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Another First sor jrea for irwr it A wina troupe extends well beyond Canada's borders. Previous years' performances here have always drawn large crowds and mail orders for tickets are now being accepted at Cleary Auditorium for those who wish to make sure of good seats when ballet week begins. The box office opens Jan. 21. soloist with the National Ballet: Earl Kraul, Kenneth Melville.

Angela Leigh, Lilian Jarvis and Jocelyn Terelle. The company continues under the artistic direction of Celia Franca, who has seen the National Ballet through the stages cf birth pangs, early adolescence and on to the threshold of artistic ma turity. The musical director is George Crum. he company itself, a source of pride to Canadians as a national entity, is international in at least three aspects: the dancers represent nine different companies; the ballets are drawn from more the acclaim accorded the than half a dozen lands; and seur David Adams will be reunited with his wife, prima ballerina Lois Smith. Mr.

Adams had spent the past year in London and touring Europe with the London Festival Ballet. Other performers whose stature grows each year are Galina, formerly of the Kiev Ballet and new a principal Entertainment Theatre Radio TV Pages 17 to 20 Star Windsor residents will be the first in the country to see the newest offerings of the National Eallet of Canada when the company opens its Canadian season here Feb. 4 for a week-long engagement. The distinguished and renowned ballet company, prior to its arrival here, will have completed a five-week tour of the United States, taking in 12 states and including cities as far south as Miami and New Orleans where the company is now an annual favorite. in making Geary Auditorium its starting point on a coast-to-coast tour, the National Ballet will also be initiating four ballets which are new to Windsor audiences.

These include George Bal-anchine's "Serenade," Anthony Tudor's "Judgment of Paris," the fiery pas de deux of "Le Corsair" and the glamorous pas de six of "Laurcn-cia." Together with the new ballets, the company will be repeatuig some of the best-loved favorites, among them "Giselle," "Offenbach in the Underworld" and "Swan Lake." Many of the country's outstanding soloists will be featured and of special interest is the news that premier dan- sor Aw jfsw lrH 1 1 Jv (t 4 i 1 If i I "U- i vi Lih. in iiitiir iiiirw.i,i'f.iM')Ji1rtri''--r Tniimna ki i iMU'lir' ri'n mi hhiiii liiii 'li ir-nrmn i ittt i 1 Windsor Ontario Saturday December 15 1962 Palace Aiming for Crowds Features War and Vienna Glitter. Too "Room at the Top" and "Sons horrifying moments, the story and Lov ers." I concerns a monstrous musician There is war and also the glitter of life in the Vienna of Made on a lavish scale, with who terrorizes an opera house, thrills, tension, suspense, mys-1 VANITY Peter Sellers, whose tery, musical spectacle, and comedy talents have made him old at the Palace. There is real drama and suspense at the Capitol while the Vanity has booked two comedy hits. That, in a word or two, is the film ifare for Windsor theatregoers.

I It all adds up to variety, an international entertainment personality, makes "Only Two Can Play" one of the happiest pictures ever to play the Vanity Theatre. Portraying an ordinary small town librarian with a seven-year itch, Sellers' performance in the new Kingsley International comedy is far removed from his memorable portraits of the overly-serious union leader in "I'm All Right, Jack" and the humorless incompetent of "The 3 private life they are husband and wife. Mr. Adams has just returned from a successful year in Europe. The Windsor engagement will continue for a full week.

PAIR OF STARS Lois Smith and David Adams are two of the stars of the National Ballet of Canada which will open its Canadian season at Cleary Auditorium Feb. 4. In Hy fir alt an Stevtl i ''wt That Publishing Firm plus something for every- i one. Here are the titles: Palace, "Hell Is for Heroes" and "For-j ever My Love." Capitol. "The Phantom of the Opera." Vanity, "Only Two Can Play" and "In the Nick." 1 I PALACE Viewed as history, battles are won or lost by huge' armies commanded by famous generals, but viewed in the per- ispectiv of human beings who fight those battles, warfare! consists of carrying out specific Mouse That Roared." Suffering from the troubles that plague most married men family and financial frustrations Sellers sets out in "Only Two Can Play" to do something about both, with consequences that are joyous in the extreme.

