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ni i ii 22 THE GAZETTE, MONTREAU SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1947. Music Mid Tlieatre i Jewish Stars Popular 1 The names of Paul Burstein and Lillian Lux are connected in the minds of many Montrealers with memories of some of the finest performances on the Jewish stage, it is claimed by the sponsors of My Bride's Honeymoon, a Yiddish musical comedy which will open at the Monument National Theatre on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24. The production will also be seen Thursday, Saturday and Sunday evenings, Dec. 25, 27 and 28 respectively.

Mr. Buxstein and Miss Lux; have just returned from a tour of South America where thev were renort- PAUL WING'S MAGIC Adventures in the Winged Wonderland in Seven RCA-Victor Albums of Unbreakable Recordings; Peter Churchmouse and Piccolo Peewee Favored VV i Li By THOMAS ARCHER It rot easy to diecover the secret of entertaining very young children. They see and even hear things differently from the way you I do. They combine a sublime innocence, an enormous capacity for evaluating novelties and a terrible intelligence. They are.

in short, nr.fiie-rnindcd. An attribute of great genius is the Burvival of this phase el childhood in an adult mind. The writer has had cause to make some experiments along these I res during the part year. Books like Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan were found inadequate. The mind that enjoys them has already a part of the magic of early childhood.

So in literature we stayed ty Mother Goose and, if someone Cooper Is Directing 'Rigoletto' In Opera Guild's Production SINGING IN MESSIAH ON MONDAY NIGHT: These are the soloists in the first annual performance of Handel's Messiah which the Casavant Society is presenting at Notre Dame Church on Monday evening at 8.15. Left to right they are Anna Malenfant, contralto of Montreal; Harry Maude, Montreal baritone; Andrey Farnell, Canadian soprano who recently sang the Messiah under Sir Ernest Mac-Millan's" direction in Toronto, and Jean Letourneau; who will sing the tenor part. Mr. Letourneau has just been made permanent tenor soloist at Radio City Music Hall in New York, a post formerly occupied by Jan Pearne. Berkley Chadwick will direct the Montreal Flgar Choir which has been augmented to 250 voices and Kenneth Meek will be at the organ.

into radio work. As a writer he reached the summits of commercial broadcasting. He became script-writer for Fred Allen and Phil Baker. There could be no harder school. But we think Paul Wing really came into his own when he began making children's records.

The first sample we had of him was when R.C.A.-Victor sent us two sets of his records for Christmas 1946. One of them was Little Black Sambo, the other the Unsuccessful Elf. Little Black Sambo and his family are magical people who live on the edge of the jungle. Little Samba has adventures with wicked monkeys, kind-hearted eagles and, this year, with a whole family of tigers. When Paul Wing tells you that little Sarnbo thinks, his thought flies up in the tinkle of a Glockenspiel.

When he walks his footsteps are traced by a woodwind instrument. Each character has his or her or its representative theme according to old Wagner's system. Let the pronoun "its" be For in these records it is happily realized that there is no dead thing for a little child. A tree or a rock lives just as much as you and I. This year no less than seven of Paul Wing's albums reached us.

We have not absorbed them all yet, not by any means. But we fairly leaped upon The Little Train That Could. This is the only set in which Wing makes exclusive use of sounds which are not musical. With the aid of an incredible assortment of noises he is able to make his listeners literally see five different kinds of engines. There is the engine that b.eaks down while hauling the toy passengers from the Town of Hither for the waiting children in the Town of Yon.

There is the Shinv New Passenger Engine who is far too much oi a snob to pull the toy train over the mountain. There is the Fine Strong Freight Engine who is likewise a snob. This engine positively sneers in steam. There is the Poor Old Tired Engine who steamily sighs. At last the Little Bright Blue Engine comes along and does the trick.

Next we discovered the story of Pee Wee the Piccolo by the eminent authors of Tubby the Tuba. Signor Bravissimo is about to rehearse his new symphony when it is discovered that Pee Wee the Piccolo lost his solo while he was practicing in the woods that morning. Sorrowful Pee Wee returns to the woods to try to find it singing mournfully "Once I had a Solo." He finds it at last but in the possession of a solemn owl accompanied by a tuba. The owl has never owned a solo before and he is determined to hold on to his new possession. However all is well at the end of what proves to be one of the best lessons in the identification of orchestral instruments this writer has ever encountered.

