Word: marian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington's sunny Easter afternoon, at the base of the Lincoln Memorial, Negro Contralto Marian Anderson sang America, Ave Maria, My Soul Is Anchored in the Lord for a crowd of 75,000, including Harold LeClair Ickes, Henry Morgenthau, many another Capital bigwig. Singer Anderson had waived her $1,750 fee, nobody paid admission, her program was considerably below her artistic par. This was all because, by last week, the Anderson Affair had become more a matter of politics than of Art or even of Race. After the D. A. R. kept Miss Anderson out of Constitution Hall...
Perhaps the most uncomfortable of all was able, amiable Marian Anderson. Neither seeking nor needing the publicity, she perforce did the bidding of Manager Sol Hurok. In her great singing, there was no politics...
This week Eleanor Roosevelt announced that when King George & Queen Elizabeth visit the U. S. in June, Marian Anderson "probably" will sing for them at the White House...
...Manhattan, Nurse Marian Cribbs was awakened by someone tweaking her big toe. Tweaker was a man who said he had come to rob her. Instead he kissed her foot, tried to kiss her. Resourceful Nurse Cribbs reminded him it was Lent, shooed him out, promised to meet him later. At the rendezvous he met police...
...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...