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SECTION 5 NOVEMBER 5, 19St '0wc fat fmt AMU SEME NT AND FIN A CIA MUSIC, pp. 1. 12 ART, p. 4 DANCE, p. 3 ABOUT THE HOME, pp.

6. 7, 8 TRAVEL, p. 5 FINANCIAL, pp. 10, 11 RADIO, pp. 12, 13 MOVIES, p.

2 THE THEATER, pp. 1, 3 II MUSIC: Royal Pliilliarmonic Orchestra To Open Community Concerts November 19 By WILLIAM MOOTZ Courier-Journal NStaff Writer ..4 4 -m, i J'f k'1 lJ ll I si jl lM: 1 i i I till l1 'J 'i QSf i iWnLif -i ll if iilkB; I 1 I I 1-; fVet- i I 1 I 'i the island of Mill present a concert at the Memorial Auditorium United States, November 10. The singers specialize in folk songs. the Thursday matinee concert, when her husband's work will be repeated. The 33-year-old composer divides his time between Philadelphia and New 'York.

He is head of the Composition Department at the Philadelphia Conservatory and a member of the faculty of the Juilliard School of Music in New York. Orders for subscription tickets for five Wednesday evening and five Thursday afternoon concerts are still being taken at the Louisville Philharmonic Society offices, 830 South Fourth, JAckson 1289. Single sale tickets for the November 15 and 16 concerts will be available tomorrow. Music From Majorca A choral group making its first -tour of this country, the Coro Hispanico from the island of Majorca will present a concert at Memorial Auditorium NovemberlO. Director of the group is Maestro Juan Maria Thomas.

The Coro was organized 18 years ago under Thomas. It has received enthusiastic recognition in Spain and on the Continent, but not until this year was Thomas able to arrange an American tour. Members of the chorus are working people from Palma, capital of Majorca. The Coro Hispanico performs an ever-widening repertory. To the early music of Hispania and to its great liturgical literature, the singers have acroed the choral masterworks of classical, romantic and modern composers, as well as the folk music of Majorca, Catalonia, Andalusia and Castile.

Their programs introduce dance motifs and the accompaniment of guitars to heighten the effect of the folk songs. Tickets are on sale at Presentation Academy. Organ Dedication Today The School of Church Music of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary will present Kenneth Pool, organist, and the School of Church Music Choir, under the direction of Donald Winters, in a Choral Vesper Service this afternoon at 4 in the Seminary Alumni Chapel on Lexington Road. The service is a dedicatory program for the newly installed four-manual Aeolian-Skinner organ. Pool will devote his portion of the program to the organ music of Bach.

Pool, professor of organ at the School of Church Music, is a graduate of Furman University and the University of Michigan. He. studied with Palmer Christian, and at the Organ Institute, Andover, Massachusetts, with Arthur Howes, E. Power Biggs, Ernest White and Carl Weinrich. In addition to his duties at the seminary, he is director of music at the Highland Presbyterian Church.

The program: Coro Hispanico, a choral group from Majorca making its first tour of the I Cry to Thee. Lord Jesus Christ Our Father Thron'd in Heaven High Salvation Sure Has Come to Man Prelude and Fugue In A minor A Mighty Fortress is our God Luther Arioso in A Bach Church Cantata 75; The Lord is a Sun and Shield Bach 'A German Requiem Brahms' "A German Requiem" will be -the principal work of a choral service given this afternoon at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church. Soloists will be Jean Mansfield, soprano, and Robert Fischer, bass. Robert F.

Crone will conduct the chorus of 35 voices from the organ console. The complete program: Chorale Prelude: wie seli? seid ihr frommen Brahms Magnificat Crone Chorale Prelude: Schmuecke dich, lie be Seele Brahms German Requiem. Opus 45 Brahms For all Thy Saints Vaughan Williams Chorale Prelude: Welt, ich muess dich lassen Brahms Folk Opera Scheduled The Louisville A Cappella Choir will present Kurt Weill's folk opera "Down in the Valley" November 13 and 14 at the Woman's Club Auditorium. C. Douglas Ramey and Edward Clark are directing the production.

