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Local Painters and Sculptors Exhibit New Works at Museum By MIRIAM DUNGAN CROSS Selected Entries (through October 28). Designed by some of the leading painters in modern France, the Paris Posters show how the first rate painter's work can be related to this simple, direct form. Represented are Picasso, Matisse, Bonnard, Chagall, Braque, Mizo, Leger, Berard and others. From 401 sources throughout the United -States 100 toys are on exhibition at the Museum prior to their circulation through Germany and Selected on the basis of their quality and contribution ton the child's development She toys include new wonders such as "Pictures in Space," and large, colored, paper forms to be assembled, as well as the old Tinker Toy. The First Photography Competition for the Bender Grantin-Aid award was juried by Ansel Adams, Minor White and Imogen Cunningham.

Winner of the $1200 award was Charles Sung Wong. Other competitors whose work is on exhibition Wain Bob Hollingsworth, Philip Hyde, Rose Mandel and Dore Harrison Warren. Exhibitions opening later this month at the San Francisco Museum will be Modern Buildings for Schools and Colleges (October 16 through November 11), the (October 18 through November 4), which affords Museum members an opportunity to rent works by local Art- Music artists for a one to two months' period with an option to buy, and Review of Collections (October 24 through November 11). Today's lecture at the San Francisco Museum at 3:15 will be "Educational Toys," by Anaeliese Hoyer, and for next Sunday, October 14, "Bay Region Artists," Barbara Fitzwilliams. Wednesday evening lectures at 8:15 will be Posters," by Robert Bach, October 10, and "New Works by Bay Region Artists," by James McCray, October 17.

Programs on Beniamino Bufano, sculptor, and Edith Heath, potter, open the bi-monthly Sun-, day television series of the San Francisco Museum. Check your television 19g for exact dates and time. A new and unprecedented service is offered 1 to the people of the Bay area by the San Francisco Museum through the new Artists Equity File now installed in the library of the Museum. The File, collection of transparencies of the work of professional painters, and sculptors of Northern California, affords a new way of creative work in this region. It can be used with projector for lecture purposes or with a viewer for individual Use, and is accompanied by a card catalogue containing biographical data on each artist.

000 A distinguished jury for the Fifth Annual San Francisco Art Festival to be held at the Palace of Fine Arts, Marina, San Francisco, October 16 through 21, has been announced by Martin Snipper, director. The jury includes Dr. Otto Bach, director of Art Museum, Denver; Dr. Robert Beverley Hale, associate curator of paintings, Metropolitan of Art, New York, and John Palmer Leeper, director, Pasadena Arts Institute, Pasadena. It is interesting to, note that the Metropolitan Museum is sufficiently interested in San Francisco's enormous Festival not only to send Dr.

Hale, but to defray his expenses. Prizes in excess of $2500 to be awarded to arts and crafts by the jury were subscribed by private donors interested in the purposes and vitality of the Festival. Artists and craftsmen from the nine Bay area counties will show paintings in, oil and watercolor, sculpture, ceramics, jewelry and graphic art; Activities will include "Art in (jewelers, potters, weavers and 'etchers), and theater, dance and music concert presentations. Educational exhibits will cover many. categories of art expression.

Architectural exhibits show the relation of art to everyday living through the integration of art works in full scale homes and offices. 0 0 Opening date for the 12th Annual Exhibition of the Society of Western Artists has been changed to October 24 in order to avoid conflict with the San Francisco Art Festival. Approximately 100 paintings were selected from 700 entries from the western states by jury composed of Donald Teague, Abel. Schmitt, Warshawsky, Alexander Fried Paul and A. Ninfa Valvo.

fo On the heels of winning the first award in oil painting at the Walnut Art Festival, Walnut Creek, Robert S. Neuman of Oakland, young painter and lith- Oakland Tribune, Sunday, October 7, 1951 C-3 Operas Lead Week's Calendar; Mozart Requiem, Organists As a result of a poll conducted among local artists during the summer by San Francisco Museum of Art, artists considered outstanding in the area by the artists themselves were asked to submit their work for the present exhibition at the Museum, "New Works by Region Painters (and Sculptors." thee exhibition, which work of 24 sculptors and 68 painters, will continue through October 21. The trend toward the nonobjective increases its pace. In this show are many manifestations of the artist's response to an era which is insecure, frightened and bitter. There are examples of a return to primitive art, a direct response of the individual's, relation "Flower to life.

