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She Quits Opera Kirsten Flagstad, the celebrated Norwegian soprano. has announced that she is retiring from opera, md will only devote herself to . concert singing in the future. Vol. 7, No. 8. Scandinavian May Festival In Seattle Saturday, April 28 The Scandla Folkdancers will appear on the program. The only Seattle event of the, year unifying all Scandinavians on ono'ningic program takes place in Manny Hall at 8 p. m. Saturday. April 28. The Department of Scandinavian at the I‘niversity of \Vashingtun‘ sponsors once again a Scandinav ha May Festival, but this time bigger and better than ever. Fourteen different numbers in"; ciuding all four Scandinavian chor- ‘ uses in Seattle. a massive array of} nearly 150 singers: two Scandina-' vian folk dance teams in colorful] folk costumes; 8 poctess; three: singing soloists: instrun‘ientalisis.‘ the first rendition of a new piano; suite by a local Scandinavian Am-; crican; an Indian dancer and mu-i sical skits by students in Norwe-g gian and Swedish at the Univers ity are included in the program.| Swedish Woman Looks Ahead Story Of Swedish Womanhood Told Legally. only three doors are still closed to women in Sweden. They cannot become (1) king (2) clergy of the State Lutheran Church, (3) soldiers In the regu 'lar amiy. Barriers one and three seem to arouse no great ire in the other wise militant Swedish women lead~ era. None of them seem to have -any ambition to become monarch of the realm as ruling queen. even though it was a right they once held, and held spectacularly by Queen Christina in the seventeenth century. Attacks on the law of ‘ male succession to the throne are seldom, if ever heard. A special military auxiliary corps. the Lotta organization. seems to satisfy any desire Swedish women have to wear braid and salute each other, and its membership was in the hundreds of thousands during World War 11. Currently, the ques tion of conscripting women (all men undergo compulsory military training) for some form of na tional service has been re-acti voted. partly as a means or allevi ating a severe shortage of nurses. Women in the clergy are some. thing else, and the salvos fired on now and again against dis crimination in the wearing of the cloth are worthy of Busy Anthony (Continued on Page 5) Li B R A R Y —— %°s"§%§h%‘é APR 25 I9"! PAID Ln .w “-r 11* piififlk‘mfia ~“\'.’,!\_, (g: . .MG ”$1$“Awn . g9) “13““ ‘ mm)" I «5% ‘ {If ‘ ‘ "”5 ‘f" . . . . rx Servmg the Scandmavnan-Amencon Population of the Great Northwest Seattle, Washington, April 19, _I951 Viola Johnson Garlng Singer The traditional speech in honor of! spring, in good keeping with the‘ Scandinavian custom. will be made, this year by Versatile Professor August Werner. ; m Wests-berg, Dish-lot Attorney in Sweden sees progress Bill Holm Dancer All Scandinavians are urged to partake in this gala Scandinavian event celebrating the arrival of spring which insofar Seattle is concerned is really worth celebrat ing. The admittance charge will be small. See complete report on program on Page 3. NEW $300,000 SCANDINAVIAN CHURCH BUILDING IN SEATTLE "Open House" At Beautiful Edifice April 24 ll‘he public is cordially invited to] attend “Open House" at the new! ‘Phinney Ridge Lutheran (‘hnrcln1 f 7500 Greenwood Avenue, on Tues—i iday owning. April 24th. A brief‘ informal program including a i greeting by Mayor Devin and mu-2 lsicul selections by the Youth and} ‘Senior ('hoim and Junior Girls" l'l‘rlo, will be held in the fellou‘j !ship hall at 8:00 p. m. Refresh. ; mi-nts and an opportunity to tour ;‘ the new building will follow. ‘ i The new church. of solid mason-i iry construction faced with Arizii na Sandstone. was built at a cmt of approximately 529000000. it has a seating: capacity of 800 in the main nave. 700 in thv fellow ship huli, as weil as 22 lildi\lthl.ll Sunda" Schnni (‘Insnmnts Dedication day for the now Church will be Sundii): April 29mm :it which Kim-c 5 mie : the former pastors of the i‘wiigrogntimi. m— ciuding R. \\'. Ilamstmt now (if Parkland. “'ashingmn, and R. A. Ofstedal. now of Iwmrhh, luwa. Norwegian Dragon Class Sloop 15 Sensation In Puget Sound Waters ' It's hard to sm- how Lars Lyng nos can go wrong in this part of the country. In the five-day Pacific Coast Yachting Association regatta at \‘ancouwr. B. (1. hut year, his little Norwegian racing boat. But terfly. finished almost an hour ahead of its next competitor! A Scuttle sport: \"r‘tm‘ “'W‘te that the trim varnished-hull craft. introduced by Lygncs to North ‘American sailors. was “stealing the fancy of all sailing enthusi asts." Lyngnes, who hails from Oslo. Norway, where he operates the Scandia Pacific Trading Co.. need not regret that he came to this country after winning 17 first places last year in contests in Se attle. Vancouver. Tacoma. includ ing Seattle Seeteir honors. Now he has established the firm. Seem die. Boats Inc.. yacht brokers end chartering agents in Seettle’s Dex ter Horton Building. A small fleet of his Norwegian built, 28-foot Dragon clans sloop: will be seen on Puget Sound waters this summu. Selected for Olympic competi tions. the dragons have been in big demand in Europe. "She bu the power of I boot eeurel feet latter." aye Lynne. 5’14 as well as Dr. J. A. Aasgaard, president of the Evangelical Lu. theran Church of which this con gregation is an affiliate, and Dr. H. L. Foss, president of the Pa cific District of the Eyangelic’tl Lutheran Church, will be present. l The project is the result of a. ‘ isplendid drive for funds through ’free will offerings and much m ;operative effort, speaiheaded by } Pastor Olaf Anderson and Warner }F‘reed. general chairman. The ‘beautiful church building occupi, 3 28,000 square feet and 23 auxxl iary moans and offices. The undertaking has been ac. cempanied and furthered by the growth of the Congregation. now numbering about 1.000 memb~rs, a boost of about 50 percent since the Rev. Anderson took over the pastorship three and a half years ago. He came from Havre, Mon tana. and was born of Nozxvegian parents and raised in Minnesota, where his father served as past”! (Continued on Page 12v Bl'Tl'ERl-‘LY "With A nther light displacamont and a long mm, she come-s close to pinning off wind and in most respects behnvea like a 30 squat! meter.“ Lynne: would also hke to open a Norvvegiun disphy shop. devoted to (chem! memhmdioe. ms and mm for wholenle buyers in Nanny Cantor. 3 0c 0 Copy