Bishop Buddy Scrapbook 1941-1945

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· THE SAN DIEGO UNION: SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 18, 1945 .

Singers Rehearse Operatic Score

'Vagabond King,' Rockne Academy Benefit, Is Overwhelming Success The Allied .Artists, a group of local men, women and I children brought together within the last two months by their common interest in music and dramatics and their de- sire to help make the Most Reverend Bishop's dream of a vocational training center for boys come true under the name

of the Knute Rockne Academy, amazed critics with their profes- sional performance of "The Vaga- bond King" TuesGay and Wednes- day evenings in the Russ audi- torium. enthusiastic audi- ences acclaimed the cast both eve- nings as they unfolded in unfor- getable songs and dialogue, some- times dramatic, sometimes hila1i- ous, the romantic story of the va.:;abond , ·:o became king of France for a day. Pvt. Joe Sul- livan, operatic tenor loaned by the Army and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, was superb in L1e role of that vagabond king, Francois Vil- lon. Antoinette Petrasich, beauti- ful lyric soprano pf San Diego, likewise won the audiences' hearts as the lovely tady, Katherine de Vaucelles, who saves Francois from the gallows after he has saved France from the rampaging Burgundians. Lavish costumes of rich velvets and silks with jewel and fur trim (insured for $10,000), just right stag~ settings, expert lighting combined with the rousing music of the chorus, the excellent accom- pa~iment of the 18-piece orchestra conducted by Julius Leib and the perfection demanded by the dra- matic director, Miss Maria D. Fielding, resulted in a first-rate (Continuecr on Page 2) Large and

7 Antoinette Petrasich, lyric sop~~n~, ;~d Joe Sulli~;'~n, operatic t~nor, k under contract to 1"Ietro-Goldwyn-Mayer, run over the score of ~e C " Vagabond King" with Bishop Charles Francis Buddy. The operetta will } 3, be presented at ltuss auditorium Tuesday and Wednesday. Proceeds are } for the Knute Rockne academy, San Diego Foundation for Boys. 1 -------------, ?

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IMedical Society Elects Dr. Buddy Dr. E. P. Buddy was. elected resident of the St. Loms Med- fcal Society at a me_eting of the organization's council yesterday afternoon at its headquar_ters, 3839 Lindell bl. Other officers elected are Dr. A. N. Arn~son and Dr Henry R. Mcca rroll, vice _Pres- id~nts and Dr. Jos el}h Grmdon Jr who was re-elected secretary. Elected to the boara of c~unc1l- ors are Dr. William E. Le1Rghbtont Dr. J. W. Thompson, Dr. o er ·A Moore and Dr. Armand D. F~ies. Installation will take place Jan. 8. ________

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j DR. E. P. BUDDY, president- \ elect of the St. Louis Medical Society.