Co-starring with Sellers are Mai Zetterling and Virginia Maskell. Exactly a year ago the Eng- oratorio to displace "Messiah" Nowadays millions are in cir-lish music firm of Novello and, from public esteem? Even culation: probably only the Company produced a delightful, Bach's Christmas oratorio, writ- Bible has achieved greater volume entitled "A Century and ten about the same time as popularity, a Half in Soho." This interesting! "Messiah," has never quite re- 0nly two years ag0 jsj0. short history, which has had a covered from being unavailable ve0s broueht out the most targe circulation amongst musi- in a popular euiuon uni'i iodu, jcians all over the world, de-j nearly 150 years after scrjbed the fortunes of the house siah" was first published by NEIGHBORS and limited actions in a small area, often without the partici-j pants having any idea of their; and the Cross," the thrilling j0f Novello as printers and pub-j Walsh in 1743. story of faith stars Cornel Ushers of music during the per- Among my own musical Wilde, Belinda Lee and ioii to 1961. I treasures is an ancient and; tine Kaufmann and moves to i it ie strantp to think that the bulky edition of "Messiah" nub- I- 1 l.llll NOW PLAYING Bobby Darin and Steve McQueen in scene from "Hell Is for Heroes," which is now playing at the Palace Theatre on the same bill with "Forever My Love." vast pleasure which choral sing- lished in 1785 which has been ers in Darticular alwavs take in! in my family since 1826.

It; 'contribution to the grand Such is the premise of "Hell Is for Heroes," Para- I mount's stirring drama of a I single action in World War II which opened at the Palace Friday. This is the tale of one squad of American infantrymen who, gallantly and unquestioningly. used everv bit of ingenuity and the Centre from downtown Second feature is "Tommy the Toreador" with Tommy Steele and Janet Munro Windsor Drive-In is showing "Lady Takes a Flyer" with Lana Turner and Jeff Chandler measures 13 inches by 10, and naturally it is twice as wide when opened out! The title page describes it as "An Oratorio compofed (old spelling) by performances of the great masterpieces of religious and secular music would have almost certainly been denied to them had the founders of this musical recent modern edition of "Messiah," which is the one used by my Chorale: it has restored to many of the well known solos the exciting embellishments that singers in Handel's day regularly performed under his own supervision. In the 18th century these "graces" were not written down, but were improvised on the spur of the moment; a lost art, so far as most present day soloists are concerned. Musical publications at all times are a mirror of contemporary desires and taste.

Good business practice, no less than artistic considerations inflexibly govern publishing policies. In the postscript to their little book Novello's write, "The Past is full of interest, the Present Now Let's "Raw Wind in Eden" featuring enterprise not had a wonderful Mr. Handel for the voice, harp the smer wmiams ana jen cnana- vision, and at the same time'sichord and violin with and "Touch of Evil" star- pXceipnt grounding in element- Chorufses (sic) in score. It LOVELY HEATHER British actress Heather Sears becomes the third actress to star in the classic "The Phantom of the Opera," which opens at the Capitol Sunday. Co-starring is Herbert Lom in the title role.

Previous leading ladies were Mary Philbin and Susannah Foster. ring Charlton Heston and Janet ary economic theory. Leigh At the Tivoli "Tarzan! iiaa not oeen ior uus Goes to India" with Jock Ma-honey as Tarzan and second feature is the epic "The Tar- I probably cost at least two guin-'eas (42 shillings) when new, a very large sum of money indeed those days. I In 1846 Novello's first adver-jtised a cheap edition of "Mes-isiah" in 12 monthly numbers I at sixpence each, only one- ars." ENTERTAINMENT i Pianist seventh the cost of earlier of excitement, and the We firm, and others who entered somewhat later a field which was obviously going to be very profitable to them, it is most unlikely that there would be any performance of Handel's "Messiah" Sunday in Cleary Auditorium. Those early and exceedingly prolific 18th century composers, Handel.

