Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 16

Clyde Beatty: Master Showman Violinist To Play at its debut by the Vienna Philharmonic Orclieatra THE ORCHESTRA also win day "Overture to Manfred" by Robert Schumann Schumann had a atrong passion for the aoealled "witch "Manfred" by Byron Although Schumann scored the entire poem which waa first performed by Franz Liszt in 1832 only the overture has survived It follows closely the sequence of Byron'a poem and is noteworthy for its fire depth of ideal instrumentation and tta modernity of harmony and rhythm Guest artist Elman is a native of Tblnol Russia but has been shying in America since 1901 He obaorved Ha 90th an-ntvermry in America to 1931 by playing at Ckmegto Han on too very stage on which he made Ha first American appearance No "poor but gifted" unknown when he came to the US with the Russian Symphony more than a half century ago Elman hid with the help of hia devoted father overcome toe twin disadvantages of poverty and ghetto culture of that tone in Russia to becqpe the pupil of the great Russian violin teacher Leopold Auer and to achieve admission io the St Petersburg Conservatory mm A mm SUNDAY JANUARY 13 1963 2-Day Clinic for Region 7 Choir To Open Here Friday from local high schools will be Admission to the concert Sat-among the 130 members of the urday night is $1 for adults and All-Region Choir 50 cents for students THIS Entertainment Calendar CORPUS GHRUTI Symphony Orchestra concert tomorrow with Mischa Elman violinist aa guest artist 8:30 pm Del Mar Auditorium Admission: Season ticket or single admissions available at box office WALLFIxra Dl'O violist and pianist will present a concert Friday at 8:15 pm Del Mar Auditorium Admission: 52 for adults SI for students REGION 7 (HOIK concert Saturday 8 pm Del Mar Auditorium Admission: SI for adults 50 rents for students DANGER EVER PRESENT FOR CLYDE BEATTY animal trainer pat lion through act EDITOR'S NOTE Hit body it a lacewerk of fang and daw markt which to often nearly ipelied death but after 40 yean Clyde Beatty still Iowa to pit hla wlt agalnat the jungie'a moat ferodouB animals The matter showman wonls to give audienrea every thrill possible except aeelng the cat of death defeat him By BERNARD GAVZKR NEW YORK iff) "I want people to arme done I want them to are the cata right up to me to he rkwe enough to amell the cata "I don't think about the people when I'm in there I don't know if there are a hundred or a thousand in the audience I really don't It doesn't matter how many I'll give them anything give tliem everything "But not that one thing" And then Gyde Beatty laughs "I want to give the audience excitement But I won't give them that last thing 1 won't give my life" Beatty is a man of action not of philosophic contemplation He doesn't like to talk about death Danger yea Death no AND YET death is like some monster cat that sits unseen at every performance licking Its chops waiting itr turn For more than 40 years audiences haw perched at the edge of their acata shocked wilh excitement as the fabulous Beatty bent the tigers and lions of the Jungle to his will TV re haw been downs of times the frightful cat of death had claimed its victim Rut each time Beatty has risen a new sear on his body How does he go on day after day exposed to such danger? As Bmitty says if there wasn't danger who'd come see the show? See Beatty today and it is no different than having seen him 30 nr so wars ago Oh the hair isn't black as coal tar any longer but it la still full and curly THE RINGMASTER at the circus makes pretty much the same old standard sold concluding tlie Introduction in a wire that teems studded with exclamation marks Beatty materializes In a spot of light and the arena swells with a roiling fanfare He is a symbol or purity strength bravery in his white shirt ahnrtsieeved ojien at tlie neck He looks bigger than 13 feet tall not 5 font 6 ageless with the vigor of youth not 58 pound-for-pound a match for any superbly muscled lion not a mere 130 The band cornea to life Pulses quicken Beatty enters the double door to the big rage where lions already prowl There's Buddy He'i on the highest perch in the pyramid Then Pharaoh follows moving nicely And now the bmthrrs Sultan and Brutus Brutus growls hut takes his place Sultan starts up comes down moves In the red sawdust growls goes up growling takes his place Leo enters Simba enters and the hand playi at a faster tempo Tlie whip guides Simba along and then King and Caesar and Congo are all in shifting in a crafty eat prowl Caesar swiping at King Last Is Henry No trouble NOW THE Bengal tigera Sabre leads with Rajah Prince Princess and Frisco following Beatty rlulchrs tlie bark of an old-fashioned wooden kitchen chair It has been strengthened with iron braces He holds the back with three fingers of his left hand using the forefinger and thumb to also hold and fire a pistol