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I g-A Saturday, May 25, '63 DETROIT FREE PRESS Met Rotes Please Him I "EASILY QUALIFYING AS THE MOST MASSIVE DISPLAY OF Small Painting Brings 132,300 LONDON UP) A small painting by the Italian Renaissance master Tintoretto sold at auction at Christie's Friday for $132,300. The picture, "Christ at the Singer of Sche dul Town in Florida To Honor Negro A prominent Negro educator will be honored Saturday in the Southern city which is his birthplace. Dr. Howard -Thurman, of Boston University, will be RICHARD REVOR'LYNLEY, ROBERT WEBBER LOUIS NYE GYPSY ROSE LEE Dm! pass Bogam is Courage Woodward 'Beymer 1 The si-K Story Of Oi A Girl ft 7 And rv TheMen who Led yy Her To Vo Become given the keys to the city of Daytona Beach, and the mayor has pro claimed the day "Howard Thurman Day." Thurman will be met at the city limits Jjy the mayor, four high school bands, a eavalcade of motor cars, local ministers, business leaders and students and officials of Bethune Cookman College, a Negro coeducational school. He'll also receive a special award from the college.

1 I Today Detroit Ahead BY COLLINS GEORGE Free Press Music Writer John Macurdy, tall, pleasant-faced, and lanky-haired, wasn't exactly mad. He was puzzled. Macurdy, Metropolitan Opera basso, mentioned the pleasant lady at the luncheon who though Detroit should adopt him. "But I was horn here," he said. "I went to Cass Tech.

I went to Wayne." "Detroit and Michigan have so many young talented people making names for themi selves elsewhere, and no one back home seems to know." HIS CAREER is an excellent example of hometown neglect. Macurdy started singing here as a choir boy, singing soprano until his voice changed. Malcolm Johns, of the Wayne State Musical faculty, remembers him then. "He was quite a handful," Johns recalled, Macurdy will sing Sunday at Grosse Pointe Memorial Church, where Johns is director of music, at both morning services. The war in Korea interrupted his educational career, but he still managed to find time for singing with the Air Force.

he returned to Detroit, he studied for a while with Avery Crew, had a well-paying job with a tool and die outfit (his father was also a tool and die man) and married a Detroit girl, Justine Votipka, an opera coach. Macurdy then decided it was time to make his big As Seen by the Sunday I P'M' SPECTACLE." BljK OFFICE 'The UGLYAMERiCAfJ umi.iCOLCW SANDRA CHURCH-EIJI 0KADA-PATH1NGLE OPEN 3 A.M. CONTINUOUS BOX OFFICE HOW OPEN PREMIERE JUNE aTM 2 PERFORMANCES DAILY METK0 GOtDWYN MATES nisaf WE 1 -a-V r-'-- 3 OF THE YEAR! 2- p.m. SAM SPEIGEL-BAVI0 LEAN Production of way at Grand Circus Pk. WOodward 3-4000 LLOYD BOCHNERTORIN THATCHER KlahESSMSSI3 SISl iPf gtij i a nmocoie uenioscoK jy mm Pool of Bethesda," was bought by the Agnew Gallery of Lon don.

It was submitted for sale by Dr. James Hasson of London. HEAR ELVIS SINS 10 NEW HITS I Panavtsion. Hj AND DAMON' -AND PYTHIAS C0l0R LAST 4 DATS! E232ZIEH Hi jxmis Donrs STH7ART DAY; USE r.TAFJ L7H0 KKELVTOOKUCH THE TROUBLE ivrraHflRRT A Paramount Re-release 12TH WEEK! "0n at tut treat film at air tiai!" Caak. Frea Preu DAVID LISA 6:00 8:00 10:00 Na ana adaiittea' after featara aejinl.

