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Art, music and literature were strung over the battleground. Sculptor Jo Davidson, engineering a Term IV musical show in Madison Square Garden, had to choose from a wealth of volunteers: Lily Pons, Duke Ellington, Yehudi Menuhin, Marian Anderson. Dinah Shore, Grace Moore, Gene Krupa. Anti-New Deal writers Ru pert...
The Metropolitan Opera's tiny Lily Pons, in her U.S.O. overseas uniform, stood up with clenched fists and sang the Marseillaise. The crowd that heard her was motley but united on one thing: cheers for Paris. Paris was free.
Lily Pons, on U.S.O. tour in the Near East, visited an Egyptian service canteen with her fellow troupers and husband, Conductor Andre Kostelanetz, who reported that slie had trouble figuring out the exchange of Egyptian piasters and U.S. dollars until she asked a bystander to help her. Wrote Kostelanetz: "He...
Dr. Margaret Chung (see cut), matriarch and "mother" to some 700 Allied pilots who wear the jade Buddha tiepins of the Organization of Bastards (because they are not her legitimate sons), to 400 Kiwis-good Bastard material, but non-flyers-(named after the kiwi, a bird which cannot fly), to...
The glittery sets of Newport, Hollywood, Park Avenue, and Broadway were all well represented. Sugar Heiress Geraldine Spreckels moved from Miami to Palm Beach on her way to Beverly Hills. At Palm Beach were James H. R. ("Jimmie") Cromwell, busy Extramen Randolph ("Randy") Burke and Alastair Mackintosh. Lily Pons, Jeanette...