filled with blank charges In his right hand he has a buggy whip with a snapper end that is harmless but makes a greet cracking sound The music races along Beatty brings Rajah down to Memorial Evening at Coliseum FRI JAN 25 8:30 PM met to a New Orleans night club Jane Beatty can't take seeing her husband in danger and In the 13 years of tlieir marriage has seen the act perhaps eiglit times She says she's been trying to get him to do something else "I don't nag about it although lie sometimes claims I da He's a wonderful gentle and very kind man I think the cats take all the fight out of him and he just can't have an angry word for any human" While Beatty la mailer of Jungle beasts in the cage at home he hai been a bust training the pet pooch He admits it saying "I just don't have the technique for it" Hie Beattys have a handsome lair-haired boy of 11 named Clyde hut called "Cly-die" by his dad What if Clydie wanted to follow the paternal footsteps leaving home as Beatty did when at the age of 13 he said good by to Bain-bridge Ohio to pursue the excitement and struggle of showtime? "Gydie won't do says Beatty "I won't let him" Here Beatty reveals one of the aches of his life He has had glory and and excitement aplenty "But I didn't get an education I surely wish I had gone to college My hoy will You can bet on that" Tlie hard shiny whitish tough tissue of scare adorn hia and each tells the story of danger nnd near death Beatty can no longer remember how each was gotten or when "THE FIRST time was when I was very young" he recalls "I had this leopard and I was pretty frisky about handling him I used to do such things as put my head in a lion's mouth but you wouldn't believe they have such terrible halitosis Anyway this leopard I put him around my neck to carry him and he clawed open my right eye and sunk liis teeth into my neck Europeans handle the animals Hnd train them from domesticity I take mine from the jungle The worst I ever got was from Nero a big old lion who was horn in captivity Hiis was back in the thirties in Indiana and I had females in the act and Nero was after one I stopiied him and he got over me with his mouth over my Lice I grabbed his mouth and pushed him That's when he grabbed my leg and carried me around like a rag doll I was unconscious the better part of 13 days and they just about gave up on me" BEATTY'S WIFE is the former Jane Abel a beautiful blonde singer comedienne lie IIE WAS ONLY 17 at toe time of hia American debut but he had behind him five yean a prodigy in Europe Hla legendary "golden tone" was a revelation to audtoncee and critics of the day and ia till unique to the music world He has performed in every nation of the globe and waa the tint Western instrumental star to tour the Orient Hla recordings have sold more than two million copies Ho hai played almost 3000 recitals drawing from a repertoire of more than 600 works Ticket! for tomorrow night's perfbnhanco may be obtained from the symphony ticket of-fice by phoning UL2-2717 PAGE 4B ORDER TICKETS EARIT Endorsed ly Corpus Christi Automobile Dealer Asiocietion MISCHA ELMAN one of the "gnat violin viituona" win play two concertos with the Corpus Chriiti Symphony Orchestra In a concert tomorrow beginning at 1:30 p-m in Del Mar Auditorium The orchestra also win play a symphony and a Schumann overture Hie violin concertos include "Violin Concerto in and Antonio Vivaldi's "Concerto for Violin In Minor" Hie Mendelssohn concerto had tta world premiere in Leipzig in IMS and vu the result of alx yean of collaboration between the composer and Ferdinand David a dose friend Men-delaaohn polished and refined and David supplied practical counsel tor the solo writing VIVALDI LEFT the priethood in 1703 and put his musical talent at the service of the Piets one of the tour charitable institutions in Venice for invalid! and foundling children He remained there for 40 yean as teacher orchestra director composer and violinist in addition to outside duties as theatrical musician impresario and virtuoso performer While there he wrote at least 430 concertos and 500 other instrumental pieces Of the 430 concertos 71 an solo concertos for violin with string orchestra and several an in the key of minor The concerto on tomorrow's program waa by Tivadar Nachez in 1913 expressly for soloist Mischa Elman The orchestra will play Jchs-necs Brahma' "Symphony No 2 in Major" This work which begins with a broad beautiful tune waa considered heresay by Wagnerian critics when it waa written in 1878 The public acclaimed the work however DEADLINE IS NEAR Feb 1 is the deadline for young instrumentalists to enter a contest to select a soloist who will appear with the Corpus Christi Symphony Orchestra in a youth concert March 11 No entries have been received to date although several students have expressed an Interest in the contest and indicated their intention to compete local