BLEDSOE, JULIUS

BLEDSOE, JULIUS (JULES). Concert singer (29 December 1898 in Waco, Texas; 14 July 1943 in Hollywood, California). He sang in church concerts as a child and studied piano. He attended Bishop College in Marshall, Texas (A.B., 1918), and studied further at Virginia Union College in Richmond, Virginia (1918-19), and Columbia University in New York (1919-24), where he entered the school of medicine. During this period in New York he studied voice with Claude Warford, and later with Parisolti...