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Show 'Anyone Can Sing National Anthem You don't need a perfect voice to sing our National Anthem correctly, according to Miss Lucy Monroe, famous fa-mous singer of stage, radio and opera. op-era. Miss Monroe ought to know, too, because she is considered the foremost exponent of the National Anthem today. "There has been a lot of talk from various quarters," she says, that the National Anthem is much too difficult to be sung by the average av-erage American, that its register is so high it is a vehicle for opera stars. This is a lot of bosh. "There's only one way of singing the National Anthem, and that's to sing it as you would at a patriotic gathering." Miss Monroe has sung this stirring stir-ring song so many times that she has been honored with the title of ."Star Spangled Soprano." Her fame as an interpreter of the National x, "Is ' , ' W u , J LUCY MONROE "Slfir Spangled Soprano" Anthem has made her the official soloist of the American Legion and the Gold Star Mothers. As star of the "American Jubilee" at the World's fair last summer, she sang the song more than 700 times to over 2,000,000 people. This spring Miss Monroe made what she considers "an ail-American recording" of the "Star Spangled Span-gled Banner." With the accompaniment accompani-ment of the National Symphony orchestra, or-chestra, she sang the song from the authentic first edition in the Library Li-brary of Congress. The disc was recorded at Constitution Consti-tution Hall in Washington on the tenth anniversary of the congressional congres-sional act which made the "Star-Spangled "Star-Spangled Banner" our National Anthem. An-them. Because of her heritage and training train-ing Miss Monroe is considered an all-American artist. Her family came to America in 1610, and seven of her ancestors fought in the battle bat-tle of Bunker Hill. She is a member of the family which gave the White House President James Monroe. In addition to being featured in more than 500 coast-to-coast broadcasts broad-casts in four years, Miss Monroe ' has sung with four of America's outstanding out-standing opera companies the Chicago. Chi-cago. St. Louis, Cincinnati and the Metropolitan. Vet for all the "glamour" "glam-our" there is to an opera star, she prefers to be known as "the girl who sings Ihe Star-Spangled Banner." |