Winnipeg Free Press

Friday, November 25, 1949

Issue date: Friday, November 25, 1949
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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 25, 1949, Winnipeg, Manitoba Page 2 Winnipeg free press Friday november 25, 1943 Bernard Shaw refused main. He won t allow one of his 1934 speeches to be used in the founds of time a 45-minute record history of the last 15 years now being made in London. Voices of the King the Duke of Windsor president Roosevelt Winston Chur chill Viscount Louis Mountbatten and Viscount Bernard Law Mont Gomery will be heard in the sound chronicle but not Shaw s. I in 34 years Lockwood cemetery in Sydney aug Uralta Rev. Richard Todd has Laid a City to rest. He believes no Man on Earth can top his record of funerals. He has buried people of every religious denomination never used a fee and never refused Aid to anyone. One Day last month his sight failing fast and his heart in bad shape the 83-year-old minister read his last burial service. General Jan Smuts South african opposition Leader told a press conference thursday he was afraid the uni Ted nations was trying to do too much. We must rot run too he said. I think we shall have to get there by Steps. The Smuts league of nations failed because it attempted too much. Mankind is too Large a unit to a dutch sculptor Wyn Verbon preparing a one Man show in Lon Don Cut Down the exhibits 30 per cent. With a Hammer he said thursday. The wide Stein gallery was expecting 10 pieces but at the last minute Verbon decided he did t like three of them a Terra Cotta figure of Europa and the Bull a male Torso and a Bas Relief and took his Mallet to them. I decided they would not do me any Good with the 27-year old sculptor explained. Canada s Federal department of Public works was asked to turn optician or possibly sculptor in the House of commons at Ottawa thursday. The Job at hand is a repair to the glasses of sir John a. Macdonald one of the fathers of confederation and Canada s first prime minister. J. F. Pouliot Liberal ., said sir John in his Monument on parliament Hill was now holding a monocle instead of the original Pince Nez. That rep resents an historical he added. A visitor to Ottawa was presented thursday night with a picture of himself an an other Man autographed from gunner Claxton to private the photograph was of Hon. Brooke Claxton. Minister of defence and Field marshal sir William slim chief of the British Imperial general staff. The autograph referred to the ranks with which the two men out in world War one. Worn. Line whose Baron Etcy dated Back to 1661, we found shot to death thursday in the bed room of his Mayfair Home. There wan no suspicion of foul play despatches from London said. A conservative In Britain Walter Fletcher thursday warned London merchants against competitive economic resurgence in Japan and Germany and urged control of raw materials and marketing cartels to prevent goods dumping. Or. Fletcher who is also a rubber merchant charged that Gen. Doug Las Macarthur whom he called the pseudo Mikado had created one of the most dangerous forms of streamlined modern dumping machines in Japan. An Anonymous baby Sitter in High Wycombe Buckinghamshire England recently charged for staying with the children of a Young couple. They did t hire him. He broke in after they had gone out for the evening leaving their two year and eight month old Chil Dren sleeping alone in the House. When they returned they found a note i be had my Eye on you for a Long time. Tonight i be acted As Sitter in with the children and have taken my pay. You Are Lucky i never took the marshal Tito said thursday in Belgrade that he Hotd All differences Between the roman Catholic Church and the yugoslav state would be mutually the statement is believed to be in tended to soften Tito s refusal to release Arch Bishop Alois Stepinac of Zagreb now Servin. Tito a Man who wanted steel helmets for the siamese army advertised in the classifieds. Be lore the week was out he had been offered Eric mall free in Sydney Australia after completing a business tour South East Asia commented think of communist infiltration in China then look at Siam s position on the . That is the Story of the tin Alaska was bought by the United states from Russia in 1s67 for or about two cents an acre. It has so far yielded two thirds a billion dollars Worth of Gold and millions in other metals. The fourth year a in year tence following his conviction on charges of collaboration with the nazis. More than pilgrims have visited Lourdes France far this year or about More than in 1948, a cording1 to a report from Lourdes town Hall. Of these about were sick Pil grims who had to be carried to the