Pago i.— The Canadian Jew7s{ News, Friday, March 9thr 1962
THE TALK.OF OUR TOWN: A Bout with Buchwald.. Honors for our young Musicians... Here and There.
By BERNICE OYMENT
Remember that old movie series with Crosby, Hope and Lamour. "The Road to Singapore", and other exotic pons? Well, 1 nominate as their sequel, "The Road to Malton," starring Art Buchwald.
To me, and apparently to millions ot other readers all over the world, Art Buchwald is one of the funniest, satirical writers ol our day. When he invited me to drive to the airport with him one day last Week, I dropped cver>'thing and WENT. The
icy highway made it the bumpiest interview 1 ever conducted — but also one ol theL-most. rewarding.
NOT A COMEDIAN
Mr. Buchwald i^n't a "funny" kind of guy in the "comedy" sense of the word. He doesn't tell other people'is jokes nor is he given to extravagant gestures to stress a point. What makes him a thoroughly delightful person are his sharp sense of satire and his quick, wry way of exposing what Is phony and
O'KEEFE CENTRE
C(NT1N
fPC-N'T & YOr.GE.
PLAYING TILL MARCH 17
DAvid Merrick & Joseph KipnMl present
ROBERT ' IHIAHE
CLARY MONTEVECCHI
In Th< Jack Hyllon Production of Robert Dhery'i
LA PLUME
A Musical HelliapoBpin in I'.gush
MUSICAL SMASH HIT OF PARIS London & New York
seats on sale !
n a.m. - 10 p.m. phone orders
em. 3^6633
ORGANIZE A THEATRE PARTY!
10% DISCOUNT ON 40 OR MARCH 19 - 2i
MORE SEATS - MON., TUES., WED. XAVIER CUGAT t, ABBE LANI! EVES., WED. & SAT. MATS. , MARCH 26 • APRIL 7 . Promotion Dept. O'Keefc Contr* 1 IRMA LA DOUCE
ONE WEEK ONLY
march 19 — 24
IN PERSON
^ ABBE
JACK E:
u <3
STAR TIME
CUGAT LANE LEONARDt,
specUl prices $1.25 t6 s^lsi
GOOD SEATS AVAILABLE 11 A.M. — 10 PM
PHONE ORDERS EM. 3-6633
AT
■THE RED BARNi
CENTRAL LIBRARY THEATRE
COLLEGE AND ST. GEORGE STREETS, TORONTO 2B
OPENING THIS TUESDAY
TORONTO'S FIRST REPERTORY THEATRE
TUESDAY
— ONE way PENDULUM
WEDNESDAY — ONE way PENDULUM
THURSDAY — NO PERFORMANCE
Opening Friday — THE BALCONY
SATURDAY
THE BALCONY
MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY AT 8:30 P. m. SATURDAY AT 5 p. M. AND 9:00 p. M. |BOX OFFICFnOW open—PHONE WA.4-7557|
PL A YINQ
3 PERFORMANCES DAILY (INC. SUN.) 2 P.M.5.20 P.M.8.40 P.M.
MATIJEE PRICES UNTIL 5P.M. ORCH. » E|AIC. Jl 25 LOGES J1.50 STUPENTS Jl.OO EVENING PRICES AFTER 5 P.M. ORCH. S BALC. JlJ5 lOGES J2.00 STUDENTS tl.?5
pompous. He's calm and soft-spoken and gets great pleasure out of giving pleasure, through his writing. This has paid off handsomely too for, at 36, Art Buch-wiald is one of the most successful and highly-paid col-uninlsTS-in the business. The details of his early
years certainly do not suggest a formula for developing a king-sized sense ot humour about life. Born in New York City, he was placed in a Hebrew orphanage at the age of six (along with his three older sisters), and lived in a succession of foster homes until he was sixteen. At that point, he ran away and joined the U. S. Marine Corps, and served in World War II for 3i years. STUDIED IN PARIS
Later, he attended the University of Southern California on the G. I. Bill and then went to Paris to study languages. There he met and married an American girl who was doing publicity for a famous French couturier. They have three adopted children, Joel, 8; Connie. 6; and Jennifer, 5. All the children are naturalized American citizens now, although they all came from different countries.
Art was in Toronto to appear on several TV programs, en route.to Ottawa which was No. 13 on his current lecture tour of 15 American and Canadian cities — all within 20 days.
