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SAN BERNARDINO SUN TELEGRAM C-13 THE LIVELY ARTS Books --Music --Art BROADWAY IN REVIEW LIFE WITH MUSIC Phoenix Theater: Will It Gather More Subscriptions) Score Calls for Performance By Eight Brake Drums! ft VJ "Slo 1 fa--; What child has not run the length of a picket fence with a supple piece of wood in his hand impinging on the pickets? JAZZ COMBO Music has grown throughout the ages, adding the values of melody, harmony, counterpoint and other factors that have made it more complex, but certainly more appealing and esthetic. Some listeners have a preference for the piano the harpsichord or the accordion, others enjoy string quartets or are responsive to jazz combos. Music made only by percussion may not ap- peal to everyone, yet the vast field of music has something for every willing hearer, from the symphony to the musical saw. py RICHARD I). SAUNDERS The musical saw mentioned in jay last column was only one of 103 instruments making percussive music at last month's concert by the Percussion Ensemble of the Manhattan School of Music in New where an entire evening was devoted to this type of entertainment.

Also employed were tom-toms, a horse's jawbone, five oriental temple blocks, eight Ford and Chevrolet brake drums (what! no Plymouth?) and a corrugated board, not to mention small, medium and large elephant bells, water-buffalo bells, sistrums and a stone plate. No program credit was given to the kitchen sink, but there were six iron pipes. BART OK SONATA All this is a great credit to the ingenuity of the composers represented, though most were content with fewer than the total of 103 sound-producers demanded by Arthur Cohn for his "Quotations in Percussion." Most of the works were tempered by inclusion of piano, xylophone or glockenspiel which, while admittedly percussive instruments, are able to produce more than one tone. And the finale was Bartok's Sonata for two pianos and percussion. It is somewhat surprising however, to find that the proponents of this percussive music declare it to be a "new medium." It may be new to the avant-garde composers who now are experimenting with it, but historically it Is the most ancient music of all.

The most primitive peoples produced music by beating things or knocking on things that would produce tones of a sort in addition to reasonable rhythmic variety. BUYS CONCERT SEASON TICKET Charming Mrs. Roland H. Wissler, 3587 Lugo San Bernardino, purchases her season ticket for the 21st annual series of the Valley Concert Assn. from Albert Stetson, the association's new president.

Stetson, theater owner, has been active in concert associations in Riverside and Phoenix. Tomorrow Last Day for Renewing Concert Tickets; New Members Are Invited By WALTER KERR NEW YORK (HTNS) For some reason or other the present plight of the off-Broadway Phoenix Theater reminds me of a splendidly foolish ISth Century play in which a gambler who has taken poison and is now breathing his last suddenly receives word that he has inherited a million dollars (or some such attractive figure.) Not that the Phoenix has inherited a million dollars recently. Its position, in fact, is that it has just about stopped inheriting surprise benevolences from some of the theater's more open-hearted men and is in a fair way to settle permanently into its ashes unless the general public comes across with a sizeable number of subscriptions for next season. The drive that entrepreneurs i Houghton and T. Edward Ham-bletort now have under way is we are told, a d-or-die drive, with the sheriff's mustache twitching ominously in the near distance.

(LIITHANGING The last-minute bequest that has come to the Phoenix in its hour of mortification is not cash, but something more tantalizing and much more valuable. It is a director and with a director, a hint of policy and a small of personnel who behave as though thev had some inkling of what that po'-icy might be for six years the downtown playhouse has been doing a cliff-hanging act holding on by its fingernails to the promise of a repertory company with an intelligible program; just as the fingernails are alxmt to give way there are unmistakable signs of a vision forming in somebody's head. During the first five amorphous years of the Phoenix's incubation there were, of 'Li'l Abner' to Feature Stubby Kaye in Cast Stubby Kaye has been signed to play Marryin' 'be role he originated with the New York cast, for the I)S Angeles engagement of "Li'l Aimer" at the Biltmore, it was announced by James A Doolittle, managing director of the theater. "Li'l Abner," which played for two years on Broadway, comes to the Biltmore for a three-week run starting Monday, May 2'i. It was acclaimed in New York by both audiences and critics as one of the fastest and funniest musicals during its long run.

