Maria Montana
{{short description|American operatic soprano}}
{{very long|date=July 2020}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Maria Montana
| image = MariaMontana1927.png
| caption = Maria Montana, from a 1927 publication
| birth_name = Ruth Kellogg Waite
| birth_place = Wallace, Idaho, U.S.
| birth_date = {{birth date|1893|01|23}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|1971|03|16|1893|01|23}}
| death_place = San Diego, California, U.S.
| occupation = Opera singer
}}
Maria Montana (born Ruth Kellogg Waite; January 23, 1893 – March 16, 1971) was an American opera singer often called either a coloratura or lyric soprano who had training in the Toronto Conservatory of Music and the American Conservancy of Music in Fontainebleau, France. She performed a few years in France and Italy in the earlier 1920s where she picked up the stage name, and then began a prolonged career touring in America soon with the National Music League, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, broadcasts on the NBC Radio Network, and other orchestras across the United States, often returning to Montana, before semi-retiring in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1940. By then she regularly used her stage name as her everyday name and became visible associating with the Baháʼí Faith by 1942. While occasionally performing, she also took part in various projects including meetings for the religion's teachings on the oneness of humanity, was elected as a Minnesota state delegate to the national Baháʼí convention for 1945, voted by mail, at which Helen Elsie Austin was elected as one of the nine members of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baháʼí Faith in the United States. Shoghi Effendi, then the international head of the religion, rolled out plans including goals for the religion in Latin America and Europe. In a few years, after losing her uncle for whom she was a care-giver, and with a renewal of the plans of the international development of Baháʼí communities, she embarked on pioneering for the religion in Europe, mostly Italy, from the late 1950s. While there she sang for the opening of the German Baháʼí House of Worship. She returned to America in the mid-1960s and lived outside of San Diego, California. All along she had maintained private lessons, occasionally sang, and took part in operatic societies and events. She died in a car accident on March 16, 1971.
In the 2010s a New Mexico musical festival began offering an award in her name to some of the contestant singers.
Biography
=Early life=
Ruth Kellogg Waite, later known as either Maria or Marie Montana at times, was born January 23, 1893,{{cite web
| title =Ruth K Waite California Death Index, 1940-1997
| url =https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VPHX-2H7
| website =FamilySearch.org
| date = 16 Mar 1971
| access-date =Apr 27, 2020}}{{registration required}}{{cite web
| title =Ruth Waite United States Census
| url =https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MM5C-3H6
| website =FamilySearch.org
| date = June 2, 1900
| access-date =Apr 27, 2020}}{{registration required}} in Wallace, Idaho, to John Kellogg Waite, age 34 born in New York, and Alice May Bunyard age 18 and born in California.{{cite web
| title =Ruth Kellogg Waite Idaho, Birth Index, 1861-1911
| url =https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2M1-38VD
| website =FamilySearch.org
| date = 23 Jan 1893
| access-date =Apr 27, 2020}}{{registration required}}
More than a decade before Ruth was born, her father John/Jack was an athlete giving jumping and wrestling exhibitions, held records,{{cite news
| title =The best records
| newspaper =The Salt Lake Herald
| location =Salt Lake City, Utah
| page =3
| date =18 Aug 1880
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49748170/father-of-later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 28, 2020}} and was a pugilist of some success,* {{cite news
| title =An athletic tournament
| newspaper = The Butte Miner
| location =Butte, Montana
| page =4
| date =3 May 1883
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49747954/father-of-later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 28, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Jack K. Waite, the champion pugilist...
| newspaper =Helena Independent
| location =Helena, Montana
| page =3
| date =May 26, 1883
| url =https://newspaperarchive.com/sports-clipping-may-26-1883-1676963/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Athletic tournament
| newspaper =The Independent-Record
| location =Helena, Montana
| page =3
| date =29 May 1883
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49749711/father-of-later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Prelimaries arranged
| newspaper =The Butte Weekly Miner
| location =Butte, Montana
| page =2
| date =19 Nov 1884
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49746882/father-of-later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 28, 2020}} who praised black boxer Peter Jackson and not John L. Sullivan,{{cite news
| title =Whatever Peter Jackson...
| newspaper =The New North-West
| location =Deer Lodge, Montana
| page =2
| date =7 Feb 1890
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49746991/father-of-later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 28, 2020}} whom he had once boxed and lost to, it was later said. He had also suffered badly from a fight in Salt Lake City, so the story goes, against six policemen who clubbed him to insensibility and suffered a cracked skull. He had been arrested November 1880 though there is no mention of injuries* {{cite news
| title =Disturbing the peace
| newspaper =The Salt Lake Herald
| location =Salt Lake City, Utah
| page =3
| date =30 Nov 1880
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49748652/father-of-later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 28, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title = Disturbing the peace
| newspaper =The Salt Lake Herald
| location =Salt Lake City, Utah
| page =3
| date =1 Dec 1880
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49748771/father-of-later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 28, 2020}} and still went on to his career boxing and athletics. Married by 1890, the couple survived an avalanche that inundated the town of Burke, Idaho.{{cite news
| title =Buried under snow
| newspaper =The Anaconda Standard
| location = Anaconda, Montana
| page =1
| date =6 Feb 1890
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49753752/parents-of-later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} Jack joined a sheriff department in Montana and later was appointed as a deputy to US Marshall William McDermott during his term 1894 - 1898. Jack then went prospecting and partnered with later Lt. Governor Archibald E. Spriggs for a copper mine, of which they were directors.* {{cite news
| title = Montana Copper Mining Co.
| newspaper =The Independent-Record
| location =Helena, Montana
| page =4
| date =30 Aug 1899
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49300034/father-of-later-bahai-marie-montana/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Makes a good showing
| newspaper = The Helena Independent
| location =Helena, Montana
| page =3
| date =3 Oct 1899
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49300275/father-of-later-bahai-marie-montana/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} Along the way Jack joined WoodmenLife Insurance company. The 1900 US Census has Ruth second oldest child after a son Eddie born 1891, and followed by son William born 1897, and daughter Grace born 1899; the family was living in Helena, capital of Montana. Another son, also named John Kellogg Waite, was born in 1901.{{cite web
| title =John Kellogg Waite Montana, County Births and Deaths, 1840-2004
| url =https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKNR-LJVS
| website =FamilySearch.org
| date = 24 Oct 1901
| access-date =Apr 27, 2020}}{{registration required}}
At the time of Jack's death in 1902 the oldest child in the home was nine years old Ruth.* {{cite news
| title =John K. Waite took his life
| newspaper =The Independent-Record
| location =Helena, Montana
| page =8
| date =19 Feb 1902
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49301345/obit-of-father-of-later-bahai-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Funeral of John K. Waite to be held this afternoon
| newspaper =The Independent-Record
| location =Helena, Montana
| page =8
| date =20 Feb 1902
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49300338/obit-of-father-of-later-bahai-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} Jack had been found shot in the right side of his head with a 44 Colt Revolver in his right hand still smoking. It was judged a self-inflicted wound from which he died 12 hours later. He was considered generous to a fault though he had a gambling problem both winning and losing large amounts of money through reputation vs facts of the details varied. He was also known to complain about pain in his head and had bouts of depression. That particular night he spent out all night with friends drinking; the death was also felt a temporary insanity by some of his friends. The community Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks held a funeral,* {{cite news
| title =Funeral notice
| newspaper =The Independent-Record
| location = Helena, Montana
| page =5
| date =20 Feb 1902
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49300514/obit-of-father-of-later-bahai-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} and the insurance settlement was done.{{cite news
| title =Mrs. J. K. Waite...
| newspaper =The Independent-Record
| location =Helena, Montana
| page =7
| date =2 Apr 1902
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49300714/insurance-of-father-settled-of-later/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} The family moved to Lewistown in central Montana.
Ruth Waite was related to the New England Foote family via Betsey Newton, daughter of Amasa Foote of Smyrna, New York. Betsy was Ruth's paternal grandmother who also died in 1902 as did her son, Ruth's father.{{cite book
| last =Foote
| first =Abram William
| title =Foote family, comprising the genealogy and history of Nathaniel Foote, of Wethersfield, Conn., and his descendants; also a partial record of descendants of Pasco Foote of Salem, Mass., Richard Foote of Stafford County, Va., and John Foote of New York City |chapter= Betsey Newton
| publisher = Rutland, Vt., Marble City Press, The Tuttle Co.
| date =1907
| location =Rutland, Vermont
| pages =197–8
| chapter-url =https://archive.org/details/footefamilycompr01foot/page/198/mode/1up/}}
=Early performances=
Waite developed a reputation as a singer. Her debut as a soloist was four years after the death of her father in a production of The Mikado in January 1906* {{cite news
| title =Cast of "Mikado"
| newspaper = Fergus County Argus
| location =Lewistown, Montana
| page =3
| date =26 Jan 1906
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48783769/later-bahai-ruth-waite-in-chorus-of/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Success of The Mikado
| newspaper =Fergus County Democrat
| location =Lewistown, Montana
| page =4
| date =13 Feb 1906
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48784071/later-bahai-ruth-waite-solo-and-in/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} when she was just turned 13 years old. In May she participated in a fundraiser for St. Mary's School of Lewistown giving the recitation, performed in a pantomime skit, and singing, at the graduation ceremony* {{cite news
| title = School entertainment
| newspaper =Fergus County Democrat
| location =Lewistown, Montana
| page =8
| date =15 May 1906
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49724313/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 27, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =St. Mary's School
| newspaper =Fergus County Argus
| location =Lewistown, Montana
| page =5
| date =22 May 1906
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49724658/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 27, 2020}} and was at that year's town July 4 celebrations.{{cite news
| title =Fourth will be a glorious one
| newspaper =Fergus County Argus
| location =Lewistown, Montana
| page =1
| date =3 Jul 1906
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49724854/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 27, 2020}} In late 1907 she sang at the Bijou Theater in Lewistown,{{cite news
| title =Bijou Theatre
| newspaper =Fergus County Democrat
| location =Lewistown, Montana
| page =2
| date =17 Dec 1907
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49724982/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 27, 2020}} and the following spring was in a concert supporting role{{cite news
| title =Nellie Titter
| newspaper =Fergus County Democrat
| location =Lewistown, Montana
| page =5
| date =21 Apr 1908
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49725188/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 27, 2020}} followed by returning to the Bijou in May.{{cite news
| title =Calabrian hold-up at the Bijou
| newspaper =Fergus County Democrat
| location =Lewistown, Montana
| page =4
| date =5 May 1908
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49725338/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 27, 2020}} She sang again in the fall including Kate Vannah's Goodbye sweet day.* {{cite news
| title =Musicale programme
| newspaper =Fergus County Democrat
| location =Lewistown, Montana
| page =5
| date =1 Sep 1908
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49725457/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 27, 2020}}
- another's performance of the song is at [https://www.loc.gov/item/jukebox-32219/ Goodbye, sweet day].
In 1909 she won a piano in a newspaper subscription contest that ran several months{{cite news
| title =Systematic campaign develops strength
| newspaper =The Anaconda Standard
| location =Anaconda, Montana
| page =15
| date =27 May 1909
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49723852/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 27, 2020}} for the district constituting Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad areas.* {{cite news
| title =Counting the votes in the Standard's prize contest
| newspaper =The Anaconda Standard
| location =Anaconda, Montana
| page =1
| date =7 Jul 1909
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49722824/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 27, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Millions of votes cast in contest are all counted
| newspaper =The Anaconda Standard
| location =Anaconda, Montana
| pages =1, 13
| date =7 Jul 1909
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49722374/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 27, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Miss Ruth Waite, Lewistown, Mont
| newspaper =The Anaconda Standard
| location =Anaconda, Montana
| page =9
| date =20 Aug 1909
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49721819/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 27, 2020}} Later in 1909 she sang in concerts in September and November,* {{cite news
| title =Under the auspices...
| newspaper =Fergus County Democrat
| location =Lewistown, Montana
| page =4
| date =7 Sep 1909
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49725693/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 27, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Treat in store for Lewistown folks
| newspaper =Fergus County Democrat
| location =Lewistown, Montana
| page =1
| date =26 Oct 1909
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49725818/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 27, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =T. P. Haller...
| newspaper =Fergus County Democrat
| location =Lewistown, Montana
| page =5
| date =9 Nov 1909
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49725948/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 27, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Fine program is arranged
| newspaper =Fergus County Democrat
| location =Lewistown, Montana
| page =1
| date =16 Nov 1909
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49726148/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 27, 2020}}
The 1910 US Census has her in the household of Alice Waite with older brother Edward living in Lewistown.{{cite web
| title = Ruth K Waite United States Census
| url =https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MLCQ-2YF
| website =FamilySearch.org
| date = April 18, 1910
| access-date =Apr 27, 2020}}{{registration required}} Alice was unemployed but Ruth's older brother was a bookkeeper and Waite herself was listed as a telephone operator. That year she was being called the "Lewistown songbird" in various performances in Lewistown, and performed on into the beginning of 1911.* {{cite news
| title = Arrangements are being completed...
| newspaper = Fergus County Democrat
| location =Lewistown, Montana
| page =10
| date =22 Nov 1910
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48752078/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Butte women play at recital in Lewistown
| newspaper =The Anaconda Standard
| location =Anaconda, Montana
| page =11
| date =1 Dec 1910
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48752154/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Elks do honor to their dead
| page =1
| date =6 Dec 1910
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48752212/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title = The girls of...
| newspaper =Fergus County Democrat
| location =Lewistown, Montana
| page =5
| date =31 Jan 1911
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48752257/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} She then attended a wedding{{cite news
| title = Bailey-Webb
| newspaper =Fergus County Democrat
| location =Lewistown, Montana
| page =8
| date =14 Feb 1911
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48752307/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-attends/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} followed by further community performances in the summer.* {{cite news
| title =Commencement Thursday eve
| newspaper =Fergus County Democrat
| location =Lewistown, Montana
| page =1
| date =20 Jun 1911
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48752426/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Red Men gather at Lewistown today
| newspaper =The Anaconda Standard
| location =Anaconda, Montana
| page =6
| date =1 Aug 1911
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48752498/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} After those six performances across 1910-11, in 1912 she attended a baby shower while still employed as a telephone operator.{{cite news
| title =Shower
| newspaper =Fergus County Democrat
| location =Lewistown, Montana
| page =4
| date =8 Oct 1912
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48752630/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} Visiting performers came that year and Waite was among those aiding one of their performances.* {{cite news
| title =Famous concert company coming
| newspaper =Fergus County Democrat
| location = Lewistown, Montana
| page =1
| date =19 Nov 1912
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48752709/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Hearts
| newspaper =Fergus County Democrat
| location =Lewistown, Montana
| page =5
| date =26 Nov 1912
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48752768/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} Many of the Waite family including Ruth turned out for the town 1913 new year ball.{{cite news
| title =Reception at Judith Club
| newspaper =Fergus County Democrat
| location = Lewistown, Montana
| page =5
| date =7 Jan 1913
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48752881/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} Further local performances followed and now expanding into Great Falls with nine performances and plays.* {{cite news
| title = At home...
| newspaper =Fergus County Democrat
| location =Lewistown, Montana
| page =8
| date =21 Jan 1913
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48752960/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title = Mrs. E. B. Weirick...
| newspaper =The Anaconda Standard
| location = Anaconda, Montana
| page =7
| date =22 Feb 1913
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48753032/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Mrs. Weirick's reading
| newspaper = Fergus County Democrat
| location =Lewistown, Montana
| page =10
| date =25 Feb 1913
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48753082/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Mrs. Beam gets medal
| newspaper =Great Falls Tribune
| location =Great Falls, Montana
| page =3
| date =8 Mar 1913
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48753160/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title = The students of...
| newspaper =Fergus County Democrat
| location =Lewistown, Montana
| page =5
| date =18 Mar 1913
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48753259/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =A local play
| newspaper =Great Falls Tribune
| location =Great Falls, Montana
| page =9
| date =14 Apr 1913
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48753325/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =The annual declamatory contest...
| newspaper =Fergus County Democrat
| location =Lewistown, Montana
| page =5
| date =6 May 1913
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48753408/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title = Society Vaudeville...
| newspaper =Fergus County Democrat
| location = Lewistown, Montana
| page =5
| date =3 Jun 1913
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48753454/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title = Graduates of eighth grade
| newspaper =Fergus County Democrat
| location =Lewistown, Montana
| page =1
| date =10 Jun 1913
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48753534/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =School year is at an end
| newspaper =Fergus County Democrat
| location = Lewistown, Montana
| page =1
| date =17 Jun 1913
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48753650/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title = High School alumni dance last evening
| newspaper = Fergus County Democrat
| location =Lewistown, Montana
| page =1
| date =24 Jun 1913
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48753726/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title = Fourth Celebration
| newspaper =Great Falls Tribune
| location = Great Falls, Montana
| page =2
| date =29 Jun 1913
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48753804/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title = At the opera house
| newspaper =Fergus County Democrat
| location =Lewistown, Montana
| page =1
| date =8 Jul 1913
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48753902/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} Her older brother Edward returned home from his work in China that summer.{{cite news
| title =Home from China
| newspaper =Great Falls Tribune
| location =Great Falls, Montana
| page =9
| date =20 Jul 1913
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48753975/visiting-kin-inc-later-bahai-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
=Musical career=
==The Toronto Conservatory==
Now 20 years old, late in 1913 came the news that Waite was going to the Toronto Conservatory of Music, (later called the Royal Conservatory) and left in 1914.{{cite news
| title =Ruth Waite
| newspaper =Fergus County Democrat
| location =Lewistown, Montana
| page =16
| date =16 Dec 1913
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48754028/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-away-at/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} She was back to visit Lewistown in the summer,* {{cite news
| title =The Lewistown Woman's Club...
| newspaper =The Anaconda Standard
| location =Anaconda, Montana
| page =31
| date =21 Jun 1914
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48754230/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Noted local vocalist
| newspaper =Great Falls Tribune
| location =Great Falls, Montana
| page =5
| date =3 Jul 1914
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48754394/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} and joined in a community performance.{{cite news
| title = Musicale Friday
| newspaper = Fergus County Democrat
| location =Lewistown, Montana
| page =9
| date =23 Jul 1914
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48754474/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} Then she was back to the Conservatory.{{cite news
| title = Resumes her studies
| newspaper =Great Falls Tribune
| location = Great Falls, Montana
| page =3
| date = 24 Aug 1914
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48754535/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} She gave a recital in Toronto the spring of 1915 accompanied by German pianist Viggo Kihl,* {{cite news
| title = Lewistown news; Special to the Independent
| newspaper = The Independent-Record
| location =Helena, Montana
| page =7
| date =17 May 1915
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48754646/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-recital/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =The Toronto Conservatory ...
| newspaper =The Butte Miner
| location =Butte, Montana
| page =18
| date =16 May 1915
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48754868/later-bahai-ruth-waite-recital-for/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} She was back in the area in February 1916.{{cite news
| title =Straw
| newspaper =The Spokesman-Review
| location =Spokane, Washington
| page =6
| date =25 Feb 1916
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48755110/later-bahai-ruth-waite-guest/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} It was said she finished her third year at the Conservatory though in fact it was just two years, and was talking about visiting her brother in China come June.{{cite news
| title = Miss Ruth Waite...
| newspaper =Great Falls Tribune
| location =Great Falls, Montana
| page =3
| date =15 Jun 1916
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48755218/later-bahai-ruth-waite-coming-to-visit/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} She had graduated with the degree of "Licentiate of the Conservatory of Toronto of Music" (LCTM) in what was more often a four year program{{cite news
| title =Local singer's great success
| newspaper = Fergus County Democrat
| location =Lewistown, Montana
| page =3
| date =22 Jun 1916
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48755329/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} - and was their highest degree{{cite magazine
| title =Music Made Here For 60 years the Toronto Conservatory has taught the piano, harp and glockenspiel. They'll even teach you how to kiss
|author= Peter Davidson
| magazine =MacLean's
| page =12
| date =May 1, 1947
| url =https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1947/5/1/music-made-here
| access-date = May 13, 2020}} - and did some instructing at the Conservatory her last year there. She had to pass subjects in piano, harmony, counterpoint, history and rudiments of music, senior sight singing, learn and perform a variety of songs in six languages and styles. At her last recital in Toronto she presented Tschaikovsky's Jeanne d'Arc and Air Des Adieux, Berlioz's L'Absence, Wagner's Traume, Henry Purcell's Nymphs and Shepherds, Mozart's "L’Amero” from Il re pastore and Voi Che Sapete to positive reviews. She also sang with a Catholic boy's choir in Toronto with her voice described as “spiritual, combined dramatic feeling”. And back in Lewiston before her trip to the Orient she gave a recital including traditional songs "Love will find the way", "Meeting of the Waters", Purcell's "Nymphs and Shepherds", Dashing White Sergeant set to music by Henry Rowley Bishop, O That 'Twere Possible by Arthur Somervell, and Herbert Brewer's Fairy Pipers that were well received at the Judith Theater with publicity in various towns.* {{cite news
| title =Arranges for fine concert
| newspaper =Fergus County Democrat
| location =Lewistown, Montana
| page =5
| date =6 Jul 1916
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48757272/later-bahai-ruth-waite-performs/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title = Ruth Waite is here for visit
| newspaper =Fergus County Democrat
| location =Lewistown, Montana
| page =5
| date =6 Jul 1916
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48757311/later-bahai-ruth-waite-returns/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Sale of seats for Miss Ruth opens most satisfactorily
| newspaper =Fergus County Democrat
| location =Lewistown, Montana
| page =8
| date =6 Jul 1916
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48757780/later-bahai-ruth-waite-tickets-for/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Noted singer gets welcome
| newspaper =Great Falls Tribune
| location =Great Falls, Montana
| page =3
| date =12 Jul 1916
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48757931/later-bahai-ruth-waite-greated/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title = A real triumph for Miss Waite
| newspaper =Fergus County Democrat
| location =Lewistown, Montana
| page =6
| date =13 Jul 1916
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48758064/performance-of-later-bahai-ruth-waite/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Lewistown news; Miss Ruth Waite…
| newspaper =The Anaconda Standard
| location = Anaconda, Montana
| page =12
| date =13 Jul 1916
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48758191/later-bahai-ruth-waite-performance/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Fergus county girl pleases with songs
| newspaper = The Butte Miner
| location =Butte, Montana
| page =12
| date =13 Jul 1916
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48758286/later-bahai-ruth-waite-performance/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title = Lewistown singer is planning Butte show
| newspaper =The Butte Miner
| location =Butte, Montana
| page =14
| date =15 Jul 1916
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48759498/later-bahai-ruth-waite-performance/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} In August she attended a function for Montana Governor Sam V. Stewart for which she gave an impromptu performance of Robin Adair and was called again "the Lewistown song bird".{{cite news
| title = Welcome Governor (continued from page one); Ruth Waite sings
| newspaper = Fergus County Democrat
| location =Lewistown, Montana
| page =8
| date =3 Aug 1916
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48759622/later-bahai-ruth-waite-performs/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
==Far East==
In September 1916 Waite applied for a passport with destinations listed in the Orient of Hong Kong, Japan, Java, and Siam, leaving first on the SS Shinyō Maru from San Francisco. The passport application said her overall trip was recreational and to visit her brother. She extended the passport in October 1916 and a second extension in October 1917 while in Shanghai, China,{{cite web
| title = Ruth Kellogg Waite United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925
| url =https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVJP-3HRM
| website =FamilySearch.org
| date =Sep 21, 1916
| access-date =Apr 27, 2020}}{{registration required}} during the Republic of China period. Soon two brothers of hers were in China - her second brother had left in March in 1917.{{cite news
| title =Gone to China
| newspaper =Great Falls Tribune
| location =Great Falls, Montana
| page =3
| date =31 Mar 1917
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48759900/later-bahai-ruth-waite-is-away-in-china/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} She returned in December 1917.* {{cite web
| title =Ruth Waite California, San Francisco Passenger Lists, 1893-1953
| url =https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KX4F-7D8
| website =FamilySearch.org
| date =Dec 3, 1917
| access-date =May 7, 2020}}{{registration required}}
- {{cite news
| title =Famous singer returning
| newspaper = Great Falls Tribune
| location =Great Falls, Montana
| page =4
| date =2 Dec 1917
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48759982/later-bahai-ruth-waite-returning-from/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Lewistown - Miss Ruth Waite…
| newspaper =The Anaconda Standard
| location =Anaconda, Montana
| page =8
| date =3 Dec 1917
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48761817/later-bahai-ruth-waite-returned-from/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} America had officially entered World War I in April. It was later said she performed amidst this more than a year in the Orient. A "Miss Waite" is noted singing in a March fundraiser for the American Red Cross.{{cite news
| title =American Red Cross: Benefit to be given by American Women
| newspaper =The North - China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette
| location =Shanghai, China
| page =515
| date =Mar 10, 1917
| url =https://newspaperarchive.com/entertainment-clipping-mar-10-1917-1723401/
| access-date =May 11, 2020}}
==Before Europe==
A little more than a year after returning from the Orient, she is singing an Ave Maria at the Young Women's Catholic Patriotic Club in New York.{{cite news
| title =Young Women's Club give grand pageant
| newspaper =The Catholic News
| location =New York, NY
| page =11
| date =May 31, 1919
| url = https://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2010/New%20York%20NY%20The%20Catholic%20News/New%20York%20NY%20The%20Catholic%20News%20May%201919/New%20York%20NY%20The%20Catholic%20News%20May%201919%20-%200014.pdf
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} The January 1920 US Census has Waite living in Manhattan listed as a music teacher and with her sister Grace who was studying music.{{cite web
| title = Ruth Waitt United States Census
| url =https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MJ12-HR7
| website =FamilySearch.org
| date = Jan 13, 1920
| access-date =Apr 27, 2020}}{{registration required}} Waite performed for the Temple Israel Community Center in Manhattan during the year as well.{{cite book
| last =Tremaine
| first = Charles Milton
| title = New York's first music week |chapter=Public and Eleemosynary institutions; Temple Israel Community Center, Manhattan
| publisher = National Bureau for the Advancement of Music
| date =1920
| page =135
| chapter-url =https://archive.org/details/newyorksfirstmus00trem/page/135/mode/1up/}} She performed at the Rialto Theatre in August.{{cite news
| title =Rialto, Manhattan
| newspaper = The Standard Union
| location = Brooklyn, New York
| page =31
| date =15 Aug 1920
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48749763/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Rialto
| newspaper = New-York Tribune
| location =New York, New York
| page =36
| date =15 Aug 1920
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48749994/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Rialto
| newspaper =The Film Daily
| page =3
| date = Aug 18, 1920
| url =https://archive.org/details/filmdailyvolume11314newy/page/402/mode/1up/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} In November–December she performed in New Orleans, Louisiana.* {{cite news
| title =Strand - Greatest Show South
| newspaper =New Orleans Item
| location = New Orleans, LA
| page =18
| date = Nov 25, 1920
| url =https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2%3A1228C1F96EAE924B%40GB3NEWS-12314E80CF70E180%402422654-12301333CC098B00%4017-12301333CC098B00%40
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}{{subscription required}}
- {{cite news
| title =Elks Announce Program. Organ Recital Sunday Is Under Direction Wehrmann
| newspaper =Times-Picayune
| location =New Orleans, LA
| page =32
| date =Dec 12, 1920
| url =https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2%3A1223BCE5B718A166%40GB3NEWS-122D21D2F4C7FA68%402422671-122932710A6A2EF8%4031-137C488E4FBBA81B%40
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}{{subscription required}} In mid-December she was back in the New York area performing at the Branford Theatre of Newark, New Jersey.{{cite news
| title =The talk of the industry
| newspaper =The Moving Picture World
| page =1061
| date =Dec 25, 1920
| url =https://archive.org/details/movpicwor472movi/page/n644/mode/1up/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} In February 1921 she performed at the Broadway-Strand theater of Detroit, Michigan,* {{cite news
| title =Prelude…
| newspaper =Detroit Free Press
| location =Detroit, Michigan
| page =7
| date = 13 Feb 1921
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48750245/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} followed by the same chain in St. Paul, Minnesota,* {{cite news
| title =St Paul; Broadway Strand
| newspaper = Motion Picture News
| page =1778
| date =Mar 5, 1921
| url =https://archive.org/details/motionpicturenew23moti_6/page/1777/mode/1up/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} and back to Detroit with the same chain of theaters about mid-March where she did several shows* {{cite news
| title =Broadway-Strand
| newspaper = Detroit Free Press
| location =Detroit, Michigan
| page =73
| date =13 Mar 1921
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48750292/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title = Detroit
| newspaper =Motion Picture News
| page =1920
| date =Mar 12, 1921
| url =https://archive.org/details/motionpicturenew23moti_6/page/1920/mode/1up/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title = Detroit
| newspaper =Motion Picture News
| page =2046
| date =Mar 19, 1921
| url =https://archive.org/details/motionpicturenew23moti_6/page/2046/mode/1up/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} with appearances there extended into April.{{cite news
| title =DEtroit
| newspaper = Motion Picture News
| page =2681
| date =Apr 23, 1921
| url =https://archive.org/details/motionpicturenew23moti_6/page/2680/mode/1up/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
Later she said she had gained a scholarship for attending the American Conservancy of Music in Fontainebleau, France, from the Conservatory in Toronto.{{cite news
| title =Montana girl wins in opera
| newspaper =The Billings Gazette
| location =Billings, Montana
| page =5
| date =31 Oct 1925
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48750024/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} In May 1921 Waite applied for a passport naming her residence as New York, and expected to travel for study in France, Italy, and the British Isles, leaving on the SS Paris June 23, 1921. She had an affidavit from her uncle Edward F. Waite, 4th district court judge of Minnesota and supplemental communications from Ruth to Edward for her birth certificate.{{cite web
| title =Ruth Kellogg Waite United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925
| url =https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV5Y-YQ27
| website =FamilySearch.org
| date =May 26, 1921
| access-date =Apr 27, 2020}}{{registration required}} She then performed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in early to mid-June.* {{cite news
| title =Butterfly
| newspaper =Milwaukee Journal
| location =Milwaukee, WI
| page =36
| date = Jun 5, 1921
| url =https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2%3A1477BBDEA50EB75C%40GB3NEWS-1624436F94611ABF%402422846-162429A5125250F1%4035-162429A5125250F1%40
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}{{subscription required}}
- {{cite news
| title =For the week's…
| newspaper =Milwaukee Journal
| location = Milwaukee, WI
| page =9
| date =Jun 6, 1921
| url =https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2%3A1477BBDEA50EB75C%40GB3NEWS-16244374E12F0CD5%402422847-162042830D032E06%408-162042830D032E06%40
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}{{subscription required}}
- {{cite news
| title = Butterfly
| newspaper =Milwaukee Journal
| location =Milwaukee, WI
| page =36
| date = Jun 12, 1921
| url =https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2%3A1477BBDEA50EB75C%40GB3NEWS-1624447009E77245%402422853-16242B86431D3587%4035-16242B86431D3587%40
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}{{subscription required}}
- {{cite news
| title =Butterfly
| newspaper = Milwaukee Journal
| location = Milwaukee, WI
| page =14
| date =Jun 14, 1921
| url =https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2%3A1477BBDEA50EB75C%40GB3NEWS-162443851DB8FEB9%402422855-1620428367ADA329%4013-1620428367ADA329%40
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}{{subscription required}}
- {{cite news
| title = Motion picture music notes
| newspaper =The Billboard
| page =27
| date =June 18, 1921
| url = https://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2024/New%20York%20NY%20Billboard/New%20York%20NY%20Billboard%201921/New%20York%20NY%20Billboard%201921%20-%204426.pdf
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
==France and Italy==
She was at the first year of operation of the American Conservancy of Music in Fontainebleau, France, and back and forth to Italy; in 1940 the Conservatoire advertised she was a graduate.{{cite book
| author=Kendra Preston Leonard
| title = The Conservatoire Américain A History
| publisher = Scarecross Press
| date =2007
| url=https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9213/e952106bada0130937f25ef193a11ff7fc9e.pdf
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200216040618/https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9213/e952106bada0130937f25ef193a11ff7fc9e.pdf
| url-status=dead
| archive-date=2020-02-16
| oclc = 260120244
| isbn =978-0-8108-5732-2 | s2cid = 192365661
}} News began of her travels in September 1921* {{cite news
| title =Lewistown singer off to France to Study
| newspaper =Great Falls Tribune
| location =Great Falls, Montana
| page =5
| date =7 Sep 1921
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48762130/later-bahai-ruth-waite-was-in-ny/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Former Butte girl prepares for opera
| newspaper =The Butte Miner
| location =Butte, Montana
| page =10
| date =9 Sep 1921
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48763627/later-bahai-ruth-waite-in-france/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} though she had arrived in June. In October she was profiled in the Paris edition of The Chicago Tribune and the Daily News, already noting she had studied there, described as "possesses a soprano voice of exceedingly fine quality", and was going off to Italy but had to delay in order to sing at the wedding of Princess Xenia Georgievna of Russia October 9.{{cite news
| title =Americans in Europe
| newspaper = The Chicago Tribune and the Daily News
| location =Paris, France
| page =2
| date = 12 October 1921
| url =https://www.retronews.fr/journal/the-chicago-tribune-and-the-daily-news-new-york/12-octobre-1921/1729/2867807/2
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} There were 85 students who attended June 25 to September 25 and the school planned to grow to 100 the next year.{{cite news
| title = Fontainebleau school completes successful season
| newspaper =New-York Daily Tribune
| location =New York, NY
| page =50
| date = Nov 20, 1921
| url =https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2%3A16A0C23A44B27396%40GB3NEWS-166DDBC6AB0FD976%402423014-166DDDA94AA01960%4049-166DDDA94AA01960%40
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} Students were recommended by governors of 36 states in addition to recommendations of local communities; New York was the source of 21 of the 85 students. The school was run under the French Ministry of Beaux-Arts and the Municipality of Fontainebleau. First place awards for the first school season was awarded to 7 students including Waite, who was noted as recommended from Chicago.
