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TO VM LOCAL NEWS EDITORIALS OPINION? A Tr 3 EDITORIALS OPINIONS VOL LXXVI Times Classified Advertising MAdiion 9-4411 WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 10, 1957 CC ickk Time Officei 202 West First Street, Lot Angele 53, Calif. MAdison 5-2343 BY THE WAY with BILL HENRY W08 a v. 4 r' I tr i 4 i GOVERNOR AT BOWL Mrs. Philip Chondler, center, talks with Gov. and MrsA Knight otter thetr orrivol at the Bowl.

They had been at preconcert dinner party. Tim phnta Conductor Paray Impresses MmmmmmmMy irjm y.f M-l I 1 rt UymMmmmm mmmmmy ir.v as He Opens Bowl Season Orchestra Plays With Enthusiasm TRIBUTE TO DR. WALTER Mrs. Z. Wayne Griffin presents bowl to Dr.

Bruno Walter on 30th anniversa ry of his first Bowl performance. At the right is Victor Montgomery, head of Hollywood Bowl Association. Times photo 30TH ANNIVERSARY BY ALBERT GOLDBERG Hollywood Bowl again be came the local point lor BmnoWalter music lovers at the opening of the 36th season last night. The steady stream of pa Paid Honor by trons began at an early hour Our Chatsworth fire last Week started with a little wisp of smoke Which rose uncertainly from the Big Reck Candy Mountains that split by the Santa Su- sana Pass. It didn't look like much at first.

FIRE! FIRE Matter of fact our attention was first -called to it by the sirens on 'the fire engines. Out our way "sirens are a steady diet and our country ears are attuned to ignoring the light screech of police cars and ambulances, but to startled recognition of the rumbling roar of the heavy fire trucks. When one of thosei thunders up Devonshire, the citizenry rouse themselves to scan the skies for some sign of Bmoke. This one had already reached tl)e Biblical proportions of -a pillar of fire and a tower of smoke, so the village grapevine quickly went to work. The local radio station was tuned in and there was a hurried )hone' call to friends who ive right at the foot pf the pass.

Our collective hair Etopd right on end when the breathless answer said, "It's just coming over the pass. It doesn't look good. No immediate danger. If we heed you, we'll call!" Then 'the decisive bang as the receiver was hung, up by someone who obviously had sonftthing mere important to do than just talk. THE THREAT In summertime brush fires are a dime a dozen on the out-skirls of our city.

This is a mite early for them, however, and when the fire trucks kept roaring past the house and the pall of smoke loomed Digger and bigger, the situation became a bit more worrisome. Pretty soon one of the youngsters came in from outside with the news that it was "snowing." A hurried glance translated the idea at once ashes. A steady shower of ashes, borne, along by the wind, descended on our place. This was a signal to move the good car inside the garage and close the door ashes wouldn't do the finish any good. Then the thought that it wouldn't do any harm to wet down the roof they were only ashes just 'then, not embers, but safety first is always a good motto.

DEVELOPMENTS The fire-fighting equipment kept coming. Not just fire engines but truckloads of men with shovels, huge bulldozers on flat-bed trucks. Our firemen, thanks to long ex- perience, are wonderfully efficient. They come around with a map and check every house in the threatened area, give advice to the owners about wetting down the roof and preparing a list of valuables to be carted away in case of evacuation. Up in the mountains there is little or no water.

You just let the fire burn Itself out except in cases where it actually threatens a home. The military guys up on the Nike antiaircraft installation had things well in hand. They'd cleared the brush from around their place, had plenty of supplies and water, all explosives safely underground. PROBLEMS Pretty soon there was the problem of the sightseers. It was a bit scary, the deathly hush along Devonshire, when the police closed the street and the only way you could move on it was to show a driver's license establishing your residence in the neighborhood.

The course of the fire ebbed and flowed with the vagaries of the wind-never got closer than a couple of miles from our place but it was an uneasy thing to hear the constant coming and going 'of the Firens, to wake up in the and by starting time the hillsides held a very large audience that came to hear the Bowl Crowd BY CECIL SMITH The thousands had assem Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Paul Paray, with Alexander bled under a fragile, chaste Brailowsky as the piano soloist. moon for the opening of the Ideal weather, the unique Hollywood Bowl's 36th sea son last nignt. conductor ly beautiful natural surroundings with their combination of intimacy and expanse, and Paul Paray had lifted" his baton and already the music of Liszt was welling through the great verdant amphithe a public intent upon the music yet aware of the festive character of the occasion all contributed to an auspicious ater. Backstage in the darkness opening of the famous Sym all was quiet save the thun phonies Under the Stars. derous glory of the music Then he arrived, entering Paray Impressive, Mr.

