Leon Reporter, Leon, Iowa
Thursday, January 25, l923

MRS. MERLE TILLOTSON ALCOCK, contralto singer, a niece of MRS. THEO. BRENIZER, has recently signed a contract with the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York City, which is a very high honor indeed. This is the goal at which she set her aim when starting her musical career.

MRS. ALCOCK was born in a little log hut across the road from where MR. and MRS. BRENIZER now live, and started her education in the rural school of that locality. She moved later to Mitchell, South Dakota, and then to Des Moines where she secured the greater part of her schooling, graduating from Drake. She later studied voice under the best instructors in Chicago and New York City, afterwards going abroad where she continued her chosen work. She returned from Europe just prior to the breaking out of the war and has been filling engagements in America since that time.

--Lamoni Chronicle

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