Betty Allen was an American operatic mezzo-soprano who had an active international singing career during the 1950s through the 1970s. In the latter part of her career her voice acquired a contralto-like darkening, which can be heard on her recording of Sergei Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky with conductor Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra. She was known for her collaborations with American composers, such as Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, David Diamond, Ned Rorem, and Virgil Thomson among others.

Headlines from March 17, 1927

CHINESE WIN OVER MANY MISSIONARIES; Accepting New Order, They Are Ready to Cooperate in the Churches and Colleges. TERROR STALKS IN SHANGHAI Daily Murders of Workers Are Laid to Cantonese Agitators -Hankow Husbands Protest. CHINESE WIN OVER MANY MISSIONARIES.

M'GUINNESS SAFE YIELDED RECORDS OF $114,000 BETS; McLaughlin Reveals Evidence He Says Was Seized in the Alderman's Clubhouse.

Pennington Picked for New Dry Chief; Haynes Likely to Be One of His Aides

BILLION-DOLLAR CUT IN DEBT PREDICTED; March Payments of Income Tax Show Surplus for Fiscal Year May Be $600,000,000. TAX REDUCTION TO FOLLOW Big Revenue Receipts Expected to Result in a Lower Income Levy Next Winter. BILLION-DOLLAR CUT IN DEBT PREDICTED

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