Good repoctecs are sup? posed to notice everything, you know, and when I observed that his -nails were bitten right down to the quick, I asked if the hectic pace was begining to tell on him.
"No, it's not that," he confessed. "I always bite mv nails when I read TIME
SEAN O'CASEY'S
THE DRUMS OF FATHER NED
NOW PLAYING
.Curtain, <.OOpm thoro
Reservations Call 366-592S or CARIA IICKEF SERVICE 195 YONGE ST EM 3-8859
Canadian Premiere
Magazine. It makes the world seem such a frightening place to live in."
"How about NEWSWEEK?" I countered.
"Oh. that's alright. I don't lose even a thumb on that one!" .
WINE, WOMEN AND SONG
The subject of Art's lecture is "Wine, Women and Song," during which he "talks-out" selections from his columns. 1 inquired about the response of audiences in smaller communities to some of his more sophisticated material.
"Sometimes it's Uke looking into a sea of stony faces", he admitted. "I remember one small Baptist community in Texas — that was the worst. My speech is all typed out on small cards. Well, that night, I just went through those cards like an IBM machine — BING!"
I was interested too, in the tact that Art's thrice-weekly columns are translated into 15 foreign languages, amoTlg them German, Dutch, Spanish, Pakistani. Bangkok, Russian and Hebrew. The Russians consider him basically a nice guy, he commented, but refer to him alternatively as a "decadent journalist" and a "distinguished journalist", depending on the subject matter of his column.
VISITED ISRAEL
Mr. Buchwald has made three visits to Israel. He was tremendously stirred by the dynamic development of the countrj'. After his first visit, however, it became more a matter of curiosity, he told me, as he. obser\'ed the country's becoming more and more bourgeois and less pioneering.
On one of his trips to Israel, Art related, he flew down to the Dead Sea in a helicopter. It was at the time of the discovery of £hfi~ Deacl SeaHS^rolU, aiflf w very day of his visit, th^e had been ah exciting archaeological find. Professor Yadin, who was in charge of the digging, asked Art if he would' do him the favor of transporting the fragments back to Tel Aviv in his helicopter, as a safety measure. Art accepted gladly.
"I'm thrilled to participate in any way in this wonderful discovery," he told Yadin, "and besides, it'll give me something to read on the flight back!"
FUTURE PLANS
What's up-con[iing for Art Buchwald? Weifl, for one thing, watching his latest book, "How Much is That in Dollars," climb to the best-seller list; a number ot magazine pieces; four columns each week; a Paris radio series AND a movie script for Molina Mercouri (of "Never On Sunday" ' • ' . ' ' I' '
OUR ENTE
By D. COHN
• Milton Berle is suffering .rated her 86th birthday by from a throat ailment. taking her daily walk on the
• Jack Entratter of the Las
Vegas Sands b e c a m e a grandpop, via daughter Mrs. Michael Palin.
• A feillpw's wife has been shopping tor her spring wardrobe. The only accessory she needs is his spring salary.
• Any day now, says Ivan Gillis, we can expect the Kremlin to claim the Twist was invented by a Russian named Chubby Checkhov.
• Ailing Red Skelton was taken to a' Santa Monica hospital for a day. It was so crowded, he was put in the children's ward.
• S. Hurok, the impresario, just signed the original D'Oyly Carte troupe for a Gilbert & Sullivan tour of America, starting in August. He was asked whether he intended to modernize the operettas. "What for?" Hurok replied. "If I'd bought a Rembrandt, would I ask Picasso to fix it up?"
• The French version of Brendan Behan's "The Hostage" opened at Jean-Louis Barrault's theater in Paris, and has become Barrault's biggest hit in years.
• Mary Garden, opera's origmal glamor girl, ccleb-
moors near Aberdeen, Scotland. She said about the project to fihn her life story: "None of those dumb blonds can play me." When it was suggested that Maria Callas could play the role, Miss Garden said: "Like me? No. 1 made a career by singing, and she makes a career by not <;inging."
• Marilyn M o n r o e, three-time loser in the field of matrimony, hasn't given up trying. "I'm-keeping my eyes open," she said.
Marilyn likes 'masculinity' best in a man. When asked what she does not like about a man. she answered, "Nothing I can think of."
• Roz Russell's nephew, Sean LaRoche, wed Ann
Freydberg.
