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...hard years to make the love affair mutual. Last season she fairly stole the show as the saucy maid Adele in Fledermaus. Her flashing Musetta last week-her first time in the role-proved that she has reached the top of her operatic class. General Manager Rudolf Bing, a man who likes understatement, calls her a "superb soubrette-probably without competition at the moment...
...many soubrette roles. She knows that her voice has not enough weight, dramatic color and power for such heavyweight parts as Aïda, but some day she would like a try at such lyric roles as the consumptive courtesan Violetta in La Tramata, or the heart-wrecker, Manon. Bing has promised her a Mimi (the consumptive heroine of Bohème) next month...
Actually, Bing himself does not intend to limit Patrice to soubrette roles; for one thing, there are not many in the repertory. But he thinks that "she should do things that are light in vein, not necessarily light in quality, but cheerful and scintillating. She is a cheerful personality; she makes people feel cheerful...
...country whenever she can. Her life in Manhattan is an exacting round of lessons, rehearsals, fittings and photographs. She conscientiously answers her mail, and seldom" fails to get off a cheery quarterly letter to the Princess Patter, a mimeographed magazine published by her teen-age fan club (Bing Crosby, Shirley Temple, Risë Stevens, Jan Peerce are honorary members...
...free-for-all brawl, performing impromptu veronicas with a cape. A sexy blonde paralyzes the Legion by sashaying into the fort like a burlesque queen heading down the runway. All that is missing-and it seems ready to appear at any moment-is the sight of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby in burnooses with a few words to say about the script...