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dence studio in her home at 1632 P^rospectGutzmer Studio.Mrs. Gutzmer returned Friday from the west coast. Two of her students, Alice Redwood of Falls Cit\ and Barbara Hart of Kearney, were with her on a threeweeks vacation in Hollywood. Constance Balfour, formally Constance Kell Loucks, soprano of Lincoln, entertained Mrs. Gutzmer and her students at a breakfast in Hollywood bowl, on the bowl “pioneer day.” They were guests of the Dominant Music club honoring Constance Balfour, only vocal soloist dunng the first year of the bowl concerts. The guests of honor included Viscount Hidemara Konoye, thefirst Japanese to conduct in the bowl; Helen Gahagan, soprano soloist at the Friday symphony concert, and from mo vie-land, Anita Louise and Fa Wray.Mrs. Gutzmer procured tickets for broadcasts over NBC and CBS- Of special interest was the Bing Crosby program featuring Yvonne Doray, daughter of Constance Balfour, as soloist. Also the broadcast of Shakespeare's “King Lear” *over CBS from the Music Box theater in Hollywood.The actors wear street clothes. They enter as the curtain rises and seat themselves across the back of the stage. A small orchestra plays beyond an arch at the back. The citizens, (extras), sit in the wings at the right of the stage, the narrator stands at a microphone near and the actors approach in turn, a microphone at back center.One of the most exciting occasions for the students was the premier of * Fire Fly. Having paid $5.50 for seats, the voting*ladies stood in the lobby for more than two hours before the curtain, in order to see the cameraman “shoot the stars as they entered. ,Both Miss Redwood and Miss Hart w’lll return to Lincoln this week for schoolMrs. Gutzmer -will be in her studio at the University School of Music for the fall term beginning Sept. 13.
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Sunday Journal and Star
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Sun, Sep 05, 1937
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