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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1938-08-11, Page 3THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1938 THE SEAFORTH NEWS PAGE THREE "Under The Big Top" ;J'aok Rogers is a's ,colourful in Teal life as he is in his radio talks, "Under ,the 'Big crop," broadcast from Van- couver to GI3'C's national network, Wedne'sda'ys, 1'11115 ;pen. EDST. 'Whatever his' topic of ,conversation, it is nearly ,always accompanied with ,gestures, ,facial contortions or 'exag- gerated tones of voice. Of course, Mr. Rogers loan Ibe 'serious, !butt since he has been an actor all his 'life, he acts 'both on and off the .stage. I3n his broadcast he ,strives to cover every p'has'e of ;einem life and management, and during his 17 years Di residence in Los Angeles, he has learnedmany things about animals !used in the mov- ing pictures, He has many .stories to tell about the animal 'farms in Cali- for'n'ia, where ;animals are bred and trained for (both circus and motion 'picture use. CDC technicians in Van- couver have made actual 'oirou's re- oordings, which are used as sound effect's for ,this series. Kannarwin Leaves For Winnipeg. !Tads 'Kannawin, CDC !producer and slpecial .events commentator, has been transferred to the ;CBC !staff at. Win- nipeg, and tett Toronto •immediately after rhe broadcast of "Canadian Fan- tasy" on Tuesday, August 2 Mr. Kannaw'in has been a member ,of the Toronto staff /or the past four years, and has been responsible for some splendid' broadcast 'series, special events, and unusual features. "'Canad- ian Fantasy," a .broadcast constructed especially for audiences .of the Brit- ish Broadcasting Corporation, was perhaps Mr. 'Kannawin''s anost notable achievement, 'both written and .pro- dec•ed by' him, and with original music by Percy Faith. Vancouver Pianist Is Composer 'Eileen Robertson, Vancouver ;pian- ist !heard on many OBC programmes, has just completed two songs for which OBC musical directors forecast a 'great .future. "In Search of Rom- ance" ("I 'Found a Stand -In for Love'), is one of, them, while the other is entitled, "You Didn't Have To." The former is a popular song with an original setting, a musical ntetap'hor of a motion picture stand- in. The latter was inspired Iby per- sonal experience. B'otli songs are in fox-trot tempo and will the heard in forthcoming Vancouver (programmes, Chic Inge, Who 'ha's arranged and or- chestrated other songs 'by Miss Rob- ertson, has written special settings for the new compositions, NBC Audition For Western Singer A well1known vocalist of Winnipeg, who has been frequently featured over CDC networks from that city and from'Jaeper Park Lodge, is on his way to New York for an audition 'with the NBC. During the iwinter 'season, when Mr. Wood' sang over CBC net- works, a .record was made at the re- quest of NBC and sent to Radio City. It attracted such .favourable attention that he was asked to come to New York. Mr. Wood is !particularly well- known, in Winnipeg 'mu'sical , oirc'les and 'fur ,many' years has been choir master and musical director of St. .Stephen's United IOhnurch. Mart Kenney Records Released Two new Victor recordings Iby Mart Kenney and his Western 'Gentlemen, who 'broad'ca'st regularly over OBC networks, have just been released. The titles include the Kenney theme, 'The West, a Nest, and You," with lyrics Iby Art Kallman, and the !brio, "Three of a Kind;" •the 'dld 'waltz fav- ourite, "Stalnetime," sung 'by Georgia 'Day; ,bhe new 'ballad, "'Rain in My (Eyes,", with Art Hallman, and the catchy, "There's Honey IO'n the Moan," with Georgia Day, and the trio doing the vocals. Inspiring Re -union Service While motion .p'i'cture, sound and m'inaature ,camera's in u'nta1d thou's- and's recorded, ,for generations .to Dome, the beautiful and inspiring drumhead 'service of the Canadian 'Corps Association at Riverdale Park, 1Toronto, on Sunday, 'July 311, the 'Canadian Broa'dcastin'g Corporation took great pride in 'being able to transmit the instantaneous soundep'ic ture of this 'historical event to 'the entire Dominion. With Geange Young, himself a veteran of the Great War, and T. 0. Wicklun'd as the ,comment - eters, million's of listeners throughout the nation were informed of the .pro- ceed'in'gs as l0)000 veterans assembled with 100,000 visitors to participate in one of the mast inspiring religious services ever broadcast 'from one part of the Dominion to another. "The Canadian Carps was a unit in the Great War; it is a unit today, and will always !be -a unit, So must Canada and all Canadians be one unit," said Archdeacon Frederick Scott, host famous of Canada's army 'chaplain's, and 'best known •as Canon Scott. During an hour and a'half, 'radio list- eners from .the 'Atlantic to the Pacific took part with the re -united veterans,. end once again a perfect example of one of the purposes of the CBC, Can- ada's own nationwide network, has been .observed: to unite all Canada and all her peoples. General Manager of CBC Speaks The Canadian B'roadcastrng Corp- oration announces that its 'General Manager will spealc over the CDC na- tional network, Wednesday, August 117, 9:30 to 9:45 .p.m. 