Important singing roles will be performed by Barbara Warmoth, Kahler Flock, Dick Boyd and Ralph Leonard. The Lilias Courtney Ballet Company will provide a ballet overture choreographed by Elise Gilmore. Accompanists will be Esther McGee and Vivian Taber. Tickets to this production go on sale at the Baldwin Piano Company tomorrow morning. Sir Thomas Beecham Royal Philharmonic conductor George London, American bass-baritone, has won his most spectacular successes with the Vienna State Opera.

This season will see his first American tour. His roles with the Vienna State Opera have ranged from Amonasro in "Aida" and Escamillo in "Carmen" to Prince Galitzki in "Prince Igor" and the title role in "Boris Godounoff Just last week, he appeared in the Vienna Opera's first production of the season, a performance of Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin." Season memberships to the Community Concert Association will be on sale at" the ticket office of the Baldwin Piano Company until the performance of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra on November 19. Traubel and Persichetti Sharing the spotlight with Helen Traubel in the Louisville Orchestra's first concerts of the season November 15 and 16 will be composer Vincent' Persichetti and his commissioned work, "Serenade No. 5." While Persichetti's new work is being introduced here, the Philadelphia Orchestra will be performing his "Fables for Narrator and Orchestra," with Mrs. Persichetti in the speaking role.

But Persichetti has written Robert Whitney that he will come to Louisville to attend the final rehearsal and both performances of his work. After her own orchestral appearance Wednesday night Mrs. Persichetti hopes to come to Louisville in time to hear Louisville Is Still on His Tour, Despite A Slowdown by Cantor By BOYD MARTIN, Courier-Journal Drama Editor rV vssOvW, Auditions for The Messiah Auditions for the soloists in the annual Louisville Philharmonic Chorus performance of the Christmas portion of the Me-siah now are being held. They may be arranged by calling or writing the musical director of the chorus, Edward Barret, at WHAS. The performance, to be presented by the chorus, the musicians' union and the Shackleton Piano Company, will take place at Memorial Auditorium on December 13.

Young People's Concerts "Music of the Americas" is the title of the opening Making Music concerts at, the Memorial Auditorium Tuesday at 2 and 3 p.m. and Wednesday at 2 p.m. The 1950-51 season marks the eleventh successive year of these young people' concerts by the Louisville Orchestra and its conductor, Robert Whitney. The program: THE CURRENT. Nov.

5 Bach Vesper, Donald Winters, director: Ken neth Fool, organist: p.m.. Alumni cnapei. 5 Brahms" A German Requiem, Robert F. Crone, director; 4 p.m.. St.

Andrew's Episcopal Churqh. Louisville Orchestra. Robert Whitney, conductor: Making Music Series and High School Matinee; 2 p.m. and 3 p.m.. Memorial Auditorium.

10 Coro Hispanico; 8:30 p.m.. torium. Memorial Audi- 12 Thanksgiving Vesper. Winters, director; Alumni Chapel. 13-14 Kurt Weill's "Down in the Valley." Edward Clark and C.

Douglas Ramey. -directors; 8:30 p.m.. Woman's Club Auditorium. 13 Louisville, Orchestra. Whitney; Helen Traubel.

soprano. Vincent Persichetti, composer; 8:30 p.m., Columbia Auditorium. Face," "Why Can't You Behave?" "I Hate Men," "Brush Up On Your Shakespeare" and "Too Darn Hot." The book is by Sam and Bella Spewack. "Kiss Me, Kate," is a play-within-a-play, and the story deals with the amusing antics and assorted amours of two temperamental stage stars on the eve of their appearance in Shakespeare's "The Taming of The Shrew" a date which also coincides with the first anniversary of their divorce. The Cole Porter score blends several styles to harmonize with the modern setting of the plot and the interpolated Elizabethan episodes.

