The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 4, 1947, Page 8

FAGE SIX 1947 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, (Every musically ambitious ‘American as well as scores of young hopefuls abroad, have hitched their wagons to the star of Carnegie Hall. Among them are the world’s future artists like Lily Pons and Rise Stevens, Harry James and Artur Rubinstein. These . current headliners too once looked to the Hall as their promised land — a land they have now reached with their gwn recitals and their collective appearance in Boris Morros’ “Carnegie Hall,” the greatest concert ever filmed. In this series, these artists describe their glory road to Carnegie Hall.) incan- | (Third of a Series) by RISE STEVENS A concert in Carnegie Hall has been the hallmark of the great artist since the Hall opened in 1891. And every ambi- singer and conductor works to achieve that honor from the day his or her intention to make a ¢ i music becomes crystallized. But to appear in Carne, too soon in your musical developmeyt becomes | YODAY IN HISTORY , >) (Know America) | M4 1781—Los Angeles founded by Of Tail Pull 4 ° e peninsula—of mixed Indian, Afri- In Fish Life can and Spanish blood, iu ‘Richard Somers, U.S.N., 26, who Oe Sowetaes led a little band into Tripoli Har- an apparent tail-pulling yio4e powder ship and block har- which is “camouflaged” to bor—all die when, powder ex- ed in Nature, British science |" jgg9\dison turns on New magazine. York City power station, lighting | in Avica, and has a file-like band world to be lighted by of sharp teeth in each jaw, said descent lamps. British Museum of Natural His- aviation gas arrives in Russia. tory, London. But it has a color; 1942—Germans at the gates’ of on its baek, just like more numer-| }943_U, S.-British troops in- ous fish of a different species. | yading Italy push down towards vothed fish, Trewavas said, were| 1944—U. S. Ist Army in Bel-; vind seales éxactly like those on gium reaches the German border. | ike teeth apparently rasp ‘over Wake Island. ! 1946—New York truck strike Stran e ale ge Tal some dozen settlers from nearby 1804—Heroic exploit of Capt. N 9 ingge OEE To hiya bor, then at war with us, to ex- « neak upon its victims, is describ- | 1G Gos, This fish lives in Lake. Nyasa some 400 lamps—first city in the Pthellwyan Trewavas of the 1941—First U. S. tanker with pattern of vertical black bands gtajingrad. In the stomachs of thsee sharp- the: “toe”. ” tail fins of the other fish. The} 1945—U. S. flag raised again, spreads to New Jersey. ie Hall great a ; ua iit T sang “Mignon” at the Met and went on to sing with the San cisco, Se 1 Com les. peck T sa y Carmen” at the Met and my renin, were, well worth iting and working for. be Yost Hollywood invited me again. I went to the coast to make “The Chocolate Soldier”. You know, not only did o unity repeat itself, history did too. f was singing “The Chocolate Sol- dier” when the first movie scout approached me, to be turned down. My last picture was opposite Bing Crosby in “Going My Way”. The name, Carnegie Hall, is @ musical trademark identifying the greatest in musio. and the best in artists who interpi it. In the Boris Morros and liam LeBaron production. it was a thrill not enly for me to have a share in bringing WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 3, 1947 | pearing there at all. (Know America } o nite I have been convinced of that | 1783—The Definitive Treaty of since I was 17. Today, after several Peace ending the American Rev- performances there in person and olution signed in Pa the great thrill of appearing in the United States and Britain. United Artists film, “Carnegie 1916—President Wilson Hall”, which brings the Hall and WH Adamschih.hoceecenh what ‘it stands for to musical and Protos one OLS aE: | non-musical Americans, near and 1918—American steamer Frank | far from Manhattan, I know I was H. Buck sinks German sub by} right. gunfire in the Atlantic. | Lots of people thought I was 1918—Draft roundup in New dreadfully conceited, not to say York City nets 1,000 draft dodg- crazy, to turn down the offers I got 2 ers: i after I starred in the Opera Com- scales off the fin, but the victim ¢TS. | 5 jaSee | ique at the Heckscher Theatre in fish can pull its tail free from the | 1925—U.S.N. dirigible Shenan- New York, That was when I was closed paws without other dam- ;doah torn to pieces by thunder | 17. (I started singing at 10 on one ge. Ii seems, Trewavas said, squall over Ava, Ohi of Milton Cross’s early local pro- that the fish specializes in this 1936—Representatives from 32/| Pita cele ae tammy aa iricteeag curious diet of se countries ‘begin an © unofficial fpeard’ ine. aud offered to teach me. Moreover, he said, its color ; “rd conference. | That offer I accepted. And when may kings would enable it to swim | 1940—President Roosevelt's an- | the Julliard School of Music gave unnoticed in a school of its vic-|"0UNcement to Congress that’ 50 me a three-year scholarship, I ac- . . i ; mm |Overage destroyers were to ‘be oar Rey MIMICS net ted fon, baaee in New: World's 4 |British pot cepted that too. But when the Metropolitan Opera . 