• Tanuny Grime s' heart will be broken when she learns that Bob Weitman has bought "The Unsinkable Mollie Brown" for Metro, and Doris Day will star. Lairy Weingarten will produce it.
• When the Harvard men invited SheUey Winters to give a talk on the arts, they thought they'd have a lot of laughs. But_her speech got a standing cheer^
• Remember when a singer needed a voice instead of a comb?
• Ingrid Bergman's next TV venture probably will be for David Susskind, in London.
• Mane Katz, the painter, received the Legion of Honor in Paris last month. The veteran artist sighed after-
THEATRE HI -LITES
• Robert C 1 a r y. Parisian singer<omedian who is a favorite night club star in the United States, heads the cast of "La Plume," currently playing at the O'Kcefe Centre. Featured with him
ceremonies to introduce the company. He also runs a gamut of roles.
Other comedians are Maurice Baquet. Henri Perinec, Edmond Varrato and Rich-
wards: •'It's nice. But so fai 14 people have told me they personally arranged this honor tor me — and now I don'i know whom to thank/'
• Jerry Lewis' new restaurant on Sunset Strip is doing big business.
• Stariet Googie Schwab told her millionaire date, "My mother warned me there were men like you, but I never thought I'd be lucky enough to meet one."
TORONTO RESTAURANTS
For Hie finest food and special Sunday dinners
, VISIT THE
EUINTON
RESTAURAKT
Steaks. Spore'ribi, Chicken NEWLY DECORATED
Seots 100 people 392 Eglinton West HU. 9-6574
(Next to the Eglinton Theatre) A pleasant and courteous staff owoitt to treat you
Jane Carlyle in on extravaganza in "La Plume De Mo Xante" ^ploying now ot the O'Keefe Centre till March 17th.
be filmed in
lamei, to Europe.
HONORS FOR OUR YOUNG MUSICIANS
• Toronto's young Jewish musicians once again have distinguished themselves at the annual Kiwanis Music Festival, just concluded. Among scholarship winners in the piano section are Jose Shapero, Ethel Aronbvitch, Toni Silberman, Debby Far
ard Winter. Among the in topjoles IS French dancer-, female leads are Donna Mon-comedienne Liliane Monte-1 roe, Corinne Reichel, Fran-vecchi. European film star.jcoise Dally. Chickie James Clar\- serves as masicr of jgnd others.
• The Village Playhouse is
proving Sean O'Casey's popularity in Toronto. The lat-ter's play. "The Drums ot Father Ned," appearing now at the Playhouse, is attract-ijing audiences from far and near..
Directing this production I: is Sean Mulcahy. In the lead Ijis Jay Shannon from Belfast. I Featured actress is Eliza ? j Creighton from Dublin, who plays Bemadette. Eamonn •Martin, another Dubliner, well known in the political field, plays an authentically pompous mayor while Nichb-las Lawlor who brings to the stage years of experience in Irish repertory, shares the comedy honours with Mr. Shannon.
• Dark for two weeks. The Royal Alexandra \vill usher in "Little Mary Sunshine" on the 19jh. now in' its third year in New York.
The Red Bam, at Central Library Theatre, has had a
successful opening this week with a variety of plays.
• Following a five-welk successful run in Montreal where it was presented at La Comedie - Canadienne, "Little Mary Sunshine", the Montreal production which was acclaimed by the critics as a "really top show" is scheduled to be presented here at the Royal Alexandra Theatre, starting March 19th for a period of two weeks.
Harking back to the earlv
MONTE CARLO
RESTAURANT
MAMA'S PIZZA
Itolion Specialty
PIZZA PIZZA PIZZA
TAKE OUT DELIVERY 1028 Eglinton W. RU. 3-8808
SUPERB
RESTAURANT and DINING ROOM
end CATERING ...
W« specialize in fine catering — (n our Penthouse — in out Banquet Hall — or on locotion. From o ready, madenjp and delivered portY tray — to the finest, ex-octing wedding banauet. We have the staff, the equipment end, most imporfont of all 'h* Know-How !
Jutt Call HU. 1-7281
CATERING DIVISION
THE
NOSHERY
PENTHOUSE
AND
488 EGLINTON WEST
Exclusive Kosher . Cotering. at
TEMPLE SINAI
ber. Fern Schwartz. Shlomo idays ot this centur>' and to Ben-Uri won the Percy Her- j the works of Rudolf Friml man Scholarship for Violin I and Victor Herbert, this and David Rosen, the Fam- gentle spoof on the operet-ous Players Corp. Award for tas of that day is presented
HOLY BLOSSOM TEMPLE BROTHERHOOD
FORUM SERIES
PRESENTS
THURSDAY, MARCH 15TH — 8:30 P.M.
