Ruby Pearl Elzy (February 20, 1908 – June 26, 1943) was an American operatic soprano. She appeared on stage and in films. She recorded on albums before...

created the role of Sportin' Life; the role of Serena was created by Ruby Elzy. After the Broadway run, a tour started on January 27, 1936, in Philadelphia...

and co-starring Dudley Digges, Frank H. Wilson, Fredi Washington and Ruby Elzy. The film was made outside of the Hollywood studio system, financed with...

State University in the 1940s. Her sister was the singer Ruby Elzy, and their mother Emma Elzy was a teacher and prominent member of the Methodist church...

Elzy (1887 or 1888 - 1985), mother of Amanda and Ruby Erma Elzy, American television and theatre director Ruby Elzy (1908-1943), American singer Elzy...

Amanda Elzy High School (AEHS) is a high school in unincorporated Leflore County, Mississippi, south of Greenwood, and part of the Greenwood-Leflore Consolidated...

over, Jeff and the boys take the unconscious Louey home to his wife, Ruby (Ruby Elzy). As she tearfully bemoans her husband's injury, Jeff and the band...

for the opera Porgy and Bess (1935). Sung in the original production by Ruby Elzy, it has been covered by many singers, notably Ella Fitzgerald (on the...

singer (McComb) Meredith Edwards (born 1984) – country singer (Clinton) Ruby Elzy (1908–1943) – opera singer (Pontotoc) Lehman Engel (1910–1982) – composer...

Dunham (1904–1985), educator, civil and women's right activist, historian Ruby Elzy (1908–1943), operatic soprano Perry Wilbon Howard (1877–1961), attorney...

(alcohol-related) June 16 – Sigrid Onégin, opera singer, 54 June 26 – Ruby Elzy, African American soprano Porgy and Bess, 35 (post-operative complications)...

district judge Borden Deal, novelist and short-story writer; from Pontotoc Ruby Elzy, pioneer black opera singer; played the soprano role of Serena in George...

dean Mollie E. Dunlap, librarian and bibliographer; 1930-1931 fellowship Ruby Elzy, opera singer; 1930-1931 fellowship Simon Haley, agricultural scientist...

(1908–2005) Ludmila Červinková (1908–1980) Trude Eipperle (1908–1997) Ruby Elzy (1908–1943) Gabriella Gatti (1908–2003) Aenne Michalsky (1908–1986) Margherita...

Lawrence Dutton (BM 1977, MM 1978, viola) – violist James Ehnes – violinist Ruby Elzy – soprano Michael Endres – pianist Damien Escobar – Violinist Faith Esham...

1977) January 27 – Hot Lips Page, jazz trumpet (d. 1954) February 20 – Ruby Elzy, US soprano, first Serena in Porgy and Bess (d. 1943) February 29 – A...

alt-country singer Mark Eitzel, musician, member of The Naked Skinnies Ruby Elzy, break-through African American operatic soprano who created the role...

and Jacques Wolfe in 1939 featuring Paul Robeson in the title role and Ruby Elzy as Julie Anne. Novels portal John Henry (musical) Taylor, Welford Dunaway...

composed by Jacques Wolfe. Paul Robeson starred in the title role with Ruby Elzy as Julie Anne. Other prominent members of the cast included Joseph Attles...

the United States and abroad, including Charles Bressler, Anne Brown, Ruby Elzy, Nanette Fabray, Elia Kazan, Rosemary Kuhlmann, Carmen Velma Shepperd...

expressed respect and admiration for early African-American opera singer Ruby Elzy, who originated the role in 1935 with a demanding weekly performance schedule...

and stories in Hollywood films. She was also press agent for soprano Ruby Elzy in the 1930s. During World War II she worked for the War Department on...

Blanche Calloway Minto Cato Juanita Stinnette Chappelle Inez Clough Ida Cox Ruby Elzy Adelaide Hall Hazel Harrison Lucille Hegamin Bertha Hill Mattie Hite Billie...

Durant 1943 Porgy and Bess (George Gershwin) Todd Duncan, Etta Moten, Ruby Elzy, Avon Long The Gypsy Baron (Johann Strauss II) Irra Petina, John Tyers...

(1925–2015), coloratura soprano, early international African-American performer Ruby Elzy (1908–1943), pioneering short-lived African-American operatic soprano...

Burleigh as part of "The Three Nightingales", with her Juilliard classmates Ruby Elzy and Anne Brown. She sang on radio and in the trio as a young woman. In...

County. Greenwood High School (formerly of the Greenwood District) Amanda Elzy High School (formerly of the Leflore Co. District) Leflore County High School...

MS Milton Bryon Babbitt - Jackson, MS William Brown - Jackson, MS Ruby Pearl Elzy - Pontotoc, MS Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield - Natchez, MS Samuel Jones...

Award, Biola University 2019 Abraham Kuyper Prize, Calvin College 2019 Emma Elzy Award, The United Methodist Church, MS 2019 John & Vera Mae Perkins Co-Laborer...

years later, he was elected lieutenant governor, serving under Governor Ruby Laffoon. Chandler and Laffoon disagreed on the issue of instituting a state...