Henri Letondal

Henri Letondal was a FrenchCanadian music critic administrator cellist playwright and actor He was a man of wide interests and wrote many sketches and revues including on occasion the music In his youth he studied the cello with Gustave Labelle Around 1920 he became a critic of concerts and variety shows for La Patrie Montreal and served 192629 as that papers Paris correspondent He also wrote about music for Le Petit Journal and was music critic around 1935 for Le Canada For CKAC radio in Montreal he was artistic director 192938 of LHeure provinciale which was sponsored by the Quebec government to promote the provinces musicians and composers He also was director general of the film company FranceFilm It has been estimated that Letondal wrote some 160 radio plays and sketches 19371948 producing them himself and occasionally writing the music In 1946 he embarked on an intensive Hollywood film career appearing in 35 Hollywood films and one Canadian before he he died in Hollywood in 1955