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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1965)
For Homecoming Borge to Entertain: Merriment and Mischief Famed pianist-humorist. Victor Borge. will be the featured enter tainment attracion during Home coming weekend when he presents his show. “Comedy in Music." in Mac Court at 8 p.m., Oct 30, as part of the Homecoming concert dance. Tickets for the show and dance are now on sale at the main desk of the SU. 25 Years The 1965-66 season marks the 25th anniversary of Borge's ar ltval in the U S. in 1941, a ref ugee from the Nazi occupation, and it is the twelfth season that he has been touring with his fa mous show, which has scored rave notices in both Europe and Amer ica. Borge is best known as a su perb comedian. However, he is also a brilliant musician and he knows and loves good music pas sionately. After touring as a one-man show for many years. Borge add ed Leonid Hambro, former offi cial pianist with the New York Philharmonic orchestra, to his show last season after he had suddenly conceived a new idea —how very, very funny it would be if he had a foil, a stooge oft whom he could bounce his witti cisms and who could aid him in his musical pranks. Borge was right. His instrumental involve ments on stage with Mr. Hambro have been aptly dubbed as “hilari ous piano duels." Classic Comedy The story of how Victor Borge first combined his artistry with wit is now a legend in show busi ness. At fourteen, the young pi anist was given the honor of play ing Rachmaninoff’s "Second Pi ano Concerto" as soloist with the Copenhagen Philharmonic Or chestra. When he winked at two nervous ladies in the first row. the audience began to titter. As a result the conductor nervously accelerated his beat, causing the orchestra to run ahead of the soloist. Borge. in the middle of a cadenze, stopped playing, walked to the conductor’s stand, turned the score back three pages, bowed to the orchestra, and winking to the audience, walked back to the piano. The concerto continued UNITED STATES For further information contact Coast Guard officer in the Student Union Building be tween 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 22, 1965. Want to really get results?— Use Emerald Classified Ads— Phone 342-1411, Ext. 1818. and ended in a wave of laughter and cheers. He integrated more and more humor into his concerts, then wrote musical comedies, com posed, directed and conducted. When the star comedian of one of these musicals fell ill, Borge replaced him and another chap ter in a fabulous career was writ ten. Borge became the idol of Denmark and the leading star of stage and screen. Recently when Borge was touring Denmark he found that many of his old films were still being played in movie houses throughout the country twenty-five years later. Tough Times Arriving in the United States1 in 1941, broke and unable to speak English, he lived for the next year on 25 cents a day. most of w-hich were spent in movie houses where he went daily to listen and learn to speak Eng lish. After being a movie star in Denmark, it seemed natural to head for Hollywood, but the stu dio Kates did not swing open It was long months of living on 25 cents a day before he got his big break when he played for a pri vate party and was hired on the spot to do the audience warm up on the Bing Crosby radio show Hired on a week-to-wcek basis, Borge remained on the show for 56 weeks. From then on. success followed success as Borge play ed radio and television engage ments. Solo Record In 1953 Borge hired a theater in Seattle for a one week’s con cert engagement of his one-man show. Both critics and the man ager were skeptical that a solo show could make a hit with the concert-going public, and the manager demanded his money in advance. 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