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...appeasement of Negro voters, Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt also contributed last week. Having resigned from the D. A. R. after they barred colored Contralto Marian Anderson from Constitution Hall in Washington (TIME, March 6), she promised to appear this summer on a program with Miss Anderson in Richmond...
Marriage Revealed. Risë (rhymes with Mona Lisa) Stevens, 25, pretty new Metropolitan Opera contralto; and Walter Szurowy, 28, Hungarian stage & screen actor; three months ago; in Manhattan...
...greatest concert singers of this generation is Marian Anderson, Philadelphia-born Negro contralto. Since she skyrocketed to fame in Salzburg four years ago, the music-lovers and critics of the world's musical capitals have counted it a privilege to hear her sing. Last week it looked as though music-lovers in provincial Washington, D.C. might be denied this privilege. Reason: Washington's only large concert auditorium, Constitution Hall, is owned by the Daughters of the American Revolution, who are so proud they won't eat mush-much less let a Negro sing from their stage...
Last January, when Contralto Anderson's manager tried to book Constitution Hall for a concert in April, D. A. R. officials said they were sorry but the hall was taken. When alternative dates were suggested, the D. A. R. frostily replied that all the dates were taken. Sympathetic protests began to pour in from all sides: last week they reached peak proportions. Among the most impressive: that of the American Union of Democracy, in which Walter Damrosch, Deems Taylor and a Who's Who of prominent musicians. churchmen and journalists hoped "that this amazing action reflects the opinion...
WASHINGTON -- Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt has resigned from the Daughters of the American Revolution in protest against the organization's refusal to permit Marian Anderson, noted Negro contralto, to present a concert at Constitution Hall, it was indicated tonight...