Vender" Take with its deliberate child-like delineation of the figure (a line across a circle makes head and hat), obvious only in the heavier texture of the monotone pigment. The emotion of the moment is brought out in sudden areas of color: the red smear on the cheek, the blue of the trousers which must feel too big or too small, and the vivid linear bouquet held in the tentative outstretched hand. The painting, which at first may seem a silly affair, has become a tragic selfevaluation 'at a given moment. Primitive, too, are Leon Golden's satiric "Tribunal," whose central scarecrow judge comes right out of Oz, and Raymond Tom's "Our Dream Catch," with its over-size children in their toy boats encircling a giant lavender fish with loops of vivid line. Pure abstractions with interest in color and line for its own sake included James McCray's inter-related- linear: patterns in blues and grays; John Haley's carefully constructed balance of match-stick strokes with controlling and heavier forms; Felix Ruvole's Gordon Onslow Ford's "Finger at the Moon," movement over static verticals; Erle Loran's bright "Rock Fluorescence," and Ward Lockwood's heavy-textured "Garden," which in some strange fashion creates a light and gay mood.

Mine Okubo's "Moonlight" is pure abstraction, too, except for its starting point, which separates and re-combines in crosshatches the blue of the night and the yellow of the moonlight. Louis and Lundy Siegriest again make pictorial order from tumbled ruins and discard, Louis' luminous color derived from the setting sun and Lundy's from his own turbulent emotions. Ralph Cornell Seigle (who held an exhibition at the City of Paris last month) shows "Gardening," an airplane view, which combines his careful pointillism with corrugated paper. Pineneedle forms sweep and swirl around the patterned verticals. The sculpture exhibition embraces many moods, materials and techniques from the foetal simplicity of Ramsey Weiland's travertine "Inborn" to Jeremy Walter's inexplicable "ZA," (A to a towering construction in welded bronze.

Successfully exploring stresses and strains (physically studied, psychologically induced), Franz Sandow shows "Study in Tensions" in redwood and Harry Crotty, "Tethered Form" in magnesite and welding rod. Ernest Mundt transfers music to three dimensions in his delightful "Fugue," setting note against note in curved copper tubing and wire. Jeremy Anderson's abstract construction involves a kind of sculptural pointillism using pegs, American Indian in feeling. Adeline Kent chose black magnesite for her "Night Flyers" which increases the sense of terror created by the form. In the primitive mood Zygmund Sasevich's warm and monumental "Mother and Child" is in redwood.

Elah Hale Hay's figure of Christ, "My Peace I Give Unto You," a prize winner in the Oakland Art Gallery's 1951 Annual, is still a profoundly moving work on second view. Another wonderfully articulated and balanced creation of Robert Howard again takes the bird form, this time to lampoon "The Curator." Charles Ward's "Beach Torso" in limestone promised to be the one realistic work in the exhibition until he inverted the most important areas of a beach torso. 0 000 The San Francisco Museum of Art is busy as a beaver this month with various new exhibitons, 1 lectures, an Artists Equity File and the opening of the fall television program. Other shows now at the Museum are Paris Exhibition Posters (through October 21), Educational Toys (through October 14) and Latin American: ArtSculpture, watercolors, drawings and prints (through October 31) and First Photography Competition for Bender Grant-in-Aid, InSTITUTE OF OAKLAND ADVERTISING ART FASHION ART POSTER ART LETTERING ographer and instructor at the California College of Arts and Crafts, has his first comprehensive showing at Gump's Gallery, 250 Post Street, San Francisco, through October 25. In addition Liesel Rosenthal, recently from 1 her native Germany, is having the first comprehensive showing of her portrait sculpture and pastels.

Under the auspices of the Photo League of New York an exhibition of photographs by the contemporary Mexican artist, Manuel Alvarez Brava, is on view at the California School of Fine Arts, 800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, for this month. According to Minor White, photography instructor at CSFA, Brava "sees directly with his heart" in whatever fragment of the Mexican scene he has chosen to capture. 000 Through the affiliation of the Artists Club and the Art Directors Club of San Francisco, the Society of Artists and Art Directors has been formed with offices, gallery and clubrooms at 252 Clay Street, San Francisco. Inquiries about membership may be addressed to Lou Macouillard, Lonie Bee or Ettore Frienze at 252 Clay Street. 0 000 Some 30 examples of fingerpainting by Billee Vier are on display at the T.