Rpdacra' admission aa ta 6 a w. STUDIO Lhraraali at Owltaa 23R0 I FINAL WEEK! "Seasoa't aest tanea'y." Lit Mai. Academy Award Winner! Marcelto Mastraiannl ia DIVORCE-ITALIAN STYLE 6:00 8:00 10:00 Nj ana Mm It tea after featara team Reduced admission aa ta 6 a.m. STUDIO-NORTH 9 Ulh Now! studktV THEATRES i 1 1 gQ3BBEPJ Actor" Y-M? tDosen'f- Mother That "cheaper by the dozen" lady, Mrs. Lillian Gilbreth, celebrated her 85th birthday in Quebec Friday.

By all rights, she ought to be lazily rocking away her pet cat and But the spunky woman, who raised a dozen children after her husband's death in -1924, is, busy instead organizing the first international con-: ference of women engi-ineers meeting next year in New York. Mrs. Gilbreth lives in Upper Montclair, N.J., and has continued her hus-. band's engineering re- search business in New York. A son and daughter 9 3 mil mm rT Academy Awards nuitn fc nTTrJ Adilts $1 ta rV I I 1 .1 I 6t.m.

Eic. San CV 1 HlWttiia WINNER OF 7 ACADEMY AWARDS BSE including BEST PICTURE Cotambu Pictures aresents The -31 MADISON THEATRE Mr. and Mrs. Are First Team There's always an exception to every rule especially 'when you're dealing with exceptional people. Such a pair are Wayne Howard Bryant and his pretty (and brainy) 'mrifa Wanrfa WamA Vi a ri tr cttlA fnr calntatnrian nf Vi i M-G-M FRANKE AVALON MARIETTE HARTLEY HURRY R33 ff ends fL.

ii TUESDAY 4 Schedule Intormatioii WO 1-7917 FREE PARKING LATE SHOW TONITE graduating class at Bessemer High School. Wanda, of course, was valedictorian. Married more than a year ago, rthe couple swept most of the class honors. Bryant, an outstanding athlete, was named most popular, took most of the pictures for the yearbook for which his wife did the makeup. Said Principal R.

A. Clendenin, "I'm not advocating early marriage, but this one is an indication that a high school marriage can The Violence The Sadness THE DAY A WAR STOOD a thousand magnificent stallions FIRST NEIGHBORHOOD SHOWING! Z'XcluiliJe, AT THESE THEATRES JEW38 xi- aqt. John Macurdy of 20th Duruf le. Century Maurice The concert will honor the 200th anniversary of the birth of Father Gabriel Richard who founded St. Anne's.

MACURDY is singing in Friday's "Boris Godunov" and "La Traviata" at Saturday's matinee. His appearance in each is in a secondary role. "I don't mind a bit." he said, "In fact, I am already a year or two ahead of the schedule I've set for my career." But if the successes he has had in New Orleans, Houston and the New York City Opera, or in the recent recording of Ward's 'The are any sort of criterion, he might as well throw that schedule out of the window. John Macurdy has just about arrived. War Peace counters a war orphan grubbing for melon rinds- outside a cafe.

"Where is your family?" asks the man. "I have none," says the boy. "I am your father," the man says, and the boy takes his hand. It's lovely. Datebook SATURDAY Metropolitan Opera, "La Traviata" at 1:30, "Caval-leria Rusticana" and "I Pag-liacci" at 8 At Masonic Auditorium.

"How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" At the Fisher, 2 and 8:30 "Little Mary Sunshine" At the Vanguard, 8:30. WSU Theater, "The Beggar's Opera" At WSU Theater, 3424 Woodward, 8:30. Ann Arbor Spring Drama Season, "Pal Joey" with Julie Wilson At Lydia Mendelssohn Theater, 2:30 and 8:30. Stables Theater, "An Evening of Albee" At 22 Charlotte, 8:30. Unstabled Theater, "Focus "F.F.," original musical At 16 Temple, 8:30.

