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Word: arnquist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cast of 175 singers, chosen by competition, represented 47 Iowa counties and the 15-year ambition of Josephine Arnquist Bakke, State 4-H club leader who inaugurated the local singing groups. In the opera the heroine, Arline, was played by Virginia Broome Mullane, a farmer's wife who has two children, sings in a church choir. Thaddeus was Evan Davies who studied music in Chicago, now rides a tractor across the fat fields of Iowa. The Gypsy Queen was a chicken authority, Devilshoof one of the smartest farmers in Hardin County...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Farmers' Opera | 7/1/1935 | See Source »

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