Frances McCann, Robert Wright, Benny Baker, Marc Piatt and Betty George are featured in the large cast which also includes Nat Burns, Bobby Vail, Lionel Ince, Bertha PowelL Michael Roberts, John Kuehn, Bobby Johnson, Charles Cook, Ernest Brown, Alfred Homan and Michael Scitterale. The choreography is by Hanya Holm, the settings and costumes by Lemuel Ayers, and the entire production was staged by John C. Wilson. Saint Subber and Lemuel Ayers are the producers. THE Louisville Community Concert Association will open its 1950-51 season at Memorial Auditorium November 19 with the long-anticipated appearance of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of London, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting.

This will be the first concert of a season that is expected to be the finest the association has presented here in many seasons. The association has engaged Rudolf Firkusny, pianist, for December 14; Nikolai and Joanno Graudan, cello-piano duo, January 22; Elena Nikola idi, contralto, February 26, and George London, bass-baritone, March 13. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra is directly associated with the Royal Philharmonic Society, which is the world's oldest organization created for the en-coui agement of orchestral and instrumental music. It was founded in 1813. America's oldest symphonic society, the New York Philharmonic, was founded in 1842.

Ttco-Month Tour Among composers who directed their own works for the Royal Philharmonic Society were Weber, Mendelssohn, Wagner, Grieg, Saint-Saens, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius and Dvorak. Beethoven composed his Ninth Symphony, for the society. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, numbering 100 members, is engaged the year around. It is the only orchestra in England which operates without Government subsidy or support. It is making a two-month tour of this country.

Rudolf Firkusny, a Czech by birth, made his debut at the age of ten with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Since that time he has appeared with all the major orchestras in Europe. He made his New York debut in 1941, and has played with many orchestras in this country, including the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, the Philadelphia, Chicago, Minneapolis and Cleveland Symphonies. He has premiered recent piano concertos by Gian-Carlo Menotti, Howard Hanson and Bohuslav Martinu. Familiar Artists The Graudans are the only artists on the present Community Concert Series already familiar to Louisville audiences.

They have appeared here in concert for the Chamber Music Society. Having first established reputations as soloists, Joanna as a pianist and Nikolai as a cellist, they combined their talents many seasons ago, and today are known principally as a cello-piano ensemble. Elena Nikolaidi is the Greek contralto whose few appearances in this country have brought enthusiastic reviews. She was heard both in recital and in a concert version of Strauss' "Electra" in New York last season, and just recently made her debut at the San Francisco Opera. Eddie Cantor at 7 with Harry Kelly in 1918 Cantor and the Goldwyn Girls Sit -osJ rrtiViifitteitiiMifiariiiiiil(MMiWi ii i i vj I -J VI Red River Jig Benjamin Two Woodland Sketches MacDowell Saturday Night A Barn Dance Sanders Cielito Undo Mexican Folk Song Two West Indian Pieces Benjamin Tango Albeniz Piece in the Form of Habanera Ravel Grace Whitney, cello soloist Brazilian Dance, a Samba Guamierl The program for the first High School Matinee at 3:15 p.m.

Wednesday at the Memorial Auditorium is: Red River Jig Benjamin Two Woodland Sketches MacDowell Saturday Night A Bain Dance Sanders The Winter's Past Barlow Carl Genovese. oboe soloist Fiddle Faddle Anderson Two West Indian Pieces Benjamin Tango Albeniz Piece in Form of Habanera Ravel Brazilian Dance, A Samba Guarnieri Choral Program This evening at 7:30 p.m., a program of choral and organ music will be given at the Third Lutheran Church, 1864 Frankfort Avenue, by the combined choirs and W. MacDowell Horn, organist and director. MUSIC CALENDAR IS Louisville Orchestra. Same program.

3 Columbia Auditorium. ls Parade of Barber Shop Quartets; 7 and p.m.. Memorial Auditorium. 18 Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Sir Thomas Beecham. conductor; 3 p.m..

Memorial Auditorium (Community Concert.) 22 Frederick Marvin, pianist; 8 p.m.. New Albany High School Auditorium. 22 Thanksgiving Musical Service, Kenneth Os-brink. director; 8 p.m.. Walnut Street Baptist Church.

25 Benno and Sylvia Rabinof. violin-piano duo; 8:30 p.m.. St. Matthews Woman's Club Auditorium (Civic Music Association Concert. 2ft Francis Hopper, organist: 4 p.m., Gardencourt.