shrine on stretchers. The old tradition that a True Scot wears nothing under his Kilt was exploded thursday by no less an expert than the King s Kilt maker. W. J. Kinloch Anderson of Edinburgh visiting Ottawa said there was no longer any truth to the Story. He added that the Kilt was a real he Man dress and that women should t Wear it. As to what a Scot wears under his shorts of course. Doctors have found music a help in treating mental illness heart disease and a number of other ail ments according to a report in Hygeia publication of the Ameri can medical association. The music apparently has a soothing effect and takes the patients minds off their troubles sirs. Doris Paul Musi Cian of East Lansing mich., said in an article. Some hospitals Are playing music in operating rooms and rooms where patients Are pre pared for surgery. Superb performance Nelsova and orchestra exciting musical event thursday evening a one of those occasions in which the Only thing for a critic to do was to throw his hat into the air cry and hurry Back to his typewriter to Click off super la lives. A great cellist came to town to play a great concerto with the Winnipeg symphony orchestra and it proved to be an event which was nothing Short of exciting. Zara Nelsova has More than justified the High Hope which the City has Felt for her and the year old orchestra under the direction of Walter Kaufmann has graduated to the status of a very Fine aggregation. There is not one feeling of reservation about thursday night s concert in the civic auditorium. It was Superb. An Earnest seeker for blemishes could have found some but he would have been hard pressed in the face of the Over All excellence of the performance. The vibrant dramatic feeling at the opening of the Dvorak con Certo for violoncello and orches tra in b minor aroused a feeling of excitement in the audience and the Entrance of the Solo instrument fanned it into a flame. Gorgeous tone miss Nelsova has a gorgeous big tone and she surmount technical problems with soaring ease. What Ives her work such individuality however is the intensely dramatic Quality which she brings to every thing. Her tone sings out in mood of rapt concentration. Nothing could have been warmer than the Way in which she caressed the ovely Melody of the first move ment with its plaintive overtones. In the second movement the tone was sculptured in its loveliness All the lines curved. The third movement marched surely arid rapturously to its finale. She could not have asked for Iner support than she got from the orchestra. The balance was excellent and the Solo instrument out As it should against the Rich texture of the orchestration. Or. Kaufmann s Affinity with the score his Majestic Conception of to Broad Canvas welded it All to Gether into a proud achievement. The Dvorak was the Peak but the rest of the pro gramme which included men Delsohn s Fingal g Cave Over Ture the symphony in d major of Haydn and Aaron cop land s quiet City was Fine in deed. The Mendelssohn proved conclusively just How far the musicians have marched along the Road to excellence As a Well knit ensemble the bumps which have marred smooth phrasing have been smoothed out and uncertainty in Solo passages is disappearing. The sonorities of the work were Beau ii ully adjusted. The Haydn playing was All Grace and Charm but the nostalgia and he depth which make it so affecting was not forgotten. As an Deal of Haydn performance an orchestra of half the size would be preferred but or. Kaufmann s kill kept undue heaviness out of at Home with Copland quiet City found the orchestra site at Home in the idiom of Aaron Copland. Or. 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Miss Nelsova answer i the wave of hand clapping with a performance of or. Kaufmann s recently completed Nocturne for cello and orchestra sad Noble Melody. Then came a performance of the Prokofieff March for children. What a concert it the Christmas Jerry or califor Nia Holly is a Shrub found chiefly in the Chaparral area of the Sierra Nevada mountains of Cali fornia. Air. Dentist ind Assoc Iitto 2nd floor Tim i bloc. Corner and phone 92s 319 Winnie of Brandon office Security bldg., 1 oth St. Buy fur Nasman stokers Oil burners and air conditioning furnaces a fur Nasman automatic Oil Burner will give you and your family Carefree heating satisfaction for years to Corne. The fur Nasman Domestic Stoker outsells All ethers in Western Canada. Over in greater Winnipeg alone. Air conditioning furnaces available for immediate delivery. Phone 42 sos for a free Survey or visit the factory showroom 635 Pembina Highway evenings Call Clyde Carrie 41 743 r. Wadding on 204240 r. R. 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