Soule Art Studio and Frame Shop, 1009 Solano Avenue, Albany. Mrs. Vier, who studied under Madelene Meddaugh, is also noted as a ceramist and recently won first place in the United Artists Hobby Show for her pottery characterizations. The exhibit will run through October 20. 0 The 19th Annual Exhibition of Watercolors, Pastels, Draw-.

ings and Prints opens today at the Oakland Art Gallery and will continue through November 4. From the 436 paintings submitted from all over the United States, 94 have been selected by the following jury: Conservative -Paul A. Schmitt, Robert Rischell and Will Frates; Interme-Mary Dumas, Louis Siegriest and Elizabeth Ginno, and -Edith Smith. Katherine Westphal and John Haley. British Critic Discusses Conductors Donald Brook's "International Gallery of Macmillan.

import, discusses some three dozen podium masters, of whom about a third are known here. The British writer naturally deals more with British conductors and those from other. lands who are well known in his country. Toscanini, of course, heads the list. There are sketches of Beecham, Ansermet, Barbirolli, Furtwaengler, Goossens, 1Sevitzky, Karajan, among others.

The method is biographical and analytical, often constructively critical. Brooks doesn't discuss Pierre Monteux, whom likely he hasn't heard. The "Maitre" has said, jocularly, that he doesn't conduct in Britain because that country will not admit the Monteuxs' dog Fifi without a prolonged quarantine. Otto Klemperer, however, is described as "scholarly without being pedantic." John Hollingsworth, who was here with Sadler's Wells Ballet, "has made no sensational displays of virtuosity but has earned a reputation for clear, steady conducting." Other comments: Koussevitzky "illuminated familiar works in an unfamiliar manner." of few conductors really aware of the vital importance of perfect balance." Ormandy "complete master of his orchestra." interpretations are frequently the subject of controversy." all his interpretations he is guided by his own emotions, and his methods are apt. to vary according to his moods." Bruno more results with his eyes and facial expression than many conductors get with both hands." -C.

G. Fiedler Picks 10 'Top Tunes' of Music History For the 10 top tunes of all time Arthur Fiedler, conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra, nominates: Bach's Air from Major Suite, Handel's Largo, The Londonderry Air, Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes, the Dutch Hymn of Thanksgiving, Schubert's Ave Maria, Brahms' Cradle Song, Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair, St. Louis Blues, the Arkansas Traveler. Fiedler said he included no selection from opera because there are "too many" good tunes in that field. By CLIFFORD GESSLER, Tribune Music Editor Godounoff," Opera House, 2 p.m.

Leinsdorf conducting; Turner, Ostrowsky, Wilkins, Lamar, Chauveau, McIntosh, Farrell; Rossi-Lemeni, Fredericks, De Paolis, Baccaloni, Alvary, Ligeti, Schwabacher, Curzi, Sze, Porta, Cehanovsky, Lawrence, White, Novi, Guenter. Kenneth Holt, organ recital, Berkeley First Congregational Church, 8 p.m. Bach prelude and fugue minor, two chorale preludes by Pachelbel, d'Aquin's "Noel Suisse," Wagenaar's "Eclogue," Sodermann's Swedish Wedding March, Schubert Sere. nade, chorale prelude by Flor Peters, adagio from Widor's fourth symphony, Franck's chorale in A minor. Hawaiian Pageant, Oakland Auditorium Theater, 2:30 p.m., directed by Ray Meany.

Leilani Sisters, Binda Brooks, Hinano Meheula, Jean Aloha Maids with Marian Lynch, Harold Brobst and Aloha Guitars, James Adams and Aloha serenaders, Helo Dominici and group, Alfred Cadinha and group, Rodrigues hula trio, Larry Noble, Bow Tie Trio, and cast of 80. Mozart Requiem, Calvary Presbyterian Church, San Francisco, 4:30 p.m. Directed by Waldemar Jacobsen; Newton Pashley at organ; San Francisco Bach Choir and soloists Arline Whitver, soprano; Elizabeth Pharris, contralto; Lawrence Mason, tenor; Byron Graber, bass. Band concert directed bv Ralph Murray, Golden Gate 'Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky opens Berkeley Community Concert Association season tomorrow night. Hollywood Bowl Survey To Determine Plans The revived Hollywood Bowl concerts had an.

average attendance of 8000 and the management is having a professional survey of the problems made, preparatory to planning next summer's season, Rachmaninoff Prize Winner on Piano Tour Seymour Lipkin, Rachmaninoff piano prize: winner. 15 on a European tour. In the Groove: Several Outstanding Complete Opera Recordings; Maestro Toscanini Relents Menotti's "The Medium," as revised, ingeniously, by the composer for a motion picture made in Italy, is transferred to recordings by Mercury, with Marie Powers in the title role that she created on Broadway, and young Anna Maria Alberghetti aptly cast as Monica, sounding sweet and fresh and girlish. This listener's hearing of the recordings was inevitably colored with visual sensation by memory of last year's stage performance, although with a ditferent cast. "So heard, the recording carries an intense impact, despite a few mechanical defects, and imaginative hearers doubtless can make their own visualization of the sombre dramatic action.