Patricia Northrop, a Ixs Angeles girl, who traveled East to npjiear on Broadway in "Oklahoma" and "Pal Joey," nlays the voluptuous Daisy Mae, and Bub Kaye plays Li'l Abner. Mail orders for "Li'l Aimer" are now being received at the theater for evening performances Monday through Saturday, find the matinees on Wednesdays and Saturdays. LITTLE THEATER MEETS ON TUESDAY Drama course, isolated entertainments that were decidedly attractive. If Tyrone Guthrie could be persuaded to step in for a month or two and stage "Mary Stuart" or "The Makropoulos Secret," things were jolly. If enough funny sketches could be strung together to keep Nancy Walker busy for an entire evening of revue, the glow over Second Ave.

could be used to land planes. (Miss Walker hasn't really been happy since "Phoenix and neither have NO CONTINUITY But each happy accident seemed a happy accident; having enjoyed one outing mightily, you could never set forth on the next with any feeling that the organization would pick up where it had left off, or that any of the values that had pleased you once would be on hand to please you twice. It wasn't the fact that the new show might be a dud that worried you; it was the fact that it might be a dud foaled by total strangers, the Phoenix, avowedly an institution rather than a one-shot Broadway operation, seemed curiously without personality and certainly without continuity. Only during the current season has the atmosphere changed. Stuart Vaughan, who had earlier distinguished himself by staging lively Shakespeare in Central Park and some unsurprisingly fluid O'Casey readings, agreed to do the same for next season, if there is a season.

0 Pete Seeger Sings at Bridges Hall Wednesday Pete Seegar, world famous folk singer and ballad scholar, will le presented in a concert at Pomona College's Bridges Hall of Music at 8:15 p.m. Wednesday. Seegar's visit to Pomona begins a week's stay in Southern California, after which he and bis wife will retire temporarily from the entertainment world to embark on the sond part of a two-year study project delving into instrumental techniques of folk music. In his he accompanies himself with the traditional five-string banjo on songs he learned from farmers, miners and others in his years of holloing in Southern and Midwestern states. -o- O'Neill's Work Sweden NEW YORK (AP) "More Stately Mansions," by Eugene O'Neill, is to be presented next fall in Stockholm.

The script was turned over to Dr. Karl Gierow, director of the Swedish Royal Dramatic theater, by O'Neill's widow. Gierow has shaped the bulky drama so that it can tie performed in alxiut four hours. far, was certainly far more than a novelty. The validity of the music cannot be overlooked, and one can only hojie that more will be heard from these men soon.

CONTROVERSIU. "The Threni" by Igor Stravinsky are the most controversial and possibly the most important of the works of the 20th Century's most prominent composer. Based on the "Threnodies," or "Elegies" of the "Jerimlad" (called "Threni" in the Vulgate), the work is the longest and largest Stravinsky composition of the last 25 years. His use of the "12-tone" serial technique (to which he had been previously opposed) has been the subject of much discussion and publicity since its premiere at the Venice Festival. But the work clearly shows the craftsmanship of Stravinsky, containing any similarities with previous works, esivcially the "Symphony of Psalms" and the recent "Canticum Sacrum." His use of the serial technique shows a highly personal utility, which causes the work to be even more stimulating than his finest past efforts.

Featured were I'ta Shimotsu-ka. Roberta Sherry, Richard Robinson, Ernest Walker, Harry Benneck and Robert Oliver, soloists, the Gregg Smith Singers, and the University Symphony. HCTION NON-FICTION JUVENILES BIBLES TECHNICAL Prom)! Mortal 0i t-rtin OPEN MONDAY 'TIL P.M. Mr Conditioned for Tr Shopping Comfort TUxedb 42-3235 COULTER'S FASHION PANEL Caressa Straws LightIyCaress Like the Wind! Dancingly light casual shoes in straw, made in Florida, designed for summer cottons. Comfortable and chic, true to their name Caressa! Tom pom, white, or natural, cork heel.

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Paul's Methodist Church. 7:30 p.m. TOMORROW San Bernardino Art Assn. exhibits. Arrowhead Branch Library, American National Bank Base Line Branch and Colton Library, daily except Sunday.