28 Walter Baker, organist; 8:15 p.m., St. Mark Episcopal Church. For additions or corrections to this calendar, call th Music Information Bureau, AMherst 2421. Dinah Admits Being Nervous Facing Royalty By MARK BARRON Associated Press Writer NEW YORK, Nov. 4.

Although she has been a topflight, successful singer on most of the "Broadways of the world for 10 years, sultry-voiced Dinah Shore admits that she get stage fright. She indeed gets nervous when she begins a new venture in the entertainment world. "I remember when I first started doing radio programs with Eddie Cantor," she said the other day in a Broadway television studio. "And I heard a playback of a recording of the broadcast and when I was singing there was a funny sound in my voice that I had never heard before. I got panicky, until Cantor pointed out that the funny sound was merely a recording of my knees knocking." And she was nervous the day she was rehearsing her television program, but she wasn't any more nervous than Jack Benny because the program was also to mark his debut as a video star.

But Miss Shore had appeared on television before and had quit being "gun-shy" about that medium of amusement, "I'm nervous today," she said, "because when I get through with this rehearsal I'm going over to the R.CA.-Victor studios to begin the recording of the Irving Berlin songs from that musical hit, 'Call Me She's A Gold Mine Such shyness was difficult to understand for Miss Shore has long been a gold mine for juke boxes and phonograph machines ever since she did a recording of an adaptation of an ancient Russian folk song called "Yes, My Darling Daughter." This sold a half-million records as did her succeeding number, "Blues In The Night." But, here she was nervous because R.CA.-Victor was giving her one of the choicest assignments a popular singer could hope for, that of recording an album of Berlin tunes from a hit Broadway show. "Oh, they're wonderful songs, a genius composer and a hit show," she explained her nervousness. "I should be sitting on top of the world, but I keep remembering that I'm following Ethel Merman who sings the songs in the stage production. You can't top that Merman girl. I've got too much admiration for her and for her ability." Dinah isn't the only member of her family who suffers from nervousness, she confessed.

Her hefty, strong husband, George Montgomery, who is noted for the daring athletic stunts he does in the movies, also has gotten a bit timid and gets the jitters. Command Performance "That's happened since our daughter, Melissa, was born two and a half years ago," she said. "It used to be that he would drive the car as if he were warming up on the Indianapolis Speedway. Now he is practically Mr. Milquetoast himself when he gets out in the car with Melissa.

He drives at a snail's pace and curses every driver on the road who passes him as being too dangerous to be allowed in public." On November 13 Dinah is going to sing in a command performance before the Kin and Queen of England in London. "I think I would be awfully nervous about that," she said, "but when I was singing for the soldiers during the war I appeared so many times in London that I think maybe I'll only get a slight case of jitters this time." When she returns from her European ap- pearances, Miss Shore is going to record an album of Cole Porter songs from the forthcoming Broadway musical, "Out of This World." Robert Wright, Frances McCann and Lionel Ince in "Kiss Me, Kate" 'Kate To Open Its Two-Day Run At Memorial Auditorium Today Passacaglia and Fugue in mino Chorale Preludes Dearest Jesus, We Are Thine Bach Bach was one of them. When he became affluent, his work for this camp, which has become permanent and a year-around affair, absorbed the best impulses he has had. Eddie was one of these skinny, hollow-chested sons of the slums, and he could sympathize with the generations of starvelings -that followed him. i He had an idea that it was better to turn them into a Marcus Loew, an Irving Berlin, or even an Eddie Cantor, if possible, run the risk of their turning into Gyp the Blood, or Lefty Louie.

Eddie Cantor, like Al Jolson and George Jessel, got into the theater the hard way the amateur nights at the variety houses on 'the lower East Side. Lacking today's mechanical amplifications, these lads had to project. They went on the stage "cold," and woe unto them if they couldn't be heard. Eddie wanted to make people laugh, just as he wanted to be entertaining before the kids, around the campfire at Lake Surprise, during vacation time. He did it chiefly by imitation.