REV. MARTIN LUTHER KING
"NON VIOLENCE AND RACIAL JUSTIGE"
Tickets $3.00 At the Door Or The Temple Office HOLY BLOSSOM TEMPLE~ /Bflthurst i Avo Rood
Dais's an-33Mi
Kosher Cuisine
certified by Rabbinic Koshrut Committee ffie'^Conodion Jewish Congress.
Private Party
coteririg on locotioti
Excellent Food Free Porking
Closed on Shobbor Open Sot. night
3457 BATHURST ST. RU. 9-2555
PROTECT YOUR HEALTH
YOUR STOMACH LIKES DAIRY FOODS
-fROM,' .
RESTAyRANT & RAK£RY
STRICTLY KOSHER - ' FOODS WITH THE HAMISHEN TAM ,, OPEN AU PESACH SPECIAL TAKE OUT ORDERS
440 SPADINA — Phone WA. 1-1917
. "' "'11' '
wind instruments.
* Our congratulations, too, to 16-year-pld Toronto pianist Jack Krichalf who recently won the annual Maurice Ravel Award presented by the French Foreign Ministry. | Jack is the youngest music-1 ian to have won the award. He is a scholarship student at the Royal Conservatoi^\
Gifted young pianist, Mar-, ion Stark, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Maiuice Stark, appeared in solo recital at Holy Blossom Temple Congregational hall on Tuesday evening, March 6th in a program from Bach to Shostakovich.
HERE AND THERE
* The International Federation of Landscape Architects, have chosen Haifa, Israel, as the scene of their Congress this coming June. Going there to represent Canada is Mrs. Janlna Stensson of Oakville. v
* Dr. Abraham Miller, clinical director of the Ontario Hospital, ■ Toronto, was a panel member at the Public Health Regional Conference held - in Toronto last week. Subject of the panel was the responsibility of local health departments for mentally ill patients in the community and the need for preventive and rehabilitative work with such patients.
* Well-known Toronto violinist Jack Groob who has recently returned from con-ducting engagements in Israel and London was guest-conductor in JiewrYprk last weekend with the .Community Opera, Inc. There's a fairytale note sounded here, for Mr. Qroob conducted the fulUeiigth opera ."Cinderella" on this occasion. In April he will wield his baton for "Hansel and Gretel," for the N. Y. company.
by Rick Besoyan, who is so delighted with it that he has chosen it to ser\'e as the National Company to tour the U.S. following the Toronto engagement.
TURK
AND HIS ORCHESTRA
FEATURING
ALANKABEL
318 RUSHOLME RD.. Tdronto Phone: 535-8843
lUCHTlRS
RESTAURANT - CATERERS
FOR TORONTO'S FINEST JEWISH FOOD COMPLETE CATERING FACILITIES IN OUR STARLIGHT ROOM OR IN YOUR HOME
315 ADEU1DE ST. W. — EM. 8-6647
ITS HAPPENED!
AFTER 12 YEARS
MURRAY
ALTER
AND HIS ORCHESTRA
Will itoy in town this July ond„Augu$t so BOOK your SiMCHAS Now.
R U. 2-3931
NAT KING ORCHESTRA
The livesf Jewish 0rch»strq in town, leading entertainer of Night Clubs, Stags and Television. Tomoke your Bowling Party, Wedding or Donee o success coll Not. We-wlsh to onnounce that we ore^ booking"~ouf of. Town Simchos. .
PHONE LE. 6-9986
VISIT
For The Tastiest Delicatessen In Town
•s
DELICATESSEN
(Prop. Harry-.MorkowTtz;
• MEAT PLATES
• POTATO SALAD
• Home Madie Cabbage Rolls - Kishko - Knishes
ALL KINDS OF SANDWICHES CORNED BEEF — PASTRAMI — BABY BEEF ETC
3799 BATHURST ST. — ME. 3-0772
(I BLOCK NORTH OF WILSON) OPEN EVERY SUNDAY
mm
HI
1 •, ■.; •.•.■•-,■'■"■5
0^17
62
91