Music: Progress

The Daughters of the American Revolution lifted their color ban on Washington's Constitution Hall. Announced the Daughters: famed Soprano Dorothy Maynor will sing there next season with the National Symphony Orchestra. She will be the first Negro artist to appear in Constitution Hall (other than in amateur and benefit performances) since Marian Anderson was turned away in 1939.

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