It is not clear what Waite did the winter of 1921-2.
In July 1922 a movie was released, The Hardest Way, filmed in France featuring Fannie Ward which included Waite in a role - the movie was reviewed negatively though.* {{cite news
| title =Review of "The Hardest Way" |author= C. S. Sewell
| newspaper = Moving Picture World
| location =New York, NY
| page =277
| date = July 29, 1922
| url =https://archive.org/details/movingpicturewor57july/page/377/mode/1up/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Review of "The Hardest Way" |author=Charles Larkin
| newspaper =Motion Picture News
| location =New York, NY
| page =1625
| date =Sep 30, 1922
| url =https://archive.org/details/motionpicturenew26sept/page/1625/mode/1up/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} She later says, "...I departed with my [savings].... The war has done sad things to the Italian national art. There are not to-day enough places for native singers, not that the opera houses in Russia and Austria and Germany are mostly still in darkness. The American girl has a desperate time even to get a hearing. ... The musical authorities over there expect the American aspirant to pay for a chance at a debut, but many Americans cannot afford to pay. ...the coldest winter I ever spent was in that home in Florence, with its stone floors and stucco walls and wee small china stoves into which I daily stuffed thirty good cents worth of wood to get a faint flicker of heat. ... After [a while] I just stayed in bed till noon, studying my Italian grammar and my Italian repertory, while the winds whistled about me and my courage supplied the warmth.... all too soon that [savings] had melted. My teacher said I was ready for my debut...." Her teacher was Ernestina Bruschini in Florence.
By January 1923 news arrived back in Montana echoed in a few cities that she had arrived in Milan, Italy, and more publicity of her background with various details to note - she had already taken up the stage name of Marie Montana, and her father as a deputy Marshall had died, if not how.* {{cite news
| title =Montana girl wins honors in Italy as grand opera singer
| newspaper = Great Falls Tribune
| location =Great Falls, Montana
| page =4
| date =9 Jan 1923
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48774982/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Jan 7, 1923
| newspaper = Great Falls Tribune
| location =Great Falls, Montana
| page =10
| date =7 Jan 1948
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48773968/bahai-ruth-waite-had-arrived-in-milan/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title = Miss Ruth Waite once Butte girl in grand opera
| newspaper =The Butte Mine
| location = Butte, Montana
| page =8
| date =10 Jan 1923
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48763874/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-maria/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}* {{cite news
| title =New Officials; United States Marshall William McDermott enters upon his official duties
| newspaper =Great Falls Tribune
| location = Great Falls, Montana
| page =1
| date =13 Mar 1894
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50424912/great-falls-tribune/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =T. J. Lynde for Marshal
| newspaper =The Anaconda Standard
| location =Anaconda, Montana
| page =7
| date =9 Feb 1898
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/17596625/the-anaconda-standard/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title = Lewistown singer Italian opera role
| newspaper =The Anaconda Standard
| location = Anaconda, Montana
| page =7
| date =10 Jan 1923
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48775217/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} The Italy tour was under the Benito Mussolini regime of Italian Fascism and later in life it was said by a family member that "non-Italian names were unpopular". Reports of her efforts in Milan were good but she anticipated coming home.* {{cite news
| title =Former "Hello Girl" blossoms in opera as Marie Montana
| newspaper =The Billings Gazette
| location =Billings, Montana
| page =10
| date =13 Jan 1923
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48764016/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-maria/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Ruth Waite makes good with opera
| newspaper =The Butte Miner
| location =Butte, Montana
| page =9
| date =3 Feb 1923
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48764348/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-maria/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Montana girl wins laurels as singer in Italian company
| newspaper = Great Falls Tribune
| location =Great Falls, Montana
| page =4
| date =3 Feb 1923
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48764737/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-maria/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Ruth Waite…
| newspaper =The Anaconda Standard
| location =Anaconda, Montana
| page =26
| date =4 Feb 1923
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48764883/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} She later related an anecdote about her break through to the Italian stage:
"... one day I met a very honest and kind Italian who knew the situation and gave me good advice. ‘My dear, you'll have to wait long to get a hearing when you cannot pay. But - at length - you'll get it. It will come this way... some singer will be ill and if you can go on - in any part - without a rehearsal perhaps - you'll make your bow....’ At least after nearly three years waiting, I heard that the Musetta in a very humbug's little opera company had taken suddenly ill... I didn't know the part of Musetta... but I hurried to that manager... asked for an audition. ... I used Spanish Carmen swagger and fire for Italian Musetta.... I forgot my American restraints. I forgot everything but the terrible, urging anguish tugging at my heart which said to me all the time ’now's your chance!’... So I sang Musetta, with the fire of my desperation. ... 'brava’ he said.... ’but you can never learn the entire role in the short time left to the opening.’ (she said) ... It won't cost you a lira if I do not learn it, and if I don't you can hire somebody else.’ He agreed...."
She had three days after the initial audition to try to learn the part or be paid nothing. The lead of the show required extra rehearsals so she actually had more time. She said: "The critics were kind."* {{cite news
| title =That long, rocky road to success in grand opera
| newspaper =The Ogden Standard-Examiner
| location =Ogden, Utah
| page =32
| date =28 Feb 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48801098/coverage-of-later-bahai-ruth-waite/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =American singer tells struggle to win fame
| newspaper =The Akron Beacon Journal
| location =Akron, Ohio
| page =1
| date =5 Mar 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48804122/coverage-of-later-bahai-ruth-waite/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Path to opera fame is rocky, perilous, says US girl who struggled over it
| newspaper =Wisconsin State Journal
| location =Madison, Wisconsin
| page =9
| date =6 Mar 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48804232/coverage-of-later-bahai-ruth-waite/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =That long, rocky road to success in grand opera
| newspaper =Oakland Tribune
| location = Oakland, California
| page =84
| date = 21 Mar 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48804755/coverage-of-later-bahai-ruth-waite/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Path to opera fame is rocky, perilous, says US girl who struggled over it
| newspaper =The News Journal
| location = Wilmington, Delaware
| page =15
| date =10 Apr 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48833647/coverage-of-later-bahai-ruth-waite/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} The role of Musetta is in La boheme - and later she called this her big debut to the Italian stage, and is categorized as a lyric soprano role. Though she was approved of overall, the company was a financial disaster.
In March she was profiled in Lewistown, and echoed in other states, having moved on from Milan, though not mentioning the death of her father as a suicide.* {{cite news
| title =Former phone operator scores in grand opera
| newspaper = The Morning News
| location =Wilmington, Delaware
| page =9
| date =3 Mar 1923
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48750488/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Telephone operator grand opera success
| newspaper =The Miami Herald
| location =Miami, Florida
| page =56
| date =4 Mar 1923
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48750694/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-wait-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Montana girl, former 'phone operator, is now opera success
| newspaper =The Bridgeport Telegram
| location =Bridgeport, Connecticut
| page =12
| date =1 Mar 1923
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48775875/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Montana girl, former 'phone operator, is now success in grand opera
| newspaper = News-Journal
| location =Mansfield, Ohio
| page =18
| date =2 Mar 1923
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48776061/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Telephone girl scores success as opera star
| newspaper = The Pittsburgh Press
| location =Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
| page =9
| date =7 Mar 1923
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48776584/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Scores in Italian opera
| newspaper = The Springfield News-Leader
| location =Springfield, Missouri
| page =7
| date =11 Mar 1923
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48776779/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Scores in Italian opera
| newspaper =The Long Beach Telegram and The Long Beach Daily News
| location =Long Beach, California
| page =34
| date =11 Mar 1923
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48776909/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title = Montana girl, phone 'central' now opera diva
| newspaper =Muncie Evening Press
| location =Muncie, Indiana
| page =2
| date =12 Mar 1923
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48777079/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Ex-telephone girl grand opera star
| newspaper =Detroit Free Press
| location = Detroit, Michigan
| page =42
| date =8 Apr 1923
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48777460/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} This is when it was reported she had performed in La boheme, was back at the Conservatory, and was to return to Milan for Rigoletto as Gilda the next season.
She left Paris for Italy again in August for a tour.* {{cite news
| title = Miss Ruth Waite will sing in Italian Opera, Numéro
| newspaper =The Chicago Tribune and the Daily news, European Edition
| location =Paris, France
| page =3
| date = Aug 3, 1923
| url =https://gallica.bnf.fr/iiif/ark:/12148/bpt6k4769408m/f3/825.8161752012459,7295.522453805046,978.9364636062946,1262.8576131718655/331,427/0/native.jpg
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Ruth Waite…
| newspaper =Variety
| page =3
| date =Aug 16, 1923
| url = https://fultonhistory.com/Newspapers%2021/New%20York%20NY%20Variety%201923-1927/New%20York%20NY%20Variety%201923-1927%20%281605%29.pdf
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} It repeated she had been in La Traviata, (which was a performance in Genoa,) La boheme, Rigoletto, and added she had performed in Manon. Recently in Paris she also done concerts at the Hotel Majestic, as it was called then, and a Fourth of July at the Cercle de l'Union interalliée and would return for performances with the Concerts Colonne, also in Monte Carlo, and then in Switzerland.
In October 1923 she applied for a passport in Milan.{{cite web
| title = Ruth Kellogg Waite United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925
| url =https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV5Y-6FQ4
| website =FamilySearch.org
| date =October 31, 1923
| access-date =Apr 27, 2020}}{{registration required}} It was typed up rather than in her own hand writing and includes some mistakes. A couple of years were shaved off her age and noted her father born in Wallace, Idaho, instead of New York. At some point she also visited Algiers.{{cite news
| title = Walter Winchell - On Broadway
| newspaper =Times-Union
| location = Albany NY
| page =8
| date = Feb 29, 1936
| url = https://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2018/Albany%20NY%20Times%20Union/Albany%20NY%20Times%20Union%201936/Albany%20NY%20Times%20Union%201936%20-%201713.pdf
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
She was profiled in Montana again in spring 1924 - the new news was she was staying another season, had sent pictures, was now in the opera Les pêcheurs de perles and looking to return to America in the summer,* {{cite news
| title = Montana girl sings in Italian opera, former Helenaite
| newspaper = The Independent-Record
| location =Helena, Montana
| page =20
| date =20 Apr 1924
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48765226/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Maria Montana in Milan opera
| newspaper = The Billings Gazette
| location = Billings, Montana
| page =10
| date =23 Apr 1924
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48765512/later-bahai-ruth-wait-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} however she stayed on now in a new performance of La Scala again in Milan.* {{cite news
| title =Montana girl gets chance to sing in opera at La Scala
| newspaper =The Independent-Record
| location = Helena, Montana
| page =8
| date = 11 Sep 1924
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48777795/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Montana girl gets chance to sing in opera in La Scala
| newspaper =The Independent-Record
| location =Helena, Montana
| page =10
| date =11 Sep 1924
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48778064/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} She also heard of an awarding going on in America and made a wreathe for an osteopathic doctor which was brought by woman doctor to America.{{cite news
| title =Simple rules for keeping well given by Dr. Asa Willard
| newspaper =The Independent-Record
| location = Helena, Montana
| page =5
| date =26 Sep 1924
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48782534/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
She said "After four years [in Europe] I finished a season at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples..." where she played for another season. She remained in Naples until June 1925. In spring 1925 coverage in Montana hailed her performance reception in France and Italy.{{cite news
| title = Montana girl is sensation in opera role
| newspaper =Great Falls Tribune
| location =Great Falls, Montana
| page =4
| date =20 Mar 1925
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48765708/later-bahai-ruth-wait-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} A Montana veterinarian planned to visit her in Milan in April,{{cite news
| title =Dr. Wilkins on trip to Europe
| newspaper = Laurel Outlook
| location =Laurel, Montana
| page =3
| date =8 Apr 1925
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48765954/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} but missed her.{{cite news
| title = Veterinarian back from European trip Belgians friendly
| newspaper =The Independent-Record
| location =Helena, Montana
| page =10
| date =7 Aug 1925
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48766114/missed-connecting-with-later-bahai/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} She was probably in Paris at the time near returning to America.
==Returned to America==
In August 1925 news in Montana was she had sailed on the French SS La Savoie for New York with the positive news of her performance - she registered her permanent address in Oakland, California.* {{cite web
| title =Ruth Waite New York, New York Passenger and Crew Lists, 1909, 1925-1957
| url =https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KX9Q-Y2B
| website =FamilySearch.org
| date =Aug 22, 1925
| access-date = May 7, 2020}}{{registration required}}
- {{cite news
| title =Montana opera star sets sail for home
| newspaper =The Butte Miner
| location =Butte, Montana
| page =2
| date =24 Aug 1925
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48766344/later-bahai-ruth-wait-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} In September she performed on the first broadcast of the local Catholic radio station WLWL in New York.{{cite news
| title =WLWL, on air tonight, can carry to Rome
| newspaper =New York Evening Post
| location =New York, NY
| page =3
| date = Sep 24, 1925
| url = https://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2011/New%20York%20Evening%20Post/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201925%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201925%20Grayscale%20-%204962.pdf
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} In October news appeared again in Montana summarizing her music career. In November came the additional news of a visit to Billings.* {{cite news
| title =Montana opera star gains fame broad; will visit Bilings
| newspaper =Great Falls Tribune
| location =Great Falls, Montana
| page =4
| date =2 Nov 1925
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48750733/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Montana girl wins in opera
| newspaper =The Billings Weekly Gazette
| location =Billings, Montana
| page =2
| date =3 Nov 1925
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48766683/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} Before that, she performed in Connecticut,{{cite news
| title =The First Presbyterian Church
| newspaper = The Bridgeport Telegram
| location =Bridgeport, Connecticut
| page =12
| date =7 Nov 1925
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48782998/advert-for-performance-of-later-bahai/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} New Jersey,* {{cite news
| title =Music Day at the club
| newspaper = The Ridgewood Herald
| location =Ridgewood, New Jersey
| page =20
| date =26 Nov 1925
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48783183/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Woman's Club Music Day
| newspaper =The Ridgewood Herald
| location =Ridgewood, New Jersey
| page =25
| date =3 Dec 1925
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48783356/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Musical program
| newspaper =The Ridgewood Herald
| location =Ridgewood, New Jersey
| page =11
| date =17 Dec 1925
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48800592/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} and then was on radio WHAP as it was advertised in New York city in late December singing folk songs.{{cite news
| title =WHAP - New York - 240 M; 1250 KC
| newspaper =The Philadelphia Inquirer
| location =Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
| page =24
| date =28 Dec 1925
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48800753/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
January 13, 1926, she sang at New York Banks’ Glee Club concert at Carnegie Hall* {{cite news
| title = The New York Bank's Glee Club
| newspaper =Brooklyn Life and Activities of Long Island Society
| location =Brooklyn, New York
| page =9
| date =23 Jan 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50640537/later-bahai-maria-montana-performance/
| access-date = May 10, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =New York Banks' Glee Club
| newspaper = New York Evening Post
| location =New York, NY
| page =7
| date = Jan 9, 1926
| url = https://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2011/New%20York%20Evening%20Post/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201926%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201926%20Grayscale%20-%208742.pdf
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} and then with the American Orchestral Society concert January 31.{{cite news
| title = Boston Symphony Orchestra in an All-Russian program with Serge Prokofieff as soloist - closing Toscanini concerts - New York Symphony Society under Otto Klemperer
| newspaper =New York Evening Post
| location =New York, NY
| page =8
| date = Jan 30, 1926
| url = https://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2011/New%20York%20Evening%20Post/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201926%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201926%20Grayscale%20-%200427.pdf
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} In February Waite's god-mother and her husband returned to Montana after hearing her perform at another venue, and the Lewistown Woman's Club was arranging a fete to receive Waite with news of a western tour about to start.{{cite news
| title =Women at Lewistown to sponsor recital of former resident
| newspaper = Great Falls Tribune
| location =Great Falls, Montana
| page =4
| date =25 Feb 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48766834/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
A major profile in the newspapers including other performers, published in Utah and other states, spoke of her struggles in Italy. March 10, 1926, she again performed at Carnegie Hall,{{cite book
| last =Peyser
| first = Ethel
| title =The House That Music Built - Carnegie Hall
| publisher =Robert M. McBride & Co.
| date =1936
| location =New York, NY
| page =324
| url =https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.89812/page/n351/mode/1up/
| oclc= 233001908}} was scheduled for Tampa, Florida, in mid-March,{{cite news
| title =Sale of seats for symphony concert season is started
| newspaper =The Tampa Tribune
| location =Tampa, Florida
| page =28
| date =19 Sep 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48871789/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} then in Hackensack in late March,* {{cite news
| title =Noted artists to appear in recital
| newspaper = The Record
| location =Hackensack, New Jersey
| page =3
| date = 12 Mar 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48804369/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =American soprano was privileged to sing for princess
| newspaper =The Record
| location =Hackensack, New Jersey
| page =9
| date =25 Mar 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48804898/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} but was sick for that performance.{{cite news
| title =Noted artists give Hackensakc music loves fine treat
| newspaper =The Record
| location =Hackensack, New Jersey
| page =5
| date =27 Mar 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48805058/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} She sang at the Unity Church in New Jersey in mid-April.* {{cite news
| title =Opera soloists at Unity
| newspaper =The Montclair Times
| location =Montclair, New Jersey
| page =1
| date = 17 Mar 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48804594/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Unity Church Soloist
| newspaper = The Montclair Times
| location =Montclair, New Jersey
| page =15
| date = 10 Apr 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48750204/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} She was in White Plains, New York, for the Westchester County Music Festival May 20–22,{{cite book
| title =Pierre Keys - Music Year Book 1926-27
| publisher =Pierre Key, Inc.
