A portrait of Martha Jane Butcher, from the Lykens Standard, March 17, 1944. The following article described Miss Butcher’s musical achievements at Drexel Institute of Technology, Philadelphia:
WRITES & DIRECTS COLLEGE MUSIC COMEDY AT DREZEL, PHILADELPHIA
Tuesday, March 14 [1944], the combined student councils of Drexel Institute of Technology, Philadelphia, presented “Drexelzapoppin.” The musical comedy was written and directed by Martha Jane Butcher, daughter of Mr. ad Mrs. T. H. Butcher, North Second Street, Lykens. Miss Butcher also carried the leading role playing opposite Robert Mills of East Orange, New Jersey, and John D. Darlington of Philadelphia.
Miss Butcher’s career of music at Drexel has been an active one. She is a member of the Drexel Woman’s Glee Club, the Choral Society, and is an entertainer in the Philadelphia Stage Door Canteen. Butch, as her friends call her, has also been active in several other extra-curricular activities. In the summer of 1943 she carried the leading role in the annual summer’s play and she is also a feature writer for the Triangle, the college newspaper.
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From Newspapers.com.
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