Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, November 14, 1958, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextI Nik. . S MAIL TRIBUNE, Madfonf, Oregon, Friday, November 14, 1958 Noted Soprano, 'Met' Manager May Make Peace Br CLAIRE COX United Press International New York - (UPD - Soprano Maria Callas, admitting her dismissal from the Metropoli tan Opera had left her with out a single operatic engage ment his season, left the door unlatched today for a peace offering from the impresario who fired her. Miss Callas indicated that Met General Manager Rudolf Bing would have to make the first move to soothe her ruff led feelings, and it appeared that such a step was being taken bv a Chicazo booking gent skilled at dealing with temperament artists. Harry Zelzer, head of the Allied Arts corporation, said he would meet in New York today with Miss Callas, whom he termed "a little tigress. She denied at a press con ference Tuesday night that he had any plan to see Zel zer, who already has confer red with her and Bing sepa rately once before. "I feel that this is none of anybody's business except mine and Mr. Bing," she said. The Brooklyn-'born soprano called the news conference, she said, just to "drink a toart" with reporters who have been writing about her durine this difficult period. But then she proceeded to regale them with a rehash of her now-celebrated battle with Bing, who fired her summarily last week while she was in Dallas. Miss Callas began by say ing she absolutely would not return to Bing s operatic lam ily. Then she hedeed. She said she could not make anv such firm committr ment as stating flatly that she would not return to tne iviei, where Bing recently signed a new five-year contract. "I'm afraid that certain iatements of Mr. Bing have cloned anv little door to that," he first said. "He's made .many statements that hurt . more than the cancelation ot my contract, statements that no artist deserves." When the matter was press ed, she refused to say any thing flatly. "You can never tell what happens in life," she said. . . Best Meat Buys Include Pork, Lamb, Poultry By WILLIAM T. PLUNKETT T7PI Commodity Editor New York - (UPD - Lamb gambols to a contender posi tion with pork and poultry in the "best buy" group for the week end food shopper. Red meat eaters will find attractive price tags on steaks, along with round, rib and chuck roast in some stores, supermarket mer chants indicated today. Lamb specials rack up to include: leg and shoulder roast; loin, rib and shoulder . chops, along with shank and breast portions. Broilers continue a rela tively best buy in a wide poultry selection which in cludes; rock cornish hens, roasting and stewing chick ens, fryers and chicken parts. The retailer line-up in pork specials include: rib and roast, fresh picnic hams, fresh pork shoulder, bacon, sausage meat and sausage links. . Pork marketings are Hear ing their fall peak with sup plies about equal to last year. Further minor declines can be expected on some pork cuts, market experts indicat ed. Fish eaters will find an extra-abundant supply on wide variety of items. Fish prices are "reasonable" dis tributors said because sup pliers have been accumulat ing recently while the popu lar consumer taste switched to meat and other goods. Biggest supply items this week: cod, flounder, whiting and butterfish. Plentiful - hake, pollack, striped bass, lemon sole and grey sole, porgies, mackerel, bluefish, red snapper, striped bass, along with oysters, crabmeat and shrimp in the shellfish eroun. The Fishery council report ed an extra-good fresh water supply, including whiteiish yellow pike along with some Lake Erie smelts, carp and mullet. Egg production is on the upswing, with supplies ex pected to exceed last year by about five per cent over the next few months. Prices are several cents a dozen below a year ago level and generally the lowest in tour years Additional moderate decline may be expected, according to Roger Murphy, economist in food marketing witn tne ew York State Extension Serv ice. m miVrarav svstem in New lilc J York includes about 200 miles Opc Unit Has Lesson ; ! On Entertaining; en Session Set Laka Creek A lesson on "improving ourselves as host esses" was given at the last meeting of Lake Creek Exten sion unit, held at the home of Mrs. Grace Haskias, Eagle Point. Three guests present were Mrs. John Mize, Mrs. M. L. Bever and Mrs. Merton Bradshaw. Mrs. Howard Blair, Lake Creek, is a new member of the unit. Leaders for the project were Mrs. Joseph Arens and Mrs. Leland M. Charley. Mrs. Arens displayed correct flow ers and dishes for a formal dinner, and suggestions were given on tasks which may be done the day before the party. To show the correct procedure for greeting guests, seating of guests, and serving, '. films were shown. Mrs. Bradshaw loaned a projector for this part of the program. Mrs. Charley reported on a civil defense meeting which she attended in Medford. Gen eral Joseph Hicks, Jackson county civil defense coordina tor, spoke and displayed new equipment used to detect atomic fallout. Mrs. Charley also spoke of the coming Oregon centennial celebration, and asked mem bers to consider forming dis cussion groups for the Great Decisions program which will start in the county in January. November 12 the unit held a workshop on tin can craft at the home of Mrs. Ernest Burrell. An open meeting is planned for December. Additional in struction on the making of toys will be given, and the traditional gift exchange will be held. Those attending are asked to" take a sample of their favorite cooky, and the recipe. This