| date =1926
| location =New York, NY
| pages =243, 367
| url =https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.155429/page/n247/mode/2up/
| oclc= 8255401}}{{cite news
| title =Westchester Music Festival - Jewish Music Festival
| newspaper =New York Times
| location =New York, NY
| page =6
| date =May 16, 1926
| url = https://fultonhistory.com/Newspapers%207/New%20York%20NY%20Times/New%20York%20Times%201926%20May%2011-20%20Grayscale/New%20York%20Times%201926%20May%2011-20%20Grayscale%20-%200373.pdf
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}* {{cite news
| title = Marie Montana…
| newspaper =Courier-Post
| location =Camden, New Jersey
| page =20
| date =6 May 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48835639/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Sing a song
| newspaper =The Brooklyn Daily Eagle
| location = Brooklyn, New York
| page =51
| date =16 May 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48836289/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =2000 in chorus; name soloists
| newspaper =The Evening News
| location =Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
| page =4
| date =18 May 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48836789/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} at which she sang five songs including some selections from Songs of India in German from Songs of the East by Granville Bantock,{{cite book
| author1=Granville Bantock |author2= Helen F. Bantock
| author-link =Granville Bantock
| title =Songs of India: a cycle of six songs
| publisher =Leipzig
| series =Songs of the East
| volume =5
| date = 1898
| location = New York, NY
| language =de
| url =https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/17697488?q&versionId=20759849
| oclc= 70697067}} At the end of May she sang in a performance featuring women composers which was covered nationally.* {{cite news
| title =Composers to add feature at Club meeting
| newspaper =The Selma Times-Journal
| location =Selma, Alabama
| page =2
| date =30 Mar 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48825142/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title = Music to be feature
| newspaper = The Miami Herald
| location =Miami, Florida
| page =16
| date = 30 Mar 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48825248/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Six leading women composers to be at Woman's Club meet
| newspaper = The Anniston Star
| location =Anniston, Alabama
| page =5
| date =30 Mar 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48825308/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Composers will gather at meet
| newspaper =Asheville Citizen-Times
| location =Asheville, North Carolina
| page =16
| date =30 Mar 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48825374/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Leading singers at big club meet
| newspaper =The Yazoo Herald
| location =Yazoo City, Mississippi
| page =1
| date =30 Mar 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48825467/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =General federation meet to feature much music
| newspaper =The Dispatch
| location =Moline, Illinois
| page =10
| date =31 Mar 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48825579/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Leading American women composers to attend meeting
| newspaper =Arizona Daily Star
| location = Tucson, Arizona
| page =9
| date =1 Apr 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48825685/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Women composers to attend big convention
| newspaper =The Sheboygan Press
| location =Sheboygan, Wisconsin
| page =6
| date =1 Apr 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48825728/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Unique features at the great biennial
| newspaper =The Pasadena Post
| location =Pasadena, California
| page =5
| date =1 Apr 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48825783/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Women's Clubs to convene next May
| newspaper =Lansing State Journal
| location = Lansing, Michigan
| page =2
| date =1 Apr 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48825851/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title = Club Con. in Atlantic City
| newspaper = Manhattan Republic
| location =Manhattan, Kansas
| page =8
| date =1 Apr 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48825917/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Biennial convention of women's cluns at Atlantic City May 24 to June 5
| newspaper =Argus-Leader
| location =Sioux Falls, South Dakota
| page =7
| date =3 Apr 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48825973/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Woman's club convention
| newspaper =The Noblesville Ledger
| location =Noblesville, Indiana
| page =3
| date =3 Apr 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48826044/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Biennial will have unique musical features
| newspaper =Nashville Banner
| location =Nashville, Tennessee
| page =23
| date =4 Apr 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48826097/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Federation meeting has unique feature
| newspaper =The Times Dispatch
| location =Richmond, Virginia
| page =42
| date =4 Apr 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48826162/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Six composers will sing for women's clubs
| newspaper = Pensacola News Journal
| location =Pensacola, Florida
| page =24
| date =4 Apr 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48826207/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title = Women of US will convene in Atlantic City
| newspaper =Star Tribune
| location = Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =63
| date =4 Apr 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48826267/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Federation anticipates May meet
| newspaper =Detroit Free Press
| location =Detroit, Michigan
| page =65
| date =4 Apr 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48826738/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Music to be prominent on biennial program in May
| newspaper =The Nebraska State Journal
| location =Lincoln, Nebraska
| page =23
| date =4 Apr 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48826791/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title = Music features women's program in biennial meet
| newspaper =St. Joseph Gazette
| location =St. Joseph, Missouri
| page =31
| date =4 Apr 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48826988/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =America's women composers to aid in musical program at biennial
| newspaper =Arizona Republic
| location =Phoenix, Arizona
| page =31
| date =4 Apr 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48827091/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Women composers will be feature of federation biennial at Atlantic City
| newspaper = The Shreveport Journal
| location =Shreveport, Louisiana
| page =4
| date =6 Apr 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48827174/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Feature native talent
| newspaper =The Brainerd Daily Dispatch
| location =Brainerd, Minnesota
| page =4
| date =8 Apr 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48832611/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =6 women composers will appear at club convention at shore
| newspaper =Courier-Post
| location =Camden, New Jersey
| page =14
| date =8 Apr 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48832718/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Plan music treats for clubs meeting
| newspaper =The Indianapolis Star
| location = Indianapolis, Indiana
| page =4
| date =9 Apr 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48832871/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Club women will honor musicians
| newspaper =The Des Moines Register
| location =Des Moines, Iowa
| page =9
| date =12 Apr 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48833878/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =A unique feature…
| newspaper =Dayton Daily News
| location =Dayton, Ohio
| page =35
| date =18 Apr 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48834194/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Biennial and congress planned by federation
| newspaper = Pittsburgh Daily Post
| location =Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
| page =58
| date =18 Apr 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48834301/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Woman composers prominent in club federation plans
| newspaper =Evening Star
| location =Washington, District of Columbia
| page =67
| date =18 Apr 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48834457/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Many features to be offered at convention
| newspaper =The Selma Times-Journal
| location =Selma, Alabama
| page =14
| date =2 May 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48834615/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Local women at biennial
| newspaper =Salt Lake Telegram
| location =Salt Lake City, Utah
| page =18
| date =2 May 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48834898/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Biennial convention program outlines attractive features
| newspaper =The Atlanta Constitution
| location =Atlanta, Georgia
| page =62
| date =9 May 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48835824/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Clubs to honor women composers
| newspaper =Chattanooga Daily Times
| location =Chattanooga, Tennessee
| page =25
| date =16 May 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48836107/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Saturday evening, May 29
| newspaper =The Atlanta Constitution
| location =Atlanta, Georgia
| page =52
| date =16 May 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48836464/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Clubs to honor women composers at federation biennial
| newspaper =Johnson City Chronicle
| location =Johnson City, Tennessee
| page =5
| date =18 May 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48837301/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Women composers to be feature of club's convention
| newspaper =Arizona Daily Star
| location =Tucson, Arizona
| page =7
| date =19 May 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48837485/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Biennial to honor women composers
| newspaper =The Bristol News Bulletin
| location =Bristol, Tennessee
| date =19 May 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48837792/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Convention of women's clubs to be great event
| newspaper = The Crowley Post-Signal
| location =Crowley, Louisiana
| page =6
| date =20 May 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48837957/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Music to be unique
| newspaper =The Times Dispatch
| location =Richmond, Virginia
| page =11
| date =21 May 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48838144/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Music accorded prominent place on program for Atlantic City biennial
| newspaper =Arizona Republic
| location =Phoenix, Arizona
| page =35
| date =23 May 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48838363/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Georgia women prominent at meeting of federation |author=Anna Steese Richardson
| newspaper = The Atlanta Constitution
| location =Atlanta, Georgia
| page =12
| date =30 May 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48861564/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} In June this was followed by a small blurb of publicity echoed in many states.* {{cite news
| title =Singer takes name of state
| newspaper = Evening Star
| location =Washington, District of Columbia
| page =5
| date =1 Jun 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48861720/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Singer takes name of state
| newspaper =The Daily Times
| location =Davenport, Iowa
| page =11
| date =2 Jun 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48861823/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Singer takes state's name
| newspaper =The Shreveport Journal
| location =Shreveport, Louisiana
| page =9
| date =4 Jun 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48861945/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Singer takes name of state
| newspaper =The La Crosse Tribune
| location =La Crosse, Wisconsin
| page =7
| date =4 Jun 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48862017/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Singer takes name of state
| newspaper =Deseret News
| location =Salt Lake City, Utah
| page =21
| date =12 Jun 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48862227/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Takes name of state
| newspaper =Dayton Daily News
| location =Dayton, Ohio
| page =74
| date =13 Jun 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48862301/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Singer takes name of state
| newspaper =The Honolulu Advertiser
| location =Honolulu, Hawaii
| page =6
| date =27 Jun 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48862376/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Singer takes name of state
| newspaper =The Daily News
| location =Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania
| page =3
| date =7 Jul 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48862454/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Singer uses state's name
| newspaper =The Guntersville Advertiser
| location =Guntersville, Alabama
| page =2
| date =13 Jul 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48862539/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Singer uses state's name
| newspaper =The Morton County Farmer
| location =Rolla, Kansas
| page =4
| date =30 Jul 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48870682/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}{{cite news
| title =Marie Montana…
| newspaper =Variety
| page =51
| date =July 28, 1926
| url =https://archive.org/details/variety83-1926-07/page/n218/mode/1up/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
A profile was published in San Francisco where she was in August saying in part she had qualities of a coloratura soprano as long ago as her performances in Naples.{{cite news
| title =Marie Montana
| newspaper =The San Francisco Examiner
| location =San Francisco, California
| page =46
| date =15 Aug 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48870798/profile-of-later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} It recalled the same background and added some of the roles she had played: debuted as Mimi, then Violetta in Genoa, then San Carlo company in Naples and lauded in Corriere about her performance as Gilda as a coloratura soprano, then Rome as Micaela where she won an ovation. Then she played Lucia again to complimentary coverage. In September she had performed in San Fernando.{{cite news
| title =Better than oil
| newspaper =The Independent-Record
| location =Helena, Montana
| page =2
| date =17 Sep 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48871618/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} Then she went to Las Cruces, New Mexico, for the Department of Music at State College in Hadley Hall concert series. In early November she was in Casper, Wyoming, where she sang Deh, Vieni non Tarbot by Mozart, In the Silent Night by Rachmaninoff, Lass with the Delicate Air Michael Arne, Il Bacio by Luigi Arditi, and the Ave Maria by Bach,* {{cite news
| title =Departmental club to give remarkable concert series
| newspaper = Casper Star-Tribune
| location =Casper, Wyoming
| page =12
| date =12 Sep 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48871363/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title = Marie Montana, soprano, coming to Casper after long list of successes
| newspaper =Casper Star-Tribune
| location = Casper, Wyoming
| page =8
| date =24 Oct 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48872185/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Montana, noted soprano, and Bernard Ocko, violin virtuoso here this week
| newspaper =Casper Star-Tribune
| location =Casper, Wyoming
| page =10
| date =31 Oct 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48873437/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title = Musical treat assured here in Montana - Ocko concert at auditorium on Wednesday
| newspaper =Casper Star-Tribune
| location =Casper, Wyoming
| page =8
| date =2 Nov 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48873751/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} adding Christ went up into the Hills by Richard Hageman, a folk song from Kentucky, a negro spiritual Lil David, Play on Your Harp, when she performed in Billings,* {{cite news
| title =Program for week at local theaters
| newspaper =The Billings Gazette
| location =Billings, Montana
| page =18
| date =17 Oct 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48871901/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Babcock
| newspaper =The Billings Gazette
| location = Billings, Montana
| page =3
| date =29 Oct 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48872626/advert-for-later-bahai-ruth-kellog/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Babcock
| newspaper =The Billings Gazette
| location =Billings, Montana
| page =3
| date =30 Oct 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48873215/advert-for-later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Marie Montana
| newspaper =The Billings Gazette
| location = Billings, Montana
| page =17
| date =31 Oct 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48873599/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Babcock books Marie Montana
| newspaper =The Billings Gazette
| location =Billings, Montana
| page =20
| date =31 Oct 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48750802/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Marie Montana sings tonight
| newspaper =The Billings Gazette
| location =Billings, Montana
| page =10
| date =4 Nov 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48874060/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Music lovers hear concert
| newspaper =The Billings Gazette
| location =Billings, Montana
| page =3
| date =5 Nov 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48874282/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} then in Lewistown,* {{cite news
| title =Stanford Kiwanians get Charter Nov 13
| newspaper =Great Falls Tribune
| location =Great Falls, Montana
| page =2
| date =29 Oct 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48872889/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Native daughter of Montana world famous in opera to appear here Tuesday Night
| newspaper =Great Falls Tribune
| location =Great Falls, Montana
| page =11
| date =8 Nov 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48767218/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =The greatest ovation…
| newspaper =The Independent-Record
| location =Helena, Montana
| page =2
| date =9 Nov 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48875894/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} Great Falls November 9,* {{cite news
| title =Marie Montana in recital here
| newspaper = Great Falls Tribune
| location =Great Falls, Montana
| page =11
| date =6 Nov 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48874409/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Marie Montana at the Methodist Church
| newspaper = Great Falls Tribune
| location =Great Falls, Montana
| page =6
| date =9 Nov 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48876313/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Tribute paid native singer
| newspaper = Great Falls Tribune
| location =Great Falls, Montana
| page =8
| date =10 Nov 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48876671/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} Dillon on the 10th,{{cite news
| title =The first number…
| newspaper =The Anaconda Standard
| location =Anaconda, Montana
| page =13
| date =9 Nov 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48876122/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} and on to Santa Rosa, California, on the 16th for a concert at which she switched in Crying of Water by Louis Campbell-Tipton for Lil David, Play on Your Harp,* {{cite news
| title =Concert workers named
| newspaper =The Press Democrat
| location =Santa Rosa, California
| page =9
| date =20 Oct 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48872044/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Joint recital Nov 18
| newspaper =The Press Democrat
| location =Santa Rosa, California
| page =6
| date =29 Oct 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48872763/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Brilliant artists appearing at H. S. November 16
| newspaper =The Press Democrat
| location =Santa Rosa, California
| page =4
| date =29 Oct 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48873097/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title = $5 for selling tickets
| newspaper =The Press Democrat
| location =Santa Rosa, California
| page =11
| date =2 Nov 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48873907/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Many tickets sold
| newspaper =The Press Democrat
| location =Santa Rosa, California
| page =9
| date =9 Nov 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48875554/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Artists announce program for school recital
| newspaper = The Press Democrat
| location =Santa Rosa, California
| page =8
| date =9 Nov 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48875748/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Coming to Santa Rosa
| newspaper = Santa Rosa Republican
| location =Santa Rosa, California
| page =11
| date =12 Nov 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48876778/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Joint Concert
| newspaper =The Press Democrat
| location =Santa Rosa, California
| page =6
| date =13 Nov 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48876904/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Two eminent artists on program here November 16
| newspaper =The Press Democrat
| location =Santa Rosa, California
| page =9
| date =14 Nov 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48877043/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Montana concert tonight
| newspaper =The Press Democrat
| location =Santa Rosa, California
| page =10
| date =16 Nov 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48877163/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =School orchestra its first appearance
| newspaper =Santa Rosa Republican
| location =Santa Rosa, California
| page =7
| date =17 Nov 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48877369/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Rally boosts concert
| newspaper =The Press Democrat
| location =Santa Rosa, California
| page =6
| date =17 Nov 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48877546/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Students discuss concert
| newspaper =The Press Democrat
| location =Santa Rosa, California
| page =9
| date =18 Nov 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48877707/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} and a fundraiser November 18 at which she added When I was Seventeen,* {{cite news
| title =Concert workers named
| newspaper =Press Democrat
| location =Santa Rosa, California
| page =9
| date = 20 October 1926
| url =https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SRPD19261020.1.9&srpos=1&e=------192-en--20--1-byDA-txt-txIN--------1
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Joint Recital Nov 18
| newspaper =Press Democrat
| location =Santa Rosa, California
| page =6
| date =29 October 1926
| url =https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SRPD19261029.1.6&srpos=3&e=------192-en--20--1-byDA-txt-txIN--------1
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Joint Concert
| newspaper =Press Democrat
| location =Santa Rosa, California
| page =6
| date =14 November 1926
| url =https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SRPD19261114.1.6&srpos=8&e=------192-en--20--1-byDA-txt-txIN--------1
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Unprecedented record made by concert artist
| newspaper =Press Democrat
| location =Santa Rosa, California
| page =4
| date =16 November 1926
| url =https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SRPD19261116.1.4&srpos=11&e=------192-en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Rally boosts concert
| newspaper =Press Democrat
| location =Santa Rosa, California
| page =6
| date =17 November 1926
| url =https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SRPD19261117.1.6&srpos=13&e=------192-en--20--1-byDA-txt-txIN--------1
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} possibly the translation of a Swedish folksong or in the native tongue. Later in November she gave a performance in Shreveport, Louisiana,{{cite news
| title = Tech to seek new building
| newspaper =The Times
| location =Shreveport, Louisiana
| page =8
| date =29 Oct 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48872389/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} and in December she was in nearby Monroe where she was called a lyric soprano.* {{cite news
| title =Lyric soprano will appear in Ruston recital
| newspaper =The Monroe News-Star
| location =Monroe, Louisiana
| page =5
| date =24 Nov 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4405224/background-of-future-bahai-maria/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} Following this tour it was announced a flower was named after her - a variety of Dahlia.{{cite news
| title =Marie Montana gives consent to Mrs. Wilkins to name flower for her
| newspaper =Laurel Outlook
| location =Laurel, Montana
| page =1
| date =1 Dec 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48878199/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
In January, 1927, she performed in Altoona, Pennsylvania, at which she swapped in some other songs: O sleep why does thou leave me by Handel, Thomas Linley's The Lark Sings High in the Cornfield and Invitation au Voyage by Henri Duparc, renditions of Chanson du Papillon, Sur l'Eau, Modest Mussorgsky's "Little Star so Bright", Ungeduld by Schubert, and Ständchen by Richard Strauss - and was billed as a coloratura soprano.* {{cite news
| title = Music club closes year with recital
| newspaper =Altoona Tribune
| location =Altoona, Pennsylvania
| page =5
| date =26 May 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48838655/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title ="Marie Montana" to give recital
| newspaper = Altoona Tribune
| location =Altoona, Pennsylvania
| page =4
| date =14 Jan 1927
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48750172/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title ="Marie Montana" to give recital
| newspaper =Altoona Tribune
| location =Altoona, Pennsylvania
| page =4
| date =14 Jan 1927
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48750172/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Marie Montana coming for Tuesday's recital
| newspaper =Altoona Tribune
| location =Altoona, Pennsylvania
| page =4
| date =17 Jan 1927
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48879515/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Miss Marie Montana to sing here tonight
| newspaper =Altoona Tribune
| location =Altoona, Pennsylvania
| page =4
| date =18 Jan 1927
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48879636/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} In March she performed in Tampa including Overture Anacréon by Cherubini, a song from the introduction of the 3rd act of Lohengrin by Wagner, the aria Me Voila Seule by Bizet, Adagio Pathetique by Benjamin Godard, and various folks songs.* {{cite news
| title =Marie Montana will sing here in March
| newspaper =The Orlando Sentinel
| location =Orlando, Florida
| page =7
| date =6 Dec 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48878716/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Free tickets needed most by symphony
| newspaper = The Tampa Times
| location =Tampa, Florida
| page =7
| date =21 Feb 1927
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48879754/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Soprano will appear in symphony concert
| newspaper =The Tampa Tribune
| location =Tampa, Florida
| page =22
| date =3 Mar 1927
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48880080/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =City chorus to be featured by orchestra
| newspaper =The Tampa Times
| location =Tampa, Florida
| page =3
| date =5 Mar 1927
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48880263/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Program announced for next Sunday's symphony concert
| newspaper = The Tampa Tribune
| location =Tampa, Florida
| page =6
| date =6 Mar 1927
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48899042/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Symphony concert at Tampa Sunday
| newspaper =Tampa Bay Times
| location =St. Petersburg, Florida
| page =12
| date =9 Mar 1927
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48899136/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} She also sang at some clubs* {{cite news
| title =Symphony soloist will arrive today
| newspaper =The Tampa Tribune
| location =Tampa, Florida
| page =13
| date =10 Mar 1927
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48899179/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Large crowd to go to concert today by symphony orchestra
| newspaper = The Tampa Tribune
| location =Tampa, Florida
| page =9
| date =13 Mar 1927
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48899262/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} and at a hotel.* {{cite news
| title =Musical program planned at hotel
| newspaper =Tampa Bay Times
| location =St. Petersburg, Florida
| page =26
| date =13 Mar 1927
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48899295/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} The review of the earlier performances was she was good but not great, and as a lyric soprano* {{cite news
| title =Galli-Curci pleased with Tampa symphony orchestra's concert |author= Homre Moore
| newspaper =The Tampa Tribune
| location = Tampa, Florida
| page =5
| date =14 Mar 1927
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48899384/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Tampans hear Miss Montana and musicale
| newspaper =The Tampa Times
| location =Tampa, Florida
| page =11
| date =14 Mar 1927
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48899442/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} - while more positive review covered her at the hotel.{{cite news
| title =Soprano delights Soreno audience
| newspaper =Tampa Bay Times
| location =St. Petersburg, Florida
| page =28
| date =16 Mar 1927
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48899561/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} She was scheduled back in Orlando on March 18,{{cite news
| title =Season program for choral society given
| newspaper = The Orlando Sentinel
| location =Orlando, Florida
| page =11
| date =29 Dec 1926
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48879103/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} then quickly she was in a performance in New York at Town Hall where she sang German, Italian, French, and English songs and the aria from Bizet's The Pearl Fishers.* {{cite news
| title =News and Notes of Music
| newspaper = New York Sun
| location =New York, NY
| page =9
| date =Mar 19, 1927
| url = https://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2018/New%20York%20NY%20Sun/New%20York%20NY%20Sun%201927/New%20York%20NY%20%201927%20-%201693.pdf
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Nadiejda Flevitekala
| newspaper =New York Evening Post
| location =New York, NY
| page =11
| date =Mar 19, 1927
| url = https://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2011/New%20York%20Evening%20Post/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201927%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201927%20Grayscale%20-%201670.pdf
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} There were mixed reviews of her performance.* {{cite news
| title =Concerts of the week
| newspaper =Times Union
| location =Brooklyn, New York
| page =104
| date =20 Mar 1927
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48899611/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =At the Town Hall…
| newspaper =The Brooklyn Daily
| location =Eagle Brooklyn, New York
| page =8
| date =24 Mar 1927
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48899688/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Music events of the day |author= Harold A. Strickland
| newspaper =Times Union
| location =Brooklyn, New York
| page =30
| date =24 Mar 1927
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48899784/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
In May she attended and performed in the Central Kentucky Choral Society symphony which was broadcast on radio WHAS in which she sung "Siccome un di Caduto" from The Pearl Fishers.* {{cite news
| title =Formed three years ago
| newspaper =The Courier-Journal
| location =Louisville, Kentucky
| page =2
| date =11 May 1927
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48899974/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title ='Phone rate prohibits WHAS concert plans
| newspaper = The Courier-Journal
| location =Louisville, Kentucky
| page =1
| date =11 May 1927
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48900141/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Choral Society gives oratorio
| newspaper =The Kentucky Kernel
| location =University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
| page =1
| date =May 13, 1927
| url =https://archive.org/details/xt7sqv3c0c37/mode/1up/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} Later in May she sang with the Albany, New York, choir for their Mendelssohn concert at the Chancellor's Hall. “Wholly delightful was the Albany debut of Miss Marie Montana… Here is an American girl who can challenge most of the finest sopranos in their prime. She has everything. Purity of tone, that the most accurate instrument could register, poetry of expression and a power that conjures thoughts of great operatic climaxes.…"* {{cite news
| title =Mendelssohns in spring concert
| newspaper =Evening News
| location =Albany NY
| page =?
| date =May 26, 1927
| url = https://fultonhistory.com/Newspapers%20Disk3/Albany%20NY%20Evening%20Journal/Albany%20NY%20Evening%20Journal%201927.pdf/Albany%20NY%20Evening%20Journal%201927%20-%202979.pdf
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite web
| title =Club history of - subscription concerts
| url =http://www.mendelssohn.org/History/concertlist.html
| website = Mendelssohn Club of Albany, NY
| date = 2012
| access-date = May 10, 2020}}
==National Music League==
In June Waite won an audition as soprano for the New York Philharmonic Orchestra for an August concert managed by the National Music League,* {{cite news
| title =Four american singers chosen as stadium soloists
| newspaper =The Standard Union
| location =Brooklyn, New York
| page =12
| date =19 Jun 1927
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48901200/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =American singers chosen soloists
| newspaper =News-Democrat
| location =Paducah, Kentucky
| page =5
| date =3 Jul 1927
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48901599/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} with an aria from Louis by Marc-Antoine Charpentier and in a vocal quartet performance on Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto.* {{cite thesis |last= Stern |first=Jonathan |date=2009 |title=Music for the (American) people: the concerts at Lewisohn Stadium, 1922-1964 |type= PhD |publisher=City University of New York |oclc=456408146 |pages=333–4 |url=https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3282&context=gc_etds |access-date=May 10, 2020}}
- Programs are available at {{cite news
| title =1927 Aug 23 / Stadium Concert / Hoogstraten (ID: 12838)
| magazine =Stadium Concerts Review |volume=10 |number=14
| location =New York, NY
| pages =18, 20
| publisher =Sigmund Gottlober
| date =August 1927
| url =https://archives.nyphil.org/index.php/artifact/be8edddf-8651-47a4-b741-fc5e6178664c-0.1/fullview#page/18/mode/1up
| access-date = May 10, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title = Saturday evening will mark...
| newspaper =New York Evening Post
| location =New York, NY
| page =6
| date =Aug 13, 1927
| url = https://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2011/New%20York%20Evening%20Post/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201927%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201927%20Grayscale%20-%205185.pdf
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} She was soon advertised under their management. That performance series was at the Lewisohn Stadium and broadcast over radio WJZ as it was then known in New York,* {{cite news
| title =Four get chance
| newspaper =The Windsor Star
| location =Windsor, Ontario, Canada
| page =16
| date =21 Jun 1927
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48751901/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Yankee singers get opportunity
| newspaper =Detroit Free Press
| location =Detroit, Michigan
| page =18
| date =22 Jun 1927
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48901439/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} which was widely re-echoed across the NBC radio network.* {{cite news
| title =Summer concerts on Blue Network
| newspaper =St. Louis Globe-Democrat
| location =St. Louis, Missouri
| page =32
| date =3 Jul 1927
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48901497/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =New York Philharmonic Orchestra to be heard
| newspaper =Pittsburgh Daily Post
| location =Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
| page =47
| date =3 Jul 1927
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48901690/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Philharmonic series to come over WCX-WJR
| newspaper =Detroit Free Press
| location = Detroit, Michigan
| page =22
| date =3 Jul 1927
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48901781/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} The rest of the summer and fall is an unknown. The following December she sang at Carnegie Hall with the Cleveland Orchestra which included Israel by Ernest Bloch, La Procesion del Rocio by Joaquín Turina, La Damoisselle Elue by Debussy, and "The Golden General" by Rimksy-Korsakov.* {{cite news
| title = The Cleveland Orchestra
| newspaper =New York Evening Post
| location =New York, NY
| page =12
| date = Nov 19, 1927
| url = https://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2011/New%20York%20Evening%20Post/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201927%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201927%20Grayscale%20-%207471.pdf
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Nikolai Sokoloff
| newspaper =New York Evening Post
| location =New York, NY
| page =10
| date =Nov 26, 1927
| url = https://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2011/New%20York%20Evening%20Post/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201927%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201927%20Grayscale%20-%207615.pdf
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} She also sang with the Women's University Glee Club with Debussy's The Blessed Damozel.{{cite news
| title = Cleveland Orchesrta and other music...; Music; Following this nearly...
| newspaper =New York Evening Post
| location =New York, NY
| page =18
| date =Dec 7, 1927
| url = https://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2011/New%20York%20Evening%20Post/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201927%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201927%20Grayscale%20-%207957.pdf
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
In February 1928 it was announced Waite was to be the prima donna in recently developed opera Hugh the Drover which was being produced by the British Embassy in Washington, DC.* {{cite news
| title =Germany to send opera star here
| newspaper =Evening Star
| location =Washington, District of Columbia
| page =3
| date =5 Feb 1928
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48920751/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =US Prima Dona will make debut
| newspaper =Evening Star
| location =Washington, District of Columbia
| page =3
| date =8 Feb 1928
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48920384/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} Afterwards she sang on radio WMAL as it was known then in Washington DC, news of which was also in other states.* {{cite news
| title = WMAL
| newspaper =Evening Star
| location =Washington, District of Columbia
| page =10
| date =10 Feb 1928
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48920929/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title = It is worthy of note...
| newspaper =Evening Star
| location =Washington, District of Columbia
| page =65
| date =12 Feb 1928
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48921269/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Tonight
| newspaper =Evening Star
| location =Washington, District of Columbia
| page =34
| date =13 Feb 1928
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48921432/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Opera mixed with jazz and prize fight served capital
| newspaper =The Los Angeles Times
| location =Los Angeles, California
| page =11
| date =14 Feb 1928
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48922468/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =When two ...
| newspaper =Evening Star
| location =Washington, District of Columbia
| page =17
| date =17 Feb 1928
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48922154/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title ='Tosca' heads bill of final operas
| newspaper = Evening Star
| location =Washington, District of Columbia
| page =4
| date =20 Feb 1928
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48947790/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Folks songs score in English opera
| newspaper =Evening Star
| location =Washington, District of Columbia
| page =4
| date =22 Feb 1928
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48948934/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Mrs. Williamson is pleased with opera
| newspaper =The Daily Deadwood Pioneer-Times
| location = Deadwood, South Dakota
| page =3
| date = 7 Mar 1928
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48949090/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} In earlier-May she was at the 35th Annual May Festival at the University School of Music of Ann Arbor, Michigan.* {{cite book|author=University of Michigan School of Music|title=Catalogue and Prospectus 1927-1928 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sXQJAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA5-PA71 |year=1928|page=71}}
- {{cite magazine|title=Thirty-Fifth May Festival scores success|magazine=The Michigan Alumnus|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=ijZYAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA688 |year=1928|publisher=UM Libraries|page=688|id=UOM:39015071121043}} Then she joined with the 100plus voice Alamance Festival Chorus, half from Elon College, at the North Carolina Federation of Music conference held in Sanford, North Carolina, and at another concert at the college itself, where she joined in "Inflammatus" from Stabat Mater by Rossini and Italian Street Song by Victor Herbert,* {{cite news
| title =NC federation of music clubs meets at Sanford
| newspaper =Maroon and Gold
| location =Elon College, NC
| pages =1, 4
| date =April 12, 1928
| url =http://newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/2015236757/1928-04-12/ed-1/seq-1/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Marie Montana to appear at Elon on Thursday night, May 10
| newspaper =Maroon and Gold
| location =Elon College, NC
| page =1
| date =April 19, 1928
| url =http://newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/2015236757/1928-04-19/ed-1/seq-1/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Mrs. W. A. Harper unanimously chosen to head music federation of state again
| newspaper =Maroon and Gold
| location =Elon College, NC
| page =1
| date =April 26, 1928
| url =http://newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/2015236757/1928-04-26/ed-1/seq-1/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Festival Chorus Concert of Elon this evening
| newspaper =The Alamance Gleaner
| location =Graham, NC
| page =3
| date =May 10, 1928
| url =http://newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn84020756/1928-05-10/ed-1/seq-3/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =The Alamance County Chorus...
| newspaper =The Christian Sun
| location = Richmond, VA
| page =2
| date =May 24, 1928
| url =https://archive.org/details/christiansun80gene/page/n329/mode/1up/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} In July news was released she was on her way to visit her uncle Judge & Mrs. Edward F. Waite in Minnesota on her travels from New York to California for a performance at the Redlands Bowl,{{cite news
| title =Miss Ruth Kellogg Waite...
| newspaper =Star Tribune
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =50
| date =1 Jul 1928
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48749800/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} and stopping in Lewistown too.{{cite news
| title =The new high school...
| newspaper =Great Falls Tribune
| location =Great Falls, Montana
| page =4
| date =13 Jul 1928
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48769475/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} A profile of her was published in Montana and mentions some other recent performances like the May Festival in Ann Arbor and at the Chicago Symphony.* {{cite news
| title =Marie Montana, daughter of Treasure State, world famed diva, here Monday |author= M. M. L.
| newspaper =The Anaconda Standard
| location =Anaconda, Montana
| page =14
| date =15 Jul 1928
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48769728/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Marie Montana to present splendid program tonight
| newspaper =The Anaconda Standard
| location =Anaconda, Montana
| page =2
| date =16 Jul 1928
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48770927/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} She was soon in Billings where she sang some new songs: Qui la Voce Sua Soave by Vincenzo Bellini, local favorite No, No, John, Francis Hopkinson's My Day have been so wondrous Free, Believe me if all those Endearing Young Charms, Un bel dì vedremo from Madama Butterfly by Puccini, Wir Wandelten by Brahms, Stornellata Marinara by Pietro Cimara, and negro spirituals Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen and Oh, Didn't it Rain,* {{cite news
| title =Rare treat for Buttle audience
| newspaper =The Anaconda Standard
| location =Anaconda, Montana
| page =2
| date =17 Jul 1928
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48917636/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Marie Montana
| newspaper =The Anaconda Standard
| location =Anaconda, Montana
| page =23
| date =22 Jul 1928
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48918109/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} and was at the summer Lyceum at Cheney near Spokane.{{cite news
| title =Present concerts
| newspaper =Spokane Chronicle
| location =Spokane, Washington
| page =3
| date =24 Jul 1928
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48918630/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} She performed in Seattle on radio KFOA in late July while visiting her mother who was then living there.{{cite news
| title =Lewistown singer scores in Seattle
| newspaper =The Billings Gazette
| location =Billings, Montana
| page =12
| date =31 Jul 1928
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48750926/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-wait-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} She commented about her stage name: “It is Italian and somehow they would listen longer to Maria Montana than to the American Ruth Waite. It was Maria in Italy, but when I found that I was being called Mariah at home I changed it to Marie. You see I am not really a relative of Bull Montana,"{{cite news
| title =From infant prodigy to grand opera via weddings, funerals and movies |author= Richard E. Hays
| newspaper =Seattle Daily Times
| location =Seattle, WA
| page =8
| date = Jul 27, 1928
| url =https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2%3A127D718D1E33F961%40GB3NEWS-1290E8911D94866C%402425455-128C02589E581C6A%407-128C02589E581C6A%40
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}{{subscription required}} (referring to the then famous Italian-American professional wrestler and actor.)
