'Rose Marie' Opens Starlight Schedule
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—(UPI)—Anna Maria Alberghetti, the diminutive singer with one of the most thrilling voices in show business, will open the 10th anniversary Starlight Theater season Monday as the star of "Rose Marie."
Miss Alberghetti, a 1959 sensation at the outdoor theater, holds box office records from coast to coast in this musical, a favorite of the celebrated singer. She plays the title role, that of a French Canadian girl in the Northwestern wilderness.
As the heroine she will sing such familiar melodies as "Indian Love Call", the title song and "Pretty Things." The production gives Miss Alberghetti the opportunity to sing 10 songs and is considered a striking "tour de force" for the talented singer who only arrived in this country 10 years ago.
The show, last seen at the civic theater here in 1951, was somewhat of a sensation when it was first presented on the stage in New York,
Sword Receives Conference Grant
Christopher P. Sword, assistant professor of bacteriology, has been awarded a President's Fellowship from the Society of American Bacteriologists. The grant, which is in excess of $500 will enable Prof. Sword to attend a special course on tissue culture to be given June 20-July 15 at the University of Wisconsin.
The course, which has a limited enrollment, is arranged by the Tissue Culture Association. Admission is on a competitive basis. The President's Fellowship is a means by which the Society of American Bacteriologists enables promising young scientists to extend their training.
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since it was one of the first musicals to integrate a dramatic plot with music.
It is replete with hard riding Canadian Mounted police, a murder, and other dramatic moments that set the pattern of stage musicals today. It has won high plaudits for Miss Alberghetti in various theaters across the nation.
One Eastern critic wrote, "the pure beauty of her voice and face, the warmth of her personality and her tenderness brought new meaning to this nostalgic favorite to oldsters who have loved it for years, and utter delight to those seeing and hearing it for the first time."
Supporting the leading lady in the musical, set for a one-week run, will be handsome tenor Richard Banke, as Jim Kenyon, a rugged woodsman in love with Rose Marie. He started in the chorus of the Broadway production of "Fanny," was featured shortly after that with Tallulah Bankhead and was a special guest with Miss Alberghetti on the Gisele MacKenzie show.
Ferdinand Hilt, winner of the Atwater Kent auditions, is cast in the major role of Hawley and singer, dancer, comedienne Dorothy Keller, familiar to millions through her television appearances, takes the comedy role of Lady Jane. The comedy role of Hard Boiled Herman gives Starlight audiences a chance to see one of the nation's fastest rising young comics, Danny Meehan.
The remaining schedule is as follows: June 27-July 3, Dorothy Coulter in "Kismet"; July 4-17, Gordon and Sheila MacRae in "Annie Get Your Gun"; July 18-24, John Raitt in "Pajama Game"; July 25-31, Bill Hayes in "The Student Prince"; August 1-7, Patrice Munsel in "The Merry Widow"; August 8-14, Marlys Watters in "West Side Story"; August 15-21, Peggy King in "Meet Me In St. Louis"; August 22-Sept. 4, Giselle MacKenzie in "The King and I."
BOSTON—(UPI)—A collection of Civil War and western manuscripts, including unpublished letters from Gen. George McClellan explaining his alleged battlefield blunders, has been purchased by a California library.
Collection Sold For Large Sum
It is said to be one or the most extensive and illuminating collections of unused papers in family hands in the United States. Though its sale price was not disclosed, it reportedly was near the half million dollar mark.
The collection was sold to the Huntington Library of San Marino, Calif., by Maury A. Bromsen of Boston, a dealer, for New York music critic Samuel L. M. Barlow III. Barlow's grandfather, owner of the New York World during the Civil War and a leading corporation lawyer of the time, formed the collection.
The collection was said to include letters to Barlow from Stephen A. Douglas, Samuel J. Tilden, Grover Cleveland, Union Gen. William T. Sherman, Southern leader John Breckinridge, financier Jay Gould and Montgomery Blair, a member of Lincoln's wartime cabinet.
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Included in the collection are some 60 boxes of manuscripts and more than 50 volumes of letters totaling 20,000 pages. Bromsen said he spent four years gathering the collection, which had been spread about around the country by being loaned over many years.
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