meeting will also be held at the Burrell home. Holiday Dance Planned by Club Hilltoppers Square Dance club announces a Thanksgiv ing dance to be held Satur day, November 15, at the Old Wagner Creek school. Dancing starts at 8:30 p.m. and all square dancers are invited. Refreshments will be home made ice cream and pie served by the club. Francis Cronin and guest callers will call the squares. Concert Slated For Portland Portland Nan Merriman, mezzo-soprano of the San Francisco and Glyndebourne Opera companies, and Albert DaCosta, Metropolitan Opera tenor, are slated to appear with the Portland Symphony orchestra, Theadore Bloom field conducting, . November 17 at the Auditorium. Fea tured work will be Mahler's "Das Lied von der Erde." This summer Miss Merri man made her tour of South America then went on her an nual European concert trip. With her American appear ances plus a heavy recording schedule Miss Merriman is one of the country's most popular singing artists. Albert DaCosta has been equally successful in concert and with orchestra and is con sidered a dynamic new per sonality, combining a remark able voice with a high degree of artistry and dramatic fa cility. The two soloists are particu larly adapted to do the singing of "Song of the Earth", Mah ler's greatest work. The or chestral accompaniment is of symphonic proportions de manding voices of authority. Based on old Chinese poems, the work consists of three songs for each of the soloists. It will be sung in German with complete translation in English appearing in the pro gram notes. Conductor Bloom field will also conduct the or chestra in Mozart's "Sym phony No. 34 in C Major and Piston's "Toccata." Tickets for all symphony concerts are on sale at J. K. Gill box office beginning Thursday prior to each con cert or may be placed in ad vance by writing the sym phony office in the Park building. Meeting Planned By Footliqhters Footlighters will elect offi cers at a business meeting set for Sunday, November 16, at 2 p.m., at the little theater building near the Armory. Leslie Boardman, president. states that the group will dis cuss participation in the Ore gon . Centennial celebration, remodeling of the theater and the next play to be presented 1 Dispose of used fat by pouring it into a paper plate to harden, then throw plate and grease away. Second Debut Scheduled By Former Child Prodigy By GAY PAULEY UPI Women's Editor New York DPD You may remember- Ruth Slenczynska from the headlines of another era. She was the fat little girl who at eight made a spec tacular American debut as a pianist, who was hailed by some critics as "another Mo zart," and who went on to earn as much as $3,500 for a single appearance and more than a million dollars in her brief career. She was the child whose father, a frustrated musician, claimed he "willed her to be a genius," and who, she claimed, ran her life with a tyrannical sterness and pock eted all the proceeds from her sell-out American and European tours. She was the girl who knew 200 musical compositions from memory, studied with Sergei Rachman inoff and Artur Schnabel and once filled in when a Pader ewski appearance was cancel led. That was 1 Ruth Slenczyn ska, child prodigy, whose ca reer ended with the start of World War II, in 1940, when she was 14. Well, the prodigy is back "as a musician, not a curios ity," she said, in an interview today. Tonight she appears at Town Hall, 25 years to the day after her American de but. Then begins a tour which will take her to 56 cities, in 20 states. Today, she Is an attractive, dark-haired woman of 33. She's just under five feet in Phoenix to Have Speaker, Films P h o e n i x Dr. Ambrose Churchill, Portland, tubercu losis control officer of the Oregon Board of Health, will speak at Phoenix Community club Monday, November 17, at 8 p.m. Dr. Churchill will show two films, "The Inside Story" and "Are You Positive?" A ques tion and answer period will follow. The appearance of Dr. Churchill and the film show ing is sponsored by Phoenix Thursday club as a public, educational service and every one in trie community is in vited to attend. Refreshments will be served. height, weighs 103 pounds "five pounds less then when I last played at Town Hall," she laughed. "At eight, I weighed 108; at 14, I wore a size 16 dress; now I buy fives and sevens." "I was fat because my fa ther believed that fat was healthy." "Now," she said, "I'm a firm believer in cottage cheese," she added that it was not- so much diet but "abject poverty" which slim med her down. "I had a choice of teaching music and eating.!' she said, "or practicing and not eating." What of the years in be tween? The pianist said that in 1940, she returned to her na tive Sacramento, Calif., de termined to live a life with-i out her father's dominance. She was accepted as a fresh man at the University of Cali fornia, but her father refused to pay her tuition. She worked her way on through school, as a psychol ogy major, with jobs as jun ior librarian, gymnasium as sistant, and pianist for a post graduate music course. Never Forgave Her In 1944, she eloped to Reno with a fellow student, and apparently this was the final break with her father. She said he ordered her out of the house and apparently nev er forgave her when he died seven years later, his will left nothing to her. She returned to work when her husband went into the Army teaching piano at Mercy College of Music, Car mel, Calif. The marriage end ed in 1951, and it was then she resumed her piano stud ies. The pianist said there no longer is any bitterness to ward her father "I figure he would be