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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...
...marriage made Murray a member of the Chickasaw tribe and, through his wife, he came into possession of several thousand fertile acres of land on which he began farming. At this time he was tagged with his familiar nickname because of his persistent advocacy of alfalfa as the proper hay to plant in the short grass country of Oklahoma. Even today he cultivates the popular use of "Alfalfa Bill" rather than the less common "Cocklebur Bill" which his political enemies tried to fasten on him. As a farmer, Murray was successful and is supposed to have made several hundred thousand...