The album of Pan the Piper achieves the dignity of two 12-ihch records. Here friend Wing traces the growth of the orchestra in his own inimitable way from Pan's pipes to the coming of the saxophone. And always each inventor thinks he has said the last word in orchestral growth. Pan disdains Orpheus with his lyre. And when eventually the saxophone comes along, he is at first refused by the woodwinds because he is made of brass and by the brass because he is played with a reed.

The little celesta only gets into the orchestra because he is accepted by the violins as their humble servant. In One-String Fiddle we learn how Erbie and his dqg, Billiam, win the Fiddlin' Match by building up a new fiddle tune out of Turkey in the Straw, a radio station call, the calls of a vegetable man, an iceman, a coalman, a newsboy's call, the drums of a brass band and a distant train "whistle. The Unsuc-cess Elf (which has endured in interest for a wnole year) describes by Winged word and music how an unsuccessful elf can become a very successful boy, in fact, a superboy. As a snap opinion, however, the writer's favorite Paul Wing Album is Peter Churchmouse. Parson Peace-Porridge has bad eye-sight.

Peter is so small that the reverend gentleman cannot see him. Consequently poor Peter is never properly fed. He eats holes in the collection basket and fends on the hymn books. Parson P. thinks his church is haunted by a rat.

So he imports a kitten named Gabriel and Peter and Gabriel are soon fast friends. Gabriel shares her milk with him. Their favorite sport is to play Parson Peace-Porridge's Pipe Organ. After hearing the parson play Onward Christian Soldiers they conceive an idea that would do credit to the ingenuity of Bach. Here it is, Peter runs up and down the keyboard looking after the upper parts.

Gabriel does likewise with the pedals. Thus they produce their version of Onward Christian Soldiers. And it Is really worth hearing. Oh yes, Gabriel concocts a plot whereby Parson jfease-i'orridge is reminded that he needs a new pair of spectacles When he gets them he- at last can see Peter. And he realizes how neg' lectful he has been.

Peter gets his daily allowance of cheese, Gabriel has her milk and the parson changes his bunday sermon to preach on the subject of kindness to little animals. would only translate their fairv taies. in the naked simplicity with which they wrote them, we might nave stayed by the Brothers Grimm. Hans Andersen, too. is in the offing.

But most successful entertainer of during 1947 has been a man railed Paul Wing. Who Is Paul Well, he is a New Eng ender who has discovered, prob es, mofe than anyone else on this continent, how to talk to a million children to the accompaniment of music. He must Ae RCA-ViCtors liar in this deparnent. His technique and the technique cf script-writers and musicians Is an extension in sound of Walt Disney's visual technique. He talks urbanely and unaffectedly, like an err.iable grandpapa.

He never ex-tecera'es. He has a great gift for vocal pantomine. He can imitate erything from a tiger or an owl to Parson Pease-Porridge in Peter Churchmouse or Old Fiddler in Or e-String Fiddle. Paul Wing comes by his gift He began as a reporter on The Chicago Tribune. Then he went utd If yvu don't dep veil li nifhu inter rupted by rectleuness -iook to your kid- I tteyu If your kidneys are out of order and itilinf to rjeuue the Uood oi poUont and cxrets arid your rett is likely suffering Inc.

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Cooper's personal direction, the first Russian-language performances of the greater Wagnerian operas. Later, Mr. Cooper was invited by Serge Diaghilev to direct the famous performances of Russian opera in Paris and London with Chaliapine as the star. After memorable seasons in this capacity he was made conductor of the Imperial Opera Theatres in Moscow and St. Petersburg, which eminent post he retained until the Russian Revolution.

In 1929 Mr. Cooper served as conductor at the Chicago Civic Opera for three consecutive seasons then returned to Paris which he made his headquarters until the outbreak of war. Mr. Cooper joined the Metropolitan in 1944, making his debut there with Debussy's Pclleas and Melis-ande, a performance which resulted virtunlly in a new lease of life for that French masterpiece. The conductor's interpretation of Boris Godounov last season won for him the unstinted praise of the critics.

To Be Soloist Symphoniques mas program are to include the rarely heard Overture to Henry Purcell's opera, Dido and Aeneas, Handel's Water Music, Schubert No. 5 in flat major and the Danse Villageoise by Claude Champagne, the Canadian composer. Mr. Champagne's popular work will be performed for the first time in the winter series of Les Concerts Symphoniques. It was heard last summer when Sir Ernest MacMillan conducted it at one of the summer concerts.