It is best followed with the printed libretto, or scenario, which Mercury provides, at hand, since the words are not always clear and the stage directions are essential to understanding. Even if one has seen and heard the stage version, the scenes Menotti has interpolated for the screen to visualize action that is offstage in the original, have to be grasped. In more conventional opera, RCA Victor comes forward with a complete "Carmen" by Stevens, Peerce, Albanese, Merrill and supporting cast, of which more anon, and a complete recording of Toscanini's "La Traviata" broadcast of 1946 with Albanese, Peerce and Merrill in the leads. It is said it took five years to persuade Toscanini to release this "Traviata," to which he objected because one singer transposed couple of words. Albanese was one of those who Park, 2 p.m., Leif Ericsson Day program; vocal solos and duets! by Margarethe Thorlaksen, so-! prano; Carl Hague, tenor; folk dances Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark; Sibelius "Fin-: music of Grieg, mann, Halvorsen.

Boheme," era House, 8 p.m., Breisach conducting; Graf; Bjoerling, Valdengo, Moscona, sky, Baccaloni, Lorenzini, Harvey, Curzi, Kersnar. Gregor Piatigorsky, 'cellist, ac-! companied by Ralph Berkeley Community Theater, 8:15 p.m., for Berkeley Commu-3 nity Concert Association mem-! bers only. Haydn Divertimento, Brahms' sonata major, Schumann Fantasy Pieces, sonata, Faure's Elegie, Saint-! Saens' Allegro Appassionato, Piatigorsky's Variations on al Theme of Paganini. -Opera Guild Ball and Fol-de-Rol, San Francisco Civic Auditorium. Opera House, 8 p.m., Merola conducting; Pons, Chauveau; Baldwin; Peerce, Valdengo, Ligeti, Gehanovsky, De.

Paolis, Sze; Lorenzini. Opera Guild's "Carmen" mati4 nee for young people, Opera House, 1 p.m. Kritz conducting; Thebom, Graf, Lamar, Ostrow? sky, Vinay, Herbert, Ligeti, De Paolis, Cehanovsky, FRIDAY "Tosca," Opera House, 8 p.m. Cleva conducting; Kirsten, Throndson, Bjoerling; Weede. Baccaloni, De Paolis, Cei hanovsky, Ligeti, Sze.

News Notes of Choral Groups Unruh Philharmonic Chorus is in its third week of rehearsals for "The Messiah" December 2 and 4 in Oakland Auditorium Theater, but is still open for new members until October dent. according to Ralph Reid, prosit The board of directors wilt hold open auditions next day for qualified soloists, Suns may call TW 3-9918 for appoint: ments. Rehearsals, under John Unruhi are held Tuesday nights at o'clock in Oakland First Baptist Church. There are already 18 new applicants for membership; Claude A. Ward is rehearsing the San Francisco Oratorio Sol ciety for a "Messiah" performs ance December 2.

Auditions for solo and chorus places are being held at Trinity Methodist Church, San Francisco. and altos tried out last Sunday, and tenors and basses will be heard today at 3 p.m. Details from Director Ward at MArket 1-2237. Kenneth Holt's recital tonight will display the full capacities of the -manual Redfield Memorial organ in Berkeley First Congregational Church, in a program ranging from 16th century to contemporary come posers. Johann Pachelbel was contemporary of Rach.

"Noel Suisse." by Louis d'Aquin. ant other 16th century composer, is a variation on carols. Bernard Wagenaar is a Juilliard teacher of composition. Organist Holt came to Berkel ley from Honolylu, where was for 15 years minister of music at Central Union Church. A graduate of Oberlin, he has directed music in several cols leges.

