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Yorkshire Evening News
Monday, April 7, 1952.   No. 25,806  FIRST WITH THE NEWS   Tel. Leeds 27341.  Price 2d.
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U.S. SINGER IS ROBBED BEFORE LEEDS RECITAL
Valuable gems taken with handbag
Y.E. News Reporter

SHORTLY before she was due on the stage at Leeds Civic Theatre to give a recital, Joy McLean, 28-year-old American soprano and club leader at Leeds Central Y.W.C.A., was robbed of her handbag, containing valuable jewellery, it is revealed to-day.

[[image: black & white photograph of Joy McLean]]
Y.E. News picture to-day of Mrs. McLean

Mrs. McLean is the wife of Mr. Charles McLean, a law student at Leeds University who comes from British Guiana. She has given many concerts and has appeared in Broadway musicals. She is working at the Y.W.C.A. until her husband completes his final year at the University.

Though upset by her loss, Mrs. McLean gave a recital which drew praise from critics

"Solid gold"

"Really, when I went on the stage I hardly knew where I was," she told me to-day. "Up to half-an-hour before the concert I was giving detectives details of what had happened.

"The handbag contained two of my own necklaces, one solid gold and the other gold art jewellery, and three pairs of valuable earrings, which a friend had lent me so that I could choose one pair to wear at the concert," she said.

"I left the handbag in my office at the Y.W.C.A. while I went for tea. When I returned it had gone. A pair of fur mittens and a scarf were taken from another part of the building."

On Broadway

Mrs. McLean was born in New Jersey and received her B.A. at Hunter College, New York.

In America, she conducted choral works, sang in Broadway shows and gave concerts. She met her husband while he was in New York.

Four years ago they came to this country for Mr. McLean to study law. They spent a year in London and have been in Leeds for four years.

Her ambition is for her husband to qualify and for them to return across the Atlantic, so that she can continue her singing lessons.

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