Concept East, "Men and Women," three plays by Anne Coleman At 401 E. Adams, 8:30. Redford Suburban League Theater Guild, "My Aunt Wears Old Army Boots," original musical to benefit mentally retarded At Red-ford Union High 9. VANGUARD Detroit' Professional Resident Theatre 58 E. Colimbia 7 W0 3-3863 LAST 2 PERFORMANCES 8:30 MEN and WOMEN with CLIFF FRAZIER, IRIS GOREN and LARNICE SWANN CONCEPT-EAST Theatre 401 EAST ADAMS TY 8-1484 rv rzjM.

Frl. Sat. S3.S2.50 S3.50. $3. Prof.

Johns and move. He went East, working with Boris Gaaldovsky at Tan- glewood and eventually singing with the New York City Opera Co. for a three-year stint. Then he sang in Philadelphia, Santa Fe and San Francisco, where in the spring opera season he met with major success. Just this past season he signed with the Met.

"HE'S DONE IT the hard way," his wife commented, "He's never been abroad." The young couple had come to hear John rehearse for a concert Sunday afternoon in historic St. Anne's Church. The Wayne State University Singers and Choral Union will give a spring concert of sacred music at 4 p.m. They will sing two French Catholic compositions by the 18th Century De-Lalande and the "Requiem' Russians of of life which is ended by World War II. "Ask any man of 40 where the years went, if he is happy, and he will not be able to tell you," the father says.

As a soldier, the Russian is captured following some vivid battle scenes, and then come some unusual and grim-' ly realistic sequences showing the plight of captured Russians in Germany. It is a true picture of the savagery with which the Germans treated the Russians, and, in reverse, it shows some interesting facets of Germany during the war. One of the high points shows the prisoners gloomily watching a German panzer division rolling to war on flat cars, with the tankers frolicking under their guns and singing a German version of "Roll Out the Barrel." Two years later, following Stalingrad, another German armored division is shown under similar circumstances but they don't act nearly as gay. The Russian soldier finally manages to escape, only to find his wife and daughters' dead from a bomb, and his son killed in action. ALONE and lost, he en- Eddy Howard's Death Blamed On 'Choking' PALM DESERT, Calif.

(UPD Funeral services are scheduled next Tuesday for band-, leader Eddy Howard, found dead Thursday in his Eldorado Country Club home here. A county pathologist's report Friday listed the official cause of death as "choking' on con tents." The pathologist Howard apparently had begun vomiting during the night and choked. The 48 year old musician, whose recording of "To Each His Own" captured the fancy of a war-weary nation in 1946,1 was found dead by his wife, Jane, in their bungalow. 'The Gun Hawk9 Ready to Fly HOLLYWOOD (UPD Filming has been completed on the Bern-Field Production film, "The Gun Hawk." The Western stars Ruta Lee, Rory Calhoun, Rod Cameron and Rod Wanda Bryant AT THE MET 'Thurman Is 85 Ti. Mrs.

Lillian Gilbreth wrote the story of the family in the best seller, "Cheaper by the Dozen." mi i A. "VSJr Wayne Bryant Masonic Temple incites' an uprising against Boris. But it is Boris' conscience that kills the monarch. The whole thing is effective pageantry. But the unforget table scenes are those in which Boris appears the short but splendid coronation scene which opens the opera, the feverish terror of the clock scene in which Boris has hallucinations, and the death scene.

Yet, these are his only scenes. But in the large cast which surrounds Hines these singers were particularly outstanding: Kenneth making his debut with the company as Brother Pimen, was understandably nervous at the start but soon settled into a beautiful flow of sound. 0 Arturo Sergi, as the false Dimitri, was excellent in hi3 scene with Mignon Dunn, as Countess Marina. 0 Charles Anthony played the simpleton, who unwittingly speaks out what everyone knows but nobody says. Fernando Corena was the drunken Varlaam.

