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In her brief (1935 to 1937) movie career, in which she was not a great success, she sang arias 50 times running without a murmur of complaint. Lily Pons hates champagne, drinks little wine, likes Coca-Cola, touches hard liquor and cigarets not at all. She still feels faintly seasick...
Lily Pons divorced Husband Mesritz seven years ago in France. She announced her engagement to a surgeon from Hamburg, Germany, but nothing came of that betrothal. The name of Mme. Pons began to be obbligatoed by that of balding, businesslike, Russian-born Mr. Kostelanetz. Lengthy was Kosty's courtship...
Traditionally, divas are prey to harmless superstitions. Lily Pons, born with a caul on a Friday the 13th, counts 13 her lucky number. She asks for room 1313 in hotels, buys souvenirs (like South American birds) by the baker's dozen; her house in Silvermine, Conn. bears the street...
Docile, Shrewd, Smart. Ten years in the U. S. have put Lily Pons and the English language on a footing of jovial acquaintance rather than intimacy. Her soprano chatter is the sort which newspaper interviewers, transcribing every zis and zat with loving care, particularly admire. Of England's late...
Soprano Pons got $445 a week when she started at the Met. Now she earns $1,000 a night, which only Soprano Kirsten Flagstad and Tenor Lauritz Melchior equal. Concerts pay Lily Pons $4,000 apiece. This is success, and Soprano Pons enjoys the symbols of it: dizzy hats, spectacular...