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6 Part V-Thurs Sept. 7, 1972 tttti mmtt 1 rjtfwxiv 1 i 1 i XJ 1. jfMlRMOOT YEAR CJ'LJ- V-J V- Li 'nJ'C THEATER BUG Leonora Schildkraut says radio, -unlike television, allows child to use imagination. Times photo by Judd Gunderson EARLY APPRECIATION She Uses Radio as Classroom Tool BY EVELYN DE WOLFE Times Staff Writer en's auxiliary group of ANTA was formed in 1965, Mrs. Schildkraut served as its president for two terms.

a 1 1 we wanted something we could call our own baby so we created the Operation Show Bus which has become an important program and of enormous benefit to young people." she said. "With the cooperation of the Board of Education we began taking high school students from all over the city to the best theater Los Angeles had to offer in the hope of stimulating them to go on their own. Chance to Rap "It worked. I remember the first time we took 200 students to the Ahmanson Theatre to see Hume Cro-nyn in Of these 195 students had never been inside a theater. And not necessarily from unde rprivileged areas.

"You might say the majority was middle-class. Operation Show Bus has "Come with me Through the Looking Glass into the magic world of music," beckons the soft contralto voice of Leonora Schildkraut at. the start of another of her radio broadcasts created for young listeners. This week it was the Cinderella Ballet Suite" by Prokofiev, a reading of "Jabberwock" by Eva Le Gailienne to Deems Taylor's music and the "Sleeping Beauty Ballet Suite" by Tchaikovsky with a recorded narration by her late husband, the noted stage and motion-picture performer Joseph Schildkraut. The radio show introduces classical music to young people in cooperation with the Board of Education.

And in classrooms throughout the city, teachers welcome the pro-; gram as an innovative teaching aid. Radio Use "The program is sponsored, and cost-free to the school system," explained the widow at her home in Beverly Hills. "We have simply made use of the more than 100,000 radios required by law in the classrooms for emergency alert. "There's another purpose in using radio over television." she added, "It SAVEj-13 TO $40S llsMilSOffOIOSlfSMi S9CM FULL OR TWIN SIZE' i mWFM mW, CKTC FflRlft WP OT fAATTRESS OR BOX SPRIflGS OKEiy i. MIW-JlEJuJJ T0 1I9.

REG. 179.93 TO 299.95 REG. 239.95 TO 419.93 i -J ft If PNfrSS Ml since provided this opportunity to more than 2,000 students as well as a Wc leg 0 1 .1 I 727- VIF Un I chance to rap with the actors and directors following the performances." "The theater bug hit me early," recalled the former Leonora Rogers, "so 1 can understand what this kind of exposure can mean to a child. I was taken to my first concert at the age of 4 and I was so captivated by the performance I begged my mother to let me study the violin." As a child Mrs. Schildkraut participated as a violinist for 10 years with the Peter Meremblum California Junior Symphony.

"My love for music always has come first even though I was also an actress for many years. The close bond I had with my husband was strengthened through our common interest in music as well as the theater. "Few people realize how much music was a part of my husband's life. He was allows a child to exercise his imagination. Remember what 'fun it was to hear the Green Hornet on radio? You could picture the whole action in your mind." In the past eight years since her husband's death, Mrs.

Schildkraut has busied herself with endless projects, all of which have focused on her intersest in the arts. The radio program is her most recent effort to help increase music appreciation within the' community. Her affiliations (Coordinating Council of the Performing Arts, American College Theater Festival, Friends of the Museum and Library of New York, to name a few) reinforce her preference for the arts. Deep Concern Even her involvement with Friends of the Library at USC stems from a deep concern for the preservation of the history of music and the theater. She has willed to the libary Schildkraut's valuable and rare cataloged collection of more than 4.000 records.

When ANTA (American National Theater and Academy chartered by Congress in 1935) started its Southern California chapter in the 50s, Mrs. Schildkraut (then a young actress and musician) joined immediately. "The concept of ANTA always appealed to me. It sent My Fair Lady' to Leningrad, Louis Armstrong to the Congo, Helen Hayes to 14 different countries, all 3 goodwill ambassadors an International cultural circuit she said. After ANTANS, a worn- graduated from the Berlin Conservatory in violin and piano, the same in-struments I play.

In my opinion he was equally as fine a musician as he was an actor. He was an authority on Gustav Mahler and had every recording ever made on Mahler's music from the time recordings were made until I mjm ktmtm freedelmry FREE DELIVERY WARDS LOW PRICES IIXLUDE Ml DELIVERY AMD SET-UP lil Y0U3 2 iTV? he passed away in iyt4. An Inspiration Although 36 years her senior, Mrs. Schildkraut credits her late husband with the inspiration and initiative which prompted her to become so active as a volunteer for the arts. Married less than a year to the versatile actor she called Pepi (winner of two Academy Awards and noted for his sensitive portrayal of the father in "The Diary of Anne Mrs.

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