News was released in August of a 40 concert series of performances by Waite in California in the fall.{{cite news
| title = Seattle
| newspaper =Variety
| page =53
| date =August 8, 1928
| url =https://archive.org/details/variety92-1928-08/page/n108/mode/1up/search/%22ruth+kellogg+waite%22?q=%22ruth+kellogg+waite%22
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} She returned to the Redlands Bowl, in San Bernardino County, California,* {{cite news
| title =Concert series to present noted artists
| newspaper =The Pomona Progress Bulletin
| location =Pomona, California
| page =6
| date =28 Jun 1928
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48749881/later-bahai-maria-montana-aka-ruth-k/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Young musician will appear at Redlands
| newspaper =The Pasadena Post
| location =Pasadena, California
| page =7
| date =16 Aug 1928
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48918872/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Other musicians sign engagements
| newspaper =San Bernardino Sun
| location =San Bernardino, CA
| page =17
| date =23 June 1928
| url =https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SBS19280623.1.17&srpos=14&e=------192-en--20--1-byDA-txt-txIN--------1
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Redlands can be proud of great bowl
| newspaper =The Los Angeles Times
| location =Los Angeles, California
| page =46
| date =19 Aug 1928
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48919121/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} She then arrived in Los Angeles received with several social functions.{{cite news
| title =Distinguished visitor
| newspaper =The Los Angeles Times
| location =Los Angeles, California
| page =36
| date =26 Aug 1928
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48919938/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} By mid-September she was in back Oakland at the Women's Club's kick off of a season of concerts.* {{cite news
| title =Share guest honors
| newspaper =Los Angeles Evening Express
| location =Los Angeles, California
| page =16
| date =25 Aug 1928
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48919558/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =First of series in women's city club
| newspaper = Oakland Tribune
| location =Oakland, California
| page =52
| date =16 Sep 1928
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48950495/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} Later in September she sang at a Church in Lewistown, with a profile recalling how she had sung in weddings, funerals and movie theaters, while she was visiting her sister. Many details of her performances were repeated with an occasional additions and again being called a coloratura soprano.* {{cite news
| title =Montana Girl diva to sing at City Club here
| newspaper =Oakland Tribune
| location =Oakland, California
| page =20
| date =23 Sep 1928
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48950744/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Soprano will be club's guest soloist
| newspaper =Oakland Tribune
| location =Oakland, California
| page =17
| date =24 Sep 1928
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48951700/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} At the end of September she performed at a high school at Ventura, California,{{cite news
| title =Famous soprano to sing here Oct 23
| newspaper =The Ventura County Star and the Ventura Daily Post
| location =Ventura, California
| page =5
| date =27 Sep 1928
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48951899/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} and over in Oakland.{{cite news
| title =Marie Montana
| newspaper =Pacific Coast Music Review
| location =San Francisco, CA
| page =6
| date =Aug 19, 1928
| url =https://archive.org/details/pacificcoastmusi5328sanf/page/n289/mode/1up/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} In October she performed at the Ebell of Los Angeles and a school, again being called a lyric and coloratura soprano,* {{cite news
| title =Marie Montana...
| newspaper =Los Angeles Evening Express
| location =Los Angeles, California
| page =23
| date =5 Oct 1928
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48949331/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Lyric soprano to appear at Ebell meeting
| newspaper =The Los Angeles Times
| location = Los Angeles, California
| page =48
| date =7 Oct 1928
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48949479/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Ebell members charmed
| newspaper =The Los Angeles Times
| location =Los Angeles, California
| page =29
| date =9 Oct 1928
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48952245/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Marie Montana to sing
| newspaper =Press-Courier
| location =Oxnard, California
| page =4
| date =10 Oct 1928
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48952409/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Marie Montana now favorite
| newspaper = The Ventura County Star and the Ventura Daily Post
| location =Ventura, California7
| date =17 Oct 1928
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48949577/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} including many of the songs previously mentioned but adding The Last Rose of Summer, The Gospel Train, and Annie Laurie.* {{cite news
| title =Marie Montana will sing here
| newspaper =The Ventura County Star and the Ventura Daily Post
| location =Ventura, California
| page =2
| date =11 Oct 1928
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48751006/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-wait-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Marie Montana
| newspaper =The Ventura County Star and the Ventura Daily Post
| location =Ventura, California
| page =3
| date =15 Oct 1928
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48952577/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =National Music League soprano will sing here
| newspaper =Santa Maria Times
| location =Santa Maria, California
| page =5
| date =16 Oct 1928
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48952730/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Marie Montana
| newspaper =Santa Maria Times
| location =Santa Maria, California
| page =5
| date =17 Oct 1928
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48952822/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Announce Montana concert program
| newspaper =The Ventura County Star and the Ventura Daily
| location =Post Ventura, California
| page =10
| date =18 Oct 1928
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48952962/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Marie Montana to sing here Tuesday
| newspaper =The Ventura County Star and the Ventura Daily
| location =Post Ventura, California
| page =8
| date =22 Oct 1928
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48953386/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title = Fontana hears Marie Montana Thursday nite
| newspaper =Colton Daily Courier
| location =Colton, California
| page =4
| date =23 Oct 1928
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48953605/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Marie Montana is heard in concert
| newspaper =The Ventura County Star and the Ventura Daily
| location =Post Ventura, California
| page =1
| date =24 Oct 1928
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48953768/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Oxnard residents here Miss Montana
| newspaper =The Ventura County Star and the Ventura Daily
| location =Post Ventura, California
| page =12
| date =25 Oct 1928
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48953881/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} Later in October she performed at the Fontana Clubhouse in San Bernardino,* {{cite news
| title =Music lovers hear soprano
| newspaper =The San Bernardino County Sun
| location =San Bernardino, California
| page =15
| date =28 Oct 1928
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48954082/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Music series wins interest
| newspaper =San Bernardino Sun
| location =Sam Bernardino, CA
| page =12
| date =23 October 1928
| url =https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SBS19281023.1.12&srpos=15&e=------192-en--20--1-byDA-txt-txIN--------1
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Music lovers hear soprano
| newspaper =San Bernardino Sun
| location =San Bernardino, CA
| page =15
| date =28 October 1928
| url =https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SBS19281028.1.15&srpos=16&e=------192-en--20--1-byDA-txt-txIN--------1
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} and at the end of October was singing at the Mills College in Oakland.* {{cite news
| title =Marie Montana to sing at Mills College
| newspaper = Oakland Tribune
| location =Oakland, California
| page =32
| date =21 Oct 1928
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48953168/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Marie Montana...
| newspaper = Oakland Tribune
| location = Oakland, California
| page =3
| date =30 Oct 1928
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48954420/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
In mid-November she sang at the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Manhattan,* {{cite news
| title =Service lists for Sunday; Lutheran; Holy Trinity
| newspaper =New York Evening Post
| location =New York, NY
| page =16
| date =Nov 17, 1928
| url = https://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2011/New%20York%20Evening%20Post/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201928%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201928%20Grayscale%20-%208564.pdf
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Service list for Sunday; Lutheran; Holy Trinity
| newspaper =New York Evening Post
| location =New York, NY
| page =18
| date =Nov 17, 1928
| url = https://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2011/New%20York%20Evening%20Post/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201928%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201928%20Grayscale%20-%208564.pdf
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} and then in New Jersey for the Thursday Morning Club.* {{cite news
| title =Music department meeting to be held Tuesday afternoon
| newspaper =The Madison Eagle
| location =Madison, New Jersey
| page =5
| date =23 Nov 1928
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48954945/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Music department enjoys splendid song recital
| newspaper = The Madison Eagle
| location =Madison, New Jersey
| page =7
| date =30 Nov 1928
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48955533/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Maennerchor to give final concert today
| newspaper =Wisconsin State Journal
| location =Madison, Wisconsin
| page =26
| date =16 Jun 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49152379/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} Waite then returned to the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church for the next two Sundays at the beginning of December.* {{cite news
| title =Service list for Sunday; Lutheran; Holy Trinity
| newspaper =New York Evening Post
| location =New York, NY
| page =16
| date =Dec 1, 1928
| url = https://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2011/New%20York%20Evening%20Post/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201928%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201928%20Grayscale%20-%208944.pdf
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Service list for Sunday; Lutheran; Holy Trinity
| newspaper =New York Evening Post
| location =New York, NY
| page =8
| date =Dec 6, 1928
| url = https://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2011/New%20York%20Evening%20Post/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201928%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201928%20Grayscale%20-%209150.pdf
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Service lists for Sunday; Lutheran; Holy Trinity
| newspaper =New York Evening Post
| location =New York, NY
| page =8
| date =Dec 8, 1928
| url = https://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2011/New%20York%20Evening%20Post/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201928%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201928%20Grayscale%20-%209150.pdf
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} She then returned to Altoona adding The Sandman German Folk song, Pierrot by Wintter Watts, "My Lover is a Fisherman", (from Songs of India as well) by Lily Strickland, At Parting by James Hotchkiss Rogers to the songs she performed.* {{cite news
| title =Opera star coming to Highland hall
| newspaper = Altoona Tribune
| location =Altoona, Pennsylvania
| page =10
| date =26 Nov 1928
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48955435/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Marie Montana at Highland hall tonight
| newspaper =Altoona Tribune
| location =Altoona, Pennsylvania
| page =4
| date =7 Dec 1928
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48955735/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} Waite returned to the Lutheran Holy Trinity Church and sang in mid-January 1929.{{cite news
| title =Service lists for Sunday; Lutheran; Holy Trinity
| newspaper =New York Evening Post
| location =New York, NY
| page =F12
| date = Jan 12, 1929
| url = https://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2011/New%20York%20Evening%20Post/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201929%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201929%20Grayscale%20-%205454.pdf
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
A couple days later she was back on the National Concert Orchestra broadcasts to be echoed on the NBC radio network singing some of her known songs: Crying for Waters, Sandman, and The Lass with the Delicate Air.* {{cite news
| title =Popular revue
| newspaper =The Pittsburgh Press
| location =Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
| page =55
| date =13 Jan 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48974972/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Revue in Concert Bureau Hour
| newspaper = Hartford Courant
| location =Hartford, Connecticut
| page =64
| date =13 Jan 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48975152/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Douglass Stanburgy...
| newspaper =St. Louis Post-Dispatch
| location =St. Louis, Missouri
| page =5 8
| date =18 Jan 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48975240/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Douglass Stanbury...
| newspaper =Tampa Bay Times
| location =St. Petersburg, Florida
| page =24
| date =18 Jan 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48975358/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =N B C system
| newspaper =The South Bend Tribune
| location = South Bend, Indiana
| page =23
| date =18 Jan 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48975471/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title = Douglas Stanbury...
| newspaper =Press and Sun-Bulletin
| location =Binghamton, New York
| page =27
| date =18 Jan 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48975943/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Popular revue in hour
| newspaper =The Times Dispatch
| location =Richmond, Virginia
| page =7
| date =18 Jan 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48975992/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Popular revue
| newspaper = The Boston Globe
| location =Boston, Massachusetts
| page =31
| date =18 Jan 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48976866/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Miss Marie Montana...
| newspaper =The Bennington Evening Banner
| location =Bennington, Vermont
| page =4
| date =25 Jan 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48976955/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Masonic Band
| newspaper =The Bennington Evening Banner
| location =Bennington, Vermont
| page =6
| date =25 Jan 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48977024/advert-for-later-bahai-marie-montana/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Miss Marie Montana
| newspaper =The Kingston Daily Freeman
| location =Kingston, New York
| page =12
| date =30 Jan 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48977223/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Large audience enjoys concert
| newspaper =The Bennington Evening Banner
| location = Bennington, Vermont
| page =1
| date =30 Jan 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48977340/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} In early February she sang at the Natural Science Auditorium in Iowa City, Iowa, performing many of her known songs,{{cite news
| title =Marie Montana soprano of note
| newspaper =Iowa City Press-Citizen
| location =Iowa City, Iowa
| page =12
| date =9 Feb 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48751125/later-bahai-ruth-kellogg-wait-aka/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =University artist series
| newspaper =Iowa City Press-Citizen
| location =Iowa City, Iowa
| page =11
| date =7 Feb 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48977550/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Marie Montana will appear here
| newspaper =Iowa City Press-Citizen
| location =Iowa City, Iowa
| page =9
| date =8 Feb 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48977668/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Noted soprano to sing here Tuesday
| newspaper =Iowa City Press-Citizen
| location =Iowa City, Iowa
| page =7
| date =11 Feb 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48977995/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} and then at the Emery Auditorium in Cincinnati in later February adding many folk song arrangements and new songs: Waken, Lords and Ladies Gay, Moods, Tell Me Not of a Lovely Lass by Cecil Forsyth, Oh, that we two were Maying, Viking by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, So Sweet is She by Patty Stair, "Full Fathom Five" by Thomas Dunhill, "Wings of Night" and "Pierrot" by Watts, Parade of the Wooden Soldiers by Leon Jessel, A Franklyn's Dogge by Alexander Campbell Mackenzie, What from Vengeance by Gaetano Donizetti.* {{cite news
| title = February 21
| newspaper =The Cincinnati Enquirer
| location =Cincinnati, Ohio
| page =94
| date =4 Nov 1928
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48954695/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Orpheus Club...
| newspaper =The Cincinnati Enquirer
| location = Cincinnati, Ohio
| page =68
| date =3 Feb 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48977454/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Orpheus Club offers new vocalist
| newspaper = The Cincinnati Enquirer
| location =Cincinnati, Ohio
| page =27
| date =17 Feb 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48978131/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} A critic review her performance in Cincinnati said the writer “...hereby proclaims the natural beauty of her voice, charm of platform manner and the technical equipment... as a ranking artist.... There is no inclination to explain the spell of enchantment that it casts.... not the slightest wavering from pitch and always there is excellent control.... In the essentially dramatic utterance she had full opportunity in the “One Fine Day” aria... Songs old and new, classical, emotional and modern, and negro spirituals made up her regular program..... please an audience of considerable patrons who relished what they heard, applauded as friends and relatives are want to do...."{{cite news
| title =Music; Orpheus Concert
| newspaper =The Cincinnati Enquirer
| location =Cincinnati, Ohio
| page =6
| date =22 Feb 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48978264/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
Late in February she performed at the Mecca Temple in New York substituting for a sick soprano for the American Orchestra Society. She twice performed - the first with some “constricted upper tones… but the audience recalled her again… repeated the entire aria. These same upper tones were then much freer and her pitch less open to question."{{cite news
| title =Music |author= Oscar Thompson
| newspaper =New York Evening Post
| location =New York, NY
| page =13
| date =Feb 26, 1929
| url = https://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2011/New%20York%20Evening%20Post/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201929%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201929%20Grayscale%20-%200700.pdf
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} In March she was back on NBC stations* {{cite news
| title =Key stations; WEAF...
| newspaper =St. Louis Globe-Democrat
| location =St. Louis, Missouri
| page =31
| date =6 Mar 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48980521/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title = A youthful trio...
| newspaper =The Dayton Herald
| location =Dayton, Ohio
| page =25
| date =6 Mar 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48980634/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =A youthful trio...
| newspaper =Daily News
| location =New York, New York
| page =329
| date =6 Mar 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48980744/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Donald McGill...
| newspaper =St. Louis Post-Dispatch
| location =St. Louis, Missouri
| page =42
| date =6 Mar 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48980821/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =A youthful trio...
| newspaper =The Richmond Item
| location =Richmond, Indiana
| page =3
| date =6 Mar 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48980922/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} and substituted in a Baltimore performance as well where she sang the Louise aria from the opera of the same name by Giuseppe Verdi.{{cite news
| title =Orchestral society
| newspaper =The Baltimore Sun
| location =Baltimore, Maryland
| page =64
| date =10 Mar 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49141020/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} Late in March she was in the Lindsborg, Kansas, Messiah Festival,* {{cite news
| title =Lindsborg's 48th Messiah Festival
| newspaper =The Barnard Bee
| location =Barnard, Kansas
| page =4
| date =14 Mar 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49141395/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Messiah next Sunday
| newspaper =Council Grove Republican
| location =Council Grove, Kansas
| page =1
| date =19 Mar 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49141835/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Lindsborg's 48th annual Messiah Festival starts Sunday, at Bethany College
| newspaper =The Morning Chronicle
| location =Manhattan, Kansas
| page =2
| date =23 Mar 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49142118/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} (a festival that is still going on.){{cite web
| title =History of the Oratorio Society
| url =https://www.messiahfestival.org/bos/history/
| publisher =The Messiah Festival of the Arts |location= Bethany College, Lindsborg, KS
| date = 2020
| access-date =May 10, 2020}} She went on to performances in Montana,{{cite news
| title =Handel's Massiah (sic) unique festival
| newspaper =The Montana Standard
| location =Butte, Montana
| page =34
| date =31 Mar 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49143941/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} and then in April was in Madison, Wisconsin, for a Maennerchor concert performing German, Austrian and Finnish folk songs and arrangements plus I Hear America Singing by Harvey Bartlett Gaul and being called a coloratura soprano.* {{cite news
| title = Singing Society books soprano for April 11
| newspaper =The Capital Times
| location =Madison, Wisconsin
| page =4
| date =10 Feb 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48977886/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Noted soloist to sing at Maennerchor Concert
| newspaper =The Capital Times
| location =Madison, Wisconsin
| page =6
| date =1 Mar 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48978888/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Praeger to direct Chicago Chorus
| newspaper =Wisconsin State Journal
| location =Madison, Wisconsin
| page =19
| date =3 Mar 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48979090/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Soprano engages for Maennerchor Spring Concert
| newspaper =The Capital Times
| location =Madison, Wisconsin
| page =12
| date =10 Mar 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49140852/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Native state gave Miss Montana her professional name
| newspaper =The Capital Times
| location =Madison, Wisconsin
| page =14
| date =7 Apr 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49144550/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Maennerchor signs in Christ Church Monday
| newspaper =The Capital Times
| location =Madison, Wisconsin
| page =24
| date =14 Apr 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49144823/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} A critic said she “proved popular from the first number. The generous sprinkling of folk songs found in her two groups admirably fitted both the easy grace with which she sang them and the smooth sweet quality of her voice.... (with other songs) with Miss Montana's voice displaying power in addition to the sweetness she had given her lighter songs."{{cite news
| title =Praises concert by Maennerchor |author= Lester Velie
| newspaper =The Capital Times
| location =Madison, Wisconsin
| page =3
| date =20 Apr 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49145876/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} Another said: “Marie Montana, soprano soloist, carried her part in a clear, fine, well-trained voice, easily audible above the men's chorus. … Apparently, solo work with large choruses is Miss Montana's forte. Because her voice is strong and clear rather than very sweet, Miss Montana's work with the chorus was more enjoyable than her individual groups. Her sea selections were particularly good, however.… particularly fine dramatic ability… excellently sun with gayety, buoyancy, and convincing vocal dramatization."{{cite news
| title =Maennerchor in spirited program |author= Katherine Hartman Axley
| newspaper =Wisconsin State Journal
| location =Madison, Wisconsin
| page =48
| date =21 Apr 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49146556/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} Another recalled the show in an end-of-the-year review as "one of the best ever given".{{cite news
| title =Maennerchor is one of the oldest local musical organizations
| newspaper = The Capital Times
| location =Madison, Wisconsin
| page =99
| date =31 Dec 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49161852/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
Meanwhile in later April she was in Pittsburg, Kansas, at the State Teacher's College where she joined in their Messiah performance,* {{cite news
| title =Pittsburg Music Festival next week
| newspaper =The Neosho Times
| location =Neosho, Missouri
| page =1
| date =18 Apr 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49145278/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Pittsburg Festival will be this week
| newspaper = Joplin Globe
| location =Joplin, Missouri
| page =2
| date =21 Apr 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49147102/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Iola and Humboldt H. S. in Music Festival
| newspaper = The Daily News
| location =Iola, Kansas
| page =1
| date =22 Apr 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49147277/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =107 schools enter music competition
| newspaper =The Bulletin
| location = Emporia, Kansas
| page =1
| date =23 Apr 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49147452/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Kraeuter-Montana to play
| newspaper =The Bulletin
| location =Emporia, Kansas
| page =1
| date =26 Apr 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49147856/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Carney Hall
| newspaper =Joplin Globe
| location =Joplin, Missouri
| page =13
| date =27 Apr 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49148549/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} following which she briefly lost her voice for a time,{{cite news
| title =Newsreel |author= F. C. C.
| newspaper =The Emporia Weekly Gazette
| location = Emporia, Kansas
| page =4
| date =9 May 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49151119/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} before several performances again at the end of April and early May at an all-Kansas choir conference* {{cite news
| title =Features are announced for K. U. Music Week
| newspaper =The Ottawa Campus
| location =Ottawa, Kansas
| page =1
| date =11 Apr 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49140534/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Features for Music Week announced
| newspaper =The Daily News
| location =Iola, Kansas
| page =1
| date =5 Apr 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49144088/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} where she was sometimes billed as part of the “Oratorio Quartet of New York” and sometimes as a soloist.* {{cite news
| title ="Elijah" will be given
| newspaper =The Emporia Weekly Gazette
| location =Emporia, Kansas
| page =2
| date =18 Apr 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49144996/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Opera "Foust" headlines Hays Festival, May 1
| newspaper =The Grinnell Record
| location =Grinnell, Kansas
| page =3
| date =25 Apr 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49147621/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =4000 attend music contest this week
| newspaper =The Bulletin
| location =Emporia, Kansas
| page =1
| date =30 Apr 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49148716/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Montana-Kraeuter will give program
| newspaper =The Bulletin
| location =Emporia, Kansas
| page =2
| date =30 Apr 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49150416/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =School students in music festival
| newspaper = Blackwell Journal-Tribune
| location =Blackwell, Oklahoma
| page =9
| date =2 May 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49148909/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Summerfield enters with her orchestra
| newspaper =The Marysville Advocate
| location =Marysville, Kansas
| page =11
| date =2 May 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49149466/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Present joint recital
| newspaper = The Bulletin
| location =Emporia, Kansas
| page =1
| date =3 May 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49149803/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} She was still on National Music League's list of performers in California{{cite news
| title =Music League to spnsor artists
| newspaper =The San Francisco Examiner
| location =San Francisco, California
| page =59
| date =5 May 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49150095/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} and was profiled in Arizona.{{cite news
| title =Musical rise of Marie Montana is noticeably swift
| newspaper = Arizona Republic
| location =Phoenix, Arizona
| page =20
| date =7 May 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49150782/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} She was soon in the Apple Blossom Festival of Keene, New Hampshire, among singers for a concert held mid-May,{{cite news
| title =Keene Chorus Club festival
| newspaper =New York Evening Post
| location =New York, NY
| page =15
| date =Apr 24, 1929
| url = https://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2011/New%20York%20Evening%20Post/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201929%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201929%20Grayscale%20-%202346.pdf
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} and performed in Ocean Grove, New Jersey, where she was in June and then again in later July,* {{cite news
| title =Harpists in concert
| newspaper =Asbury Park Press
| location =Asbury Park, New Jersey
| page =23
| date =18 Jun 1930
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49184621/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Ocean Grove drew share of visitors
| newspaper =The Philadelphia Inquirer
| location =Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
| page =65
| date =7 Jul 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49152738/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Ocean Grove Auditorium
| newspaper = Asbury Park Press
| location =Asbury Park, New Jersey
| page =4
| date =16 Jul 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49152997/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Maria Montana in first of Auditorium Concerts
| newspaper =Asbury Park Press
| location =Asbury Park, New Jersey
| pages =17
| date =16 Jul 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50640740/later-bahai-maria-montana-performance/
| access-date = May 10, 2020}} with a performance in-between in Massachusetts.{{cite news
| title =Marie Montana is high favor
| newspaper =The Montana Standard
| location =Butte, Montana
| page =35
| date =28 Jul 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49173689/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
There is a gap in mentions so far the earlier of the summer of 1929 - her next known performance was in mid-October in Zanesville, Ohio,* {{cite news
| title =Brilliant concert artists booked by Thursday Music Club for coming season
| newspaper =The Times Recorder
| location =Zanesville, Ohio
| page =4
| date =31 Aug 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49155117/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Local musicians to appear on program with Miss Montana
| newspaper =The Times Recorder
| location =Zanesville, Ohio
| page =11
| date =12 Oct 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49157432/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} still listed with the National Music League{{cite news
| title =Music League encourages artists
| newspaper =The San Francisco Examiner
| location =San Francisco, California
| page =57
| date =13 Oct 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49157825/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} and coming to Arizona later in October where she was called a lyric coloratura soprano.* {{cite news
| title =Pop concert will bring young singer
| newspaper = Arizona Republic
| location =Phoenix, Arizona
| page =56
| date =21 Apr 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49146310/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Civic pop concert artists to be here next season are of varied musical talents
| newspaper =Arizona Republic
| location =Phoenix, Arizona
| page =19
| date =2 Jun 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49152060/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Marie Montana to open Pop Concerts here October 23
| newspaper =Arizona Republic
| location =Phoenix, Arizona
| page =18
| date =16 Jun 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49153233/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Soprano to sing here
| newspaper =Arizona Republic
| location =Phoenix, Arizona
| page =30
| date =6 Oct 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49155467/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =First civic pop concert - Phoenix Wed, October 23
| newspaper =Casa Grande Dispatch
| location =Casa Grande, Arizona
| page =4
| date =17 Oct 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49157980/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Marie Montana gives concert here tonight
| newspaper =Arizona Republic
| location =Phoenix, Arizona
| page =13
| date =23 Oct 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49158203/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} She opened with The Puritans by Bellini, sang Old English, modern Italian and German songs, ending with the aria from Hamlet; a critic said: “Miss Montana won the approval of the large audience by her graciousness of manner and clearness of tonal quality.” She gave three encores and, “[in a Hamlet aria] she evinced a power and range unequaled in any of the other selections."{{cite news
| title =Miss Montana gives initial 'pop' contest
| newspaper =Arizona Republic
| location =Phoenix, Arizona
| page =3
| date =24 Oct 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49158324/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} As the Wall Street Crash of 1929 began October 24 she continued her performances. Late in October she performed for teachers in nearby Albuquerque adding an aria from Amleto by Franco Faccio to her performance repertoire.* {{cite news
| title = To give program for teachers
| newspaper =Albuquerque Journal
| location =Albuquerque, New Mexico
| page =12
| date =27 Oct 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49158723/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Society - Telephone 423
| newspaper =Albuquerque Journal
| location =Albuquerque, New Mexico
| page =5
| date =31 Oct 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49159577/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Real music is given by two concert stars
| newspaper =Albuquerque Journal
| location =Albuquerque, New Mexico
| page =8
| date =2 Nov 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49159945/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} In November she appeared in Staunton, Virginia,{{cite news
| title =Buy your season ticket now
| newspaper =The News Leader
| location = Staunton, Virginia
| page =2
| date =30 Oct 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49158972/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} and then was in a Santa Clara, California, fundraiser towards the end of November,* {{cite news
| title =Music sorority honors singer here tomorrow
| newspaper = Santa Maria Times
| location =Santa Maria, California
| page =5
| date =20 Nov 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49163134/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Hear Marie Montana
| newspaper = Santa Maria Times
| location =Santa Maria, California
| page =1
| date =20 Nov 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49163766/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Hear Marie Montana
| newspaper =Santa Maria Times
| location =Santa Maria, California
| page =1
| date =21 Nov 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49163861/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} and at Van Buys Philharmonic auditorium{{cite news
| title =Grace Rankin...
| newspaper =The Van Nuys News
| location =Van Nuys, California
| page =7
| date =22 Nov 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49164113/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} ending up then in nearby Los Angeles,* {{cite news
| title = Tonight...
| newspaper =Los Angeles Evening Express
| location =Los Angeles, California
| pages =17
| date =20 Nov 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50640877/later-bahai-maria-montana-performance/
| access-date = May 10, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Meet with Mrs. Poulsen
| newspaper =Lompoc Review
| page =8
| date =26 November 1929
| url =https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LR19291126.2.102&srpos=17&e=------192-en--20--1-byDA-txt-txIN--------1
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} and days later took a plane to Oakland to visit her sister,{{cite news
| title =Likes air travel
| newspaper =Oakland Tribune
| location =Oakland, California
| page =14
| date =23 Nov 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49164736/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} but was back in Los Angeles for a reception for another soloist by the end of November.{{cite news
| title =Artistic honored
| newspaper = The Los Angeles Times
| location =Los Angeles, California
| page =28
| date =28 Nov 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49165785/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} Early December she was up the west coast up to Vancouver* {{cite news
| title =Music activities |author= M. Bloomfield
| newspaper =The Vancouver Sun
| location =Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
| page =34
| date =12 Oct 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49157641/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title = Men's musical club to present Marie Montana
| newspaper =The Vancouver Sun
| location =Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
| page =50
| date =30 Nov 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49166150/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title = Concert - Men's Musical Club...
