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DUN. CN V/O:
B.G. SOF:TAKE VANDERGRIFF L) OF:
About 500 of Dallas finest and richest paid 2-dollars
to eat Spegetti and peas at the fund raising luncheon.
They were told the luncheon was held in the old train
station to symbolize keeping the Dallas Symphony "on
the track.'...Butk than the train station is not used
much anymore and didn't cost much to rent. The crowd
was told that nearly 100,000-dollars of the goal had
already been collected. And Mrs. Cecil Green was
recognized for her 25-thousand dollar 4ift.
Texas most celebrated toastmaster--Cactus Pryor--was
the master of cerimonies...and in his usual fashion
he poked fun at the controversy last fall that resulte+
outdoor concerts
when the symphony refused to play/because of the cold
weather. But the chf irman of the fund raising campain
Jack Vandergtkff says the controversy will probably
work to the symphony's advantage.(TIME:
iZD CUE :
DU W heEDpsn
playel..& d bI
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Symphony], script, January 11, 1971, 10:00 p.m.; (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1270822/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.