TOMORROW San Bernardino Branch, Music Teacher's Harold S. Confer, speaker, Antler's Hotel Dining Room, 11:30 a.m. TUESDAY "The Lady From San Bernardino Civic Light Opera, San Bernardino High School Auditorium, 8 p.m. Nightly through Saturday. Tickets available at box office.

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COLLISION COURSE AI-Vin Moscow THE FIRST EASTER Pet-rr Marshall NAUTILUS NINETY NORTH Commander William K. Anderson and Clay Blair, Jr. Victor Borge Opens Greek Theater Season Victor Borge, the one-man sensation, who opens the Greek Theater season on Monday, June has a very succinct comment on travel today in Die age. "Nowadays you can travel around tho world in two hours," he says. "One hour around tho world and one hour to the airport." He is the man wlo should know, for this artist, who is internationally famous for his "Comedy in Music" show, has recorded over a quarter-of-a-milllon miles playing his one-man melange of classical, pop music, gags and ad litis to audiences in every corner of the world.

In recent months lie played from Minneapolis to Monte Carlo and from London to Las Vegas. Horse's show holds for seven performances at the Greek Theater from Monday, June lf through Sunday, June 21, to be followed by equally great entertainment and production. Miss Harris Opens Oct. 22 NEW YORK (Afl-Julic liar-ris, a star who has spent this season on an extended pro-Broadway tour with her new play "The Warm Peninsula, is booked for Broadway premiere in tho comedy on Oct. 22.

Miss Harris' husband, producer Manning Gurian. has obtained the Helen Hayes theater for the presentation. John Gielgud To Direct Show NEW YORK (AP) After a notable season of acting in this country in his one-man Shakespearean show, Sir John Gielgud is returning next fall as a director. The noted star will oversee transfer to Broadway of "Five Finger Exercise," current London hit by Peter Shaffer. Teaming Up Again HOLLYWOOD (LTD Lyn Thomas and Steve Bredie are getting to know each other.

For the second- time in six months they've been teamed in a movie- Their first was "Arson Hire." Now they're woiking "Here Come the Jets," which features Gloria Mureland. Miss Thomas plays a psychologist who worries about jet pilots, one of whom Is placed by Bro die. Persons interested in acting or any other phase of stage production are invited to attend the next regular meeting of the newly formed San Bernardino Little Theater Group scheduled for Friday at 8 p.m. at the home of the president Jesse W. Ericksen II, 227 E.

23th Snn Bernardino. Cliarter and constitution have been drawn up and approved by the membership. Ericksen said the membership Js determined to present the first play in October. Interested persons not able to attend the meeting Friday are asked to address a postal to Erlsksen for information. WHO ATTENDED Attending the last meeting of tli Little Theater Group were Ericksen, president; William A.

Wingrove, vice president; Mrs. M. Ruth Yeilding, chairman of the board; Robert E. Leech, di-rctor; Mrs. Ruby P.

Ericksen, acting secretary-treasurer; Miss Kay Perry, Miss Gertrude Po- BOOK REVIEW A I hi will have until May 23 to reserve tickets. In addition to hearing four outstanding concerts, season subscribers also help financially through purchase of season tickets to bring the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra for a special Youth Concert each spring, paying the difference between what the youngsters are able to pay and what the actual cost is. Each year over 1.700 young people hear their only live concert of one of the country's foremost orchestras. 2 1 ST SEASOV The 21st annual series of tho San Bernardino Valley Concert as planned by Harold S. Confer's program committee, will be on four different nights of the week in order to accommodate as many individuals and groups as possible.

The events will be: Boston Opera "Voyage to the Moon," Offenbach's comedy opera in English with an all-star cast of American singers; Duo-Pianists Luboshutz and Ncmen-otf, presented by S. Hurok; San Francisco Opera Soprano Lcon-tyne Price, who will ojen the season of that company both in Los Angeles and San Francisco starring in and Ios Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Georg Solti. Albert Stetson, Valley Con-cert Assn. president, urged that present season subscribers renew their locations by tomorrow. "San Bernardino has grown up and we no longer can hold up season ticket renewals.