The symphony series will be resumed in February when George Enesco, the famous Rumanian conductor, will be guest director. Enesco will be followed by Charles Munch with Dr. Defauw returnmg in March. Make your Xmas ed to have been a sensation. They played in Buenos Aires for about 20 weeks, after which they toured major cities.

After their return from South America, Mr. Burstein produced the new comedy, My Bride's Honeymoon, and it was premiered in Philadelphia. It was a spontaneous hit and the management of the Lincoln Theatre decided to hold it over. It is still playing at the Lincoln to capacity houses, it is claimed, and will continue its run in Philadelphia until just before the road tour is opened in Montreal. Compagnons in Gh eon Chrktm tional "reveillon." will be celebrat ed in an unusual fashion this year by Les Compagnons.

It has been the custom to precede the Midnight Service which Father Emile Legault, C.S.C., officiates at for his group, with a performance of the Christmas play Noel sur la Place, by the late Henri Gheon. Celebrating their tenth anniversary, Les Compagnons will do the play once more on Christmas Eve but this time in their own theatre-to-be. at the corner of Delorimier and Sherbrooke streets. The fact that this building will still be a church building on December 24. only adds charm to the occasion.

The St. Genesius Chorus will join forces with Les Compagnons to form a choral background for the play and the fervice nt midnisht, in a program of French and Enclish Christmas music. Frank Coleman is the director of the choir this season. Peaches Held Over Reportedly due to overwhelming public demand, the "one and only Peaches," called undisputed queen of rhythm and holder 6f the all-time box-office record at this theatre, is being held over for a second week at the Gayety Theatre commencing with a midnight performance on Monday at 12.05 in the morning. Christmas Carols The 24th annual recital of Christmas carols will be held at Christ Church Cathedral on Saturday, December 20, at 4.00 p.m.

with a repetition of the program on the following Saturday afternoon. Dr. Arthur Egerton, organist of the cathedral, will direct and Phillips Motley will be the assisting organist. The concert bv the Budapest String Quartet which was to have been given at the YM.H.A. Auditorium tonight has been postponed.

The quartet is to be heard on January 31 instead. A Chanukah concert will be presented by Montreal Young Judaea tomorrow at 3.00 p.m. in the Shaar Hashomayim Synagogue. The program will consist of a Chanukah nlav. Candle Hnn(t nnH fshlwaiiv with musical accompaniment.

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Catherine St West Casavant Society T1 3 A-a At HARTNEYS RCA Victor Non Breakable For Children French word "Intlme" best describes the Colony Club, on of Montreal's smartest cocktail lounges where dinners and luncheons ar served la carte. Ru5 part of Chti Ernest, the restaurant with the Parisian air located at 1500 Drummond street. The Colony Club has long been a meeting place for many of Montreal's smart set. Of course Table d'Hote Luncheons and Dinners are still a feature in Chez Ernest's Main Dining Room. For reservations call the Maitre d'Hotel at BE.

0458 or MA. 6933. pROBABLY the most typically Parisian restaurant on the Continent Cafe Martin, at 1521 Mountain Street, occupies an entire building. On the street floor is the famous Sea Food Bar where Crustages (Lobsters) are a popular specialty. The Main Dining Room is located on the first floor and It Is here that one i greeted by M'sieu Desjardms, the famous Maitre d'HoteL When Anthony Eden was last In Montreal and lunched at Cafe Martin, it was Desjardins who attended to the distinguished guest The Flamingo Room is located on Cafe Martin's second floor, and derives its name from the beautiful murals which adorn the walls and mirrors.

The entire building Is, of course, air-conditioned. YOUR gastronomic education is by no means complete until you visit The 400. Located at 1490 Drummond Street, close to all the leading hotels. The 400 Is one of Montreal's outstanding restaurants. Their list of patrons reads like a "Who's for among the throngs waiting for tables (and at The 400 everybody waits in cool comfort in the bar" are visiting diplomats.

Catering to The Carriage Trade for years. The 400 continues to please its many guests through its excellent menus. Table d'Hote Luncheons start at 95c and Table d'Hote Dinners from $1.25. This is a good "drop in" spot st any tim. especially after the theatre.

