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The Detroit Tribune
Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan
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Muriel Rahn, a Black singing star, has been advocating quietly for Negro performers in unions. Elected to the American Guild of Musical Artists' Board of Governors as the only Black member, she was recently appointed to the Television Authority to promote democratic action for all performers regardless of race.
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NEW YORK.—Muriel Rahn, singing star of concert, opera, TV and radio has been quietly and without fanfare waging a powerful "behind the scenes" fight on union levels for Negro performers during the past several months.
The former Carmen Jones star, recently seen on Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town TV Show and scheduled for title role in "AIDA" Nov. 25th at Brooklyn Academy of Music, was elected almost a year ago to the Board of Governors of the American Guild of Musical Artists.
The union has jurisdiction over the Metropolitan Opera Company, and all other opera and ballet companies in America. She is the only Negro member of the Board of which Lawrence Tibbett is president.
Last month she was appointed by the Board to represent the union (which is about 99 per cent white) on the new and powerful Television Authority which may eventually absorb the lion's share of all performers, and hasten the merger of all performer unions into one great entertainment organization.
Thus Miss Rahn is in a unique position to initiate positive action on a democratic basis for all performers, regardless of race or creed in her own union as well as the new and great union of the future, Television authority.
Few artists of any kind have had the overall union experience of Miss Rahn. She has been a member of Chorus Equity Ass'n., Actor's Equity Ass'n., American Federation of Radio Artists, American Guild of Variety Artists and now, American Guild of Musical Artists and TV authority.
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Muriel Rahn, a singing star, has been fighting behind the scenes for Negro performers in unions. Elected almost a year ago to the Board of Governors of the American Guild of Musical Artists as the only Negro member, she was appointed last month to the Television Authority to promote democratic action for all performers regardless of race.