'EDST. This talk, which is one in a series of periodical broadcasts en'ti'tled, "Chatting with the Listener," will deal with matters of interest to all radio -owners in the Dominion. The Assistant 'General Manager will speak do French over the 'French-Canadian network. Russian Violinist Is Guest Mischa Mischakoff, 'celebrated Rus- sian violinist and concert -master of the 'Chicago Synepihony 'Orchestra, ,who :ranks with the foremost 'violin- ists of the day, will be the assisting artist when a .portion of the 1116th Tor- onto Promenade Symphony Concert is broadcast over combined OBC and NBC networks, 'Tlhersday, August !118, 9 to 10 pen, EDiST, Reginald Stewart alil again .00ndtrct 'the 90 -piece arch- estra, Inn 'addition, 'M•adatne :Jeanne Duseau, ;Canadian •soprano, will he heard in the aria, "Pace Pace Mio Dio," from Verdi's opera, "La Forza del Destino." The orchestra will open 'with Smetana'e .overture to "The Bar- tered Bride," and 'B.ac'h's "Suite in D major No. 13." The violin soloist .and the orchestra will close the 'broadcast ,p'ortio'n of the •oom,cert play- ing Mozart's "Concerto No. 31 in G major." New 'CBC Travel Series Richard Annie, ;Canadian writer, 1•ectue.er, and 'traveller, Who is well- known 'to CBC listeners /or his !prev- ious series, "Lure of the Amble," has inaugurated a new series of travel talks o'n the OBC national network. This series of talks, which com- menced on ,Alugu'st 111, 17L145 to d ,p. m. E'DST, ,will the beatid each Monday up to and 'including .September 15. "In Search of Paris" is the general title of the first dour (broad'ca'sts, with the sub -title, "'Afternoon in ;Penis" on August 1115, and 'Paris by Night" on August 22. On August 129, the author ,will switch from Paris to the Arctic, (buying a `"Ticket to the Western Arc- tic," ,and on Se,p'temlber 5 a "Ticket to the !Eastern Arctic" will be purchased, Mr. Rink will reveal 'that one need pot be an intrepid explorer to see the Arctic nowadays, .and how one may plan a summer vacation in Canada's sub -polar hinterland. Corporation 'Features Day By Day (All Times Eastern Daylight Saving) Thursday, August 1,8: 8 p.m. Sinfonietta, 'direction Alfred Wallenstein, MBS -'CBC international exchange programme, From New York. 9 p.m. Promenade Symphony Con- cert, conducted by Reginald 'Stewart, CDC - 'NB'C international exchange programme. From Toronto, Friday, August19: 8 ,pm, Fantaisie Musicale, with Ga- brielle Bisson, contralto, and Rene Mathieu, tenor. From Quebec. 9 pen. Melodic Strings, .direction Alexander Chuhaldin, From Toronto, .1109115 p.m. Serenade, string trio dir- ection Jean Deslauriers. From Mon- treal. Saturday, August 20: 4:45 pm. 'Musical 'Cocktails, Louise Ring, popular ron,gs, and Snyder and Ross, two piano team. From Toronto. 8 p. m. Bands Across the Sea, strings in swing -time with Dave Dav- ies and 'the R'hythmettes; directed by Percy Faith. GB C -MBS international exchange ;programme. From Toronto, 8:310 p. m. Robin Hood Dell 'Can - .cert, Alfred Wallenstein conduct- ing the Philadelphia Symphony Orc'h.- estra. MBS-OB'C international exch- ange ,programme. From Philadelphia, 110530 pm, Let's All Go to the 'Music Hall, direction George Young, with orchestra, dramatic cast, and soloists, From Toronto, Sunday, August 2111: ? p.m. 'Romance of Sacred Song, ;dramatic interpretations of famous hymns and their origins, written Iby 'Estelle Fox. From Vancouver, 13 ;pm, Eyerybod'y'.'s Music, ;Colum- bia Symphony .Ordhestra conducted by Howard Barlow. 'CBS -CBC inter- national exchange programme, From New 'Yolik, 4 pm. Benay rV'enssta'e Program, .with Syiva Clyde, soprano; Leonard Warren, ,baritone; Pauline Alpert, pianist; Our :Quartet, ,and 'Leo Freud - berg's !Orchestra. MBS -OBC interna- tonal exchange 'programme, 'From New York, 6:30 ,pm, The Band of His Majes- ty's Canadian 'Grenadier Guards, .con- ducted by Captain ,j, J, Gagnier, Iby permission of Lieut. -Col, G. S. Stairs, M.C., V.D„ commanding, 'OBC•+NB'C international .exchange programme, From Montreal, Monday, August 212(: 8 pen. From a Rose Garden•, orch- estra and chorus direction Marjorie Payne. From Halifax. 8:30 p.m. 'Metropolitan 'Cafe, pro- duced Iby P. S. Adkins. Foam Mon- treal. 9 p.m. 'Orson Welles, dramatic ser- ies. CDS-CDC international exchange :programme. ,From New York, Tuesday, August 931: 18:10 p.m. Drama Series, produced by Rupert Cap'l'a'n. From 'Montreal. 9 pelt. 