A Follies Fixture Cantor has been down this way many, a time and oft as a vaudevillian. The high mark in his career came when he was invited by Florenz Ziegfeld to join the personnel of "The Follies." He was in company then with Ann Pennington, Bert Williams, Will Rogers, W. C. Fields, Harry Kelly, Lillian Lorraine and many of the stars of Ziegfeld's fold. Once in "The Follies," he remained as practically a fixture.

Then came "Kid Boots" and "Whoopee," large and extravagant musicals. He did more than his bit in entertaining the armed forces at camps, hospitals and at the front. Like most of the profession, he was prodigal of his time and talents and still is. He was drawn into the movies, and is now a Hollywood resident. His radio show was of high rating; and now that television has come along, one may assume from past conduct that the Eddie Cantor show will be among the top ones.

To Make 9Em Laugh In bringing himself to Louisville next Sunday night, Cantor will, according to report, sing many of the songs he made famous, and tell of many incidents which happened during his full and active life. His purpose will be just the same, to make people laugh and enjoy Perhaps one of the most prophetic gags ever pulled by Cantor was one night when the present Duke of Windsor, then the Prince of Wales, visited the "Follies" of 1919 as a guest of the Vanderbilts. During the intermission. Cantor stood backstage with Eddie Dowling. 'If the Prince comes through here," Cantor suggested, "I'll get at his throat and squeeze till he gives Palestine to the Jews; then you squeeze till he gives Ireland to the Irish." A Secret Service man, planted in the wings, glared menacingly at the two youthful comedians and nipped their conspiracy in the bud.

Maybe the Prince heard them. Both things have happened. EDDIE CANTOR, the last of the minstrels, will be here next Sunday night. He is appearing at Memorial Auditorium in a 2-hour, one-man show for charity. Louisville is one of the few cities Cantor didn't cancel when his physician advised that he slow down.

He had arranged a tour that would have been a tax on a younger man. And Eddie Cantor is not young. His reported age in 1928, when he wrote his autobiography, was 36. He boasted then that life had just begun for him. To date, he has added 22 active years to his life, and should be 58.

Written for Charity Taking into account that actors usually take off a few years in their statistics, Cantor may even be older. An actor's age, like his private life, is his own anyway, so what difference does his age make to the public? When Cantor wrote his autobiography, which was published by Harper's in 1928, he called it "My Life Is In Your Hands." It was written to raise funds for a pet charity at Lake Surprise, Cold Springs, N. Y. This was a glorious dream to the scrawny, underfed lads of New York's Ghetto. Eddie and the Cantor of today Wtv In "Kid Millions" (1934) THE National Company of "Kiss Me, Kate," rated as one of the outstanding musical-comedy hits in the history of the American stage, will open a two-day engagement at Memorial Auditorium tonight.

"Kiss Me, Kate," can boast of a record equaled by very few musicals. On Broadway it is now rounding out its second year and is still playing to virtual capacity. The National Company, which will be seen here, enjoyed an unprecedented run of 33 weeks at the Shubert Theater in Chicago; and in Los Angeles and San Francisco it also hung up very impressive attendance marks. It also hit new highs in St. Louis, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Boston and Washington.

In terms of total money grossed, "Kiss Me, Kate," has taken in close to $6,000,000. Cole Porter, who composed the music and lyrics of "Kiss Me, Kate," is credited with having turned out the best all-around score during his brilliantly successful career. Among the song hits are "So In Love," "Always True to You In My Fashion," "Wunderbar," "Were Thine That Special Hildegarde Plays Here Thursday HILDEGARDE, unique one-woman entertainer, will have a hard time in Louisville coming as she does smack between "Kiss Me, Kate," and Eddie Cantor, but those who have seen her during a summer tour claim she is worth taking Hildegarde brings herself and her band to Memorial Auditorium Thursday night only. Everyone who the doings of show folk knows that Hildegarde has just returned from Denmark, Paris and London, with shadings of Sunny Italy where, in the language of show business, she "knocked 'em cold." With a large recording following in Louisville Hildegarde may do better than the timid ones anticipate. 9 Hildegarde Just bach from Europe.