proud of me," she said, "but if he were alive I would not have the courage to do what I'm doing." Other parents can learn a lesson from her case history, she said. "If a child is gifted, in any direction-music or mathematics-don't push him. Just encourage him. And give a child music for the love of it . . . don't get off the road as my father did." She's convinced that prodi gies are born, not produced. "You can't make a thistle bear First Lady Celebrates Birthday Washington - (UPD - Mamie Doud Eisenhower celebrates her 62nd birthday today in "fine fettle" and getting ready for a hectic White House winter- social season. The First Lady had a big day - early birthday party Thursday when several hun dred Republican women came to tea. .They presented her with a gold-dipped silver sandwich plate matching the Francis I pattern of the Eisen howers' personal gold dinner service. Today's celebration was to be a strictly . family affair with the Eisenhower grand children on hand. The pres ents were as private as the party. Reporters and photogra were banned from the mass tea party as well as the fam ily gathering. But one tea sipper said Mrs. Eisenhower looked "perfectly lovely" in a green silk frock and match ing jade jewelry. Pink carnations, her favor ite flower, bloomed on the tea table. Two old school chums from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, had been invited to drop in along with the GOP women. In two public appearances this week Mrs. Eisenhower seemed, as one friend put it, "in fine fettle." irTTT.Tf "m ffst Jr1 vsa Q9L This Early American living room group is designed for modern music lovers. Hi-fi equipment is the "doughbox" chest (left). The coffee and end tables can either be stereophonic speakers or cabinets for 100 records. Craw ford Furn. Mfgi Corp. (Pic 29) Branding Time Theme of Dance One of the large social events of the week end will be a Maverick Branding Time dance at Rogue Valley Coun try club Saturday, November 15. The, committee is Mr. and Mrs. Myers Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Knoll and Mr. and Mrs. James Shaw. The notices which went to club members announced that the Palace Saloon will serve "free redeye" from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m., and "dancing' and gossipin " is scheduled from 9:30 p.m. until 2 a.m. A chuck wagon breakfast will be served from midnight until 2 a.m. Western-type clothing will be in order for the party. peaches," she laughed. "But peaches cultivated will pro duce better." Party Plans Completed Final preparations will be made this week end for the Fancy Foods and Fashion tea which Medford Junior Wom en's club will give Monday, November 17, at Mon Desir inn, Central Point. Reserva tions are to be made today with Mrs. John Holmes, SPring 2-8519, or Mrs. Larry McConnell,. SPring 2-9130. Funds from the event will be used by the women for operation of a clothing pool which has been established in the city for the first time. Children's clothing, donated or purchased for the pool, is renovated and.made wearable by the club women, and is being distributed by school nurses of the Medford district. The party will begin at 12:30 p.m. with a buffet luncheon prepared by Mrs. Julie Tummers of the inn. Mrs. Tummers recently re turned from a visit in Hawaii, and has added to her exten sive collection of recipes some from the island dishes. Mrs. Tummers will prepare samples of several of these, and certain recipes will also be . available. Holiday food will be featured. With an eye to the coming holiday parties, "Glamour" will be the theme of the fash ion show which Town and Country Shop of Eagle Point will present. Republican Club Names Speaker Peter Gunnar, attorney from Marion county and chairman of the Republican party in that county, . will speak for Jackson County Republican Women's club Monday, November 17. The subject of his talk will be "Solidifying and Strengthen ing the Republican Party in Oregon." Luncheon will be served, at the Girls Community club at 12 noon, and reservations should be made with Mrs. Frank Bash, SPring 2-4319. Election of officers for the coming year will be held. Lettuce is not only rich in vitamins but is an important source of iodine. , Waggin Wheelers Announce Dance Waggin Wheelers Square Dance club will hold a dance starting at 8:30 pjn. Saturday at Kershaw square on Cory road. All square dancers are invited, and potluck refresh ments will be served. Cory road extends east from Crater Lake highway at the Desert Service station. The Waggin Wheelers formerly danced at the Square Corral, near Camp White. The club has announced it will start a refresher course for square dancers Friday, No vember 21, at Kershaw square. 4 Camp Fire Girls Nature Hike , ' Ocanah group of Camp Fire Girls went to McKee Bridge on November 8. The girls made their own lunch and ate it there. Then they hiked two miles. The girls were to choose three things of nature and tell about it at the next meet ing. Mrs. Carl Wimberly, their leader, Dr. and Mrs. Jack In. gram, and Mrs. W. O. Black ledge, accompanied the group. FLGORGOVERING SERVICE 127 NORTH RIVERSIDE We Install Your LINOLEUM, CARPET, FORMICA & TILE Carpet and Furniture Cleaning Repairing SP 3-6587 Eves. SP 3-3943 ALPHA'S PILES MINCE LJ favorites! Special Party Rates OPEN EVERY WEEK DAY 334 South Grape Ph. SP 2-5985 ELECYRIIC DCWl ELECYRDC RANGE sCta eV U MEDFORD TOYLAND LOWER FLOOR - 44, i TRANS-WORLD AIRLINER FAIRLANE 500 SUNLINER BABY GRAND PIANO Giant silver plane 1 7 bicbet Una. Four propeller turn as friction mo tor runs. 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