| newspaper =The Province
| location =Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
| page =10
| date =5 Dec 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49160391/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} There she performed 13 songs: "Aria Qui la voce" from Puritana by Bellini, "O No, John", Gods All Powerful by Handel, In the Silence of Night by Rachmaninoff, Little Star by Mussorgsky, Beautiful Art Thou by Herbert E. Hyde, Stornellata Marinara by Cimara, the aria of Ophelia from Hamlet by Faccio, Wings of Night by Wintter Watts, Boyhood by Garnett, Daffodills by Wohlfarth-Grille, The Peace Flower by Bantock, Midsummer by Amy Worth. For that performance a critic said: “…with a voice of much substance, brilliant in quality, with fine carrying power and the ability to project her music wholeheartedly.” Not agreeing all songs were done well but “the Handel number delivered with seizing vocal power and dramatic instinct."{{cite news
| title =Popular choir earns success |author= R. J.
| newspaper =The Province
| location =Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
| page =3
| date =7 Dec 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49160657/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} while another said: “…very fine phrasing… excellent examples of precision…a powerful voice of which she has excellent command at times, her high notes in the forte were rather forced and occasional low notes were not as clear as they might have been but the aforementioned numbers were on the whole thoroughly pleasing performances with beautiful clear tone in the softer passages and we felt that they were particularly suited to Miss Montana's essentially dramatic style of interpretation."{{cite news
| title =Fine program heard today |author= Marhorie Bloomfield
| newspaper = The Vancouver Sun
| location =Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
| page =2
| date =7 Dec 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49166896/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
The Great Depression in the United States was deepening but there was an announcement of a number of performances across the west coast: Phoenix and Albuquerque, Arizona, Boulder, Colorado, Los Angeles, California, and Seattle, Vancouver, Bellingham, and Cheney, Washington.{{cite news
| title =Music activities |author= Marjorie Bloomfield
| newspaper =The Vancouver Sun
| location =Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
| page =3
| date =7 Dec 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49161387/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} But first she headed east with Cincinnati in December,{{cite news
| title =Drive for new members is plan of trustees of Orpheus Club
| newspaper =The Cincinnati Enquirer
| location =Cincinnati, Ohio
| page =66
| date =2 Jun 1929
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49151688/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} and opening January 1930, in Danbury, Connecticut for a subscription concert,{{cite news
| title = Will hear fine artists & Subscription Concert
| newspaper =Pawling-Patterson News
| page =6
| date =Nov 8, 1929
| url = https://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2018/Pawling%20NY%20Patterson%20News%20Chronicale/Pawling%20NY%20Patterson%20News%20Chronicale%201928%20Jan-Jun%201928/Pawling%20NY%20Patterson%20News%20Chronicale%201928%20Jan-Jun%201928%20-%200988.pdf
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} was in St. Louis by mid-February St Louis,* {{cite news
| title =Odeon
| newspaper = The St. Louis Star and Times
| location =St. Louis, Missouri
| page =9
| date =12 Feb 1930
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49162807/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title = Marie Montana soloist
| newspaper =The St. Louis Star and Times
| location = St. Louis, Missouri
| page =9
| date =15 Feb 1930
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49168239/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title = Marie Montana, soloist at pop concert today
| newspaper =St. Louis Post-Dispatch
| location =St. Louis, Missouri
| page =78
| date =16 Feb 1930
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49168445/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Music, Szell's farewell |author=F. B. S.
| newspaper =St. Louis Post-Dispatch
| location = St. Louis, Missouri
| page =15
| date =17 Feb 1930
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49168636/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} with a quick dash to Elon College, North Carolina,* {{cite news
| title = Marie Montana outstanding vocal artist coming
| newspaper =Maroon and Gold
| location =Elon College, North Carolina
| pages =1, 4
| date =February 13, 1930
| url =http://newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/2015236757/1930-02-13/ed-1/seq-1/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Noted soprano at Elon Thursday night
| newspaper =Burlington Daily Times
| location =Burlington, North Carolina
| page =1
| date =19 Feb 1930
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49169049/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Marie Montana to sing tonight
| newspaper =Burlington Daily Times
| location =Burlington, North Carolina
| page =6
| date =20 Feb 1930
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49169197/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =The fourth and last...
| newspaper =The Alamance Gleaner
| location =Graham, NC
| page =3
| date =February 20, 1930
| url =http://newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn84020756/1930-02-20/ed-1/seq-3/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} and a birthday luncheon in Greensboro.{{cite news
| title = A charming dinner...
| newspaper =Greensboro Record
| location = Greensboro, NC
| page =5
| date =Feb 27, 1930
| url =https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2%3A11EA68CD17067F8E%40GB3NEWS-13E55FAF4ACE1C4F%402426035-13E55E7C1D5A91EF%404-13E55E7C1D5A91EF%40
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} Late in February she was in Staunton again.* {{cite news
| title =One of the outstanding...
| newspaper =The News Leader
| location =Staunton, Virginia
| page =3
| date =26 Jan 1930
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49162491/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Music Club's artist
| newspaper =The News Leader
| location =Staunton, Virginia
| page =6
| date =13 Feb 1930
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49162966/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Artist not related to Bull Montana
| newspaper =The News Leader
| location =Staunton, Virginia
| page =2
| date =18 Feb 1930
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49168865/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Music |author= Wilson G. Smith
| newspaper =Cleveland Press, The News Leader
| location =Staunton, Virginia
| page =12
| date =23 Feb 1930
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49169534/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Summary
| newspaper =The News Leader
| location =Staunton, Virginia
| page =3
| date =23 Feb 1930
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49170190/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Music - concert tonight
| newspaper =The News Leader
| location =Staunton, Virginia
| page =7
| date =25 Feb 1930
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49170450/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} A critic said: "…a most pleasing personality … possesses beauty and graciousness of manner… beauty of tone, fresh, and pure in quality… a voice of dramatic intensity, with marvelous breath control, making the sustained phrases most effective.… The audience was so insistent that (the performers) were obliged to repeat (Ave Maria).{{cite news
| title =Music
| newspaper =The News Leader
| location = Staunton, Virginia
| page =2
| date =26 Feb 1930
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49171006/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
The April 1930 US Census had "Marie Montana", under that name, as a border, employed as a singer, living in Manhattan.{{cite web
| title =Marie Montana United States Census, 1930
| url =https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X42M-Z5M
| website =FamilySearch.org
| date =April 17, 1930
| access-date =Apr 27, 2020}}{{registration required}} A week later she was performing in Cincinnati,* {{cite news
| title = Arrangements...
| newspaper =The Cincinnati Enquirer
| location =Cincinnati, Ohio
| page =36
| date =10 Apr 1930
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49172063/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Another affair
| newspaper =The Cincinnati Enquirer
| location =Cincinnati, Ohio
| page =21
| date =17 Apr 1930
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49172410/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Miss Marie Montana
| newspaper =The Journal News
| location =Hamilton, Ohio
| page =9
| date =19 Apr 1930
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49172513/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Orpheus Club arranges final concert with Marie Montana, soprano, as soloist
| newspaper =The Cincinnati Enquirer
| location =Cincinnati, Ohio
| page =63
| date =20 Apr 1930
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49180555/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =No tickets are required...
| newspaper =The Cincinnati Enquirer
| location =Cincinnati, Ohio
| page =18
| date =22 Apr 1930
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49180712/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} and a social reception.* {{cite news
| title =Lovely in every detail...
| newspaper =The Journal News
| location =Hamilton, Ohio
| page =6
| date =24 Apr 1930
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49180923/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =The Orpheus Club...
| newspaper =The Cincinnati Enquirer
| location =Cincinnati, Ohio
| page =21
| date =25 Apr 1930
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49181261/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Mrs. Justin Rollman...
| newspaper =The Cincinnati Enquirer
| location =Cincinnati, Ohio
| page =100
| date =27 Apr 1930
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49181389/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Mrs. Justin Rollman...
| newspaper =The American Israelite
| location =Cincinnati, Ohio
| page =P2
| date =2 May 1930
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49181535/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
She was to visit Butte mid-June{{cite news
| title =Marie Montana will visit Butte
| newspaper =The Montana Standard
| location =Butte, Montana
| page =25
| date =15 Jun 1930
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49182852/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} and a profile published there reviewed her performances.{{cite news
| title =Name of Montana has been stepping stone to success noted prima donna states
| newspaper =The Montana Standard
| location =Butte, Montana
| pages =1, 2
| date =21 Jun 1930
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49185025/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} There was news she planned to appear in Hollywood movie and performances in the west.* {{cite news
| title =Miss Montana to sing at concert
| newspaper =The Montana Standard
| location =Butte, Montana
| page =10
| date =22 Jun 1930
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49186566/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Miss Montana to appear Thursday
| newspaper =The Montana Standard
| location =Butte, Montana
| page =3
| date =24 Jun 1930
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49186761/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Appears in concert tonight
| newspaper =The Montana Standard
| location =Butte, Montana
| page =3
| date =26 Jun 1930
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49187126/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} While there she performed and was recalled to the stage five times, with flowers given to her often.* {{cite news
| title =Miss Montana is heard in concert
| newspaper =The Montana Standard
| location = Butte, Montana
| page =16
| date =27 Jun 1930
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49187263/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =School festivities and June Weddings out of way and social circles turn to racing meets, outdoor sporting events |author= Mabel French
| newspaper =The Montana Standard
| location =Butte, Montana
| page =25
| date =29 Jun 1930
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49187987/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} She attended many luncheons and dinners.* {{cite news
| title = Mrs. Paul Bailor luncheon hostess
| newspaper =The Montana Standard
| location =Butte, Montana
| page =25
| date =29 Jun 1930
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49188149/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Marie Montana is guest of honor
| newspaper =The Montana Standard
| location =Butte, Montana
| page =25
| date =29 Jun 1930
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49188221/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Pleasant dinner given for host
| newspaper =The Montana Standard
| location =Butte, Montana
| page =25
| date =29 Jun 1930
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49188285/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Buffett supper at Dan Kelly home
| newspaper =The Montana Standard
| location =Butte, Montana
| page =25
| date =29 Jun 1930
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49188390/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Singer is guest at country club
| newspaper =The Montana Standard
| location =Butte, Montana
| page =26
| date =29 Jun 1930
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49189265/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Marie Montana in brilliant concert
| newspaper =The Montana Standard
| location =Butte, Montana
| page =26
| date =29 Jun 1930
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49189304/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Woodard home is scene of dinner
| newspaper =The Montana Standard
| location =Butte, Montana
| page =28
| date =29 Jun 1930
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49189618/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Informal dinner among the events
| newspaper =The Montana Standard
| location =Butte, Montana
| page =29
| date =29 Jun 1930
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49189837/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} Later in June she performed in Wilmington, California,{{cite news
| title =Long Beach choir concert series to start soon
| newspaper =Wilmington Daily Press Journal
| location =Wilmington, California
| page =4
| date =28 Jun 1930
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49187635/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} followed by San Pedro in early July,{{cite news
| title =Concert series presents 4 soloists and 3 ensembles
| newspaper =News-Pilot
| location =San Pedro, California
| page =6
| date =2 Jul 1930
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49190056/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} Austin, Texas, in September,{{cite news
| title =Artists program for Fall announced by faculty club
| newspaper =Austin American-Statesman
| location =Austin, Texas
| page =11
| date =19 Sep 1930
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49206919/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} Sacramento in October,{{cite news
| title =Stockton Club to open music season
| newspaper =The Sacramento Bee
| location =Sacramento, California
| page =22
| date =11 Oct 1930
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49206955/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} and Oklahoma City.{{cite news
| title =Annette Guilford to open interesting artist series for music club's season |author= Irene Bowers Sells
| newspaper =The Oklahoma News
| location = Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
| page =8
| date =3 Jun 1930
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49182303/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
×
==California management and performances==
As the Great Depression deepened, in November she appeared in newspapers managed by Grace Rankin and L. E. Behymer.* {{cite news
| title =Soprano will give recital
| newspaper =The Los Angeles Times
| location =Los Angeles, California
| page =43
| date =23 Nov 1930
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49207092/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Valley music lovers await Marie Montana recital
| newspaper =The Van Nuys News
| location =Van Nuys, California
| page =12
| date =25 Nov 1930
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49207177/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Marie Montana to appear in recital Thursday night
| newspaper =The Van Nuys News
| location =Van Nuys, California
| page =10
| date =2 Dec 1930
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49207309/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} She played at the Woman's Club House in Van Nuys* {{cite news
| title =Will present artist in Van Nays recital
| newspaper =The Van Nuys News
| location =Van Nuys, California
| page =4
| date =11 Nov 1930
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49207025/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Business women in club banquet
| newspaper =The Van Nuys News
| location =Van Nuys, California
| page =1
| date =18 Nov 1930
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49207059/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} with guests from area cities of the San Fernando Valley and beyond. Prolonged applause greeted her performance sections: “… an artist endowed with dramatic grace, magnificently rich voice, and the skill of perfect interpretation.” Flowers were presented and a reception held with her and Mrs. Fred A. Kellogg recently elected to state office.{{cite news
| title =Music lovers feast at shrine with Marie Montana as their guest artist
| newspaper =The Van Nuys News
| location =Van Nuys, California
| page =87th
| date =5 Dec 1930
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49207345/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} The last performance known was in December in Ames, Iowa{{cite news
| title =Four opera stars to give concert at Ames
| newspaper =Globe-Gazette
| location =Mason City, Iowa
| page =17
| date =4 Jul 1930
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49190268/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} By February 1931 the news was that she living in Van Nays and was then going to the opera with guest.{{cite news
| title =Miss Grace Rankin...
| newspaper =The Van Nuys News
| location =Van Nuys, California
| page =10
| date =5 Feb 1931
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49207549/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} Montana also began to be listed as a famous singers.{{cite news
| title =Katherine Scott Gove to sing at session of legislative houses
| newspaper =The Independent-Record
| location =Helena, Montana
| page =5
| date =10 Feb 1931
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48771312/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} A week later she performed in Santa Maria.* {{cite news
| title =Sings again
| newspaper =Santa Maria Times
| location =Santa Maria, California
| page =5
| date =12 Feb 1931
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49207745/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Marie Montana will give concert Tuesday
| newspaper =Santa Maria Times
| location =Santa Maria, California
| page =3
| date =14 Feb 1931
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49207926/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} She told the story of appearing in Naples for the San Carlo theater for Rigoletto substituting for sick prima donna. “It takes the young artiste to get her bearings but earned an ovation for Gilda's aria 'caro nome' with the orchestra rising to their feet as well."{{cite news
| title =Here's story of thrilling rise to fame
| newspaper =Santa Maria Times
| location =Santa Maria, California
| page =8
| date =16 Feb 1931
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49207968/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} She arrived from Los Angeles for the performance.* {{cite news
| title =Montana
| newspaper =Santa Maria Times
| location =Santa Maria, California
| page =5
| date =17 Feb 1931
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49208090/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Miss Montana to sing here this evening
| newspaper =Santa Maria Times
| location =Santa Maria, California
| page =1
| date =17 Feb 1931
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49208135/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} The performance went well{{cite news
| title =Montana recital pleases audience in song choices
| newspaper =Santa Maria Times
| location =Santa Maria, California
| page =5
| date =18 Feb 1931
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49208818/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} and she went to a reception afterwards.* {{cite news
| title =Reception held for Miss Montana at Schenck's home
| newspaper = Santa Maria Times
| location =Santa Maria, California
| page =5
| date =18 Feb 1931
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49208840/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
In June she performed in San Francisco.* {{cite news
| title =Marie Montana scores singing success in Italy
| newspaper =The San Francisco Examiner
| location =San Francisco, California
| page =11
| date =12 Jun 1931
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49209261/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Scores success
| newspaper =The Montana Standard
| location =Butte, Montana
| page =62
| date =28 Jun 1931
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49209494/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Delegates due tomorrow for music session
| newspaper =Oakland Tribune
| location =Oakland, California
| page =13
| date =18 Jun 1931
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49209358/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} Then the San Francisco Monday Musical Club hosted Montana for a recital at the Greek Theater at which she sang "Fuyez à présent" by Philippe Gaubert.* {{cite news
| title =Music and Musicians |author= Roy Harrison Danforth
| newspaper = Oakland Tribune
| location =Oakland, California
| page =36
| date =21 Jun 1931
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50641080/later-bahai-marie-maria-montana-aka/
| access-date = May 10, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Guest artist named
| newspaper =San Francisco Chronicle
| location =San Francisco, CA
| page =30
| date =Jun 24, 1931
| url =https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2%3A142051F45F422A02%40GB3NEWS-14FCF150002BF63C%402426517-14F5B2803B5FDE11%4029-14F5B2803B5FDE11%40
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}{{subscription required}}
- {{cite news
| title =Music visitors thrilled with trip over Bay
| newspaper =San Francisco Chronicle
| location =San Francisco, CA
| page =17
| date =Jun 25, 1931
| url =https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2%3A142051F45F422A02%40GB3NEWS-14FCF150C17876BC%402426518-14FB4CCF0C6C9025%4016-14FB4CCF0C6C9025%40
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}{{subscription required}}
- {{cite news
| title =Federation's spirit expressed in concert |author= Redfern Mason
| newspaper =The San Francisco Examiner
| location =San Francisco, California
| page =9
| date =25 Jun 1931
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49209427/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =National Federation of music clubs holds its biennial in San Francisco |author= Beatrix F. Cameron
| newspaper = Times Colonist
| location =Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
| page =7
| date =11 Jul 1931
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49209550/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
Amidst the summer she was booked for performances through NBC Artists Service for the 1931-2 season on the West Coast and radio programs carried back east as well.* {{cite news
| title =NBC artists service itenerary
| newspaper =Pacific Coast Music Review
| page =1
| date =Aug 11, 1931
| url =https://archive.org/details/pacificcoastmusi5531sanf/page/n440/mode/1up/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Marie Montana features NBC Pacific Hour
| newspaper =The Capital Times
| location =Madison, Wisconsin
| page =17
| date =3 Sep 1931
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49209657/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =KECA at 12:15
| newspaper =Riverside Daily Press
| location = Riverside, CA
| page =3
| date =Sep 4, 1931
| url =https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2%3A13651645D687D212%40GB3NEWS-139A89CE1364C239%402426589-139A481E12584897%402-139A481E12584897%40
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}{{subscription required}}
- {{cite news
| title =Marie Montana…
| newspaper =The Evening Sun
| location =Hanover, Pennsylvania
| page =11
| date =4 Sep 1931
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49209737/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =WLW
| newspaper =Evansville Courier and Press
| location =Evansville, IN
| page =4
| date =Sep 5, 1931
| url =https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2%3A1425EEA2CB57B634%40GB3NEWS-156461FB4C229866%402426590-15450351029AC35F%403-15450351029AC35F%40
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}{{subscription required}}
- {{cite news
| title =On the air today; Marie Montana…
| newspaper = Democrat and Chronicle
| location =Rochester, New York
| page =9
| date =5 Sep 1931
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49209812/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =12:15 to 1pm
| newspaper =The San Bernardino County Sun
| location =San Bernardino, California
| page =21
| date =5 Sep 1931
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49209867/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =WJZ-NBC
| newspaper =The Owensboro Messenger
| location = Owensboro, Kentucky
| page =6
| date =5 Sep 1931
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49209894/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =WJZ-NBC
| newspaper =The Times
| location =Shreveport, Louisiana
| page =4
| date =5 Sep 1931
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49209937/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =It's time to tune in; 2:15pm
| newspaper =The Knoxville Journal
| location =Knoxville, Tennessee
| page =8
| date =5 Sep 1931
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49209994/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Marie Montana
| newspaper =The Press Democrat
| location =Santa Rosa, California
| page =7
| date =5 Sep 1931
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49210036/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =By Bill Key; Marie Montana…
| newspaper =The Atlanta Constitution
| location =Atlanta, Georgia
| page =15
| date =5 Sep 1931
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49210102/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Varieties; 12:15 Noon
| newspaper = The Los Angeles Times
| location =Los Angeles, California
| page =25
| date =5 Sep 1931
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49210178/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} In October she returned to Vancouver* {{cite news
| title =Visiting artists
| newspaper =The Province
| location =Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
| page =10
| date =6 Sep 1931
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49210249/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Mrs. Phillip Malkin…
| newspaper =The Vancouver Sun
| location =Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
| page =18
| date =12 Sep 1931
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49210314/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Music club season plans
| newspaper = The Province
| location =Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
| page =12
| date =27 Sep 1931
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49210442/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title = Woman's Musical Club to hear well-known artists this season
| newspaper =The Vancouver Sun
| location =Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
| page =14
| date =30 Sep 1931
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49210517/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Marie Montana in Recital Wednesday
| newspaper =The Province
| location =Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
| page =8
| date =11 Oct 1931
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49210598/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} A critic said: “… endowed with an unusually fine voice, admirably disciplined, although at this time it cannot be said it was always sure in intonation…. In the matter of musicianship this singer is happily equipped, but it is to be regretted that she invested many of her songs with that innate vulgarity known as the “downward slur”…. Moreover, she did not always succeed in surrendering her personality in penetrating the underlying beauties of her music. The songs… were rendered with genuine artistic taste and distinction.… unfortunately, Debussy's “Mandoline” lacked the necessary rhythmic flow and delicacy of colors. Gaubert's “Ah Fuyez a Present” on the other hand proved much more effective in imagination.… The aria from 'Louise,’ which concluded the printed list, was more conspicuous for its vocal opulence than its interpretive insight.”* {{cite news
| title =Visiting soprano heard in recital |author= RJ
| newspaper =The Province
| location =Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
| page =11
| date =15 Oct 1931
| url = https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49210705/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} Another critic addressed who attended the performance much more than the performance itself.* {{cite news
| title = Large attendance at musical club concert
| newspaper = The Vancouver Sun
| location =Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
| page =8
| date =15 Oct 1931
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49211114/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} Afterwards she scheduled to go to Medford, Oregon,{{cite news
| title =Superior artists included in list of music branch
| newspaper =Medford Mail Tribune
| location =Medford, Oregon
| page =2
| date =24 Oct 1931
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49211217/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} and to the College of the Holy Names in Oakland to sing.* {{cite news
| title =Montana will sing Monday
| newspaper =Oakland Tribune
| location =Oakland, California
| page =15
| date =5 Nov 1931
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49211287/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Marie Montanna(sic) guest artist at college concert
| newspaper = The San Francisco Examiner
| location =San Francisco, California
| page =21
| date =8 Nov 1931
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48982521/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Miss Marie Montana to sing at college
| newspaper =The San Francisco Examiner
| location =San Francisco, California
| page =6
| date =9 Nov 1931
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49211469/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} She was back with the San Francisco Symphony later in November.* {{cite news
| title =Madame Marie Montana…
| newspaper =The Vancouver Sun
| location =Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
| page =19
| date =14 Nov 1931
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49211528/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Montana to sing with symphony
| newspaper =The San Francisco Examiner
| location =San Francisco, California
| page =48
| date =15 Nov 1931
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49211610/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Miss Montana to sing at concert
| newspaper =The San Francisco Examiner
| location =San Francisco, California
| page =15
| date =20 Nov 1931
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49211658/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} That performance was called "a great triumph" by one critic who had come to the city.* {{cite news
| title = Musical Musings; Marie Montana… |author= Elsa Elene Swartz
| newspaper =The Missoulian
| location =Missoula, Montana
| page =16
| date =22 Nov 1931
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49211712/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =National radio program to be brought to mining city fans this evening
| newspaper =The Montana Standard
| location =Butte, Montana
| page =1
| date =28 Nov 1931
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49227871/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} She was profiled noting some details - that mother was from San Francisco, and a grandfather was a "49er” coming to California for the gold rush. The critic here went on: “… won so outstanding a triumph…[from her October performance] that she was immediately reengaged as soloist for the popular concert … Nov 20…. (reviewing it) Alexander Fried, critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, says… ’She made her … debut a remarkably successful occasion. Fresh charm of voice and lyric sentiment warmly appearing were impressive in her singing…. Time and again recalled to the platform she responded to applause at last with a welcomed repetition of the ‘Carmen’ song.… similar praise… by Marie Hicks Davidson… (and) Marjory M. Fisher…."{{cite news
| title =Former Montana singer wins praise of coast critics as solo artist
| newspaper =The Billings Gazette
| location =Billings, Montana
| page =11
| date =29 Nov 1931
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49212136/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} In later November she was again on NBC radio out of San Francisco,* {{cite news
| title =Montana girl will appear on KGHL program coming from San Francisco
| newspaper =The Billings Gazette
| location =Billings, Montana
| page =14
| date =28 Nov 1931
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49211978/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Bringing two Montana...
| newspaper =The San Francisco Examiner
| location =San Francisco, California
| page =28
| date =28 Nov 1931
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49212064/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Radio program boosts state (continued from page one)
| newspaper = The Billings Gazette
| location =Billings, Montana
| page =2
| date =29 Nov 1931
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49212637/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title = Montana is welcomed on broadcast chain (continued from page 1)
| newspaper =The Montana Standard
| location =Butte, Montana
| page =2
| date =30 Nov 1931
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49212711/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} and there was a public posting of her responds to a fan letter.* {{cite news
| title =Greets friends
| newspaper =The Billings Gazette
| location =Billings, Montana
| page =3
| date =31 Dec 1931
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49212841/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} In the deepest part of the Great Depression she was coming to Butte and Dillon Montana to visit and perform on her way back to east.* {{cite news
| title =Marie Montana...
| newspaper = The Montana Standard
| location =Butte, Montana
| page =45
| date =21 Feb 1932
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49213037/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Marie Montana to give recital
| newspaper =The Montana Standard
| location =Butte, Montana
| page =12
| date =23 Feb 1932
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49213099/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Concert is given by Marie Montana
| newspaper =The Montana Standard
| location =Butte, Montana
| page =4
| date =27 Feb 1932
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49213179/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Marie Montana to make visit here
| newspaper =The Montana Standard
| location =Butte, Montana
| page =13
| date =27 Feb 1932
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49213312/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} However she did not appear in public for a performance until later October in Madison, New Jersey, nearly a year later,* {{cite news
| title =Maria Montana will sign for local club
| newspaper =The Madison Eagle
| location =Madison, New Jersey
| page =5
| date =14 Oct 1932
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50735899/later-bahai-maria-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = May 11, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Many women present at Montana recital
| newspaper =The Madison Eagle
| location =Madison, New Jersey
| page =5
| date =21 Oct 1932
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49215628/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} and then again when she was spotted in the audience of another performance.{{cite news
| title =Large audience hears concert at Glynallen
| newspaper =The Madison Eagle
| location =Madison, New Jersey
| page =5
| date =16 Dec 1932
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50736072/later-bahai-maria-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = May 11, 2020}}
==New York==
Nearly four months after that she performed in January 1933 for a composers concert singing excerpts from Lazare Saminsky work The Plague "Gagliarda".* {{cite news
| title =Composer's League will give modern works at concert
| newspaper = The Brooklyn Daily Eagle
| location =Brooklyn, New York
| page =53
| date =25 Dec 1932
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49215764/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Music of the Day |author= J. E.