'E'very'body's Hour, wth Jac- ques Gerard, Paris Opera Connique tenor; Helen Landers, ;rhythm singer; 'Caro 'Lamoureux, soprano; Isadore 'Gralnick, ,violinist; Alouettes Quar- tet; and orchestra direction 'Guiseppe Agostini. From Monttread,. 30 p.m. Evening Serenade, wth Jos- eph Victor, tenor, Ernest (D'ain'ty, org- anist, anal Albert Pratz, .violinist. From Toronto. Wednesday, August 1214: 9 pm. Riding Mountain National 'Park, compo'si'te sound picture by CBC mobile unit. From'! Winnipeg, 10 ,pan. Symphonic Strings, direc- tion Alined !Wallenstein. MiBS-CBC international exchange programme, From New York. PLAY IT YOURSELF "'Dd like to play a musical instru- ment," I've heard people say, "but I 'just can't find time and energy in this w'or'kaday world ,to study and practice," That's about as sensible as squelching your urge to sing in the shower because you've never had any vocal training, For the instruments you can pick up and play, right off, are so numerous that anybody who wants to .play, can play. Somehow, we Americans got off on the wrong foot in aur approacih to musical in- struction. We got the idea that music was highbrow, and h+ad our children tackle the most difficult instruments first. Johnny and 'Bab'le either play- ed the violin or piano or they didn't play—and heaven knows how many thousands were scared away from =tic 'because of the technical prob- lems, and how much pleasure they last thereby. Why not start with in- struments so simple they can be play- ed almost on sight,' get the thrill of it, and then ,go on Men have always made music to relieve thenselves of sorrow and frustration, and to express their joy. Merely listening to it was a later development, not so basic, or so personal Just to ,get the feel of it, take a light, fine -•toothed comb, cover it with tissue paper and hum through it. Don't laugh. No less a musician than Franz Schubert played the musical 'com'b, and so did Mozart. Paul 'Whiteman: thought enough .of it to e Are Selling Quality Books Books are Well Made, Carbon is Clean and Copies Readily. All styles, Carbon Leaf and Black Back. Prices as Low as You Can Get Anywhere. Get our Quotation on Your Next Order. feattire it over the air, and other .fam- ous 'bands have featured kazoos, jews- harps, and 'ju'gs. With .comb' or kazoo, meoidy, at least, is yours as truly as if you were a trained organist, Maybe you're the kind of person who can't carry a tune, In that case, your field is rhythm, and you'd do well to provide yourself with a snare drum and a set of traps. If that's boo expensive,a cheap drumhead stretch- ed over a wooden' chopping 'bowl makes an excellent ,percussion instru- ment. Kitchen utensils, arms and legs of theirs sometimes yield remark- able sound values as traps. Accom'p- anyin'g a radio band with your own traps and drum is a peculiarly satisfy- ing brand of musical expression, 'While in the percussion group, you can add tune to your tapping by means of the xylophone, a noble in- strument 'which dates back to 2.131517 B.C., and which was loved and play- ed by 'Confucius. Its essentials are easily mastered, On every hand you'll find arresting tonal possibilities. Suspend flower pots of various sizes from the holes in their 'bottoms and you have a set of !bells. Any tone in the full chromatic scale can 'be had with an ordinary 'carpenter's saw. Hold bhe handle be- tween your knees, teeth toward you, curve the saw down, holding it lightly 'between thumb and forefinger to allow 'full vibration, and strike with a mallet. With a little experi- menting, you can play all the tunes you know with pleasing effect. You can get really delightful music from a set of drinking glasses. This music was once quite fashionable, Ben Franklin became so enamored of the music of the glasses that he in- vented a device to simplify the play- ing of them. Both Mozart and Bee- thoven wrote music for his instru- ment, and a 'blind virtuoso once en- t'hrailed old Vienna with its music, Leopold Godowsky played the glasses by rubbing their edges with mcist fingertips. Tapping them is easier. You tune them by pouring water into them; as the water rises, the pitch descends. But unless you're strong for exper- iment, you're better off with a ready- made instrument. In the wind group we find the flageolet, fife, ocarina and song whistle, any of which you nego- tiate with a little practice. If the fife is too shrill for your musical tastes, try the round tone of the ocarina, or the haunting note of the song whistle which operates with a slide in the manner of the trombone. You can pick up a playable fife for as little as a 'quarter, and the other instruments in this group won't stand you a great deal more. If it's strings you like, consider the ukulele. You can learn half a dozen chords from the free instruc- tion book in an evening, and you're ready to cash in on the enjoy- ment