Bach and Mozart, could never have dreamed for a moment that their works, written tions, so it is not surprising that! Future full of promise ALMANAC over 20,000 copies were immedi-i stand between two worlds with ately subscribed. By 1849 the an equal duty toward both, cost was reduced from six shil-May the Future owe the same lings to four, and only 10 years debt to us as we acknowledge later it had dropped to one shil-: toward the Past." They might. Chat Movies By BERT STEEL Everything about "Billy Rose's Jumbo" is bis. including the hat size of the actress vho plays the title role in the lavish MGM circus musical. The star happens to be an elephant named Sidney, who is a girl but who for one scene in the picture, wears tans, white tie and top hat.

The average man's hat is around 7' to 71 but when Sidney was fitted for its hat the size required was 92. Other stars include Dons Day, Stephen Boyd, Jimmy Durante and Martha Ra. The fine print in all movie and TV contracts for actors includes the broken neck clause. Producers, studios and networks insist their con-tractees avoid motorcycle riding, jay-walking, bullfighting, games of chicken in Featured Frank to Play With Svninhonv dogged determination they could muster to secure, by a series of ruses, the first breech made by American forces into Germany's formidable Siegfried Line. Amoig the more notable of the masculine coterie are Steve McQueen.

Bobby Darin, ess Parker, Nick Adams, Bob New-hart end Harry Guardmo. with James Mike Kellin and Joseph Hoover completing the troupe. CAPITOL The spectacular new version of "The Phantom of the Opera," filmed in exciting color, is set to open Sunday on the screen at the Capitol Theatre. Acknowledged as the classic of all screen thrillers, she picture stars Herbert Lorn in the title role played in the two previous versions by Lon Chancy and Claude Rains. Heather Sears portrays the heroine, the role played previously by Mary Philbin and Susannah Foster.

Fisher. D'Oyly Carte Opera Co pre- TONIGHT Detroit's sents "Mikado." TONIGHT Detroit's 8:30 p.m. 1 Shubert. "A Far Country," life ofj ling and fourpence. By that perhaps, have belatedly thank2d Itime sales were being reckoned Handel for some of their own in hundreds of a s.

well deserved success! On Gotham Seono Sigmund Freud, closing performance 8:30 p.m. TONIGHT Detroit's Vanguard Playhouse. "The Egg," star-! Claude Frank, pianist, will be soloist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Thursday at 8:30 p.m. in Ford Auditorium. Sixten Ehrling will conduct.

Frank, a Leventritt Award winner, will play Brahms' Con- Seeks Leading Lady nearly always in great haste to meet performance deadlines as inflexible as those demanded of its columnists by a modern newspaper, would have penetrated, two centuries later, to every part of the civilized world. In those far off times the soprano singers, for example, would have been lucky to be given at the very last moment a hastily produced manuscript ring William snust. final weeK. p.m. SUNDAY Cleary Auditorium.

Graham Steed Chorale pre sents Handel's "Messiah." 8:30 p.m. For 'Site Loves Me' SUNDAY Detroit's Fisher, sents "Mikado" at 2 Uyly Carte Opera Co. pre- certo No. 2 in a flat major on p.m. "Pirates of program which includes Glin- jka's Overture to "Russian and 8:30 p.m.

One of Broadway's busiest producers is currently MONDAY Detroit's Fisher. "A School for Scandal" opens pnony No 2 in minor three-week engagement. 8:30 p.m. i 1 i Menotti beloved Christmas casting about for an actress-songstress to take the 'best i part lor a gal since Nellie Forbush of 'South Pacific' The lovely Miss Sears is the young actress who won coveted awards for her performance in "The Story of Esther Costello" and also starred in copy ol tneir own particular part in an oratorio, and would not have the least idea of what was to be sung by the altos, tenors and basses. There might I II KM) A i Detroit's rord Auditorium.