XAHEN entertaining fastidious gourmets, it's a good idea to head straight out along De-carie Boulevard to Ruby Foo's. Montreal's distinguished Chinese restaurant is also one oi the best, and the menu offers native dishes which will offer a new experience in exotic dining. If you're a novice, the waiter will be glad to help you find your way through the unfamiliar suggestions on the menu, and your hnal selections, which should include the excellent soup, with Chinese vegetables and an order of plump egg rolls, will be sure to please. Patrons who prefer the American style will be glad to know that Ruby i-oo's is highly thought of among local connoisseurs for the quality of its steaks. What ever your choice.

Ruby Foo's will give you an excellent dinner and that precious feeling of complete content. Now appearing nightly in the Upper Lounge and Starlit Roof are Steger and Marks, two gentleman with sonjp to piease, aireci xrom nw York's famous No. 1 Fifth Avenuo. 1082 OSBORNE ST. (South Side Dominion Sq.) COR more years than most of them care to remember.

Mont realers have been wearing a path to Drury's door. The Old English Chop House at 1082 Osborne Street has held its high reputation unsullied for well over a generation by keeping an uncompromising eye on the Quality of food and service offered to Drury's loyal patrons. In appearance one of the most charming of our eating houses. Drury's has a look of tradition from the iron grillwork outside to the dimmed light reflecting on oaken beams within. The deft, quietly courteous service is perfectly attuned to the friendly tranquillity of the atmosphere ana tne rood lives up to the ururys standards.

Another smart Broadwayj Song star is I leatured this S3 week in the Bamboo Lounge at the Tic Toe Restaurant. Her repertoire includes a wide range of popular and eemi-classical numbers, so much in demand in located at i258 Cappy Boer Stanley, within a block of the leading hotels, is Montreal's newest and smartest restaurant. It specializes in savory steaks charcoal broiled right before your eyes in the hermetically sealed "Glass Grill." Phone PL. 8000. RiGOLETT By GIUSEPPE VERDI Presented by OPERA GUILD nder the direction of EMIL COOPER Metropolitan Opera Co.

HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE Wednesday and Thursday, Jan. 7th 8th at 8.30 p.m. With artists of Chicogo Opera, New York City Centre and La Scala, Milan. -7? LITTLE BLACK SAMBO: Emil Cooper, the Metropolitan conductor, will direct his fifth production for the Opera Guild at the performances of Verdi's Rigoletto which are to be given by that organization at His Majesty's Theatre on the evenings of January 7 and 8. Mr.

Cooper will have at his command a cast headed by Liugi Infantino, the new Italian tenor discovery, George Czaplicki, the Polish baritone, and Marthe Letourneau, the Canadian soprano. The conductor made his first appearance in opera in this city more than three years ago when he directed the first Canadian production of Rimsky-Korsakoffs Le Coq d'Or which was also one of the Guild's first major efforts since its foundation in 19-12. Mr. Cooper has since conducted the Guild's Canadian premieres of Beethoven's Fidelio and Mozart's Seraglio and its post-war revival of Puccini's Madame Butterfly. Few operatic conductors, it is claimed, can boast of a career so varied and distinguished as that of Cooper's.

As a young Kiev musician, he was first discovered by the great Nicholas Rimsky-Kors'akoff after having been encouraged to devote himself to the art of conducting by Artur Nikisch. William Kapell At Les Concerts William Kapell. 25-year-old American pianist, whom the critic of The New York Post recently hailed as "creating an astonishing impression and being a mature, definitive personality, one of the most interesting among pianists performing today, will be the soloist with the Orchestra of Les Concerts Symphoniques at the iinal two concerts of 1947 which are to be given at. the Plateau Hall on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. Dec.

16 and 17. Mr, Kapell, a New Yorker by birth, will be recalled for his visit to Montreal some seasons ago when he astonished concert-goers here with his brilliant technique and exuberant style as displayed in his performance of the solo role in Aram Khatchaturian's Piano Concerto. The young American was a pupil of Olga Samaroff-Stokowski and first came to attention when he won the Naumburg Prize and the Town Hall Endowment Series Award. Immediately following his debut In New York he was engaged by a leading symphony orchestra with whom he has been a continuing soloist ever since. Orchestras with which Kapell has appeared include the Philadelphia Symphony, the Boston Symphony, i he Now York Philharmonic-Symphony, He was specially chosen as soloist with the Boston Symphony in an honor concert celebrating Serge Koussc-vitsky's 70th birthday.

