."
Left Poland in 1937
A Talmudic scholar, having
studied in the Kutner Yeshivah,
Mr. Kon is a Hassidic follow-
er of the Kotzk Rabbis. He left
Poland in 1937 and came to this
countly from France two years
ago. The Work_ Jewish Congress
arranged for his visa to the.
United States.
Mr. Kon's songs have been on
the repertoire of such noted
artists as Victor Chenkin. His
music has been presented in two
concerts in New York and one in
-Cleveland.
The Detroit concert, which
will also feature instrumental
music by five members of the
Detroit Symphony Orchestra,
was arranged by a group of
friends who . are anxious to per-
petuate Jewish folklore. While
in Detroit, Mr. Kon will also lec-
ture before cultural groups on
Jewish Music.

Plans New Symphony

Mr. Kon has informed The
Jewish News that he is now
embarking upon a project of
creating a symphony based on
the martyrdom of the Jewish
fighters against Nazism in the
Warsaw Ghetto.
On the boat which brought
him to this country from France
were several people who had
escaped from Poland and he has
been deeply moved to recon-
struct the tragedy of the Jews
in Poland in his proposed sym-
phony.

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