Detroit Symphony, Sixten Ehrling conducting. Repeat performance Saturday. 8:30 p.m. The description of the role is that of Harold Prince, young familiar fate for one comedy success after another when it is New York to Hipsp davs transported from Paris. A careful translation and an excellent director help, but all too often wit, humor and, to Classical Revival 'by "A Funny Thing Happened, on the Way to the Forum" in! iNew York, and by "Take Her, She's Mine" on the road.

The production, which was directed by Sir John Gielgud, has been playing to capacity audiences since its premiere at London's Haymarket Theatre last April. For the American presentation, Gielgud will assume the role of Charles Surface. This marks the second time in his Sir Ralph Richardson and Sir John Gielgud head the all-star cast of "The School for Scandal," which Alexander H. Cohen will present for a thre week engagement at Detroit's Fisher Theatre, opening on Monday evening- at 8:30 p.m. It will play through Jan.

5. classic, "Amahl and the Night Visitors" will be staged by the orchestra Saturday, Dec. 22, at 11 a.m. and again at 2 p.m. for the Young People's Concert series.

Valter Poole will conduct. Two talented 13-year-olds will sing the role of Amahl, Forrest Munger at the morning performance and Jeffrey Meyer in the afternoon. They will be the only new members of the irig-inal television cast performing the work since 1951 which includes Rosemary Kuhlman, Andrew McKinley, David Aiken and Leon Lishner. A chorus from the Rackhani Choir trained by Charles S. Heard and three dancers from the Detroit Ballet Theatre trained by Sandra Severo will take part in the productions.

The Young People's Concerts are sponsored by the Junior Leagues of Birmingham and Detroit, the Women's Association and the Junior Women's Association for the Detroit only be one such copy available for every two or three singers, and its complete accuracy and legibility could rarely be relied upon. Bach was lucky to have a numerous supply of sons, daughters and pupils to undertake his copying. It is said that supper was never served to the Bach family on Saturday nights until the last copy had been made of the cantata to be sung the following Sunday. Frau Bach herself (Anna Magdalena) soon learned that in a musician's household it was better to be an expert copyist than a good cook. Music publishing on a large scale has not, however, been altogether an unmitigated blessing.

It has dulled the edge of the public's receptivity to new works, making it far too easy to satisfy their musical tastes with old favorites. What chance has any modern I a lesser extent, music, can't survive an Atlantic crossing. Maurice Lehmann, director of the Theatre du Chatelet, Paris' biggest and most successful musical comedy theatre, recently returned from a trip to the United States with discouragement written on his face and a number of successful comedies on this side written off his iist. The only possibility, Mr. Lehmann said, is "Carnival," which may suit French taste, "and that's an Italian show." Nevertheless, a number of hits cross the ocean both ways each year.

This season "Come Blow Your Horn" and the 1928 comedy "The Front Page" have been doing well in Paris. The musical for which Mr. Prince is in search of a leading lady is "She Loves Me." The search can't go on much longer because the production is set to go into rehearsal in February. Meanwhile Mr. Prince is looking far ahead.

He has already acquired the rights to the Laurence Marks novel, "Always Go First Class" and is setting his sights on a comedy, "A Place for Polly." With his timetable well filled, maybe it's just as well Mr. Prince has abandoned efforts to make a musical out of the movie "Sunset Boulevard." Falling flat on its face is a speeding cars, cop-baiting and other such pastimes. It is not the mother love instinct on the part of the front office but stric tly for monetary reasons. As a matter of fact many a i producer would be delighted to see his star break a few bones alter the movie is completed. Sdvana Mangano.

