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Pretty, blue-eyed Marie Wilkins hardly knew what to make of it. She suddenly found herself singing in place of Lily Pons at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera.
For the first time since infantile paralysis struck her in June 1941, Operatic Soprano Marjorie Lawrence appeared before an audience: 600 guests at a Metropolitan Opera Guild luncheon in Manhattan. She arrived at the Waldorf-Astoria's ballroom in a wheelchair, sang from a settee. Lily Pons fell victim...
Sopranos Lucrezia Bori, Alma Gluck, Lily Pons, Rosa Ponselle, Luisa Tetrazzini; Tenors Richard Crooks, Tito Schipa; Baritone Antonio Scotti; Basso Feodor Chaliapin; Pianist Josef Hofmann.
¶ An alternative to Cheesecake was its cousin Celebrity. At the Metropolitan Opera, Soprano Lily Pons, Author Fannie Hurst and Tenor Lauritz Melchior each bought $5,000 worth, urged operagoers to do the same (see cut). For the New York premiere of the movie Yankee Doodle Dandy first-nighters subscribed...
Kostelanetz commissioned the works (fees undisclosed) for performance during the summer concert rounds he will make with his diminutive wife, Coloratura Lily Pons. Next week, three of the portraits will have their premieres in Cincinnati.