Utleys tell of Feves Friday Night

Mrs. Edwin Utley, who grew up here, as Billie Pierson and who has been American ambassador ex-officio to Feves, France for the past year and a half, will give us the news of our adopted town this Friday night, July 14, at 8 o�clock at the schoolhouse.

Mr. and Mrs Utley have visited in Feves several times so they have come to know the people there as well as they do the American home folk, and will show there collection of colored slides of the French town and vicinity, give us the gossip, and answer questions.

Two letters have come this week asking for interviews with the Utleys, one from Elmore McKee of New York City, who was here in the spring making arrangements for a broadcast about Morganville and Feves over N.B.C. this winter.

The other was from the KSAC station at Manhattan which will have representatives present Friday night to help with tape recording, the loudspeaker and to get material for a broadcast they intend to air later in July.

The base-relief woodcarving which Feves sent as a permanent gift to Morganville, in appreciation of our friendly gesture at the pageant two years ago, and of the help since, will be shown and presented by D. J. Roenigk, mayor.

Also after the first informal speeches of the entertaining Utleys, a record will be played of a message broadcast by Feves to us a year ago. They too had a pageant which was sent out over a French network and aimed at the U.S., but atmospheric conditions kept it from reaching us.

This program has been translated into English and is very touching and charming. One hears the people of Feves singing to us, the voice of August Berne and others. They too remark humorously about how many city people have visited their village since their international fame.

Some of the girls who studied French this winter are going to try to sing, �Sur le pont,� which is a song Mr. Torlotting, the French schoolmaster, and now close friend of the Utleys, sent over to us. It is the selection his pupils used to entertain Lafe Todd when he visited Feves two years ago.


Serve Refreshments at Feves Program

The WSCS will serve ice cream, cake and coffee Friday evening at the program in the school building when Mrs. Utley shows her pictures of Feves and the Feves broadcast will be heard as part of the entertainment of the evening.

Morganville Tribune
13 July 1950