of it. The ukulele is ideal for a chordal accompaniment to singing', and it's an easy stepping -stone to that uniquely satisfying instrument, the guitar. May Singhi Breen, fanned exponent of the ukulele, once had an amateur orchestra of 11715 ukuleles, The effects they achieved drew ad- miring compliments from Damrosch himself, Yet as `a starter, May claims that anyone can learn the two -chord accompaniment to "It Ain't Gonna Rain eNo More" in five minutes. And finally there's our ,beloved har- monica, the most amazingly complete, most 'compact instrument made; in- strument of Lincoln, _Coolidge, Hoo- ver, F. P. A, Irving Berlin—and of every musical newsboy. It. is .possible to play melody and harmony on it, or melody alone; it can be made to yield rich, gratifying chords—and this mir- acle of instrument making is your, complete with instructions, for 50s at any notion store. 'The foremost apostle of the har- monica is Bvrrah Minevitch, a form- er Boston newsboy. As a boy, he attracted trade .vith his • harmonica music. Later, at City College of New Vorlc, he flunked a course in junior English, but was told his credits would he restored if he could produce an intelligent thesis. He chose as his subject the pedigree and possibilities of the harmonica. This awakened him to the rea !worth of his instru- ment, and he began to raise it out of the nondescript class. He later played the harmonica in vaudeville,' and was inspired by the newly invented chro- matic harmonica to pioneer the field. Dentists recommend,Wriglers Gum as an aid to strong, healthy teeth, cleanses them of food par - tides, massages the gums. Aidsdi- gestion, relieves stuffy feeling after meals. Helps keep you healthy! Take some home for the children too —they will love it: csas AkAAAAAALAAAA Returning fro( a year's tour of Eur- ope, urope, he organized some of his ragged 'followers into a ,great 'harmonica or- chestra. None of the 'boys he recruit- ed knew anything about music. Some were homeless waifs, - and all were pitifully poor. Yet Minevibch and his hand now play from Bach to 'Kern, and have played it all the way from Me Metropolitan 'Opera House in New York to Queen's Hall fn 'Lond'on. No, it isn't necessary to 'have long, arduous training to know the essent- ial joy of snaking your own music. Mastery of one of these simple in- struments may inspire you to go on, until you can sample the thrill of reading and interpreting one of the ;greatest masters, If so, you will have added a rare pleasure to your sum total of living. If not, your little ven- ture will have been deeply satisfying in itself. You'll swap tunes with your friends, come to know some of the songs, chants, ditties, limericks and ballads that make the literature of American folk music one of the rich- est in the world. What's more, you'll' have played them yourself; you'll have 'become a musician, DIGGING Hard work means nothing to a hen. She just keeps an digging worms and laying eggs, regardless of what the business prognosticators say about the outlook for this or any other year. If the .ground is hard; she scratches harder. If its dry, she digs deeper. I'2 it's wet, she digs where it's -dry. If she strikes a rock, she works around it. I'f she gets a few more hours 'of daylight, she gives us a few more eggs. But always she digs up worms and turns them into hard -shelled profits as well as tender, profitable broilers. Did you ever see a pessimistic hen Did you ever hear of one starving to death waiting for worms to dig themselves to the surface? Did you ever hear one cackle 'be- cause work was hard? Net on your life. They save their breath for digging and their cackles for eggs, FROZEN ASSETS , Thousands of years ago, retreating northward with the ice, the mam- moths of Europe and Asia made a last stand in Siberia. Countless num- bers bogged down in the soft, icy marshes, were frozen in the unthaw- ing soil. They are occasionally dis- covered now, perfectly preserved dor more than 11'0,4'00 years in nature's refrigerator; the hide, hair, flesh, even the remains of undigested steals in their stomach; bunches of moss, grass, sedges and wild thyme en - chewed in their mouths. Siberian far- mers 'cut off chunks of the red flesh to feed their dogs.—Literary Digest. Office Boy—There's a lady out- side to see you. sir, Boss—Tell her I'm engaged. 'Office Boy — That's what she's mine to see you about. She claims you were to have married her to -tray. Jones -I say, waiter, here's a dn•llar. Waiter—Thank you, sir. I suppose you want nie to reserve a table for you. Jones --No, I don't. I shall come in here in about ten mhnites' time with two ladies, and I want you to tell nee that all the tables ere engaged, "He plays ,better than he sings." "Oh, have you heard hint play?" 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