famed for her leggy role in "Bitter Rice" is nicknamed "The Reluctant Star" in Holly wood-on-the-Tiber, according to Bill Sunderland of United International. Married to film producer Dino de Laurentiis, she simply doesn't want to work, despite the demands for her services. She made her last film a year ago and hasn't been near a studio since. How-ecer latest reports are she lias decided to go back to work for her husband in- "Trial at Verona." Although such glamourous stars as Lisa Martinclli. Robert Mitchum, Jack Hawkins and Sabu descended on the town of Hilo, Hawaii to film "Rampage" the man who signed more autographs than any of them was Mel Kooritz.

the celebrated animal trainer and cntrepeneur of jungle fauna. All the natives, it seems, were nuts about animals. "Gypsy," the Warner Bros, picture starring Rosalind Rus- Natalie Wood ard Karl Maiden, will open 375 engage- ments in key cities during the Christmas-New Year's holiday week. The Windsor showing is to be at the Palace New Year's Day. By the way Natalie Wood, who weighs only 100 pounds, belts out her "Gypsy" numbers like those songbirds twice her size.

Harold Lloyd will play the leading role in a Hollywood stage production of "The Milky Way," doing the same part his father did in the motion Like father, like son. 1 guished career that he has assumed a role in a production he directed. The first time was in 1949 when he assumed the role of Benedick in "Much Ado About Nothing" for its New York run, after directing it in Stratford. Ralph Richardson will recreate his role cf Sir Peter Teazle in "The School for Scandal" at the Fisher. This production will make the third time he has appeared with John Gielgud.

Gielgud was the leading man at the Old Vic where Sir Ralph played several roles in 1930. He also co-starred with Sir John in the film treatment of "Richard III." This production of "The School for Scandal" has been hailed by critics on both sides of the Atlantic as the finest classic revival in many years. It is considered to be the classic example of comedy of manners and it is without doubt the greatest of all Sheridan plays. The pi ay will tour Toronto after its Detroit engagement. It will open in New York City on January 24 for a limited run.

Aiso headlined in this all-star cast are Geraldine McEwan, Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Meriel Forbes, Laurence Naismith. Malcolm Keen and Richard Easton. Anthony Powell has designed the sets and costumes for this production. FOOTLIGHTS: Jack Benny 'will star in a revue called "Life Begins at 39," slated for a six-week run at the Ziegfeld starting Feb. 27.

Burgess Mere-idith will direct Among Us" which will open in Mid-March Kim Stanley will appear in William Inge's "Nat ural Affection" due early in ill- KvV Kay Stevens Real Kisser LOS ANGELES (UPDCom-i edienne Kay Stevens is the kissingest girl Movietown has seen in many a year. Kay is a compulsive kisser, She kisses men, women, boys, girls and newspapermen. She can't help herself. She doesn't want to help herself, i "When I kiss 'em they stay kissed," Miss Stevens says. Tall and well-formed, the outstanding feature of this kiss-happy girl is a blaze of red hair that points straight up from the nape of her neck to her forehead.

One has the urge to call 1 the fire department on first encounter. But by the time one has been kissed by Miss Stevens fire fighters are the last thing mind. I if 1 if7u hy Deputy Gets Leave To Do TV Film LOS ANGELES Mel Pres-tidge, Los Angeles deputy sheriff who is regularly seen as Lieutenant Danny Quon, Honolulu police officer, in Warner "Hawaiiai. Ee," has teen given a leave of absence from the Sheriff's department to do scenes for the series in Hawaii. Prestidge, born in Hawaii, will do four segments for the show in the Islands.

An outstanding classic revival open at Detroit's Fislier Tlieatrc Monday when Sir Ralph Richardson, left. Sir John Gielgud and Gerald ine McEwan star in "The School jor Scandal." LAUGHS GALORE Peter Sellers and Virginia Maskell in a scene from the hilarious adult comedy "Only Two Can Play," which opens Sunday at the Vanity. On the same program is "In the Nick" to fill out a double comedy bill..