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"I am full of music. . . . This stuff here, this Aïda and Faust, it's wonderful. . . . My favorite is Lotte Lehmann. She's got a voice. Also this little Lily Pons. Such a little girl and such a big voice. . I like the musical operas. ... I don...
The play in O'Hara's slangy dialogue is gamy, funny, simple in outline: Joey is taken up by a Chicago society woman even harder than he is. She keeps him until she is tired of him, then gets the heel out of there. Meanwhile he has lost...
Such tastes make for publicity, and the U. S. press has faithfully reported Lily Pons's comings & goings, her decorations and honors. She is a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor, holds Belgium's Order of the Crown, the Gold Medal of the City Paris, a certificate...
Newspapers reported that she knits for the poor, that she was kissed by an ape at Dr. Voronoff's monkey farm near Menton, France, that young female operagoers at the Met banded themselves into "Lily Pons Fans," in imitation of the "Gerry-flappers" of Soprano Farrar 20 years ago...
Since her marriage to Kostelanetz, Pons has become the top attraction at summer concerts in U. S. parks and stadiums. The coloratura voice, which even musical dopes can tell is high-priced, accounts for part of her drawing power, but not all. Andre Kostelanetz is a competent stick-waver, and...