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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.
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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.
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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
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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."
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modern music lovers. Hi-fi equipment is the "doughbox"
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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.
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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.
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