We did so last season and at the last minute we were saving for old-time subscrilers, who didn't pick them up and we suffered a loss of For the 19-CO season we should have a complete sell-out and we invite the hundreds of newcomers to the valley to join us." British Director Eyes Broadvay NEW YORK (AP) Tyrone Guthrie, a British director, has agreed to supervise the arrival of "The Dybbuk from W'ood-haven" on Broadway next fall. The play by Paddy Chaycfsky Is being produced by Saint Sub-ber and Arthur Canfor. Guthrie recently completed staging of "All's Well That finds Well" for Stratford-upon-Avon's centennial season. Golden Drama Talked Over NEW YORK (AP)-The play-writing team of Jerome I-iw-rence and Rilert E. Lee have contracted to do a play for Broadway based upon Harry I Golden's best-seller "Only in America." Instead of following the precise pattern of the book, a series of chatty essays, Lawrence and Lee would shape their script to biographical treatment of the author himself.

() All-Girl Show From Japan NEW YORK (AP) The Oriental trend of Broadway pro-' durtion is to continue next season with arrival from Japan of-the all-girl Takarazuka Theater. The trouje, comprising uls trained from the age of 16 in drama music and dance, will visit other American cities during tho visit, it The Redlands Bowl series officially opens on June 30, after presenting the audition winners on June 23, continuing each Tuesday and Friday night until Aug. 28 After four years of litigation, the piped -music Muzak Corp. successfully challenged the royalty rates set up by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, which collects performance fees for its members. In addition to his professional symphony and youth symphony, Dr.

Constantin Bakaleinikoff is organizing an adult amateur symphony for Burbank. Piano virtuoso Mark Gunzbourg celebrated his 83rd birthday by playing a formidable conceit program that included Sonatas by Liszt and Beethoven. Music critic Raoul Gripenwaldt is off to Europe, filming a travelogue that will take him from Iceland to Italy. licano, Miss Dorothy Hinds, Richard Conyer, Miss Joyca Mortindale, Mrs. Ann Martin, Robert Martin and Jerry Brown.

Brown was appointed assistant to the president. Busy Actress Miss Greenhouse NEW YORK (AP) Martha Greenhouse is an actress who knows what it means to belong to different theatrical unions. Miss Greenhouse recently in a single day of activity did work under three different jurisdictions. As a member of Screen Actors Guild she performed in Television and Radio Artists the film, "Naked City." Then as a member of the Federation of she appeared on the radio show "The Couple Next Door." As a member of Actors Equity she wound up the day working in the off-Broadway hit Town." knew her, in Angclus Temple. When she did reappear, it was inevitable that she would be ready with some startling revelation to justify all the furor.

She had a story, and it was a beaut: Lured into an auto at the beach to pray for a child, she was given some sickly drug that kept her unconscious for hours, and then held in a shack for a ransom of half a million dollars by a pair named "Steve" and "Rosie." Once they burned her fingers to pry information out of her, then left her alone. She sawed through her bonds with the edge of a tin can, climbed through a window, walked all day in killing heat, and showed up across tho Mexican border in a nervous and fainting condition. Detective Chief Herman Gine had the task of investigating and bring the kidnapers to justice. When reporters asked what he thought of the evangelist's story, he said: "It sounds impossible. But experience shows that sometimes the impossible happens." SrRVIVEI) HEAT? With the aid of Deputy District Atty.

Joseph W. Ryan, he set out on a job which was being urged most energetically on public officials by various doubting Thomases who antedated our author. Conspicuous among them was a fellow tor in Los Angeles, Robert P. Shuler, who called the kidnap yarn an outrage. How could she have crossed the border, or survived desert heat? Where was the shark in which she was imprisoned? It was never found.

Aimee had had two husbands, and denied any new love A grand jury refused to swallow her version of kidnaping. Then a judie ordered her, New Improvised Concerto, Stravihsky 'Thrcni Heard Story of Aimee Semple McPherson Disappearance Recalled 33 Years Later There will be a luncheon and fashion show at the Dinnerhorn Restaurant, San Bernardino, Wednesday at 11:30 a.m. for sponsors and co-sponsors of the San Bernardino Valley Concert Assn. The purpose of the garnering will be to start the campaign for new season subscribers of the Concert as the deadline of renewal of 195D-60 subscribers comes tomorrow. 1,736 SEATS ONLY Reservation for the volunteers' luncheon should be made tomorrow by telephoning Mrs.