1939—Britain and France de- TODAY’S clare war on Germany. | Company offered me a contract and some movie scouts urged me ipicemeite Bone no. PAE 1 - | n wasn’t ready and I didn’t want ANNIVERSARIES | 1943—Italians sign secret mili- | to jeopardize my chances for a Know America itary armistice in Sicily. [e i v " 4 B Saute 1944—The Allies enter Brussels, 1793-Edward Bates, St. Louis poigium, | SOO eT eT tomy. | 1945—The British take over Sate uncer Va Di a Me ‘ch | Singapore again. | coypeige Co., Va. Died March; j946AFL seamen call for a 1796—Charles Foller, German see a lala liberal who had to flee his ¢oun- | iry, Harvard's first professor of ee ee ant m German “literature, Unitarian! Ben is being taught to address a ss “eee te ‘oq his parents as “Father” and | yap Rag srry born, Died |usother,” ‘instead: of the former | 1802—-Marcus Whitman, medical infant prattle of “Daddy” and , missionary-pioneer, who helped | “Mommy.” 4 lay the foundations of Idaho, Ore-| One night he, was saying gon and Washington, borh . at|Prayers and had just followed his, Russville N.Y. - Killed by In-|Usual practice of saying, “Lord dians, Nov, 28, 1847. bless Daddy and Mommy,” when 1846—Daniel H. Burnham, the he suddenly paused and in a famed Chicago architect, pioneer Most solemn, respectful manner, signs Change In Name Only | For two months or more re: |dents of a segtion of Gulf Coast fro! tragedy in retrospect as never ap- = TOO LATE TO | CLASSIFY By RUSSELL KAY si- kiling all manner of sea life, en- Florida’s dangering swimmers Fort Myers! to vicious embrace, making homes |Tarpon Springs have been pla- untenable, and ;gued with a mysterious so-called public health. long-term singing career and — not one but several sing for audi too much publi ces and not enough time for id enter the Metropolitan Auditions of the mostly to test_ my own reach the ser should have the great in yourself and your voic at immediate T had faith in my voice — morrow, not — but T also had faith in the se of the old adage that oppor- tunity knocks but once, If I were Actually I did appear on the stage of Carnegie Hall in 1935, just when I was shocking my family singers who performed B Minor Mass with Albert Stoessel. and the New York Phil- harmonic Orchestra, To me, though, this was not the caught in its threatening the 'the money spent by the govern- ment in state and federal bureaus for public welfare and conserv: ition, that the scientists and au- thorities at their command are Off Stage. Rise Stevens and cellist Gregor Piatigorsky in a between- scenes tete-a- tete. On Stage. Rise Stevens sings “Seguidilla” from “ in * gie E movie audiences this music along very glad it was at the Prague Opera House because it was in Prague that I met my husband, Walter Surovy. After that I sang bu in Vienna, Egypt and Buenos Aires and when I came back to America, arti opportunity knocked again. goal T was working toward. It was an inspiration for future work. so that some day I could reappear there, as I di n the motion pic- ture, “Carnegie Hall”, on my own, — greatest Carmens of her day. ‘After I reached the semi-finals In 1937 T finally made in the Met Auditions, I went to in the title role of “) Izburg to study with . Maria Gutheil-Schoder who the original Octavian in “Der Rosenkaval and one of the with the tide have experienced to operate a boat without a li- residentsu of the afflicted area skin eruptions simil. from poison gas according to at- vent the wholesale destruction of ,;who have seen their tending physicians. None of the mijlions of dollar cases has proven of a si nature although several were confined to hospitals for treatment. Recognizing the daw ‘Coast, Me ger, officials of Gulf Coast com- ;munities in the infected are |mediately placed a ban on bath- ‘ing as well as fishing. r to burns cense, but can do nothing to pre-:and the commercial fishermen business worth of fish ‘ruined through no fault of their , and a condition that therat- Own. to wipe out the commercial | A famulinn method for treating ing Interests. of the West a: rust “atau i iacto sprinkle the tain with salt, squeeze lemon uice over it, and spread it in the un to dry. Add more lemon ious ns Maybe they couldn't do any thing about it the first week, o1 ‘a im- that two months have gone by ' show. the situation continually grows ; worse, it seems htat something | could be done for the sufferin; It seems strange that with all history, “ in city planning, who refused pay- offered the following revision: ment for public work—and he did much—born at Henderson, N. ¥. Died June 1, 1912. 