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Silver Anniversary of the St. Louis Municipal Opera - 1943 Season Program

This entry is part 1 of 13 in the series St. Louis Municipal Opera 1943

I came across this Silver Anniversary Program for the 1943 Season of the St. Louis Municipal Opera (now known as The Muny), in going through some of my boyfriend’s deceased dad’s mountains of papers. Ofcourse, I took it home and scanned all the pages immediately! It’s in near perfect condition and what a wonderful local St. Louis artifact from the midst of World War II. Be sure to read the A Brief History of the St. Louis Municipal Opera, as written in 1943.

One of the things that struck me when glancing through it, was the amount of advertisements for beer and for funeral homes, but during World War II lots of lives were being lost and everyone needed a bit of an escape! Hoffmeister Mortuary, 6464 Chippewa, had a full color full page ad on the inside of the front cover. I also went ahead and scanned the back cover, an advertisement for to buy more war bonds and carry your share for victory.

Below are the cover of the 1943 Municipal Opera Season Program, the back cover, inside the front cover, and the first page which is a listing of the Officers and Directors on the Municipal Theatre Association of St. Louis:

OFFICERS:

President JACOB M. LASHLY

First Vice-President A. M. KELLER

Second Vice-President ARTHUR SIEGEL

Third Vice-President – – JOHN B. STRAUCH

Treasurer M. E. HOLDERNESS

Assistant Treasurer WILLIAM N. Sitton.

Secretary MONA B. CRUTCHER DIRECTORS: ARTHUR B. BAER, PALMER B. BAUMES, WILLIAM DEE BECKER, LOUIS H. BEHRENS, ROBERT B. BROOKS, G. A. BUDER, GEORGE M. BURBACH, O. R. CALHOUN, JR,  VINCENT M. CARROLL, HENRY S. CAULFIELD, MARTIN J. COLLINS, J. RUSSEL COULTER, MONA B. CRUTCHER, NELSON CUNLIFF, THOMAS N. DYSART, OSCAR B. FISCHER, S. W. FORDYCE, W. L. HEMINGWAY, ADOLPH B. HILL, JR., M. E. HOLDERNESS, A. M. KELLER, ARTHUR A. KOCIAN, LOUIS A. LANGE, JACOB M. LASHLY, CARL S. LAWTON, J. W. McCAFEE, SIDNEY MAESTRE MORTON MAY FRANK M. MAYFIELD ARTHUR C. MF.YERS JOSEPH GILMAN MILLER JOHN J. NANGLE E. LANSING RAY E. LANSING RAY, jR. ELZEY ROBF.RTS CARL E. ROESSLER, W. T. ROSSELL,  OTTO E RUGG,  ARTHUR SIEGEL, WILLIAM N. SITTON, HERMANN SPOEHRER, JOHN B. STRAUCH, CHARLES M. TALBERT, RALF TOENSFELDT, R. W. UPSHAW, F. W. A. VESPER, MAHLON B. WALLACE, JR., W. B. WEISENBERGER, KELTON E. WHITE, PAUL J. WIELANDY, PARKER H. WOODS RICHARD H. BERGER, Productions Manager PAUL BEISMAN, Manager

(I used an Optical Character Recognition program for the above, please excuse any typos that I didn’t catch).

Silver Anniversary of the St. Louis Municipal Opera – 1943 Season Program was originally published on VintageReveries - Vintage Fashion and Ephemera Blog

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Funeral for Missouri officer killed in line of duty set for Monday

ST. LOUIS — The funeral for a Missouri police officer killed in the line of duty will be Monday in St. Louis.

North County Police Cooperative Officer Michael Langsdorf was shot to death Sunday while answering a call about a bad check at a market in the St. Louis County town of Wellston. Langsdorf was a 40-year-old father of two. He was a longtime St. Louis city officer who had been with the police cooperative for just three months.

Visitation will be from noon to 6 p.m. Sunday at Hoffmeister Colonial Mortuary in St. Louis. The funeral is at 10 a.m. Monday at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis, followed by burial at Resurrection Cemetery.

Prosecutors charged 26-year-old Bonette Kymbrelle Meeks with first-degree murder and three other crimes. Meeks is jailed without bond.

from FOX 4 Kansas City WDAF-TV | News, Weather, Sports https://fox4kc.com/2019/06/25/funeral-for-missouri-officer-killed-in-line-of-duty-set-for-monday/

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