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...experiment was a qualified success and the City Opera stuck. Each season its troupe has been improved and its repertory expanded. Last week the young company opened its new season with a first-class production of Puccini's Madame Butterfly. The star was Camilla Williams, the first Negro prima donna with a steady job in a major opera company...
...Opera (Sun. 7 p.m., Mutual). Arias from Norma, Faust, Pagliacci, Die Meister singer. Soloists: Camilla Williams, Lawrence Tibbett...
Last year, New York's bargain-priced City Opera Company broke opera's rigid color line by presenting Todd Duncan of Porgy and Bess fame in Carmen and I Pagliacci (TIME, Oct. 8). and followed it this year with Negro Soprano Camilla Williams as Madame Butterfly. Says 32-year-old Ellabelle Davis: "I want to prove that a Negro artist doesn't have to stay in his own backyard. In a singer, it is the color of the voice and not of the face which matters. If I'm a success...
...Married. Camilla Sewall Edge, 21, brunette daughter of New Jersey's Governor Walter Evans Edge, cousin of Maine's Governor Sumner Sewall; and Army Lieut. Edward Brooke Lee Jr., 26, Princeton ('40), of Silver Spring, Md.; in Trenton...
...worked fast: industry's self-appointed House watchdog, bellicose Representative Eugene ("Goober") Cox of Camilla, Ga.; and bumbling Representative Carl Vinson of Milledgeville, Ga., self-appointed watchdog of the interests of the Navy's high command. Together they suddenly proposed an amendment which was designed to freeze the old and new priorities powers under OPM's Stettinius; give official status to committees of industry, and make all priority rulings finally subject to approval by the Army and Navy Munitions Board. Further: to warn against the probable coming ouster of Stettinius. appointment of anyone as Priorities Director would...