| newspaper =The Brooklyn Daily Eagle
| location = Brooklyn, New York
| page =10
| date =9 Jan 1933
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49215992/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} and in April was back on NBC radio WJZ.{{cite news
| title =395 WJZ 760; 11:00
| newspaper =Times Union
| location =Brooklyn, New York
| page =24
| date =30 Apr 1933
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49216197/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} Now in the shadow of the worst of the Great Depression, she had performed weekly from December 1932 to June 1933 for the New York Holy Trinity Lutheran Church again along with several other soloists.* {{cite news
| title =Sunday Preachers and Music; Luthernan; Holy Trinity
| newspaper = New York Evening Post
| location =New York, NY
| page =S8
| date =Dec 3, 1932
| url = https://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2011/New%20York%20Evening%20Post/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201932%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201932%20Grayscale%20-%208689.pdf
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Sunday Preachers and Music; Luthernan; Holy Trinity
| newspaper =New York Evening Post
| location =New York, NY
| page =F13
| date =Dec 17, 1932
| url = https://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2011/New%20York%20Evening%20Post/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201932%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201932%20Grayscale%20-%209024.pdf
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Sunday Preachers and Music; Luthernan; Holy Trinity
| newspaper =New York Evening Post
| location =New York, NY
| page =F14
| date =Dec 31, 1932
| url = https://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2011/New%20York%20Evening%20Post/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201932%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201932%20Grayscale%20-%209301.pdf
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title = Sunday Preachers and Music; Luthernan; Holy Trinity
| newspaper =New York Evening Post
| location =New York, NY
| page =12
| date =Jan 7, 1933
| url = https://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2011/New%20York%20Evening%20Post/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201932%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201932%20Grayscale%20-%209425.pdf
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Sunday Preachers and Music; Luthernan; Holy Trinity
| newspaper = New York Evening Post
| location =New York, NY
| page =F9
| date =Feb 11, 1933
| url = https://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2011/New%20York%20Evening%20Post/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201933%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201933%20Grayscale%20-%200692.pdf
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Sunday Preachers and Music; Luthernan; Holy Trinity
| newspaper =New York Evening Post
| location =New York, NY
| page =14
| date =Feb 18, 1933
| url = https://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2011/New%20York%20Evening%20Post/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201933%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201933%20Grayscale%20-%200857.pdf
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Sunday Preachers and Music; Luthernan; Holy Trinity
| newspaper = New York Evening Post
| location =New York, NY
| page =11
| date =Mar 4, 1933
| url = https://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2011/New%20York%20Evening%20Post/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201933%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201933%20Grayscale%20-%201161.pdf
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title = Sunday Preachers and Music; Luthernan; Holy Trinity
| newspaper =New York Evening Post
| location =New York, NY
| page =8
| date =May 13, 1933
| url = https://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2011/New%20York%20Evening%20Post/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201933%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201933%20Grayscale%20-%202717.pdf
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title = Sunday preachers and music; Lutheran; Holy Trinity
| newspaper =New York Evening Post
| location =New York, NY
| page =F14
| date =May 27, 1933
| url = https://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2011/New%20York%20Evening%20Post/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201933%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201933%20Grayscale%20-%203067.pdf
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Sunday preachers and music; Lutheran; Holy Trinity
| newspaper =New York Evening Post
| location =New York, NY
| page =F14
| date =Jun 3, 1933
| url = https://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2011/New%20York%20Evening%20Post/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201933%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201933%20Grayscale%20-%203205.pdf
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title = Sunday preachers and music; Lutheran; Holy Trinity
| newspaper =New York Evening Post
| location =New York, NY
| page =15
| date =Oct 21, 1933
| url = https://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2011/New%20York%20Evening%20Post/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201933%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201933%20Grayscale%20-%205983.pdf
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} A friend visited her in New York in December.{{cite news
| title =Miss Darch returns home
| newspaper =Oakland Tribune
| location =Oakland, California
| page =30
| date =3 Dec 1933
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49216421/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
As the Great Depression was slowly loosening its hold on America, for the 1933-4 season she was also part of Santa Barbara's season of performances though her specific appearance was not detailed.{{cite news
| title =Santa Barbara music activities
| newspaper = Who's who in music and dance in Southern California
| location =Hollywood, CA
| page =140
| date =1933
| url =https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinmusicda00holl/page/140/mode/1up/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} Mid-February, 1934, she was on NBC radio stations WEAF & WMAQ,{{cite news
| title =Wednesday, February 14
| newspaper =Radio Guide
| page =18
| date =Feb 17, 1934
| url =https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Radio-Guide/1934/Radio-Guide-34-02-17.pdf
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} and in March was in a Brooklyn club performance as part of a quartet singing Rubinstein.* {{cite news
| title = Rubenstein
| newspaper =The Brooklyn Daily Eagle
| location = Brooklyn, New York
| page =22
| date =11 Mar 1934
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49216697/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title = Rubinstein musicale-luncheon held at the Waldorf-Astoria
| newspaper = The Brooklyn Daily Eagle
| location =Brooklyn, New York
| page =19
| date =14 Mar 1934
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49216810/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} In mid-April she was again on NBC radio.* {{cite news
| title =Marie Montana...
| newspaper =Freeport Journal-Standard
| location =Freeport, Illinois
| page =7
| date =19 Apr 1934
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49216926/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Feature concert artists over NBC
| newspaper =The Rock Island Argus
| location =Rock Island, Illinois
| page =5
| date =19 Apr 1934
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49217021/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} A few days later she was in a Brooklyn choral society church concert.{{cite news
| title = Flatbush choral unit gives concert
| newspaper =The Brooklyn Daily Eagle
| location =Brooklyn, New York
| page =4
| date =21 Apr 1934
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49217144/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
==Montana and the West==
In May 1934 came the news that she was coming to visit and teach a “master class” in Billings, Montana.* {{cite news
| title = Will visit Montana
| newspaper =The Billings Gazette
| location =Billings, Montana
| page =16
| date =6 May 1934
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49217364/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Miss Montana plans state concert tour
| newspaper =The Billings Gazette
| location =Billings, Montana
| page =5
| date =19 May 1934
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49305878/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} She was in Hardin in late June,{{cite news
| title =Will visit Hardin
| newspaper =The Billings Gazette
| location = Billings, Montana
| page =6
| date =8 Jun 1934
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49306071/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} then Billings at the Fox Theatre again reviewing her musical career.* {{cite news
| title =Marie Montana due here today
| newspaper =The Billings Gazette
| location =Billings, Montana
| page =5
| date =22 Jun 1934
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49306733/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} One performance was a fundraiser for the school.* {{cite news
| title =Miss Montana gives recital
| newspaper =The Billings Gazette
| location =Billings, Montana
| page =5
| date =28 Jun 1934
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48771645/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Marie Montana, Helena girl, singing in state, is famous for voice here and abroad
| newspaper = Great Falls Tribune
| location =Great Falls, Montana
| page =6
| date =29 Jun 1934
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48771881/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} In Later June she was back in Lewistown.{{cite news
| title =Sings at Lewistown
| newspaper =Great Falls Tribune
| location =Great Falls, Montana
| page =5
| date =20 Jun 1934
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49306400/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} She was a guest and performed at the Congregational Church at the end of June in Hardin.{{cite news
| title =Hardin audience enjoys recital by Miss Montana at Congregational Church
| newspaper =The Billings Gazette
| location =Billings, Montana
| page =16
| date =1 Jul 1934
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49219774/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} She was invited to give a concert for Moose lodge group in July.{{cite news
| title =Marie Montana invited
| newspaper =Great Falls Tribune
| location =Great Falls, Montana
| page =14
| date =8 Jul 1934
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49220119/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} Her appearances now framed as a tour of the state, and a concert in Great Falls in mid-July.{{cite news
| title =Noted soprano to appear in Falls concert
| newspaper =Great Falls Tribune
| location =Great Falls, Montana
| page =7
| date =11 Jul 1934
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49220322/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} Back in Lewistown she gave a talk on her life in Italy.{{cite news
| title = Speaks on Italy
| newspaper = Great Falls Tribune
| location =Great Falls, Montana
| page =4
| date =12 Jul 1934
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49220669/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} Some details soon mentioned was that she was taught by Maria Brucschenem, Nadia Gontaruk, and the previously mentioned Esperanza Garrigue; and some 1500 people came to a Billings performance and fundraiser.{{cite news
| title =Marie Montana concert to aid in health work
| newspaper =Great Falls Tribune
| location =Great Falls, Montana
| page =5
| date =15 Jul 1934
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49221015/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} A few days later she was a guest of the Lions club where she again gave a talk in Great Falls{{cite news
| title =Singer is guest of Falls Lions
| newspaper =Great Falls Tribune
| location = Great Falls, Montana
| page =10
| date =18 Jul 1934
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49221363/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} before her performance.* {{cite news
| title =Marie Montana sings tonight in auditorium of junior high; classical program to be given
| newspaper =Great Falls Tribune
| location = Great Falls, Montana
| page =10
| date =19 Jul 1934
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49221624/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Marie Montana appears before Falls audience
| newspaper =Great Falls Tribune
| location =Great Falls, Montana
| page =13
| date =20 Jul 1934
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49221777/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} She was feted at the Ladies Club meeting.{{cite news
| title =Mrs. Brown is Chairman for club luncheon
| newspaper =Great Falls Tribune
| location =Great Falls, Montana
| page =6
| date =22 Jul 1934
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48772370/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} and then did that concert for the Moose lodge in Bozeman* {{cite news
| title =Moose Convention, opens at Bozeman
| newspaper = The Missoulian
| location =Missoula, Montana
| page =2
| date =27 Jul 1934
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48772990/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} and then again Butte.{{cite news
| title =Concert presented
| newspaper =The Montana Standard
| location =Butte, Montana
| page =10
| date =2 Aug 1934
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49222195/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} A picture of her was published in early August.{{cite news
| title =Marie Montana (Ruth Waite)
| newspaper =The Montana Standard
| location =Butte, Montana
| page =7
| date =4 Aug 1934
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48773223/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} A week later came news she was opening a studio for classes in Lewistown with a study on Faust.* {{cite news
| title =To open studio
| newspaper =Great Falls Tribune
| location =Great Falls, Montana
| page =5
| date =6 Aug 1934
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49222620/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Marie Montana honored
| newspaper =Great Falls Tribune
| location =Great Falls, Montana
| page =3
| date =14 Aug 1934
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48773387/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} The next study was going to be on La boheme.{{cite news
| title =Opera class started
| newspaper = Great Falls Tribune
| location = Great Falls, Montana
| page =5
| date =17 Aug 1934
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48773504/later-bahai-ruth-waite-aka-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} Later in August she gave a talk at the Lewistown Rotary Club.{{cite news
| title =Marie Montana speaks
| newspaper =Great Falls Tribune
| location =Great Falls, Montana
| page =10
| date =23 Aug 1934
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49222907/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} The Women's Club recalled their sponsorship of one of her performances in mid-September.{{cite news
| title =Business Women's Club has initial meeting of season
| newspaper =Great Falls Tribune
| location =Great Falls, Montana
| page =3
| date =19 Sep 1934
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49223139/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} Later that month she sang at a funeral in Great Falls.{{cite news
| title =Baker rites held Saturday; funeral largely attended
| newspaper =Great Falls Tribune
| location =Great Falls, Montana
| page =13
| date =30 Sep 1934
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49223319/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} In October she was hosted at a reception in Butte.{{cite news
| title =Reception held at Woodard home
| newspaper =The Montana Standard
| location =Butte, Montana
| page =11
| date =2 Oct 1934
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49223562/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} She was then off to the west coast.{{cite news
| title =To the coast
| newspaper =The Montana Standard
| location =Butte, Montana
| page =9
| date =3 Oct 1934
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49223753/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} She mid-January 1935 left Seattle to visit Philadelphia.{{cite news
| title =Almost home
| newspaper =The Philadelphia Inquirer
| location =Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
| page =7
| date =16 Jan 1935
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49224555/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} Later in January she was back in Cheney, Washington where she performed at a nursing school.* {{cite news
| title =Soprano to sing at Normal School
| newspaper =Spokane Chronicle
| location =Spokane, Washington
| page =28
| date =30 Jan 1935
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49224697/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Soprano to sing at Normal School
| newspaper =Spokane Chronicle
| location =Spokane, Washington
| page =32
| date =7 Feb 1935
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49224850/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} In February she performed in Spokane.{{cite news
| title =Singer gives concert
| newspaper =Spokane Chronicle
| location = Spokane, Washington
| page =23
| date =8 Feb 1935
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49225025/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} In later April she was at the Denny-Watrous GallerySee Carmel Impresarios: A cultural biography of Dene Denny and Hazel Watrous Paperback – June 1, 2014 by David J Gordon (Author) in Carmel.* {{cite news
| title =Gallery books notable events; Marie Montana...
| newspaper = Carmel Pine Cone
| location =Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
| page =3
| date =Apr 19, 1935
| url =https://archive.org/details/ccarm_002064/page/n2/mode/1up/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Denny-Watrous Gallery presents...
| newspaper =Carmel Pine Cone
| location =Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
| page =4
| date =April 26, 1935
| url =https://archive.org/details/ccarm_002065/page/n3/mode/1up/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Famous luric soprano to sing at local gallery tomorrow evening
| newspaper =Carmel Pine Cone
| location =Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
| page =6
| date = April 26, 1935
| url =https://archive.org/details/ccarm_002065/page/n5/mode/1up/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} news of which made it back to Montana.{{cite news
| title = Montana singer splendid artist; Appreciation |author=Noel Sullivan
| newspaper =The Montana Standard
| location =Butte, Montana
| page =14
| date =2 Jun 1935
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49225528/later-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} A critic said: “… last Saturday evening's concert by Marie Montana was possibly the finest of the lot. It was given, unfortunately, before one of the smallest houses of the season. Here is a young American singer over whom hovers the mantle of authentic greatness. That she is not ranked in the top-flight of today's artists is more a lack of lucky incident than any readiness on her part. She has the temperament, she has depth, and above all she has a beautiful, golden voice with a peculiar varied tonal quality. At times her notes are clear and effortless as those of a bird; again her singing suggests “the horns of elf land, faintly blowing…."* {{cite news
| title =Music matters |author= Thelma B. Miller
| newspaper =Carmel Pine Cone
| location =Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
| page =15
| date =May 3, 1935
| url =https://archive.org/details/ccarm_002066/page/n14/mode/1up/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
Maria attended her mother death in late June 1935 in Oakland.* {{cite news
| title =Mrs. Biglen dies
| newspaper =The Montana Standard
| location =Butte, Montana
| page =5
| date =29 Jun 1935
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49225978/obit-of-mother-of-later-bahai-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Mrs. Alice Waite is summoned by death
| newspaper =The Independent-Record
| location =Helena, Montana
| page =6
| date =3 Jul 1935
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49226076/obit-of-mother-of-later-bahai-marie/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} Maria returned to sing a duet at the Bach festival in Carmel.* {{cite news
| title = E. Steen-Sconhoft to sing at Bach festival
| newspaper = News-Pilot
| location =San Pedro, California
| page =5
| date =12 Jul 1935
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49226266/soon-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Carmel Back festival
| newspaper =The Los Angeles Times
| location =Los Angeles, California
| page =43
| date =14 Jul 1935
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49226616/soon-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Appreciative audience welcomes initial program of Back Festival (continued from page 1)
| newspaper =Carmel Pine Cone
| location =Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
| page =2
| date =Jul 19, 1935
| url =https://archive.org/details/ccarm_002077/page/n1/mode/1up/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} She had arrived in mid-July and gave the concert; a critic said: “Alive and responsive from the crown of her head to the tips of her toes, her voice soured thrillingly over the sonorous, full-bodied orchestral accompaniment, bespeaking her love and appreciation for this great music."* {{cite news
| title =Music matters
| newspaper = Carmel Pine Cone
| location =Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
| page =16
| date = July 19, 1935
| url =https://archive.org/details/ccarm_002077/page/n31/mode/1up/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Great interest... |author=Helen V. Sully
| newspaper = Auburn Journal
| location =Auburn, California
| page =12
| date =1 Aug 1935
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49226746/soon-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} These performances were remembered as part of the first such Bach Festival.* {{cite news
| title =1935 - complete progra of Bach Festival July 18 to 21 announced in detail
| newspaper =Carmel Pine Cone |author=Butler, Clifford
| location =Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
| pages =18, 23
| date =July 8, 1975
| url =https://archive.org/details/ccarm_004160/page/n17/mode/1up/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =How the Carmel Bach Festival began...
| newspaper =Carmel Pine Cone
| location =Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
| pages =16, 23
| date =July 16, 2004
| url =https://archive.org/details/ccarm_005646/page/n59/mode/1up/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} A few months later she performed for a store sponsored club concert.{{cite news
| title =Bechstein Piano for Ellis Club concert
| newspaper =The Los Angeles Times
| location =Los Angeles, California
| page =3
| date =24 Nov 1935
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49226914/soon-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
In May 1936 she was a judge in the South California Festival contest.* {{cite news
| title =Final singing tests tonight
| newspaper =The Los Angeles Times
| location =Los Angeles, California
| page =22
| date = 27 May 1936
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49227214/soon-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title = Festival of allied arts announces prize awards, (continued from first page)
| newspaper =The Los Angeles Times
| location =Los Angeles, California
| page =14
| date =31 May 1936
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49262221/soon-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} Six months later she performed in Van Nays* {{cite news
| title =Music lovers to hear Marie Montana sing
| newspaper =The Van Nuys News
| location = Van Nuys, California
| page =14
| date =5 Nov 1936
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49262896/soon-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} and performed a couple weeks later in Los Angeles{{cite news
| title =Marie Montana to appear in Los Angeles November 6
| newspaper =The Los Angeles Times
| location =Los Angeles, California
| page =63
| date =11 Oct 1936
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49262379/soon-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} as part of a lineup of performances at the Trinity Auditorium.* {{cite news
| title =Petrie to present season of Concerts
| newspaper = The Los Angeles Times
| location =Los Angeles, California
| page =57
| date =18 Oct 1936
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49262707/soon-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} In December she sang in another Oakland concert.{{cite news
| title =Radio Star to direct concert
| newspaper =Oakland Tribune
| location =Oakland, California
| page =10
| date =7 Dec 1936
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50736908/later-bahai-maria-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date =May 11, 2020}}
In March 1937 she performed in San Francisco in a program that also featured Igor Stravinsky in concert.* {{cite news
| title =Igor Stravinsky to conduct here
| newspaper =The San Francisco Examiner
| location =San Francisco, California
| page =21
| date =15 Mar 1937
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49263511/soon-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Stravinsky guest leader |author= Alexander Fried
| newspaper =The San Francisco Examiner
| location =San Francisco, California
| page =28
| date =21 Mar 1937
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49263725/soon-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title = Stravinsky will conduct tonight
| newspaper = The San Francisco Examiner
| location = San Francisco, California
| page =22
| date =23 Mar 1937
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49263806/soon-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} In early May she performed in Hartford, Connecticut.* {{cite news
| title = Two soloists engaged for Oratorio Concert
| newspaper =Hartford Courant
| location =Hartford, Connecticut
| page =3
| date =8 Mar 1937
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49263174/soon-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =4 soloists to be heard in Oratorio Concert on May 3
| newspaper = Hartford Courant
| location =Hartford, Connecticut
| page =23
| date =11 Apr 1937
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49263965/soon-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Soloists for Oratorio Society Concert
| newspaper = Hartford Courant
| location =Hartford, Connecticut
| page =22
| date =18 Apr 1937
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49264191/soon-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Oratorio Society will give Handel work at Bushnell
| newspaper =Hartford Courant
| location =Hartford, Connecticut
| page =10
| date =3 May 1937
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49264287/soon-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Handel work is presented by Oratorio
| newspaper =Hartford Courant
| location =Hartford, Connecticut
| page =7
| date =4 May 1937
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49264444/soon-bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
In January 1938 she was part of the Oratorio Society presenting Mendelssohn's “St. Paul” oratorio at the Flushing High School Auditorium. Rehearsals began January 17 and concert would be April 30 at the Congregational Chapel in Flushing.{{cite news
| title =Oratorio society to give 'St. Paul'
| newspaper =Long Island Daily Press
| location =Long Island, NY
| page =6
| date =Jan 10, 1938
| url = https://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2014/Jamaica%20NY%20Long%20Island%20Daily%20Press/Jamaica%20NY%20Long%20Island%20Daily%20Press%201938/Jamaica%20NY%20Long%20Island%20Daily%20Press%201938%20-%201365.pdf
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} She also performed in Tuxedo Park, New York in November.{{cite news
| title = Outstanding artists to present concert at Tuxedo Sunday night
| newspaper =Ramapo Valley Independent
| location =Suffern, NY
| page =2
| date =18 November 1938
| url =https://news.hrvh.org/veridian/?a=d&d=larcindependent19381118.1.2
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
A publicity photo of her was published in January 1939.{{cite web
| title =1939 Soprano Maria Montana Photo Booking Print Ad
| url =https://www.adspast.com/store/customer/product.php?productid=51056
| website =Adspast.com
|archive-date=May 11, 2020
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200511132546/https://www.adspast.com/store/customer/product.php?productid=51056
| date =January 1939
| access-date =May 11, 2020}} Mid-January she sang in the Town Hall with comments that she “possessed the requisite command (of the songs) ... The quality of the voice was best in the upper medium."* {{cite news
| title =Town Hall
| newspaper =The Brooklyn Daily Eagle
| location =Brooklyn, New York
| page =36
| date =15 Jan 1939
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50737512/later-bahai-maria-montana-aka-ruth/
| access-date =May 11, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Bass and soprano heard in recitals |author= Oscar Thompson
| newspaper =New York Sun
| location =New York, NY
| page =25
| date =Jan 19, 1939
| url = https://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2018/New%20York%20NY%20Sun/New%20York%20NY%20Sun%201939/New%20York%20NY%20Sun%201939%20-%200637.pdf
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} Late in February she was in a concert by the Oratorio and Festival Society of Yonkers and Music Guild of Dobbs Ferry and Hastings to be part of their “Elijah” concert.{{cite news
| title =Elijah to be given
| newspaper = Daily Argus
| location =Mt Vernon, NY
| page =7
| date =Feb 17, 1939
| url = https://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2018/Mount%20Vernon%20NY%20Daily%20Argus/Mount%20Vernon%20NY%20Daily%20Argus%201939/Mount%20Vernon%20NY%20Daily%20Argus%201939%20-%200659.pdf
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
==Minnesota==
Now 50 years old, and the Great Depression past, the April 1940 US Census has her living with her uncle Edward in Minneapolis, Minnesota.{{cite web
| title = Ruth Waite United States Census, 1940
| url =https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KSVB-5QB
| website =FamilySearch.org
| date =April 4, 1940
| access-date =Apr 27, 2020}}{{registration required}} They were living in the home he owned on Queen Ave South, then valued at $7000, (about $130k in 2020.{{cite web
| title =US Inflation Calculator
| url =https://www.usinflationcalculator.com
| website =USInflationCalculator.com
| date =2020
| access-date = May 14, 2020}}) He had been born in New York. In 1935 she had been living in New York City like her father. He was a district judge while she listed as a musician and private practical nurse, probably for him. They had a maid born in Norway as well. He was earning $5000/yr while she was listed as earning no money the previous year. She was mentioned in the local news in late July and also did a performance at the Northrop Auditorium.* {{cite news
| title =Virginia Safford; Just because…
| newspaper = The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =17
| date =30 Jul 1940
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48751559/bahai-ruth-kellogg-waite-aka-maria/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Music - Maria Montana in song recital |author=John K. Sherman
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =24
| date =1 Aug 1940
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48749934/bahai-ruth-kellog-waite-aka-maria/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
She performed in the Brahms Requiem in the Minneapolis performance of 1941.{{cite book|author=John K. Sherman|title=Music and Maestros|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6d-_4m6ykW4C&pg=PA252|year=1952|publisher=University of Minn. Press|isbn=978-1-4529-1091-8|page=252}} In February that year she performed in Winona, Minnesota, at the College of Saint Teresa.* {{cite news
| title =Maria Montana to be heard in concert Feb 10
| newspaper =Winona Republican-Herald
| location =Winona, Minnesota
| page =5
| date =Feb 1, 1941
| url =https://digital.olivesoftware.com/Olive/APA/Winona/SharedView.Article.aspx?href=TWH%2F1941%2F02%2F01&id=Ar00502&sk=931BD5CD&viewMode=image
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Maria Montana recipient of wide praise
| newspaper =Winona Republican-Herald
| location =Winona, Minnesota
| page =9
| date =Feb 4, 1941
| url =https://digital.olivesoftware.com/Olive/APA/Winona/SharedView.Article.aspx?href=TWH%2F1941%2F02%2F04&id=Ar00904&sk=5FB20801&viewMode=image
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Experiences of Maria Montana in Rome recalled
| newspaper = Winona Republican-Herald
| location =Winona, Minnesota
| page =4
| date = Feb 8, 1941
| url =https://digital.olivesoftware.com/Olive/APA/Winona/SharedView.Article.aspx?href=TWH%2F1941%2F02%2F08&id=Ar00405&sk=1C72D079&viewMode=image
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title = Maria Montana here tonight
| newspaper =Winona Republican-Herald
| location =Winona, Minnesota
| page =9
| date =Feb 10, 1941
| url =https://digital.olivesoftware.com/Olive/APA/Winona/SharedView.Article.aspx?href=TWH%2F1941%2F02%2F10&id=Ar00905&sk=426E3D31&viewMode=image
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} “Clarity and sweetness of tone and a delightful sense of humor were much enjoyed in the program… The concert was sponsored by the Teresan Alumnae Association…The true placing of her voice and its clear, silvery quality… A group of songs in German and Italian… excellent diction adding much to the audience's enjoyment….{{cite news
| title =Clarity, sweetness of tone noted in Montana concert
| newspaper =Winona Republican-Herald
| location =Winona, Minnesota
| page =7
| date =Feb 11, 1941
| url =https://digital.olivesoftware.com/Olive/APA/Winona/SharedView.Article.aspx?href=TWH%2F1941%2F02%2F11&id=Ar00702&sk=CA34C519&viewMode=image
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} In April she sang with the St. Olaf Choir.{{cite news
| title =St. Olaf Choir sings with symphony today - Brahms' Requiem Thursday |author=Johan Egilsrud
| newspaper =Star Tribune
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| pages =52
| date =6 Apr 1941
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50738466/bahai-maria-montana-aka-ruth-waite/
| access-date = May 11, 2020}} That December the US suffered the Attack on Pearl Harbor.
=Baháʼí Faith=
==Minnesota==
Having settled down in Minneapolis she maintained a relatively local schedule of performances some years but also began to operate in the context of a community.
===1940s===
In January 1942 she performed at the Northrop Auditorium with the Minneapolis Symphony, with Arthur Rubinstein,* {{cite news
| title =Symphony will play 3 concerts for city youths
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =24
| date =5 Oct 1941
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50739188/bahai-maria-montana-aka-ruth-waite-to/
| access-date = May 11, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Rubinstein soloist in Tschaikowsky Concerto
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| pages =38
| date =18 Jan 1942
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50740010/bahai-maria-montana-performs-i/
| access-date = May 11, 2020}}
- {{cite web | title =Programa de concierto de la Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra: twelfth concert| url =http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/research/programa-de-concierto-de-la-minneapolis-symphony-orchestra--twelfth-concert/ | website =cervantesvirtual.com | date =Jan 23, 1942 | access-date =Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Singer of today busy persons, says Maria Montana
| newspaper =Star Tribune Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =5
| date =24 Jan 1942
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48749516/bahai-maria-montanta-singing/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} and again with the orchestra in February and March.* {{cite news
| title = No rest for the Orchestra
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| pages =40
| date =15 Feb 1942
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50741092/bahai-maria-montana-performs/
| access-date =May 11, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =5th 'Twilight' next Sunday
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location = Minneapolis, Minnesota
| pages =37
| date =1 Mar 1942
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50741394/bahai-maria-montana-performs/
| access-date =May 11, 2020}} She had joined the Baháʼí Faith and from 1942 through 1944 Montana was a member of the Regional Teaching Committee for Minnesota/North Dakota/South Dakota* {{cite news
| title =Regional Teaching; Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota
| newspaper =Baháʼí News
| pages =6–7
| date =July 1942 |number=154
| url =https://bahai.works/index.php?title=File:Baha%27i_News_154.pdf&page=6
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =National Committees 1943-1944; Regional Teaching; Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota
| newspaper =Baháʼí News
| page =15
| date = Jul 1943 |number=164
| url =https://bahai.works/index.php?title=File:Baha%27i_News_164.pdf&page=15
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} working under the National Teaching Committee which reports to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baháʼís of the United States. The charge of the committee was to oversee promulgation of the religion in the region.
