DescriptionSinatra photo: Frank Sinatra presenting donation check to Rise Stevens for Metropolitan Opera Fund (New York, no date, circa 1945-1947.) Subject(s): Frank Sinatra / Rise (Risë) Stevens Location: New York City? Date: none Inkstamp "Received" date (on back): none Type: original press photograph Print: black-and-white; 8" x 10" high. Photographer: n/a Source (agency, studio or press service): Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) Captioned: yes - typewritten slug attached. Source: see notes. ---- Text: Metropolitan Opera Fund 527 Fifth Ave. Mu 2-3116 For Immediate Release Frank Sinatra Helps Boost Opera Fund Although Frank Sinatra may never sing at the Metropolitan Opera, he want to make sure that others will. He makes a generous donation to the Met's current drive for $300,000 to Rise Stevens, representing the Artists Committee of the Opera. In making his gift to the Opera, Sinatra said "While I represent a different field of music, I want to do may part in keeping alive the Metropolitan and its tradition of glorious operatic music." Mr. Sinatra is one of 31,000 music lovers from all over the country and Canada who have thus far contributed to the Metropolitan Opera Fund. ==== ---- interior / radio / motion pictures /