Billy Eckstine, who will sing in Oakland Auditorium next Sunday night, won five polls as favorite male vocalist. The George Shearing Quintette, which appears with him, has just been named by Billboard as the country's leading small band. The same artists will appear in San Francisco Civic Auditorium October 15. The Griller String Quartet, returning from a world tour, is again at University of Calffornia. The group will give coricerts in Wheeler Hall October 17 and 31; November 12 and 25.

December 16, January 13, all at 8:15 p.m., and will also tour the state and the Pacific Northwest. The Grillers also will have Wilma Sohet, soprano, accompanied by Mildred Randolph Strand, Berkeley Little Theater, Bach "My Heart Ever Faithful," Handel "Where'er Mozart arias, songs by Cornelius, Hugo Wolf, Faure, Debussy, Ravel, and American folk songs, Chopin, Delius. SATURDAY- "Parsifal," Operit House, 7 p.m. Leinsdorf conducting; Varnay, Graf, Lamar, Ostrowsky, Turner, Stephens; Svanholm, Ernster, Herbert, Janssen, Ligeti, I Sze, Curzi, Lawrence, Schwabather. NEXT SUNDAY "La Boheme? Opera House, 2 p.m.

conducting: Sayao, Lamar; Bjoerling, Valdengo, RossiLemeni, Cehanovsky, Baccaloni, Harvey, Lorenzini, Curzi, Kersnar. Mozart Requiem, San Francisco Bach Choir directed by Waldemar Jacobsen, Oakland First Presbyterian Church, 8 p.m. Newton H. Pashley at organ; soloists Arline Whitver, soprano: Elizabeth Pharris, contralto? Lawrence Mason, tenor; Byron Graber, bass. Ewetti Lyne.

organ recital, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Oakland, 4 p.m. Richard Purvis, organ recital, Grace Cathedral, 5:15 p.m. Music of English composers. Billy Eckstine and George Shearing Quintet, Oakland ditorium.

8:30 p.m. U.St Marine Band, S.F. High Schooll of 2:30 and 8:30 benefit Marine's Memorial Club. Juanita Miller with heart harp she invented. Juanita Miller Writes Booklet For Instrument She Invented Juanita J.

Miller, who two years ago patented a simplified harp, has just published a booklet entitled "Heart Harp Ology" explaining how to play it and including some of her songs with accompaniment for the instrument. The "heart harp" is a heartshaped instrument of eight strings which can be tuned in any diatonic key. Miss Miller's purpose was to invent an instrument 50 simple that any one could play than even an ukulele," she remarked. The instructions are as simple as the instrument. The instrument is not available on a commercial scale, but the booklet is, at 75 cents from Miss Miller at 3152 Joaquin Miller Road, KEllog.

4-1356. Her own heart harp was carved of oak, by an Oakland violin maker, with strings similar to mandolin strings. A custom job like would be relatively costly, but the instrument, it made in quantity, could be inexpensive. The idea of the heart harp came to Miss Miller from one of her own poems, in which she wrote of the thoughts of her father, the poet Joaquin Miller, "playing on the harp of my heart." Inquiry developed that there was no instrument just like this, so she invented one-cutting her hand in the course of her experiments while using A broken olive bottle as a plane. Miss Miller had studied music while a student in a convent, later at the Lambert Conservatory, and had a part scholarship at the Institute of Musical Art, where she was A classmate of Mark Twain's daughter, Clara Emerging with a teacher's certificate, Miss Miller took a disused Carnegie Hall box office as a studio, but gave it up when called home by her father's last illness.

Since then she has resided in Oakland and annually presides over Joaquin Miller Day ceremonies at the park which is named for him. Alameda and Albany-El Cerrito Community Concerts Listed Two more Community Concert schedules are made public this week. Alameda Community Concert Association will open its series November 13 with John Carter, tenor, in Alameda High School auditorium. Other dates in the Alameda seas n---Svetlova, ballerina, February 25; Mario Braggiotti, pianist, March 11, were also announced by President Kenneth M. Stanton.

Mrs. Alfred A. Siebert, secretary, reports membership cards will be mailed before October 12. Albany-El Cerrito Community Concert Association opens November 3 with pianist Gyorgy Sandor, followed November 10 by soprano Dorothy Warenskjold. Other dates, all in Albany High School auditorium ary 31, Denis Harbour, Metropolitan Opera bass-baritone; March 19, Ossy Renardy, violinist.

Our Musicians; Are Rehearsing Mrs. Harold Nahmens, 1433 Thousand Oaks Boulevard, Albany, reports that membership cards have been mailed. Both associations usually have space in their auditoriums for visiting members of other Community Concert Associations. Meanwhile 'cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, on his 20th. American tour, opens the Berkeley Community Association season, for members only, in Berkeley Community tomorrow night.

