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
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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. The performance was
jammed night after night and
Borge took his show on to Broad
way where, with 849 performan
ces he had the longest solo run
in the history of the theatre —
in the entire world.
if she doesn’t give it to you...
— get it yourself!
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