Paul Franke, who has so capably fulfilled second-, ary roles during the week, "played Prince Shuiski. Detroiter John Macurdy sang the minor role of an officer, but the depth and fullness of his voice show what resources the Metropolitan has in re serve. "Boris" has no good roles for women but Helen Vanni and Mary Ellen. Pracht, as the mon arch children, and Lili Choo kasian as their nurse, contri buted to the development of this striking portrait. It is easy to understand, after seeing and hearing the magnificence of his "perform ance, why Hines has been in vited to sing.

Boris with the Bolshoi Opera In Moscow next i year. Magnificent Mines Gives 'Boris' Life BY COLLIN'S GEORGE Free Press Music Writer The greatest musical portrait, of a man is in "Boris Godunov," which the Metropolitan Opera Co 1,1 skr 1 i lrg4, iHfiTn9 xES The Legend of L0B0" Tcpumrni no BY LOUIS COOK Free Press Staff Writer No country was quite so bloodied during World War II as Russia, and a new Soviet picture called "Fate of a Man" is useful in finding some things about why the Russians think the way they do. It opened Thursday at the Guild Theater. "Fate" brings back the principals of another Russian picture, a charming affair called "A Summer to Remember." They are Sergei Bbndar-chuk, probably Russia's leading movie actor, and an appealing small boy named Pavlik Boriskin, the Jackie Coogan of the Soviet. BOXDARCHUK is an orphaned, drifting Russian who a3 a young man marries a corn-haired beauty who gives him two daughters and a son.

They have an idyllic family Saturday Opsras Eileon Farrell- LA TRAVIATA 1:30 p. m. at Masonic Violetta Gabriella Tucci Alfredo Richard Tucker Germont Robert Merrill Conducter Kurt Adler Production by Tyrone Guthrie Stage Director Patrick Tavernia CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA 8 p.m. at Masonic Santuzza Eileen Farrell Lola Rosalind Elias Turiddu Franco Corelli Alfio Walter Cassel Lucia Lili Chookasian Conductor Kurt Adler Stage director Nathaniel Merrill I PAGLI CCT Following "Cavalleria Rusticana" Nedda Canio Tonio Beppe Silvio Teresa Sftatas James McCracken Mario Serenl George Shirley Norman Mittelman Conductor Kurt Adler Stage director Nathaniel Merrill This ends the 1963 Met visit. Si' If fll WALT DISNEY'S III MONROE GPP.

CROWDS GIRJ.SI GIRLSI GIRLSI Rina Rogers Babe trail Broaklyr Mint Julep Body Beaatllal Nassina Tina Marie "pi" Ul Ukta Suzanne Dotty Doyle Hilarious Comedians Yakum Yakom and ART GORDON TWIST EVERY WED. NO MOVIES 1 veB-rl. P.M. MAY. 26.

12 WELCOME! 8 P.M. Jr DISNEY'S ably presented Friday at the The ability to create that pop trait bigger than life-size was given to Jerome Hines. Hines, tall and saturnine, has the presence, the consummate acting ability and, above all, the mighty bass voice to create an indelible picture. The John Gutman English translation of the shortened' opera was used. The Shostakovich orchestration only underlined the striking effects of the work.

The story is rather grim. Gudunov has come to be Czar of Russia only by having the true heir to the throne, Dimitri, a small boy and his charge, murdered. Boris tries to be a good monarch and a. good father, but he is haunted by his deed. MEANWHILE, someone arises who claims to be the sup posedly murdered Dimitri and Pro-Castroite Killed During Caracas Raid CARACAS, Venezuela (UPD Four armed raiders believed to be pro-Castro terrorists Friday tried to storm Caracas La Carlota Airport.

They were driven off by national guard sentries who killed one and may, have wounded two. The airport is 'used jointly by civilians and the military. The four raiders sped up a stolen car and the national guard opened fire. The raiders fled after a sharp gunbattlej and the stolen car was found abandoned and bullet-riddled. The United States military mission keeps several 6 ma 11 transport aircraft at La Carlota, on the city's outskirts, but the terrorists were believed seeking weapons stored there.

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