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...When you talk of the radio of the '20s. '30s and '40s, how can you not mention the great comedians? You quoted Fred Allen, but how can you pass up Jack Benny, Joe Penner, Fibber McGee, Eddie Cantor. Easy Aces, Amos 'n' Andy and, for the real old-timers around. Block and Sully...
...been augmented with passages of poetry from W.H. Auden, e.e. cummings and others. Israeli Folk Singer Michael Burstein often opens Friday evening worship with Sabbath songs-"audience warm-up before air time," as one member puts it. TV Producer Allan Blye (The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour) serves as cantor, a role he used to perform professionally in Toronto. The synagogue "staff'-including Rabbi Cutler-are all unpaid volunteers...
...that his Israeli companions could point out the sights. Later, he was taken to Yad Vashem, a solemn memorial to Jews killed by the Nazis. Standing near such names as Auschwitz, Dachau, Buchenwald, spelled out in English and Hebrew on the memorial's floor, Brandt heard the cantor chant: "Let the Lord remember the souls of our brethren ... who were put to death, and who were killed and choked, and who were buried alive." As Brandt wordlessly moved to lay a wreath against the "Tomb of the Martyrs' Ashes," a look of anguish passed over his face...
Barry Commoner, Sc.D., ecologist. Kenneth Keniston, Sc.D., psychologist. Ravi Shankar, D.M., musician. Unrepentant captor of a whole generation of Americans; cantor for a new faith; nimble magician who conjures up symphonic sitars; zealous missionary of the great melodic and rhythmic traditions of India. Isaac Bashevis Singer, Lit.D., author...
Playhouse New York. Films and recordings of Charlie McCarthy, Eddie Cantor. Burns and Allen. Jack Benny. Fred Allen. Bob Hope. Bing Crosby. Fanny Brice. Rudy Vallee, and Amos 'n' Andy. 7:30. May 13. Chan...