In May 1942 the Minneapolis Baháʼí s observed the Declaration of the Báb in May.{{cite news
| title =Baháʼí community will celebrate
| newspaper =Star Tribune
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =12
| date =22 May 1942
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45210750/bahais-observe-declaration-of-the-bab/
| access-date = May 11, 2020}} In June she assisted her uncle with a reception.{{cite news
| title =Judge Waite, Miss Montana entertain for M. E. Hawleys
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =21
| date =4 Jun 1942
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50741861/bahai-maria-montana-and-uncle-entertain/
| access-date =May 11, 2020}} In October she was mentioned on a civic community committee for international music through which she then spoke at a club entitled "Pan-American Music".* {{cite news
| title =International music…
| newspaper =Star Tribune
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =7
| date =1 Oct 1942
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50742093/bahai-maria-montana-on-committee/
| access-date =May 11, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Coffey hour at club - 'U' president will discuss war
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =50
| date =6 Dec 1942
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50742334/bahai-maria-montana-talk-on-music/
| access-date =May 11, 2020}} The Baháʼí community observed the religious holy days of the Birth of the Báb,{{cite news
| title = Baháʼí rite scheduled
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =8
| date =20 Oct 1942
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45210941/bahais-observe-birth-of-the-bab-at/
| access-date = May 11, 2020}} followed by the Birth of Bahá'u'lláh.{{cite news
| title =Baháʼí assembly
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =13
| date =12 Nov 1942
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45210992/bahais-observe-birth-of-bahaullah-at/
| access-date = May 11, 2020}} The community also held a meeting to hear a Baháʼí who was visiting from Alaska.{{cite news
| title =Life in Alaska will be lecture topic
| newspaper =Star Tribune
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =5
| date =26 Dec 1942
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45211060/bahai-vivian-kinsell-visit-and-talk/
| access-date = May 11, 2020}}
As of 1943 she was known back in Lewistown as a vocal teacher in California and her past concerts in the Lewistown area.{{cite book
|author = Edna Anderson
|title = Art Survey
|publisher = AAUW
|date = 1943
|location = Lewistown, MT
|pages = 8, 15
|url = https://mtmemory.org/digital/collection/p15018coll36/id/8009/rec/2
|oclc = 869290324
}}{{Dead link|date=October 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} In June the Minneapolis Baháʼís held a public meeting.{{cite news
| title =Minneapolis Bahai (sic) community…
| newspaper = The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =11
| date =26 Jun 1943
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45211103/bahai-mrs-martin-carter-talk-at-meeting/
| access-date = May 11, 2020}} In September then member of the US National Spiritual Assembly Amelia Collins came to Minneapolis and met with community members.{{cite news
| title = Mrs. Amelia Collins…
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =3
| date =4 Sep 1943
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45211146/bahai-amelia-collins-talk-at-meeting/
| access-date = May 11, 2020}} This was after a year of three race riots in America, and a national campaign was announced to take place across the final three months of the year to be on the theme of "race unity"{{cite news
| title =Letter from the National Spiritual Assembly
| newspaper =Baháʼí News |number=165
| pages =1–2
| date =Sep 1943
| url =https://bahai.works/File:Baha%27i_News_165.pdf
| access-date =June 8, 2019}}* {{cite news
| title = Letter from the National Spiritual Assembly
| newspaper =Baháʼí News |number=166
| pages =2
| date =Nov 1943
| url =https://bahai.works/index.php?title=File:Baha%27i_News_166.pdf&page=2
| access-date = June 8, 2019 }}
- {{cite news
| title =(Reports of Committees);Race Unity
| newspaper =Baháʼí News |number=170
| pages =7
| date = Sep 1944
| url =https://bahai.works/index.php?title=File%3ABaha%27i_News_170.pdf&page=7
| access-date = June 8, 2019 }} a central form of the Baháʼí teaching of the oneness of humanity. Indeed the Minneapolis Baháʼís were part of this campaign when, in a couple weeks, they held its first a meeting of that campaign.* {{cite news
| title =The Baháʼí Solution for Race Unity
| newspaper = The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =14
| date =25 Sep 1943
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/14638083/bahai-advert-for-talk-by-peggy-true/
| access-date = May 11, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title = Unity urged by Baháʼí speaker
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =13
| date =27 Sep 1943
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/14638189/bahai-mrs-george-true-talk-on-race/
| access-date = May 11, 2020}} Around the same time Jeynne Marie Stapleton pioneered to further the goals of the First Seven Year Plan, of raising a Baháʼí community in every state,{{rp|p38}} from Minneapolis to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, which succeeded.* {{cite news
| title =Pioneer Honor Roll to Oct 15, 1943
| newspaper =Baháʼí News
| page =4
| date =Jan 1944 |number=167
| url =https://bahai.works/index.php?title=File:Baha%27i_News_167.pdf&page=4
| access-date = Mar 10, 2020}}
- {{cite book
| title =Baháʼí World |chapter-url=https://bahai.works/index.php?title=File:BW_Volume9.pdf&page=248 |chapter=Pioneer roll of honor - The Seven Year Plan; Virgin Seas, 1937-1944
| publisher =Baháʼí Publishing Committee, Wilmette, IL
| series =An International Record
| volume =9
| date =1945
| location =Willmette, IL
| page =219
| url =https://bahai.works/Bahá’%C3%AD_World/Volume_9
| oclc=1772030 }}
- {{cite news
| title = Elsa Steinmetz heads Baháʼí Faith group
| newspaper =Argus-Leader
| location =Sioux Falls, South Dakota
| page =10
| date =6 Nov 1943
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18103020/bahai-assembly/
| access-date = Mar 10, 2020}} That year was part of a series of meetings that was held in Sioux Falls.* {{cite news
| title = Tells of world's future
| newspaper =Argus-Leader
| location =Sioux Falls, South Dakota
| page =8
| date =6 Oct 1943
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46332854/about-50-attended-talk-by-bahai-monroe/
| access-date =May 12, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title = The Baháʼí Faith and Christianity
| newspaper = Argus-Leader
| location =Sioux Falls, South Dakota
| page =4
| date =7 Oct 1943
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46332863/bahai-advert-for-talk-by-monroe-ioas/
| access-date =May 12, 2020}} The Minneapolis community held another meeting on race issues in a couple weeks{{cite news
| title =Race Unity topic for Baháʼí forum
| newspaper = The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =14
| date =23 Oct 1943
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45211248/bahais-host-speakers-harold-mann-c/
| access-date = May 11, 2020}} and then a more general one at the Center in November.{{cite news
| title =What is True Civilization?
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =11
| date =13 Nov 1943
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45211290/bahais-host-meeting/
| access-date = May 11, 2020}}
Across 1944 Montana does not otherwise appear in newspapers. The Baháʼí community she was part of did keep up a level of activity. Indeed in February her uncle Edward and another spoke as the local Baháʼís hosted its third race unity event of the campaign at their Center.{{cite news
| title =Public invited to hear Waite speak
| newspaper =Star Tribune
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =51
| date =13 Feb 1944
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/14668030/bahais-edward-waite-and-leo-bohanon/
| access-date = May 11, 2020}} A couple weeks later another public meeting was held broadening the theme to "world unity".{{cite news
| title = Dr. Fink to speak
| newspaper = The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =14
| date =26 Feb 1944
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45211326/bahai-charle-frink-talk-at-meeting/
| access-date = May 11, 2020}} Another community meeting bringing Baháʼís from Minneapolis and St. Paul together, amidst the general society antagonism between the cities, came in mid-April in a convention to elect delegates to the national convention.{{cite news
| title =State Bahais (sic) elect
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =10
| date =17 Apr 1944
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45211426/bahais-hold-state-convention/
| access-date = May 11, 2020}} This was in fact a new development in the broader Baháʼí organization.{{cite book|author=Will C. van den Hoonaard|title=The Origins of the Baháʼí Community of Canada, 1898-1948|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ntLfAgAAQBAJ&pg=RA1-PA40|date=30 October 2010|publisher=Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press|isbn=978-1-55458-706-3|page=157}} Previously Baháʼí delegates represented their specific assembly community - now they were elected from the whole state's Baháʼí population. The interest in that year's national convention was high and many of the Minneapolis community went as it was the 100th anniversary of the founding of the religion.{{cite news
| title =16 attend Centenary
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =3
| date =3 Jun 1944
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45211504/bahais-attending-national/
| access-date = May 11, 2020}} This national convention took place among the limitations and privations of World War II going on including limited boarding options in the Chicago area, and wavers and rationing that affected travel.{{cite news
| title =Centenary committee important announcement
| newspaper =Baháʼí News |number=168
| page =3
| date =Mar 1944
| url =https://bahai.works/index.php?title=File:Baha%27i_News_168.pdf&page=4
| access-date = Sep 12, 2018 }} Some 900 were planned on attending the convention from across America and some 1600 plus attended the final meeting at what was then called the Stevens Hotel as it was called then including attendees from Central and South America.{{cite magazine
| author=Gertrude K Henning
| title =Baháʼí Centenary Banquet
| magazine =World Order
| volume =10
| number =5
| date =Aug 1944
| pages =137–8
| url =https://bahai.works/index.php?title=File:World_Order_Vol10_Issue5.pdf&page=3
| access-date = Sep 12, 2018 }} The delegates and guests would get a specific printed program.{{cite news
| title =Letter from the National Spiritual Assembly
| newspaper =Baháʼí News |number=168
| pages =2–3
| date =Mar 1944
| url =https://bahai.works/index.php?title=File:Baha%27i_News_168.pdf&page=2
| access-date = Sep 12, 2018 }} A full text was indeed produced summarizing the first Baháʼí century.{{cite book
| title = The Baháʼí Centenary 1844-1944
| publisher =Baháʼí Publishing Committee
| date =1944
| location =Wilmette, IL
| url =https://bahai.works/Bahá’%C3%AD_Centenary_1844-1944}} A radio program was part of the festivities and a print rendition of the program was made.{{cite magazine
| title =Baháʼí Centenary Radio Program
| magazine =World Order |volume=10 |number=5
| pages =154–161
| date =Aug 1944
| url =https://bahai.works/index.php?title=File%3AWorld_Order_Vol10_Issue5.pdf&page=20
| access-date = Sep 12, 2018 }} Members of that year's national assembly elected included Horace Holley, Louis Gregory, Dorothy Beecher Baker, and Amelia Collins{{cite web
| title =Baháʼí Chronology: year 1944
| url =https://bahai-library.com/chronology/1944
| website =Bahai-library.com
| date =2020
| access-date = May 12, 2020}} all of whom later were named as a Hand of the Cause of the religion, the highest appointed position available in the religion.
In June a series of Baháʼí speakers began to come at the Center in Minneapolis. The first was Orcella Rexford.{{cite news
| title =Traveler to talk at Baháʼí Center
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =8
| date =24 Jun 1944
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28176204/bahai-orcella-rexford-talk/
| access-date = May 11, 2020}} Rexford was listed as one of a few women who "single-handedly" established new Baháʼí communities by giving an extended series of public lectures on then-popular topics and then inviting people to attend a series of classes on the religion.{{cite encyclopedia |title=Women in the North American Baháʼí Community |author1=Sandra Hutchinson |author2= Richard Hollinger| editor= Rosemary Skinner Keller |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of women and religion in North America |volume= 2 |year= 2006 |publisher=Indiana Univ. Press |location=Bloomington, IN |isbn=9780253346872 | oclc= 836273399 |page= 779 }} Indeed she was the first to do so.{{cite journal
| author=Roger M. Dahl
| title =Three Teaching Methods Used during North America's First Seven-Year Plan
| journal =Journal of Baháʼí Studies
| volume = 5
| issue =3
| publisher =Association for Baháʼí Studies
| date =1993
| url =https://bahai-studies.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/5.3-Dahl.pdf
| access-date = Jan 29, 2019 }} She was soon followed by Chinese aviator and peace activist Hilda Yen in July,{{cite news
| title =Chinese aviatrix to talk at Baháʼí Center
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =8
| date =8 Jul 1944
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45211552/bahai-hilda-yen-talks-at-meeting/
| access-date = May 11, 2020}} two more speakers in September,* {{cite news
| title = Mrs. Woolson to speak
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =8
| date =2 Sep 1944
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45211806/bahai-gayle-woolson-talk-at-center/
| access-date = May 11, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Education held key to tolerance
| newspaper =Star Tribune
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =12
| date =14 Sep 1944
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45211903/bahais-host-talks-clarence-hughes/
| access-date = May 11, 2020}} which were followed by community observances.* {{cite news
| title =The Minneapolis Baháʼí community…
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =9
| date =11 Nov 1944
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45212020/bahais-observe-birth-of-bahaullah-at/
| access-date = May 11, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =John B. Sterns…
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =13
| date =12 Dec 1944
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45212054/bahai-john-sterns-talk-at-center/
| access-date = May 11, 2020}}
In February 1945 the Baháʼís hosted a "color line" meeting with a panel with Jewish and Christian and Baháʼí speakers.{{cite news
| title =Baha'i speakers
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =10
| date =24 Feb 1945
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45212101/bahais-host-panel-on-color-line/
| access-date = May 11, 2020}} In March the Baháʼí delegates elected their end of World War II Minnesota representatives to the national convention to elect the national assembly. They were Montana and Marie Tetu.{{cite news
| title =Baha'is elect
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =3
| date =3 Mar 1945
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45212141/bahais-elect-delegates-maria-montana/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} Alas that year no national convention was gathered and instead members voted by mail* {{cite news
| title =National Spiritual Assembly
| newspaper =Baháʼí News
| page =2
| date = May 1945 |number=174
| url =https://bahai.works/index.php?title=File:Baha%27i_News_174.pdf&page=2
| access-date =May 12, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Annual election, 1945
| newspaper =Baháʼí News |number=175
| page =3
| date =Jun 1945
| url =https://bahai.works/index.php?title=File:Baha%27i_News_175.pdf&page=3
| access-date =May 12, 2020}} and the same individuals were elected.{{cite news
| title =National Spiritual Assembly
| newspaper =Baháʼí News
| page =4
| date =June 1945 |number=175
| url =https://bahai.works/index.php?title=File:Baha%27i_News_175.pdf&page=4
| access-date =May 12, 2020}} In April the Baháʼís hosted a speaker's return to Minneapolis from her efforts in Latin America.{{cite news
| title =Mrs. Gayle Woolson…
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =8
| date =21 Apr 1945
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45212176/bahai-gayle-woolson-talk-at-center/
| access-date = May 11, 2020}} World War II ended in Europe but continued in Asia until September. Between those events in June another Baháʼí came through who had gone to Colorado,{{cite news
| title =Mrs. Kenneth O. Klein…
| newspaper =Star Tribune
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =13
| date =29 Jun 1945
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45212232/bahai-mrs-kenneth-klein-goes-to-meeting/
| access-date = May 11, 2020}} then the community hosted a North Dakota visitor in October,{{cite news
| title = Mrs. Marguerite Bruegger…
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =12
| date =11 Oct 1945
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45212399/bahai-marguerite-brugger-guest-of-mrs/
| access-date = May 11, 2020}} and Montana and Mrs. Kenneth Klein were noted in the newspapers going to a regional Bahá´í conference to be held in Sioux Falls.* {{cite news
| title =Bahai (sic) conference slated
| newspaper =Star Tribune
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =3
| date =4 Oct 1945
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45212316/bahais-maria-montana-and-kenneth-klein/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Baha'i committee will hold meeting in city
| newspaper =Argus-Leader
| location = Sioux Falls, South Dakota
| pages =2
| date =6 Oct 1945
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50926438/bahai-regional-committee-meets-mrs/
| access-date =May 14, 2020}} Another speaker this time from the local Urban League in November.{{cite news
| title =W. M. Seabron
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =6
| date =17 Nov 1945
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45212424/bahais-host-meeting-on-race/
| access-date = May 11, 2020}}
Late in the period of service of the 1945-6 national spiritual assembly a member retired for reasons of health - Roy Wilhelm - resulting in a by-election that Montana would have participated in.{{cite news
| title = National Spiritual Assembly
| newspaper =Baháʼí News
| page =1
| date =Apr 1946 |number=182
| url =https://bahai.works/Baha%27i_News/Issue_182
| access-date =May 12, 2020}} This was the first time this had happened. The election resulted in adding Helen Elsie Austin to the membership.
In February 1946 Montana was again elected as one of the delegates to the national Baháʼí convention.{{cite news
| title = 2 Baha'i delegates named from city
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location = Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =4
| date =16 Feb 1946
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45212524/bahai-delegates-to-national/
| access-date =May 12, 2020}} In March she went to New York for a Baháʼí Naw-Rúz meeting to commemorate the new year,{{cite news
| title =Leaves for east
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =20
| date =19 Mar 1946
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45212597/bahai-maria-montana-visiting/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} held on the 21st,{{cite news
| title =Naw Ruz festival
| newspaper = Press and Sun-Bulletin
| location =Binghamton, New York
| page =29
| date =20 Mar 1946
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50749511/bahais-observe-naw-ruz-betsy-richard/
| access-date =May 11, 2020}} possibly attending a conference on music while there as well,{{cite news
| title = Baha'i World Faith sponsors meeting at Academy tonight
| newspaper =The Brooklyn Citizen
| location =Brooklyn, New York
| page =2
| date =25 Mar 1946
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50749249/bahais-hold-music-meeting-hilda-yen/
| access-date =May 11, 2020}} and then went to attend the national convention in April which was indeed held.{{cite news
| title =Baha'i delegates
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =18
| date =19 Apr 1946
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45212631/bahai-delegates-mrs-kenneth-klein/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} This convention announced the beginning of a new plan, the Second Seven Year Plan, by Shoghi Effendi, then head of the religion, with four goals: the wider spread awareness of the Faith in Latin America, the completion of the interior ornamentation of the House of Worship, raising the various some communities to the state of national organizations - for Canada to form its own, along with regional ones for Central and South America, and initiating a campaign of Baháʼís to reach Europe in the post-war period.* {{cite news
| title =Messages from the Guardian to the Convention
| newspaper =Baháʼí News
| page =1
| date =Jun 1946 |number=184
| url =https://bahai.works/index.php?title=File%3ABaha%27i_News_184.pdf&page=1
| access-date =May 12, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =National Spiritual Assembly; "Your first order of business"
| newspaper =Baháʼí News
| page =2
| date = Jun 1946 |number=184
| url =https://bahai.works/index.php?title=File%3ABaha%27i_News_184.pdf&page=2
| access-date =May 12, 2020}}{{cite book
| author=Mike McMullen
| title =The Baha'is of America - The growth of a religious movement
| publisher =NYU Press
| date =27 November 2015
| url =https://books.google.com/books?id=iecWCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA39
| isbn =9781479869053 }}{{rp|p39}} Later should undertake her own travels to Europe. The members of the national assembly elected that year were, in order of the number of votes received, Elsie Austin, Philip Sprague, Horace Holley, Dorothy Baker, Amelia Collins, George Latimer, Edna True, Paul Haney, and William Kenneth Christian.{{cite news
| title =National Spiritual Assembly; Annual election
| newspaper = Baháʼí News
| page =2
| date =Jun 1946 |number=184
| url =https://bahai.works/index.php?title=File:Baha%27i_News_184.pdf&page=2
| access-date =May 12, 2020}} Messages were received from Germany, where Baháʼís had been held in concentration camps, and care relief packages were being organized to be sent to Europe and the Philippines, and Baháʼí pioneers, who were expected to support themselves, began to volunteer.{{cite news
| title =Highlights of the Convention; German NSA (and) France and England (and) Pioneers for Europe
| newspaper =Baháʼí News
| pages =5–6
| date =Jun 1946 |number=184
| url =https://bahai.works/index.php?title=File:Baha%27i_News_184.pdf&page=5
| access-date =May 12, 2020}} See Baháʼí Faith in Europe.
In October Montana performed a song at a Baháʼí meeting in Minneapolis.{{cite news
| title =Maria Montana to sing
| newspaper =Star Tribune
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =57
| date =13 Oct 1946
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45213057/bahai-maria-montana-to-sing/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} Though the nature of the meeting was not reported in the Star Tribune she sang “How beautiful upon the Mountains” by F. Flaxington Harker as part of a series of interracial meetings.{{cite news
| title =Public meetings series opens successfully
| newspaper =Baháʼí News
| page =9
| date = Nov 1946 |number=189
| url =https://bahai.works/index.php?title=File:Baha%27i_News_189.pdf&page=9
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
In January 1947 the Baháʼís had a short show on local radio,{{cite news
| title =WTCN - 1280
| newspaper =Star Tribune
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =16
| date =14 Jan 1947
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45213405/bahais-on-radio/
| access-date =May 11, 2020}} and began to seek the legal recognition to perform legally recognized marriages.* {{cite news
| title = More rights sought for religious sect
| newspaper = Star Tribune
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =11
| date =25 Jan 1947
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45213455/bahais-seek-right-to-peform-marriages/
| access-date =May 11, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Baha'i marriages get tentative ok
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =2
| date =4 Mar 1947
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45213652/bahai-authority-to-perform-marriages/
| access-date =May 11, 2020}} A Madison, Wisconsin, Baháʼí came to town to speak at the Center in February,{{cite news
| title =William Randolph Lacey…
| newspaper = The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =10
| date =22 Feb 1947
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45213564/bahai-willam-randolph-lacey-talk-at/
| access-date =May 11, 2020}} and a pair of sisters came through on their way moving in Switzerland.* {{cite news
| title = Teachers to help establish Swiss Community
| newspaper =Star Tribune
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =8
| date =18 Mar 1947
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50750554/bahais-elsa-steinmetz-and-mrs-fritzie/
| access-date =May 11, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Baha'i Faith plans 12 new assemblies
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =9
| date =26 Apr 1947
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50750674/bahai-pioneer-meeting-friday-shaver/
| access-date =May 11, 2020}} In October another speaker came through amidst a regional meeting of Baháʼís,{{cite news
| title =Sign Posts of Progress
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =11
| date =11 Oct 1947
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45213696/bahai-robert-lewis-talk-at-center/
| access-date =May 11, 2020}} and another in November including another talk before a local church.{{cite news
| title = Baha'i speaker asks for new language
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =3
| date =11 Nov 1947
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45213773/bahai-lawrence-hautz-talk-at-meetings/
| access-date =May 11, 2020}}
One Minneapolis Baháʼí attended the Louhelen Baháʼí School in January 1948,{{cite news
| title =Returns from trip
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =28
| date =7 Jan 1948
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/15546185/bahai-helen-frink-was-at-louhelen/
| access-date =May 11, 2020}} while Montana herself went in July to give a talk at another institution - the Green Acre Baháʼí School - and gave performances including songs from multiple countries, languages, and religious backgrounds announced as a lyric soprano.* {{cite news
| title =Lyric soprano to give concert at Baha'i Hall
| newspaper =The Portsmouth Herald
| location =Portsmouth, New Hampshire
| page =12
| date =21 Jul 1948
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48940903/bahai-maria-montana-aka-ruth-kellogg/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Concert slated at Green Acre
| newspaper =The Portsmouth Herald
| location =Portsmouth, New Hampshire
| page =8
| date =28 Jul 1948
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48941031/bahai-performances-at-green-acre/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} Upon her return in August she went with her uncle for a summer vacation in Canada.{{cite news
| title =Judge E. F. Waite
| newspaper = Star Tribune
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =13
| date =16 Aug 1948
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45215933/bahai-maria-montana-gave-concert-at/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} Meanwhile Ruth Moffett, another of those women who had success raising up Baháʼí communities, spoke in Minneapolis.{{cite news
| title =Baha'i Center
| newspaper = The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =18
| date =1 Jun 1948
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16794568/bahai-mrs-robert-lee-ruth-moffett/
| access-date =May 11, 2020}} The community advertised the observance of the Birth of Bahá'u'lláh,{{cite news
| title =Baha'i community to honor Founder
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| date =11 Nov 1948
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45216095/bahais-observe-birth-of-bahaullah/
| access-date =May 11, 2020}} followed by a talk by a visiting Baháʼí held at the Nicollet Hotel.{{cite news
| title = Charles Reimer…
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =8
| date =13 Nov 1948
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45216175/bahai-charles-reimer-talk-at-regional/
| access-date =May 11, 2020}}
In 1949 the Baháʼís held their state convention in February,{{cite news
| title =Baha'i community
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =9
| date =5 Feb 1949
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50751908/bahais-hold-state-convention/
| access-date =May 11, 2020}} as well as a local observance of International Youth Day.{{cite news
| title = World Youth Day
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =9
| date =12 Feb 1949
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50752028/bahai-youth-conference-for-youth-day/
| access-date =May 11, 2020}} They then advertised their new year observance with talks from various local leaders,{{cite news
| title =Baha'i Festival marks New Year
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =8
| date =19 Mar 1949
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50752158/bahais-observe-new-year-w-guest/
| access-date =May 11, 2020}} and a youth speaker from India attending Dunwoody College of Technology gave a talk in mid-July.{{cite news
| title =Bahai'i(sic) fellowship hour
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =8
| date =16 Jul 1949
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50752307/bahai-brij-gamers-talk-at-center/
| access-date =May 11, 2020}} Later in July Montana, accompanied by Helen Frink, went on a tour to West Coast Baháʼí communities.{{cite news
| title =Bamai's (sic) to return
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =6
| date =30 Jul 1949
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48941121/bahais-helen-frink-maria-montana-tour/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} A 1949 state guide book named Montana singer as a prominent singer.{{cite book|author=Best Books on|title=Montana: A State Guide Book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l-nwwJ-ZcZAC&pg=PA110 |year=1949|publisher=Best Books on|isbn=978-1-62376-025-0|pages=110–1}} There was the November observance for Bahá'u'lláh,{{cite news
| title =Baha'is to mark Prophet's Birth
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =7
| date =12 Nov 1949
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50753102/bahais-observe-birth-of-bahaullah/
| access-date =May 11, 2020}} and another meeting for Baháʼí speakers including one back from Europe.{{cite news
| title =Women to speak
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =7
| date =26 Nov 1949
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50753437/bahais-mrs-floyd-monson-rita-van/
| access-date =May 11, 2020}}
===Most of the 1950s===
In 1950 Baháʼís held their state convention in January,{{cite news
| title =Baha'i meeting
| newspaper = The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =6
| date =28 Jan 1950
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50753669/bahais-hold-state-convention/
| access-date =May 11, 2020}} and there was a showing of color slides of Israel in February,{{cite news
| title = Color movie
| newspaper =Star Tribune
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =8
| date =25 Feb 1950
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50753784/bahai-helen-frink-shows-slide-show-at/
| access-date =May 11, 2020}} and a visiting Baháʼí in March.* {{cite news
| title =Touring speaker
| newspaper = The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =53
| date =30 Mar 1950
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50753875/bahai-reginald-king-talk-at-center/
| access-date =May 11, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Group to sponsor Baha'i lecture
| newspaper = The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =13
| date =17 Apr 1950
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50753970/bahai-margery-mccormick-talk-at-center/
| access-date =May 11, 2020}} In July the local community observed the holy day of the Martyrdom of the Báb{{cite news
| title =Baha'is to pay tribute to Bab
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location = Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =7
| date =8 Jul 1950
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50754053/bahais-observe-martyrdom-of-the-bab/
| access-date =May 11, 2020}} and the Birth of Bahá'u'lláh then observed in November,{{cite news
| title =Baha'i group to pay homage to Founder
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =6
| date =11 Nov 1950
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50754181/bahais-observe-birth-of-bahaullah-at/
| access-date =May 11, 2020}} followed by Horace Holley came and spoke about the progress of the Wilmette House of Worship in November.{{cite news
| title =Temple for Baha'is near completion
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =71
| date =23 Nov 1950
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50754764/progress-on-raising-bahai-temple/
| access-date =May 11, 2020}}
In March 1951 the Baháʼís in Minneapolis observed their new year,{{cite news
| title =New Year -- for Baha'is
| newspaper = The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =3
| date =21 Mar 1951
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50755169/bahais-observe-new-year/
| access-date =May 11, 2020}} and Montana was one of speakers for the May observance of the Baháʼí holy day of the Declaration of the Báb.{{cite news
| title =Baha'is observe Festival tonight
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =28
| date =22 May 1951
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48941236/bahais-observe-declaration-of-the-bab/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} In about 1951She arrived in Canada in 1941, see p78, was then assigned to Winnipeg less than a year later, see p79, and been in Winnipeg for 10 years before leaving for Minneapolis: {{cite book
|author= Suzanne Schuurman
| title = Legacy of Courage: The Life of Ola Pawlowski, Knight of Bahá'u'lláh|chapter=What happens next
| publisher =George Ronald
| date =2008
| location =Oxford
| pages =78, 79, 101
| oclc= 271770667
| isbn =9780853985242}} former Polish diplomat Ola Pawlowski left her position in Winnipeg and encountered Montana: “I took leave of the Polish community [ed- in Winnipeg] and the Bahais and took the bus to Minneapolis. I was the guest of Maria Montana, a very gracious lady who had at one time been an opera singer but at that time kept house for her old father and was a very active member of the Baháʼí community. At her home I met a lady who epitomized the range of backgrounds found among Baháʼís. This lady arrived in a long baby-blue Cadillac, swathed in silver fox furs, bedecked in diamonds and awhirl with flowers, lace and feathers. But that evening she gave an excellent talk on the Baháʼí Faith. The next day she gave me a ride to Chicago.”