Desire Defauw will lead the program with Mr. Kapell as feature soloist in Rachmaninoff's Concerto No. 3 in minor. This will be the first time the third Rachmaninoff concerto has been in the repertory of Concerts Symphoniques. Other works on the pre-Christ- Mais from Jamaica Is Hurok Discovery Monica Mais, the latest discovery of the impresario.

Sol Hurok, is to make her first public appearance in this city in a Joint recital with George London, the Canadian basso, at the Hermitage on Friday evening. Decern bJ-p 9, at 8.30 p.m. The recital is one1-. Of the -series being offered the public free of charge by the CBC International Service in the interests of cultural integration between Canada and Latin and other South American countries. Miss Mais, born a British subject in Jamaica, has already won a continental reputation- for herself despite the fact that she is only 25 years old.

After broadcasting over NBC and CBS. she made her debut in New York's Town Hall a year ago last February. Such was the praise of the critics and public that Mr. Hurok immediately placed her under contract. The sopranos program is as follows: Calme dans le demijour.

Mandoline, Green (Debussy) Laughing Song (Auber); The Shadow Aria from Dinorah (Meyer-! oeer); Lullaby (Cyril Scott); Everything That I Can Spy (Fen-ton); Go Away from My Window (Niles): Lauching Sone (Gilberte. John Newmnrk will be the accompanist and Herve Baillargeon. the assisting flautist. Musical Events Isidor Philipp, the distinguished French pianist, is to gave a con cert in memory or Saint-Saens, on Monday evening. Mr.

Philipp will be assisted by Jeanne Gauthier, the French violinist, and Dorothy Morton, Lorraine Gaboury and Esther Master. Program: Violin Sonata, Opus 102 (Saint-Saens): Concertino for Three Pianos, Opus 82 (Philipp) Violin Sonata, Opus vo (Saint-Saens). A concert will be given by the Maisonneuve Concert Orchestra and Choral Society at the Chomedey de Maisonneuve School on Monday at 8.30 p.m. Leslie Blackburn and Charles Jennings will direct. The Music Appreciation Group of the Jewish Public Library will give the following recorded program on Monday at 9.

00 p.m. Prelude in minor (Bach); I Crv To Thee (Brahms); Third Symphony (Griffes); Scherzo (Still): Excernts from Lohengrin and Die Walkucre PRICES: $1.15 to $5.50 (Tox Included) i I Notre Dame Church Monday evening, at 8.15 MONTREAL ELGAR CHOIR B. E. Chadwick, Conductor Kenneth Meek, Organist. Soloists: Audrey B.

Farnell, Anna Malenfant Harry Maude Jean Letourneau Popular Prices: SOe. $1.00. SI. 50. S2.00 Tickets on sale between ED.

AKtHAMBAlLI, MA. 6201 I 500 tt. Catherine St. East Management: The Deen told and retold. Children will love Paul Wing's version on two 10" non-breakable records in a Picture Album $3.50 ONE STRING FIDDLE: Sure to awaken an interest in music in child listeners of all ages.

Two 10" non-breakable records in a Picture Album $3.50 THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT COULD: As told by Paul Wing, this story of a little blue engine is the perfect gift for the six to eight year old. Two 10" non-breakable records in a Picture Album v. $3.50 THE UNSUCCESSFUL ELF: A charming story about an elf who turned out to be a very, natural little boy. Two 10" non-breakable records in a Picture Album $3.50 PEE-WEE THE PICCOLO: These two 10" rion-breakable records in a Picture Album are told by Paul Wing, accompanied by a 40-piece little symphony orchestra. $3.50 PAN, THE PIPER: The story of a reed which crew into a full orchestra, with sevn naop' nine.

THE CASAVANT SOCIETY has the great pleasure to announce the return of this extraordinary and unique choral ensemble. For years this tale has icwuius hi a rvecorurama jzz 4 -n Jrr 4.0U -K-XWAft sis feTUIIDC I am 2 "TrAl trating the musical instruments and their uses 3 h4 i i ii, jiuii-ui warmuic A hum PETER CHURCHMOUSE: Paul Wing tells the delightful story about a little churchmouse who was friendly with a kitten called Gabriel. Two 10" non-breakable records in a Picture Album. $3.50 'U If VCt i A MOST ACCEPTABLE XMAS GIFT fcrf fl 1 1 1 1 ill i I 1180 ST. CATHERINE WEST HA.

3202 AND ALL BRANCHES An original Christmas gift for everybody: Two tickets for the VON TRAPP'S concert (Wagner)..