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[[typewritten sheet]]
Tuesday, June 5, 1956
To Each Member of The PORGY AND BESS Company

GOD BLESS YOU
and
WELCOME HOME
(See note at bottom of page re: Transportation from airport)

His Honor, Mayor Robert Wagner, of New York City is receiving the [[underlined]]entire[[/underlined]] PORGY AND BESS Company

Place -- [[underlined]]CITY HALL, Chambers Street and Park Row[[/underlined]]
Time -- [[underlined]]10:30 A.M. Wednesday, June 6, 1956[[/underlined]]

This is a signal honor.
Please be on time. 
If weather is [[underlined]]Good[[/underlined]] - we'll be received on City Hall steps.
If weather is Bad - we'll be in the Board of Estimates room

The press, photographers, TV, radio and newsreels will be there.

You [[underlined]]deserve[[/underlined]] this great and unusual honor, and we are all proud of you.

Love, 
Wilva Breen

[[underlined]]SUBWAY TRANSPORTATION TO CITY HALL:[[/underlined]]
IRT - East Side - BROOKLYN BRIDGE STATION
IRT - West Side - PARK PLACE STATION
BMT - CITY HALL SQUARE
8th Avenue (IND) - CHAMBERS STREET
[[/typewritten sheet]]

[[three overlapping documents on this page of scrapbook, each obscuring most of the one beneath it]]

[[bottom item: all that is visible is a decorative border on the top of the printed page, and the top portion of a photo of a large group]]

[[middle item, on pink paper, typewritten; only top portion of sheet is visible]]
GUEST PROGRAM NOTICE
CBS TELEVISION
A division of Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., 485 Madison Avenue, New York 22, N.Y.
Date: June 5, 1956
[[/middle item, on pink paper, typewritten]]

[[top item, typewritten sheet, on blue paper]]

[[cartoon drawing of greek comedy and drama masks]]
LAMENT FOR TUESDAY, APRIL 30, A.D. 1957
or 
Don't Think It Hasn't

O, silent is the glockenspiel, more silent is the zither,
The clavichord's tacit, m'Lord, and also is the "gittar",
The lute is mute upon our stage, the time is sorely spent,
We're at tour's end, and so my friend, here is a sad lament:

O, Miller, play your rhapsody; Arens, your doughnuts chew, 
Belinsky, speak the English as you alone can do.
Crash the mighty cymbals, George, and beat the tympani - 
Sound your A's, musicians all; Salute a memory.

The lights go down, the curtain up, Our maestro takes the stand,
All are waiting breathlessly, will he strike up the band?
(The answer is Nooooo. . . !!!)

He says he will not make a speech - And this he does not do,
But we must admit it's quite a spell before the talking's thru.

He introduces every Saint - Saint That and Such and Such, 
St. Theresa of Avila - St. Plan - "Too Much! Too Much!"

Then at last the music starts: Acts I and II and III.
On we sing as people stare at us . . . . perplexedly.

"Set up drinks for everyone!!!!" That's Husky Miller's shout.
But not a drop have we been served these four month's we've been out.

Now we've finished Carmen Jones, it's intermission time.
When each has done his little duties, back on stage we climb.
Then it's Mr. Gershwin's turn with Porgy and his Bess.
'I'm On My Way' is finished; At last we get to rest.

O Tuesday, day of darkest dread, that drills and drives us dreary - 
How dare you come with such aplomb and separate our cheery!
Oh where O gin, and where O beer, and where O Elinor - 
Will we next meet, whose birthday fete, whose room and on what floor?

Oh receipts we weekly got, when we were weakly paid-
Think you here because we're gone - your memory will fade?
No! No! bits of papyrus, hold not to such a fear,
If old "deP" rehire us - You'll be worth more next year.

Where the bags, O Sidney? and where O where the bus?
Will George return to some other concern, will he be untrue to us?
Oh, the terrible thought of it. Tears fall in our beer. (Ker-plunk)
Will Al do likewise? Let's stop all these signs, go out and get roaringly drunk.

And now the time has come for parting - Sad we must not feel.
We've done our bit - No more must we sit
OVER THAT GODDAM WHEEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Joseph E. Crawford
Poet-Laureate (dePaur Opera Gala)
May, 1957

[[drawing of comedic mask at bottom right of sheet]]

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