In early October a Baháʼí community talk was held,{{cite news
| title =Religious Education
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =58
| date =4 Oct 1951
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50755599/bahais-mrs-kenneth-klein-talk-for/
| access-date =May 11, 2020}} followed later October when Montana managed the Minneapolis Baháʼí community public meeting to observe UN Week at the Center.{{cite news
| title =Group to observe UN week Friday
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =26
| date =25 Oct 1951
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48941337/bahais-observe-un-week-at-center-w/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} In December the Baháʼís held their state convention.{{cite news
| title =Baha'i delegates named
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =17
| date =4 Dec 1951
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50755810/bahais-gladys-livermore-and-lotus/
| access-date =May 11, 2020}}
In January 1952 Baháʼís observed World Religion Day,{{cite news
| title =Baha'i service
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =5
| date =19 Jan 1952
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50761696/bahai-mrs-kenneth-klein-talk-for/
| access-date =May 11, 2020}} and in March Montana gave a talk for the Baháʼí community observance of Naw Rúz at the Center.{{cite news
| title =Baha'is observe New Year's Day
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =7
| date =20 Mar 1952
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48941492/bahais-observe-naw-ruz-at-center-w/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} In July the community observed the Martyrdom of the Báb,{{cite news
| title =Baha'i anniversary
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =13
| date =8 Jul 1952
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50761999/bahais-observe-martyrdom-of-the-bab/
| access-date =May 11, 2020}} and joined in observing the launch of a holy year in October commemorating the centenary of Bahá'u'lláh's experience in the Síyáh-Chál which began the Baháʼí Faith,{{cite news
| title = Minneapolis Baha'is join observance
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =45
| date =14 Oct 1952
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50762239/bahais-observe-beginning-of-holy-year/
| access-date =May 11, 2020}}{{rp|p39}} and the observance of the Birth of Bahá'u'lláh in November.{{cite news
| title =Religious talk
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =21
| date =10 Nov 1952
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50762379/bahai-mrs-charles-frank-talk-for/
| access-date =May 11, 2020}}
In January 1953 Baháʼís held World Religion Day,{{cite news
| title =Religion Day
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =10
| date =17 Jan 1953
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50762564/bahai-violet-anderson-talk-for/
| access-date =May 11, 2020}} and in February Montana was a guest in Oakland, California, looking at presenting concert related to the Baháʼís.{{cite news
| title =Maria Montana…
| newspaper =Oakland Tribune
| location =Oakland, California
| page =67
| date =8 Feb 1953
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48941607/bahai-maria-montana-guest-of-ramona/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} That year the House of Worship was finished,* {{cite news
| title =Baha'i Temple completed
| newspaper =Star Tribune
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =74
| date =26 Apr 1953
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50762675/bahai-temple-completed/
| access-date =May 11, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Baha'ist leaders meet in Chicago
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =31
| date =29 Apr 1953
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50762831/bahais-gather-for-opening-of-temple/
| access-date =May 11, 2020}} and the community held its observance of the Declaration of the Báb{{cite news
| title = Baha'i service
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =51
| date =22 May 1953
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50763078/bahais-observe-declaration-of-the-bab/
| access-date =May 12, 2020}} and the Martyrdom,{{cite news
| title = City Bahais (sic) join in nothing 'The Bab'
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =18
| date =9 Jul 1953
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50763184/bahais-observe-martyrdom-of-the-bab/
| access-date =May 11, 2020}} with a major conference held that year and launching a plan, the Ten Year Crusade, for the world wide spread of the religion.{{cite news
| title =Forth in a series of intercontinental conferences…
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =7
| date =10 Oct 1953
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50763375/bahai-centenary-and-10-yr-crusade/
| access-date =May 11, 2020}}{{rp|pp33-39}} In October Florence Mayberry came to give a talk,{{cite news
| title =Baha'i Center talk
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =2
| date =31 Oct 1953
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50763524/bahai-florence-mayberry-talk-at-center/
| access-date =May 11, 2020}} followed by another traveling Baháʼí in November.{{cite news
| title = Chicago worker for blind to speak
| newspaper =Star Tribune
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =19
| date =10 Nov 1953
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50763805/bahai-dorothy-mitchell-talk-at-center/
| access-date =May 11, 2020}}
In January 1954 Baháʼís held World Religion Day again,* {{cite news
| title =Religion Day Set
| newspaper =Star Tribune
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =2
| date =15 Jan 1954
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50805961/bahai-mrs-kenneth-klein-talk-for/
| access-date =May 12, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Religious Day
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =7
| date =16 Jan 1954
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50806234/bahai-mrs-kenneth-klein-talk-for-world/
| access-date =May 12, 2020}} and in February Montana was one of the speakers for the Minneapolan Baháʼí community observance of National Brotherhood Week.* {{cite news
| title =Baha'ists to note Brotherhood Week
| newspaper =Star Tribune
| location = Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =22
| date =19 Feb 1954
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50806354/bahais-c-d-akkins-maria-montana/
| access-date =May 12, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Baha'i service
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =7
| date =20 Feb 1954
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48942461/bahais-observe-brotherhood-week-dr/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} The Baháʼís held their Naw Rúz meeting in March,{{cite news
| title = Baha'i New Year Festival set today
| newspaper = Star Tribune
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =10
| date =20 Mar 1954
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50806441/bahais-hold-naw-ruz-at-center/
| access-date =May 12, 2020}} the Declaration of the Bab in May,{{cite news
| title =Celebration set today
| newspaper =Star Tribune
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =53
| date =23 May 1954
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50806692/bahai-mrs-kenneth-klein-talk-for/
| access-date =May 12, 2020}} the Martyrdom with a slideshow of developing Baháʼí sites in Haifa.{{cite news
| title = Slides on Haifa to be shown tonight
| newspaper =Star Tribune
| location = Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =29
| date =9 Jul 1954
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50806829/bahais-observe-martyrdom-of-bab-with/
| access-date =May 12, 2020}} In September the period of the introduction of the religion in America was noted with an event at the Center.{{cite news
| title = Baha'i anniversary
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =23
| date =22 Sep 1954
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50814010/bahais-noting-the-period-of-the-start/
| access-date =May 12, 2020}} In October Florence Mayberry returned for a talk at the Center.{{cite news
| title =Baha'i (sic) to hear author
| newspaper =Star Tribune
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =4
| date =18 Oct 1954
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50814259/bahai-florence-mayberry-talk-at-center/
| access-date =May 12, 2020}} Then in November Montana spoke for the community observance of the Birth of Bahá'u'lláh at the Center.{{cite news
| title =Anniversary talk
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =71
| date =10 Nov 1954
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48942556/bahais-observe-birth-of-bahaullah-w/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} In December came news that a student of Montana was singing in Winona, California.{{cite news
| title =Congregational Choir, soloists to give 'Messiah'
| newspaper =The Winona Daily News
| location =Winona, CA
| page =11
| date =Dec 11, 1954
| url =https://digital.olivesoftware.com/Olive/APA/Winona/SharedView.Article.aspx?href=TWN%2F1954%2F12%2F11&id=Ar01102&sk=FDD44759&viewMode=image
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
A Baháʼí spoke for the observance of World Religion Day in January,{{cite news
| title =World Religion Day
| newspaper = The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =4
| date =15 Jan 1955
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48680180/bahai-advert-for-talk-by-harrison/
| access-date =May 12, 2020}} and another for Brotherhood Week in February.{{cite news
| title =Baha'i speaker
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =7
| date =19 Feb 1955
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48680246/bahai-roland-molahn-talk-at-center/
| access-date =May 12, 2020}} In March came the New Year observance,{{cite news
| title =Baha'i New Year
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =13
| date =21 Mar 1955
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48680312/bahais-observe-new-year-at-center/
| access-date =May 12, 2020}} followed by another giving a talk based on the Dawnbreakers text for the Declaration of the Báb observance.{{cite news
| title = Special Baha'i rites
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =3
| date =21 May 1955
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48680478/bahai-talk-for-declaration-of-the-bab/
| access-date =May 12, 2020}} A special mention came the same day of the razing of the Baháʼí Center in Tehran, Iran,{{cite news
| title =Moslems razzing Baha'i Dome
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =12
| date =23 May 1955
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48680520/bahai-persecution-in-iran/
| access-date =May 12, 2020}} and instance of the Persecution of Baháʼís. A Baháʼí wrote a letter to the editor afterwards speaking to the facts of the situation.{{cite news
| title =The Baha'i Faith in Iran
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =14
| date =27 Jun 1955
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/15868330/bahais-comment-on-situation-in-iran-by/
| access-date =May 12, 2020}} The Martyrdom observance was then held in July,{{cite news
| title = Baha'i lecture
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =31
| date =7 Jul 1955
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48680631/bahais-observe-martyrdom-of-the-bab/
| access-date =May 12, 2020}} In later July a couple spoke at the Center about their recent trip to Turkey.{{cite news
| title =Couple to lecture on religion in Turkey
| newspaper =Star Tribune
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =2
| date =20 Jul 1955
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48680733/bahais-harold-e-mrs-richards-at/
| access-date =May 12, 2020}} This was followed by the observance of the Birth of Bahá'u'lláh in November,{{cite news
| title =To note Birthday
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =10
| date =10 Nov 1955
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48680908/bahais-observe-birth-of-bahaullah-at/
| access-date =May 12, 2020}} In December the same couple spoke again a week before the state convention.* {{cite news
| title =Lecture to precede Baha'i convention
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =69
| date =2 Dec 1955
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48681044/bahai-open-meeting-and-convention/
| access-date =May 12, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Bahai (sic) Center to hear talk on 2 religions
| newspaper =Star Tribune
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =5
| date =3 Dec 1955
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50817919/bahai-harold-richards-talk-at-center/
| access-date =May 12, 2020}}
In January 1956 Baháʼís observed World Religion Day,* {{cite news
| title =Liberty theme at Baha'i meeting
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =7
| date =14 Jan 1956
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48681299/bahais-observe-world-religion-day-w/
| access-date =May 12, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Basis for World Peace
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =18
| date = 14 Jan 1956
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48681187/bahai-advert-meeting-at-center/
| access-date =May 12, 2020}} and in February Montana represented the Baháʼís at a panel of speakers hosted by the local Urban League for an interracial interfaith meeting.* {{cite news
| title =Urban League's Service Sunday
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =45
| date =10 Feb 1956
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48681384/urban-league-interfaith-meeting-inc/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Christians urged to wipe out racial bias
| newspaper =Star Tribune
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =31
| date =13 Feb 1956
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48681496/urban-league-interfaith-meeting-inc/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} Naw Rúz was observed in March,{{cite news
| title =Baha'i to observe New Year's today
| newspaper =Star Tribune
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =13
| date =20 Mar 1956
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48681554/bahais-observe-new-year-at-center/
| access-date =May 12, 2020}} The AP echoed a comment that there were more 900 spiritual assemblies according to updated statistics.{{cite news
| title = 900 Baha'i units
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =43
| date =3 May 1956
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48681638/bahais-at-national-convention-comment/
| access-date =May 12, 2020}} A Baháʼí came again from Latin America giving a talk about her experiences.{{cite news
| title =Speaker to tell of South America
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =9
| date =17 Sep 1956
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/43844391/bahai-gayle-woolson-talk-at-center/
| access-date =May 12, 2020}} A few days later another Baháʼí spoke on the anniversary of the religion reaching America.{{cite news
| title =Baha'i lecture
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =7
| date =22 Sep 1956
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48681926/bahai-mabel-eastman-talk-at-center/
| access-date =May 12, 2020}} In October the Baháʼís added observing the anniversary of the founding of the UN at the Center,{{cite news
| title =UN Observance
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =6
| date =20 Oct 1956
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48682141/bahais-observe-un-day-at-center/
| access-date =May 12, 2020}} and the observance of the Birth of Bahá'u'lláh in November.{{cite news
| title = Baha'i to meet
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =2
| date =10 Nov 1956
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48682207/bahais-observe-birth-of-bahaullah-at/
| access-date =May 12, 2020}} Three delegates were going to the national convention the next year.{{cite news
| title = 3 from state named to attend Baha'i parley
| newspaper =Star Tribune
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =26
| date =3 Dec 1956
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48682345/bahais-delegates-to-national/
| access-date =May 12, 2020}} The year closed with a show of a club from the Northside YMCA held at the Center.{{cite news
| title =Baha'i program set
| newspaper =Star Tribune
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =23
| date =10 Dec 1956
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48682467/kenneth-pearl-talk-at-bahai-center-on/
| access-date =May 12, 2020}}
In January 1957 World Religion Day was observed{{cite news
| title = Baha'i meeting
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =7
| date =19 Jan 1957
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48682546/bahais-observe-world-religion-day-at/
| access-date =May 12, 2020}} and were part of a community wide observance campaign of Brotherhood Week.{{cite news
| title =Race Relations Day - Sunday Church services to stress Brotherhood
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =3
| date =9 Feb 1957
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48682693/bahais-co-sponsor-race-relations-day/
| access-date =May 12, 2020}} Naw Rúz was observed,{{cite news
| title = Baha'i New Year will be observed
| newspaper = The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =9
| date =19 Mar 1957
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48682806/bahais-observe-naw-ruz-w-talk-music/
| access-date =May 12, 2020}} and the Declaration of the Báb.{{cite news
| title = Baha'i event
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =9
| date =21 May 1957
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48682960/bahais-observe-declaration-of-the-bab/
| access-date =May 12, 2020}} Then came a profile of the Baháʼí community in the newspapers late in May.{{cite news
| title = Baha'is stress unity |author= Mercer Cross
| newspaper =Star Tribune
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =23
| date =27 May 1957
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48683152/profile-of-bahais-32-in-minneapolis/
| access-date =May 12, 2020}} The profile included quotes, some teachings of the religion and addressing perceived misconceptions, the sense of regular meetings about once a month, briefly on the history of the religion, and the present state of the Minneapolis Baháʼí community of 32 adults just of Minneapolis.
The Martyrdom of the Báb was observed in July,{{cite news
| title =Baha'i honor Bab
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| pages =15
| date =9 Jul 1957
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48683265/bahais-observe-martyrdom-of-the-bab-at/
| access-date =May 14, 2020}} Montana sang for a regional Baháʼí conference hosted in later September.* {{cite news
| title =Baha'i parley to open in city
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =36
| date =20 Sep 1957
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48683465/bahais-hold-regional-conference/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Members from 7 states to attend Baha'i parley
| newspaper =Star Tribune
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =15
| date =21 Sep 1957
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48942708/bahais-hold-regional-conference/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} Color slides of the Holy Land and Shrine of the Báb were shown at the Nicolette Hotel in early October,{{cite news
| title =Illustrated talk to cover Shrines
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =13
| date =5 Oct 1957
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48683588/bahais-clarence-mrs-ullrich-talk/
| access-date =May 12, 2020}} and UN Day in late October.{{cite news
| title =Baha'i Center to honor UN
| newspaper =Star Tribune
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =10
| date =23 Oct 1957
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50823690/bahais-observe-un-day-harre-oyama/
| access-date =May 12, 2020}} News came in early November of the unexpected death of Shoghi Effendi.{{cite news
| title = London - Shoghi Effendi…
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =75
| date =6 Nov 1957
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48683662/obit-of-bahai-shoghi-effendi/
| access-date =May 12, 2020}} The year finished with the election of delegates.{{cite news
| title =Delegates picked for Baha'i Convention
| newspaper = Star Tribune
| location = Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =36
| date =9 Dec 1957
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48683903/bahais-robert-wolf-robert-cameran/
| access-date =May 12, 2020}}
===Late 1950s===
In January 1958 the Baháʼís held World Religion Day,{{cite news
| title = Baha'i lecture
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =9
| date =18 Jan 1958
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48680017/bahais-observe-world-religion-day-with/
| access-date =May 12, 2020}} Montana's brother Edward died in Seattle in February,{{cite news
| title = Edward B. Waite Sr club aid, succumbs
| newspaper =Seattle Post-Intelligencer
| location =Seattle, WA
| page =16
| date =Feb 4, 1958
| url =https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2%3A142FE773BA94746A%40GB3NEWS-16C81AA4283CA588%402436239-16C7552B16906248%4015-16C7552B16906248%40
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}{{subscription required}} and the community joined in an Urban-League meeting on race a couple weeks later.{{cite news
| title =Inter-racial service will be held Sunday
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =9
| date =15 Feb 1958
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48684139/bahai-curtis-ewing-amidst/
| access-date =May 12, 2020}} A Naw Rúz event was held that was also a memorial for the death of Shoghi Effendi.{{cite news
| title =Baha'i Faith marks New Year today
| newspaper =Star Tribune
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =22
| date =21 Mar 1958
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48684259/bahais-observe-new-year-memorial-for/
| access-date =May 12, 2020}} This was followed directly by the Baháʼí having World Youth Day at the Center as well.{{cite news
| title = Baha'i World Youth Day to be Sunday
| newspaper = Star Tribune
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =5
| date =22 Mar 1958
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48684557/bahais-hold-world-youth-day-at-center/
| access-date =May 12, 2020}} In later March Montana's uncle had had a stroke at the Athletic Club and didn't recover - he died late in April.{{cite news
| title = His last letter found - Waite backed open occupancy opinion |author= Abe Altrowitz
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =5
| date =24 May 1958
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48751727/obit-of-judge-waite-kin-of-bahai-ruth/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} In going through his papers she found a nearly finished letter she thought worth forwarding. A talk was offered in mid-April at the Baháʼí Center,{{cite news
| title =Baha'i lecture
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =14
| date =15 Apr 1958
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48684727/bahai-mrs-kenneth-klein-chair-talk/
| access-date =May 12, 2020}} and Baháʼís returned from an international conference in earlier May.{{cite news
| title =Global Crusade
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =11
| date =10 May 1958
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48684842/bahais-attended-conference-mrs/
| access-date =May 12, 2020}} In July the Baháʼí observed the Martyrdom of the Báb,{{cite news
| title = Baha'i assembly to hold memorial
| newspaper =Star Tribune
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =27
| date =8 Jul 1958
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48684968/bahais-observer-martyrdom-of-the-bab/
| access-date =May 12, 2020}} and news arrived of the death of one of the Baháʼís that had gone on to Switzerland.{{cite news
| title =Basel, Switzerland
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =33
| date =31 Jul 1958
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48685183/obit-of-bahai-mrs-fritzi-steinmetz/
| access-date =May 12, 2020}}
On the heels of her loses of family she left for a tour of France, Italy, and Switzerland on the SS Statendam in a mid-September trip to promote the religion.* {{cite news
| title =Baha'is honor Maria Montana
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =9
| date =6 Sep 1958
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48685283/bahai-maria-montana-reception-before/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =Baha'i teacher leaves city for European tour
| newspaper =Star Tribune
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =15
| date =8 Sep 1958
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48685381/bahai-maria-montana-on-european-tour/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} She had a farewell party at the Minneapolis Baháʼí Center. A year later she was back and visible giving a talk again for the Baháʼí community observance in Minneapolis for UN Week.{{cite news
| title =Public meeting…
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =15
| date =22 Oct 1959
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48697333/bahais-observe-un-week-at-center-with/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
- {{cite news
| title =US Baháʼí communities take leading role in many observances of United Nations Day; Special Baháʼí meetings held in many cities
| newspaper =Baháʼí News
| page =11
| date =Dec 1959 |number=346
| url =https://bahai.works/index.php?title=File:Baha%27i_News_346.pdf&page=11
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} While away she had spent time Italy, being called a Baháʼí pioneer in the newspaper, and was planning returning and going to Naples.{{cite news
| title =City Baha'i unit honors teacher
| newspaper =Star Tribune
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =7
| date =9 Dec 1959
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48697731/bahai-maria-montana-pioneered-to/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} She was also settling her uncle estate in Minneapolis. About 6 months later she gave a talk for a Baháʼí meeting called Race Amity Day hosted at a Church.{{cite news
| title =City Baha'i to be guests in Champlin
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =35
| date =10 Jun 1960
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48940395/bahais-hold-race-amity-day-hosted-at/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} Another 8 months later she was back in Minneapolis giving a talk for the community observance of World Religion Day at the Center entitled “The Fundamental Oneness of Religion".{{cite news
| title =Baha'is of Minneapolis...
| newspaper =The Minneapolis Star
| location =Minneapolis, Minnesota
| page =9
| date =14 Jan 1961
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48942902/bahais-observe-world-religion-day-at/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
==Pioneer to Italy==
It is known that Montana was on another period in Italy in Florence in 1962 Montana as a pioneer.{{cite web
| title =Italy: History of the Baháʼí Faith |author= Julio Savi
| url =https://bahai-library.com/savi_encyclopedia_italy
| website =Bahai-library.com written for possible inclusion in The Baháʼí Encyclopedia
| date =1992
| access-date =May 11, 2020}} She also supported the small Bari Baháʼí community between 1963 - 1966.{{cite magazine
| title =Da Bari- ins1eme per costruire nel mondo
| magazine =NELMESE
| page =3
| date =November 1991
| url =http://www.bahaibari.it/site/images/rassegna_stampa/nelmese_30anni_11_91.pdf
| access-date =May 11, 2020}} There is a picture of her there in 1964; the community rose from 2 to 20 members and elected its first local assembly in 1967.{{cite magazine
| url =http://www.bahaibari.it/site/images/rassegna_stampa/anniversario_50_anni.pdf
| magazine =Anniversario della Fede Baháʼí a Bari 1961 - 2011 |title=Gli anni '60 e l'elezione della prima Assemblea spirituale locale
|page=9
| date =Nov 8, 2011
| publisher =Baháʼí Comunità di Bari, approvoto doll'Assemblea Spirituale Nazionale dei Baháʼí d'Italia
| access-date =May 11, 2020}} While in Europe in the period she also sang at the dedication program of the Baháʼí House of Worship in Germany in 1964.{{cite news
| title =Mother Temple of Europe Dedicated; Dedication Program
| newspaper =Baháʼí News
| page =2
| date =Sep 1964 |number=402
| url =https://bahai.works/index.php?title=File:Baha%27i_News_402.pdf&page=2
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
==California==
In March 1966 Montana was back giving a Baháʼí talk in San Diego entitled “The New Day”.{{cite news
| title =Baha'i Faith
| newspaper = San Diego Union
| location =San Diego, CA
| page =4
| date =Mar 19, 1966
| url =https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2%3A136E6A0F0DF56B38%40GB3NEWS-13CA08ED498E5CEC%402439204-13C866A043A3130D%403-13C866A043A3130D%40
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}{{subscription required}} In June she gave another Baháʼí talk with slides in Iscondido.{{cite news
| title = Baha'is plan public meet on Sunday
| newspaper =Times-Advocate
| location =Escondido, California
| page =8
| date =17 Jun 1966
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48940739/bahai-marie-montana-aka-ruth-kellogg/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} In January 1967 she was a judge of tryouts for San Diego Metropolitan Opera auditions organized by the San Diego Opera Guild held at the Horace Mann Junior High Jan 15. Winners advanced to regional semifinals at the University of Southern California in early February then on to semifinals in New York in April and winners there got scholarships and individual teaching for a Met performance in November.{{cite news
| title = Operatic auditions scheduled Jan 15
| newspaper =San Diego Union
| location =San Diego, CA
| page =26
| date =Jan 3, 1967
| url =https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2%3A136E6A0F0DF56B38%40GB3NEWS-13CCFF892DEA82DA%402439494-13CCC437DF3A4E2F%4025-13CCC437DF3A4E2F%40
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}{{subscription required}} June she gave a talk about her debut and concert experiences for the Santa Fe Associates of the San Diego Opera Guild,{{cite news
| title =Rancho Santa Fe - Opera Associates plan 4th Musicale-Tea |author=Pat Johnson
| newspaper =San Diego Union
| location =San Diego, CA
| page =61
| date =Jun 25, 1967
| url =https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2%3A136E6A0F0DF56B38%40GB3NEWS-13C61FFB46A8E424%402439667-13C618BB110503F4%4060-13C618BB110503F4%40
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} and was a judge in a 1967 contest for the Metropolitan Opera in San Diego.{{cite web
| title =San Diego District National Council Audition Winners
| url =http://www.sdmonc.org/archive-1/
| website =Metropolitan Opera, National Council Auditions, San Diego District
| date =1967
| access-date =May 7, 2020
| archive-date =September 20, 2020
| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20200920120336/http://www.sdmonc.org/archive-1/
| url-status =dead
}} The San Diego Baháʼís observed the centenary of the proclamation of Bahá'u'lláh in October 1967 of his message to the rulers of the world - Maria sang at the event held at the San Diego Woman's Club.{{cite news
| title =Baha'i Faith to observe centenary
| newspaper =San Diego Union
| location =San Diego, CA
| page =16
| date = Oct 14, 1967
| url =https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2%3A136E6A0F0DF56B38%40GB3NEWS-13C77269AF50A6D6%402439778-13C36A7A36FD680A%4015-13C36A7A36FD680A%40
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}
In January 1968 Montana was guest at dinner after informal preview of western region Met Opera auditions. Formal auditions to be held Feb. Maria and Mrs. Saunderson spoke to the young singers.{{cite news
| title =Here for 'Met' preview
| newspaper =San Diego Union
| location =San Diego, CA
| page =27
| date = Jan 16, 1968
| url =https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2%3A136E6A0F0DF56B38%40GB3NEWS-13C42382AB92A182%402439872-13C4169624E7D50B%4026-13C4169624E7D50B%40
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}{{subscription required}} Another reception was held in February.* {{cite news
| title = Supper for auditions committee
| newspaper = San Diego Union
| location =San Diego, CA
| page =27
| date =Feb 13, 1968
| url =https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2%3A136E6A0F0DF56B38%40GB3NEWS-13C3CB1F4C439817%402439900-13C3CA4BA5E9362A%4026-13C3CA4BA5E9362A%40
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}{{subscription required}}
- {{cite news
| title =Met contestants slate performance
| newspaper =San Diego Union
| location =San Diego, CA
| page =5
| date =Feb 1, 1969
| url =https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2%3A136E6A0F0DF56B38%40GB3NEWS-13C51128C5E268DA%402440254-13C3D07609C6B768%404-13C3D07609C6B768%40
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}{{subscription required}}
- {{cite news
| title =Opera looks for voices
| newspaper =San Diego Union
| location =San Diego, CA
| page =12
| date =Feb 3, 1969
| url =https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2%3A136E6A0F0DF56B38%40GB3NEWS-13C5112A97FBC007%402440256-13C41D6CC441B541%4011-13C41D6CC441B541%40
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}{{subscription required}} She was Director of Musical Merit Foundation in San Diego, for the Opera Guild.
=Died=
Montana died from injuries in a car accident March 16, 1971, in La Jolla, California at age 71 after living there less than a year.{{cite news
| title =Retired opera singer, Maria Montana, dead
| newspaper =The Winona Daily News
| location =Winona, Minnesota
| page =2
| date =17 Mar 1971
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48749536/obit-of-bahai-maria-montana/
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}} She died at Scripps Memorial Hospital about 3pm of head and internal injuries.{{cite news
| title = Singer killed in crash here
| newspaper =San Diego Union
| location =San Diego, CA
| page =13
| date =Mar 17, 1971
| url =https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2%3A136E6A0F0DF56B38%40GB3NEWS-13C8C8AA1479923C%402441028-13C8BA19AFBD5160%4012-13C8BA19AFBD5160%40
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}{{subscription required}} She was reported driving a station wagon and failed to yield on merging from Mesa Way onto La Jolla Blvd to northbound traffic. She was buried in El Camino Memorial Park.{{cite news
| title =Maria Montana services today
| newspaper =San Diego Union
| location =San Diego, CA
| page =12
| date =Mar 20, 1971
| url =https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2%3A136E6A0F0DF56B38%40GB3NEWS-13C8C8ADD6C073E4%402441031-13C6101920D8A20F%4016-13C6101920D8A20F%40
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}{{subscription required}}{{cite news
| title =In memoriam
| newspaper = National Baháʼí Review
| page =2
| date = June 1971
| url =https://bahai.works/index.php?title=File:National_Bahai_Review_42.pdf&page=2
| access-date = Apr 25, 2020}}{{cite web
| title =Marie Montana |author= Ellen Baumier
| url =http://ellenbaumler.blogspot.com/2013/09/marie-montana.html
| website =Montana Historical Society Blog
| date =September 16, 2013
| access-date =May 7, 2020}}
Posthumous
A Maria Montana Award was established at the Albuquerque, New Mexico, Vocal Artistry Art-song Festival in the later 2000s, itself starting in 2008{{cite web
| title = Jacqueline Zander-Wall
| url = https://www.vocalartistryartsong.com/founder-and-board-of-directors-2
| website = VocalArtistryArtSong.com
| date = 2020
| access-date = May 10, 2020
| archive-date = April 23, 2019
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190423060139/https://www.vocalartistryartsong.com/founder-and-board-of-directors-2
| url-status = dead
}} and giving its first concerts in 2009{{cite news
| title =Arts festival merges poetry, song
| newspaper = Albuquerque Journal
| location =Albuquerque, New Mexico
| pages =41
| date =21 Apr 2013
| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50639539/albuquerque-journal/
| access-date = May 10, 2020}} for student singers and pianists of New Mexico.{{cite web
| title =Vocal Artistry Art Song Festival
| url =https://www.vocalartistryartsong.com/
| website =VocalArtistryArtSong.com
| date = 2020
| access-date = May 10, 2020}} Some of the known winner were:
- 2013 - Ejerson B.{{cite web
| title =Ejerson B. Dallas, TX
| url =https://takelessons.com/profile/ejerson-b
| website =TakeLessons.com
| date =2014
| access-date =May 14, 2020}}{{cite news
| title =Vocal Artistry Art Song Competition
| newspaper =Segue, PMTNM (Professional Music Teachers of New Mexico,) Newsletter
| page =5
| date =2013
| url =https://pmtnm.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Segue_Summer_Fall-2013.pdf
| access-date =May 10, 2020
}}{{Dead link|date=March 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- 2015 - Roberto Garza{{cite web
| title =Roberto Garza
| url =https://vimeo.com/132768906
| website =Vimeo.com
| date =2015
| access-date =May 14, 2020}}
- 2017 - Jillian Tibbets{{cite web
| title =2017 Awards, Vocal Artistry Division
| url =https://www.vocalartistryartsong.com/2017-awards
| website =VocalArtistryArtSong.com
| date =2020
| access-date =May 14, 2020
| archive-date =April 23, 2019
| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20190423023553/https://www.vocalartistryartsong.com/2017-awards
| url-status =dead
}}
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