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...lady in white is a great South African feature of the war. She is smiling, stocky, big-bosomed, 52-year-old Perla Siedle, a onetime Wagnerian soprano who has sung to more than 5,000 ships carrying a quarter of a million Allied servicemen in & out of South Africa's busiest wartime port. Standing on Durban's quays in her invariable white dress and red hat, Perla Siedle amplifies her vibrant soprano with a ship's megaphone. Yanks ask for God Bless America, The Star-Spangled Banner, Tommies for There'll Always Be An England. Australians...
Sirens wailed, ships' whistles bellowed the V-for-Victory. Bands played, pipers skirled and people sang old songs and the new hits. But when the tenders came in, the 4,000 repatriates were singing the song many had sung when they marched away to war: Roll Out the Barrel...
...ends of the earth, broadcasting and making hundreds of gramophone recordings, Robeson has been working on a vast treatise about African culture, has tackled an invention for improving acoustics. In addition he has learned a dozen languages, including Chinese, Hebrew, Russian, Welsh. For the war effort he has sung in camps all over the U.S. (even in the South), worked for the Treasury Department, broadcast to Europe for the OWI. Robeson has never shilly-shallied about his leftist sympathies, never blinked other minority problems than his own. Says he fiercely: "No Negro would dare be anti-Semitic in front...
Home to the U.S., after three years of active naval duty, came the man who first said (during the Pearl Harbor attack): "Praise the Lord, and pass the ammunition." He is Chaplain Howell Forgy (Presbyterian). Everywhere Chaplain Forgy goes he hears his famed phrase sung as a popular song. Chaplain Forgy says he would "be content never to hear it again." He is much more interested at present in the effect of battle on a man's religious faith. Says he: "I learned more basic religion in my first five minutes under fire than I did in my seven...
...Glee Club is conducted by Lt. (jg) Hessler, assisted by Lt. (jg) C. K. Miller as the manager. Numbers which were sung at the service included "Steal Away" and "Song of Peace...