officials said The contest is sponsored annually by toe Corpus Christi Symphony Society and the Corpus Christi Music Teachers Association Music students below college level living in Corpus Christi or within a 73-mile radius are eligible The selection to he performed may be a movement from a standard concerto or limilar work for a solo instrument and orchestra Interested young musicians should write to the Corpus Christi Symphony Society Box 493 Corpus Christi giving age school instrument name of selection and name of teacher mortal by Pearl EM THE REGION 7 Choir composed of about 130 high school student! from 13 schools in the area will have a two-day clinic here next Friday and Saturday climaxed by a concert at 6 pm Saturday in Del Mar Auditorium Clinician will be Dr Lloyd Fautsch director of choirs at Southern Methodist University a member of the faculty at Perkins School oi Theology there and conductor of The Seminary Singers a choral group Following two days of intensive rehearsals the All-Region Choir will sing a wide range of numbers at the concert One selection will be by students chosen for the All-State Clioir which will sing for the Texas Music Educators Association convention Feb 1-3 at Houston FEATURED GUESTS will be the Texas College Opera Workshop directed by Richard Owens and the Del Mar Brass Choir directed by Bill Hipp who will accompany the Region 7 Choir in one number Tlie rhoir will rohenrse at 4 and 7:30 pm Friday and at 9 am and 1:30 pm Saturday A dinner for die clinic faculty and visiting directors will be at 5:30 pm Saturday in Del Mar Student Union Building Gifford I torn choral director at King High School in King ville ia vocal chaitvnan for TMEA'i Region 7 Dr Chidrster chairman of the music education department at Del Mar College is secretary-treasurer Approximately 40 students rawing Ce SEATS I Mm: AZ mti mmit NOW ON tail I liiciMitr CmmWn MLK I Si MUmt-Tal TU2-J242 do a slow stalking walk A lion then is sent into a body spin A tiger walks atop a huge roller making It cross tlie ring The tiger Prince dor a body roll going from back to belly at Beatty's direction r' i a 1 1 the finale approaches Getting the lions to lie down side by side in a straight line THREE ARE to position and suddenly Sultan and Brutus are at it There ia snarling and growling and Beatty moves fiercely about tlie floor and swears a blue streak to the cage handlers to oen the rhute door so he can get the tigers out He pushes and urges and cracks the whip getting tliem away from the lions and now he has the chair against one beast and tlie lion claws it so he has to heave and push to free it He Itlasts away with the pistol and empties it and moves to tlie cage bars to drop it and take another from Red Hartman his assistant who matches Beatty's every move from outside the cage and who pokes a lion with a long pole and gives a pole to Beatty who whacks another beast on the iiaunchcs to get it moving Hie cage is a solid din of animal noise and animal snails so strong they seem like a noise and the whip cracking and finally all the linns are out but one and as Beatty slips to safety tlie last lion nukes a groat leap against the cage bars Tlie applause is thunderous Beatty is wet with perspiration The neat starched shirt is limp He exits and la immediately wrapped in a huge robe and heavy towel "IT WAS ROUGH this afternoon" he says sitting down with a highball "Everything was all right until the brothers started acting up But it's Caesar who's peculiar He has a WHy of hitting the chair ao'a it twists my wrist For six months now he's been doing 1L Last Saturday he got me He tore my shirt off" Beatty was minimizing wliat happened When he removed his soaking clothes there were four lines across his chest faint on the right side where the claw swipe first touched ami almost senrlet where the claws had gone deep 7mssX Deluxe STEREO CONSOLE NATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL DISPLAY Music Hall lias To Be Broken In NEW YORK IP Symphony Conductor Joseph Krips says lots of music eventually win adjust the acoustics of Lincoln Center's new Philharmonic Hall "It has to be broken in with lot of playing" comments' the Viennese maestro is just like a new violin or piano" Melodic reverberations explain! Krips eventually Impart certain qualities to building material! better than fine engineering adjustments Plays Part Of Tough Guy HOLLYWOOD Terenre Stamp 23-year old English actor whose first film was the title role in "Billy plays an undisciplined tough to a school clan taught by Laurence Olivier in Warner Bros 'Term of Trial" CANOE TILTING CHILDREN'S THEATRE Featuring Handy Andy's Bozo The Clown Show Opens FRI 6 M-11 PM? SAT and Sun 1:00 PM 1 1 PM 75c Adults 25c Children1 lactata Itaaa PmairtatiM NOW 2 STORES ADM TV IIOS Amm Carw CkrMt Phi TUI-2212 ACME TV flr APPLIANCE PORTLAND Ph 641-2124 Paul Waif Omm At The WMm Town I M) HS.