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Last March the S. S. Ile de France brought into the U. S. a French girl who spoke no English. Her name was Lily Pons but it mattered to no one. She went to bed for eight days to recover from seasickness.
One afternoon last week Lily Pons sang Lucia at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. Boxholders and peanut-galleryites liked her better than they have liked any newcomer in years. And Lily Pons went to bed at nine o'clock famous.
The Metropolitan has ten new singers Sopranos are Beatrice Belkin, lately of "Roxy's Gang"; Olga Didur, daughter of Polish Basso Adamo Didur; Parisian Coloratura Lily Pons; Myrna Sharlow, native of Jamestown, N. Dak. Mezzo sopranos: Faina Petrova of the Moscow Art Theater, Maria Ranzow of Vienna. Tenors: Georges...
Eight new singers have been engaged: Soprano Beatrice Belkin of Lawrence, Kan., member of "Roxy's Gang" (Manhattan cinema troupe), the St. Louis Municipal and the Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Grand Opera Companies; Soprano Myrna Sharlow of Jamestown, N. Dak. and St. Louis, onetime member of the Chicago Opera Company; Polish...
At such moments policemen should be calm. One of the Pons policemen, said to be a relative of Emile Combes, lost his head utterly. Drawing his revolver he trained it on the clerical iconoclast with the sledge hammer, pulled trigger, shot the youth dead. Cooler policemen rounded up the tattered...