Word: marian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 and Marian Anderson for the musicale after the State Dinner. Gifts received for Their Majesties (newspaper clippings, photographs, U. S. flags, etc. etc.) had to be returned...
...Marian Anderson, male chorus of the University of Pennsylvania Choral Society, the Philadelphia Orchestra with Eugene Ormandy conducting; Victor: 6 sides). The Rhapsodie, to gloomy verses by Goethe, nobly sung; the Lieder overdressed by orchestral accompaniment...
...Young Mr. Lincoln had a world première on Decoration Day in the Fox-Lincoln Theatre in Springfield. Two trainloads of guest critics, Hollywood columnists and cinema stars attended, Springfield fat-purses paid $3.30 for orchestra seats, the rest paid the usual 40?. All heard Negro Contralto Marian Anderson, hired by Producer Zanuck for $6,000, sing America. Only complaint Springfield had against the film was that Abe Lincoln arrived in Springfield not on muleback, but on horseback...
Does TIME not err in announcing over and over in several recent issues [TIME, March 6 et seq. ] that Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt has resigned from the D. A. R. because it did not allow Marian Anderson to appear at Constitution Hall...
...Cordell Hull, Mrs. Henry Wallace & Miss Frances Perkins played hostess at the White House for the D. A. R., from which Mrs. Roosevelt resigned because of its refusal to let Negro Contralto Marian Anderson sing in Constitution Hall. Mrs. Roosevelt was en route by air from Seattle to Boston, to attend the funeral of her brother Gracie Hall's son Daniel, killed flying in Mexico...