Word: chickasaws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House with new springs & mattresses on the advice of her sons that the old ones were rock hard. She worried about the water being turned on in Mr. Roosevelt's "dream cottage" at Hyde Park, where royalty would picnic Sunday. Princess Te Ata, a Choctaw-Chickasaw half-breed from Oklahoma, was engaged to tell Indian tales at the Hyde Park hot-dog fest. Her newspaper syndicate announced that she would describe Their Majesties' doings in her column My Day. She added Kate Smith and a cowboy-song singer named Alan Lomax to her team of Lawrence Tibbett...
While Longone was irritably defending himself, one Doris Maud Underwood, plump Indian soprano who bills herself as Princess Pakanli of the Chickasaw tribe, brought suit against him for $30,000, claiming that he encouraged her to prepare for leading roles, then refused to let her perform unless she paid him a guarantee of $5,500. Similar rumors kept popping. Critic Glenn Dillard Gunn of the Herald & Examiner openly asserted that Ethel Leginska had paid for the production of her opera, Gale. Soprano Lola Fletcher admitted privately that she had to pay $125 to sing Musetta in La Boheme...
...opera A'ida that was produced in Tulsa, the most interesting part was left out. Mr. Carlo Edwards, it is true, directed the Opera A'ida, but the first opera produced by the Tulsa Civic Opera was La Boheme, directed by an Indian woman. This woman, a Chickasaw, Daisy Maud Underwood, is a real Indian princess, her name being Princess Pakanli. She, with the aid of Hugh Sandidge, ,veteran operatic tenor of Memphis, Tenn., worked for two years under the most adverse conditions to get opera started in Oklahoma. She is a graduate of the New England Conservatory...
Actually, Mary Alice Hearrell Murray is seven-eighths white, one-eighth Indian and she would be better described as a quiet, Nordic type, for her eyes are blue and her skin is light. As for her Chickasaw blood, she, like all Chickasaws, is proud of it and she would be proud to possess more...
Alice Murray was educated at Bloomiield Female Seminary, in Indian Territory-a Chickasaw school-then taught in the same academy. Friends have known her domiciled in log cabin and in luxurious mansion and have found that she graced any environment, that she has always been a tactful, loving wife to a most unusual husband, a devoted mother and a woman of remarkable intellect and social charm. If Fate should place her in the White House. Washington snobs would be forced to admire and respect Alice Murray's unpretentious manner-her calm confidence in" the purity and security...