Roderick H. Van Horn or Mrs. Fred R. Holland, co-chairmen of membership. In an effort to sell out the 1,736 seats and only season tickets- are available, with no singles being sold sponsors and co-sponsors will make a concentrated effort at reaching new subscribers who are interested in seeing the valley grow musically.

New subscribers Burns Proves Sh Man ows iron NEW YORK (AP) David Burns is proving the iron man in the cast of the Broadway liit, "The Music Man." The show recently celebrated lis first anniversary and a special party was given for Burns as the only featured member of the cast who had not missed a single performance. her mother, Mrs. Wiseman, known as the "hoax woman" and Kenneth OrmLston held for trial. Ormiston left the job of radio operator at her temple four months before the evangelist vanished. He had a blue coupe which drives in and out of the developing story.

Ho used aliases; he rented a cottage in Car-mel four days before the "drowning" and lived there with some woman for 10 days after that. A trunk he had owned, recovered in a New York hotel, was packed with clothing, some of which resembled Aimee's. NO JIKV The case didn't go to jury because the state thought it couldn't convict. And there was indeed a fantastic tangle of do coptions, hoaxes, misrepresentations, ami lies from people who thought they could profit by it, itched to get into the news, could believe no harm of Aimee or could believe no good of her critics. Marshaling countless allegations, suppositions, facts and fancies, the strictly impartial Thomas has written an absorbing story'.

Aimee's magnetism, her steadfastness before scathing attacks, her sure hold on her followers, and her ultimate triumphant maneuvering i your unstinted admiration. On the other hand, the society turned tnpsy turvy by her "affair" looks silly and gullible. But this account is not so much people as plot No novelist couJd think up these devious twists and turns and this whole, intricate machinery of mystification; and if he did, you wouldn't lirlieve it. This is a labyrinth honeycomb of a plot, and a honey of a book to match, W. G.

By JAMES ADAMS Lukas Foss, as conductor at the Spring Music Festival at UCLA, was resxmsible for introducing the Los Angeles pul-lice to two of the most lmprt-ant musical works to be or-formed in the Southern California area this season. The Concerto for Five Improvising Instruments and Orchestra represents the latest achievement of Foss and colleagues in the field or organized ensemble improvisation. It is in three movements, each with an orchestral background written by certain of the soloists. FIVE SOMS The first movement. Prelude, was written by Richard I)u-fallo, clarinetist.

The second movement, Chorale, was by Robert Drasnin. flutist. The third, Finale, was composed by diaries de Lanecy, jicrcussion-ist. Composed ns a concerto, the work featured five solo Instrumentalists: Dufallo, Drasnin. de Lincey, William Malm, bass clarinet; and Eugene Wilson, cellist.

The solo p.assages were extensions of musical fragments stated by the orchestra. There was among the musicians during these soli, an ama.ing sense of counterpoint which resulted in interesting canonic and imitation effects. The work, which is the most outstanding achievement of Foss and his colleagues thus Any Hook Mrntioned Anyv hrre at Your Complete lhntk Store 462 Third Street "Tho Vanishing Evangelist:" The Aimee Semple Mcl'hprson Kidnaping Affair. I5y Lately Thomas. Viking.

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She was supposed drowned. To be sure there were reported glimpses of her, a couple of ransom demands, and offers of a reward for her safe return. But the official entourage of this extraordinary personage acted as though it was convinced of her death. Two men hunting fr her remains lost their lives; hundreds of people got hysterical, thousands mourned; her mother Minnie Kennedy, ex-Salvation Army lassie, ran profit-nble memorial services for "Sister," as her vast public FICTION NON-FICTION JUViNIUS IHUS TICHNICAL Prompt Sprclol Ordr lnrl OHH MONDAY 'TIL P.M. CmvmiI Valldottd Parking llM term tht S'r 462 Third St.

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