Piatigorsky has just taken a year's holiday, during which he played only in recording television studios and headed the chamber music department at Tanglewood in the summer. Piatigorsky is said to have been heard by more people than any other living 'cellist. He was playing in a theater orchestra in Russia at the age of 8, and first 'cellist of the Imperial Opera at 15. He has appeared more than 1000 times in the United States and Canada. persuaded him.

The company now hopes to induce him to permit release of his "Fidelio," "La Boheme," "Aida," "Otello" and "Falstaff." "La Traviata" occupies 26 of RCA Victor's brilliantly faithful little 45 rpm disks, accompanied by a 90-page booklet containing libretto, translation, historical sketch, and illustrations, much better printed and in "cleaner" typography than the usual commercial libretto. Since voices of all the principals and Toscanini's mastery with the baton are so well known, it remains only to say that the recording is clear and bright and that, together with the "Carmen," it represents an important development in recorded music. The "Traviata" album, incidentally, preserves, in the tenor role of Gastone, the voice of the late John Gartis, who was much admired here and the mystery of whose death has not yet been entirely cleared up. The "Carmen' is a massive 32-side recording, with. similar accompanying booklet.

Fritz Reiner conducts the RCA Victor orchestra, with the Robert Shaw Chorale and the children's chorus from L'Elysee Francaise. The company regards this job as epoch-making, and doubtless it is, although Columbia recently put out a "complete" Carmen with a French cast, and RCA Victor itselt, in the old 78 rpm days, issued a liberal 12 sides of excerpts, with Swarthout, Albanese, Merrill! Vinay and the Robert Shaw chorale, Leinsdorf conducting. Smugglers' Shots in 'Carmen' Nearly Break Up Union Session Rifle shots in Manhattan Center's Grand Ballroom nearly caused a union meeting on a lower floor to break up in panic, according to dispatch from New York. The shots were fired from different positions as engineers checked microphone levels for realistic effect in the smugglers' camp scene of "Carmen," which was being recorded by Metropolitan Opera members for RCA-Victor. Studio recording posed problems different from those of an opera house stage.

Actors couldn't move about as freely; they had to stay near the sta- series fat San Francisco Museum of Art, 25, November 26 and January 7 at 8:30. The quartet's summer tour included England, Australia, New Zealand, India, Egypt and Italy, "Saturday Music" concerts for children will be held this season in the instead of morning as previously at San Francisco Academy of Arts. Dates fare October 20, 27 and November 3, all at 2:30. Arthur Freeman, musical director of KNBC, will be commentator First, program will feature percussion, under direction of Walter Larew, San Francisco Symphony percussionist, aided by Betty Faulkner, Lloyd Davis, Janges Dalrymple, Bradley 'Burke and Patsy Speer. Instruments3 rhythms and baton and majorette technique will be demonstrated.

Second program will feature harp and woodwind; third program opera. Miss, Barbara Burke of Miss. Burke's School and Mrs. Walter Wessels founded these concerts five vears ago to afford opportunity for children to hear good music. Tickets at Sherman Clay or from Mrs.

Jerome Newbauer, Ordway 1-1815. For and by the Young People Supt. Thomas L. Nelson, of the Berkeley schools, calls to the forthcoming Young People's Symphony concert, October 26, in Berkeley Community Theater, as an occasion fog public encouragement of an organization which, he said, offers unusual opportunity to boys and girls of the area. Proceeds will be divided between the orchestra and the youth "service committee of Kiwanis Club, which has aided the orchestra annually and is sponsoring this concert.

Kiwanis' (hare of the proceeds will help support craft classes, camperships, work with blind children and other youth activities. The orchestra, composed of nearly 100 boys and girls between ages 11 17, is directed by Jessica Marcelli. Tickets are available from Berkeley members. tionary microphones. They had to be more careful to avoid slight imperfections, which might pass unnoticed in a stage performance, but wouldn't do on a permanent record.

It is said 40 miles of tape was used, to take and retake scenes, from which takes representing the complete opera were assembled and transferred to the master disks. It took 15 days, including four days of rehearsals, to produce recorded performance which would occupy only hours on stage. No wonder the stars took time out to rest, Robert Merrill is doing in the picture. Robert Merrill, the Toreador, catches 140 winks on studio chairs between takes of recording of complete "Carmen.".