1866—Simon Lake, naval archi- tect, inventor of the modern sub- marine, born Pleasantville, N. J. Died Bridgeport, Conn., June 23, 1945. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 3, 1947 (Know America 1#11—John H. Noves, founder of the Oneida, N. Y., Community, the Bible Communists’ social-eco- “Excuse me, Lord, have said Father and Mother.” He paused, still a little trou- bled, and then added: “But, Lor they are the same old parties. Fish salads are an excelle: luncheon suggestion. Boiled cod and haddock, packed into a to- I should rd, nt mato or green pepper cup, make an appetizing and tempting dish for a warm day. economical salad. A salad of crabmeat, sal- |mon, tuna or halibut, makes a “red tide” that has killed and continues to kill millions of fish, casting their stinking bloated carcasses on the beaches. It has caused damage estimat- jed in the* millions from loss of jsummer tour trade at beach ‘resorts and has put commercial fishermen out of business. In desperation, docal residents have turned to state, county and federal government for help, but despite the millions of tax- payers’ money spent annually for |the maintenance of bureaus, bds., | While no one seems to know 'the answer, scientists offer their pet explanations to the cause jof the tide. They say that min- ute organisms which have devel- oped in the water, attach them- selves to the gills of fish and smother them to death by pre- venting their breathing. Others blame it upon residue from streams and rivers washed into the waters of the Gulf or say it is caused by an over abundance of fresh water. Many hold the opin- sy ‘unable to offer any real help in, WORK Is Our PLEASURE, ' this emergency. | and We Love It— H j | While these governmental ag- | WETHER IT’S SMALL or LARGE | When OPEN—I?’s encies are efficient when it comes |STRETCHING your money is our! When CLOSED—I?’s ‘to collecting fees and dues and /motto. Rich or poor, we guaran- lare not a bit bashful when it {tee to make it go further—whether | comes to asking congress or the jit is for YOUR CAR or YOUR} legislature for increased budgets, |SSTOMACH. i they appear absolutely helple ~ . jin the face of a situation that is Fone 1178, Day or Night ireally serious and cals for quick | JA 7 d SHI E and decisive action. They can! 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Phone for FREE Estimate ion that poison gas containers nomic, experiment, in 1848, born at . adelphia. and commissions set up in the dropped in Gulf waters by | at Brattleboro, Vt. Died Jan. 13, 1855. 1427—John Drew, famed actor, 0 ere, Nov. 18, : ey Ot ool folic welfare he’ State Conser- larry have poisoned ihe waters 1849—Sarah Orne Jewett, popu- vation Department, the Federal It is known that quantities of gas father of a noted American stage lar Maine novelist of her day, Bureau of Fisheries, the state bd. were disposed of in this manner fomily, born in Ireland. Died in, born at South Berwick, Maine.|of Health, the Department of but Army officials that it Philadelphia, May 21, 1862. |Died there, June 24, 1909. Fishoand Wildlife’ Conservation ‘could not be the cause, i —John E. W. Keely, who, 1856—Louis H. Sullivan, famed and several others, none of these | Analysis of both samples of excited much attention for a gen- | Chicago architect, builder of sky- agencies has so far been able to!the water and of’ the dead Yish eration by announcing a new \scrapers, father of modernism in joffer a solution to the problem hown traces of arsenic and, ice in meeting |g enic is one Of thé elements \the emergency. ‘employed in the manufacture of ~~ |_ Handicaped with lack of funds |Lewisite and other gases, this AMERICANS and limited as to equipment with ‘fact seems to strengthen the be- | physical force, one of the great architecture, born in Boston. Died ,or give any se imposters in history, born in Phil- April 14, 1924. HOMES FOR |which to work, County Boards !jies that there might be justifi- | have done everything possil He to | cation for the gas theory. | ib poee Ore tie) 008 OF sedutlely © na thers in/Gulf waters infected cast upon the beaches, but the | 5 Hvee H jarea affected is so vast and the problem so difficult that the ef-! fort has been little more’than a | ,token compared to the gigantic ;bureau officials but nothing con- |erete in the way of assistance or in finding a solution to the | problem. | | Professors from the University | of Tampa and University of Mi- | jami as well as officials of the |Federal Bureau of Fisheries have | ibeen making investigatidns. 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