Opera Singer, Richard Tucker's Autograph

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Autograph,  Opera Singer,
Richard Tucker (No COA since Tucker signed it and gave it to me)
My father, George Ellison (same name), was the General Manager for a number of Chicago area hotels in the 1960's and 1970's. One of the hotels he was the General Manager of Chicago's Pick-Congress Hotel. My father often met with celebrities who stayed at his hotel and one of the celebrities he met was opera singer, Richard Tucker.
One day in 1965 or 1966 my father invited me to meet Tucker who was very gracious when my father asked him to sign his autograph on a piece of paper and Tucker gave it to me.
One of the photos attached verifies that my father was a Manager of the Pick-Congress Hotel in Chicago. You'll see a brochure indicating that he's the named sponsor of a charity dinner at the
Pick-Congress Hotel f
or the City of Hope and the following photo shows that he employed by the
Pick-Congress Hotel.
The other attached photo shows a group of men which includes the Governor of Illinois, Otto Kerner, and my father, George Ellison, two people to Kerner's left.
Richard Tucker (1913-1975) was a cantor before training for a career as an operatic tenor. He made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 1945, four years after his brother-in-law, the fellow opera great Jan Peerce. Tucker, considered by many the finest American-born and trained opera talent of his generation, starred in the first-ever full live opera production on TV (Aida, 1949). Tucker is the only person to have had his funeral conducted on the Metropolitan Opera stage.
Buyer agrees that local pick up means at Seller's location.