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...each other in schoolboy fashion. Some, already embarked, dashed down for a second round of goodbyes with wives & children. Above the din of shouts and whistles, a group of French Canadians rousingly sang their regimental song, bag pipes skirled Tipperary, and a brass band blared Mad'moiselle from Armenti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Off to Europe | 11/19/1951 | See Source »

...Corps of Engineers, They couldn't lick the Infantry in a hundred thousand years. > Last song in the Army book, first when the columns are marching, is still You're in the Army Now. > Unfit to print for the 1941 Army was Mad'moiselle from Armentières. Soldiers with a yen for back-room balladry will have to get along with a laundered, abbreviated Bastard King of England (retitled The Minstrels Sing of an English King) and a sanitized Colombo (borrowed from the Book of Navy Songs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: Songs for Soldiers | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

Battle of Broadway (Twentieth Century-Fox). At an American Legion convention, ex-Doughboys Brian Donlevy and Victor McLaglen are pleased to meet tall, dark-haired, full-lipped ex-Strip Teaser Gypsy Rose Lee who sings "I am the Daughter of Mademoiselle from Armentières." When she continues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

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