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Saturday, May 25, 1946.

IT'S LIKE THIS
By Jas. W. Atkins

April 24 Mr. Pharr presented Miss Joy L. Mearimore, mezzo-lyric soprano, at Highland High School auditorium here. He is her manager and brought her on a brief Southern tour, her first visit to this part of the country. She is now, I believe, on a tour of South America. Failure on the part of the local publicity committee to give her coming any appreciable advance notice resulted in her singing to a rather small crowd, one however which was loud in its praise of her performance.

A few days after her appearance here Miss Mearimore gave a performance at Statesville and we have the following account of that event:

"Miss Joy L. Mearimore, mezzo-lyric soprano of New York city, rendered a concert under the auspices of the Martin Pharr Music Club of Unity High School at the Center Street A. M. E. Zion Church in Statesville last Monday evening, piano by Prof. Otto Martin Pharr, principal of Unity High School.

"Despite a severe electrical storm which immediately preceded the concert, the church auditorium was comfortably filled with a large and highly appreciative audience. Miss Mearimore was lavish in her praise of the attentive, highly intelligent, receptive attitude of her audience and they in turn expressed themselves in like manner of Miss Mearimore's artistry by compelling her to do two encores and still applauded for more.

"The faculty of the high school and the ushers were all dressed in formal attire. The audience was made up of many of Statesville's leading people and others from Greensboro, Salisbury, Winston-Salem, and elsewhere who are ardent followers of cultural entertainment. Some of the out-of-town guests were members of the faculties of Livingstone College, Johnson C. Smith and other leading Southern colleges. They immediately proceeded to clamor for engagements with Miss Mearimore during her proposed Southern tour next March, April, and May. Immediately after the concert all of the guests were very highly entertained at a reception in the high school's domestic science room in honor of Miss Mearimore and her entourage."
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