Viewing page 408 of 459

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

[[newspaper clipping]]
26 D Oakland Tribune, Wednesday, May 26, 1948

2 Women's
Song Groups
In Concert
By CLIFFORD GESSLER

Last night was women's chorus night in the Eastbay, with the Wednesday Morning Choral Club giving its Spring concert in the Berkley Women's City Club auditorium, and the Mothersingers of the district P-TA giving theirs in the auditorium of Oakland Technical High School. Both were well attended and cordially received.

The choral club, a group of 34 women, sand enjoyable under the direction of Richard I. Purvis, Organist and choirmaster of Grace Cathedral. They achieved some pleasing blends of tone, although the word were not always intelligible. Purvis, an able director, build them alertly in dynamic shadings and variations of tempo.

An interesting number of "Spring in Heaven," by Frances McCollin, Purvis said this song was the work of a composer blind from birth, a Pennsylvania Quaker, and that it bore "the distinctive mark of a strong personality."

SETTING OF TENNYSON
Another outstanding work was Wilfred Bendall's "The Lady of Shalott"—a successful setting of Tennyson's pet, although not without a few awkward relations betwen short notes and long sylables. It is a long piece, but well sustained. Naomi Harshman, soprano, in the color part, entered into the mood of the poem, and handled the music capably, although the tessitura in some portions imposed something of a strain.

The assisting soloist, Vernon Jones, was remembered as a boy playing solos at young people's concerts. The Berkeley lad is now a handsome young man and an excellent clarinetist. The adagio from Mozart's concerto in A major is a beautiful number, and he played it gracefully and well. He also played a Fantasy by George Marty, a rather florid piece exploiting the registers of the instrument, and negotiated its bravura passages with efficient ease.

In a later number, Richard Gaines's "Fantasy on a Russian Folk Song," Grace Maxwell was assisting artist in a violin obbligato. We did not hear this, but is shows character, as a member of the chorus said, for a mother of five to keep up her practice on the violin.

Margaret R. Cadenasso was the able accompanist.

MOTHERSINGERS SCORE
The Mothersingers, under the arable and energetic direction of Nancy Pauline Turner, State Music Chairman of the California Congress of Parents nd Teachers, were singing in the portion of the program this department heard, with a good deal of precision an agreeable tone. The Accompanist, Ida Altenbach, and Maria Howe at the second piano, took a bow for their work in Kountz's "Song of Man," a long but varied choral composition.

There had been several soloists earlier in the evening, including two talented young people from the public schools, John Nastari, violin- [[rest of copy clipped off]]

[[image: captioned photo of Mary Martin in one-piece body suit, fishnet stockings, cowboy boots and gloves sitting with knees bent and holding rifle above her head]]

Mary Martin who makes her bow in "Annie Get Your Gun" at the War Memorial Opera House on Monday next as the second attraction of San Francisco Civic Light Opera season.

KINGSFORD-SMITH'S WIDOW BIDDEN TO ANNIVERSARY FETE

An invitation to be an honored guest at the 20th anniversary celebration of the Oakland to Australia flight of the late Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith on Monday has been sent to Mrs. Alan C. Tully, widow of the pioneer flyer.

The Oakland Board of Port Commissioners said Mrs. Tully was traced by the Australian Consulate in San Francisco  She now is living in Dallas, Texas.

The Port Commission will sponsor a luncheon at the Star Trails Restaurant at Oakland Airport commemorating the Kingsford-Smith flight Monday noon.

General E. K. Smart, Australian Consul general, will present the control wheel of the "Southern Cross" to Claire V. Goodwin, Port Commission president.

He also will describe the flight, lay a wreath on the Kingsford-Smith memorial and read excerpts from the log of the flight.

In turn, Goodwin will present the wheel to Paul Edward Garber, aeronautical curator of the Smithsonian Institution.

The Diamond and Wiseman relics of early day aviation in the Bay Area also will be presented to Garber to be placed in the National Air Museum in Washington, D.C.

Mrs. Anna L. Miller, of Oakland, and Mrs. Flossie Maupin, of Yuba City, and Dr. Robert E. Cooke, Wheaton, Ill., brother of Weldon Cooke, who flew both planes, have been invited to be present.

Murder, Suicide End
Illicit Romance

CINCINNATI, May 26— (AP)—The body of a realestate salesman was fond in his carbon monoxide filled garage several hours after a comely, 38-year-old mother had been strangled and homicide LIeut. Orville Burleson aid today the deaths were "murder and suicide."

Burleson identified the victims as: Paul Klein, 49, and Mrs. Clara Katsetos, mother of four children and estranged with of an advertising firm executive.

Mrs. Katsetos' body was found yesterday by her 10-year-old son, Billy, in the bathtub at her home.

Police, learning that Klein and Mrs. Katsetos has been "keeping company," went to the home of the man's sister in another section of [[rest of copy clipped off]]



[[/newspaper clipping]]

Transcription Notes:
Only article about Wiseman transcribed. Please transcribe ALL the content on the page as this makes every word accessible to researchers, regardless of what they are looking for--thus further unlocking Smithsonian collections. Thanks for all the hard work! -Caitlin, TC Coordinator **Have completed all but right hand column which is only about 1/4 visible.