Paray, whose official quietly, removing his trench coat and his gray muffler a )j- position -is the conductor of the" Detroit Symphony Orchestra, was new both to the little bent, perhaps, but still firm of step, still clear of eye Bowl and to the Pacific Coast. maestro Bruno Walter. Glasses Case a Baton Someone brought a chair ATTENTIVE LISTENER Dr. Bruno Walter listens back stage to the music at Hollywood Bowl opening os he waits for presentation honoring his lona career. 1 Tlmtn photo and he sat in a corner, this 80-year-old master of music' He impressed as a musician of restraint and, taste, and a3 a conductor whose command of the orchestra permitted the musicians to play with flexibility and freedom and an uncommon amount of He sat, one hand cupping lus SEE THE Actor Gene Raymond points out the stars in the sky, to two1 of the movie stars in his box seats at the opening of the Hollywood Bowl's season.

With him are Mrs. Raymond (Singer Jeanette MacDonald), left; Actress Patricia Morison ad Wynn Rocamora who is the artistic director of the Bowl. Tirori photo chin, listening to the proud poetry in sound to which he Bowl Opens in Prelude had given his life. Occasionally, he moved his It was probably not with of Parties, Excitement other hand; holding his out design that as the two glasses case as a baton, firmly conducting the orchestra along with the French maes Civic Leaders, Social Figures, Movie Stars Among Those Helping to Launch Season principal orchestral compositions of the program he elected to couple Liszt's symphonic poem "Les Preludes" and Cesar Franck's Symphony in Minor. tro on the podium.

And then after intermis sion, Victor Montgomery, president of the Hollywood Br ELIZABETH GOODLAND older ones remembering the Pose Question Each is not only a monu Times Society Editor With a symphony of sound Bowl Association, announced that Bruno Walter was a special guest of honor this open I young days of the Bowl and by the orchestra members arriving on stage in white coats beneath the great curving sheik ment of 19th century romanticism but they have a literal affinity through the three ing night. i i Jv i-s'v- i and color, of flowers and trees and starlight, of intense and pleasurable listening and enthusiastic applause the Tribute to Veteran The applause began as a spotlight caught the maestro. The wonderful friendliness was especially apparent last Hollywood Bowl's 36th sea note motive with which each begins and which forms the basis for the fundamental discourse of both works. Wagner used the same idea as a Fate motive in his "Ring" cycle, and it might son opened last night to in evening when we were de striding across the stage. It rose in waves from the assembled multitude in the curving banks of seats and augurate another summer lighted fo see everyone being feast of music.

welcomed most cordially by the corps of women who he liowi looked ever so broke against the misty heavens. For last night's opening of beautiful in the balmy July evening seats curving from have been interesting had time permitted to have had an example of his treatment of this pregnant musical idea, which probably originated with Liszt this new season of Sym A make up the Volunteers Committee. They created the atmosphere of a party for the occasion as indeed it was, a special kind of party to pay tribute not only to great the high hills with their lis phonies Under the Stars in the Hollywood Bowl included teners providing lines of a tribute to this great man of varying color down through music. music but to one of- its dis-i It was 30 years to the night Mr. Paray, of course, made no attempt to carry the analogy further than to permit each composer to speak his thoughts in his own idiom.

"Les Preludes" which poses since Bruno Walter had first the handsome garden boxes to the reflection pool floating its own decoration of flowers in white and shades of pink mounted the podium to lead tinguished ambassadors, Dr. Bruno Walter. Famed Musicians Among his admirers there to add their applause were a the Los Angeles Philharmon ic Orchestra in his first Bowl to red. People Set Theme a question irom umanin concert. -I -Xi If 1 i I.

i i -A fc- rum i i mmm i nmi'M Turn to Page 3, Column 1 bmce, tnere had been sol The pleasant excitement of numoer or lamed musicians who now reside in the Los dead of night and see me glow of the flames on -the hilly horizon, to lie there wondering if the voice you heard out on the highway might, in a few moments, accompany a peremptory knock on the door with the notice that "you've got five minutes to get out." It never came, to that, of course. There was remarkably little real damage. But a lot of nerves were frayed and some of the Chatsworth hounds, who howl whenever they hear a siren, actually lost their voices-during ihe excitement. the opening night was a many concerts over the swiftly vanishing decades Angeles area: Jascha Heifetz. Richard Bonelli, Pvi chard theme deftly woven by the throngs of people distinguished musicians among Crooks, Dr.

Richard Hageman and Gregor Piatigorsky. Comic Dictionary FOOL What a man is if he re-, (rets a love affair and a woman was if she regrets it CodttUM. 157, Ht Stn Br with the strong hand of the Berlin-born conductor forming the music of Mozart and Mahler. Beethoven and Brahms. Wagner and Verdi, for the hundreds of thousands them a3 well as civic dignitaries, society figures, the famed of the film world.

They were on the honorary committee assisting Mrs. Z. Wayne Griffin (Elinor Rem- BUSMAN'S HOLIDAY Interested spectators at the Bowl from Mrs. Jascha Heifetz, Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky ond Violinist Heifetz. Heifetz and Pia- artists, young people holding tigorsky were on the opening night honorary HoJIywood dowi committee Turn to Page 2, Column 6 Turn to Page 2, Column 1 hands in the topmost seats, Timm )ot.