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Heroine of the second night-for specially invited G.I.s of the Allied nations-was Marlene Dietrich, who came from the front, sang in her sultry contralto, danced with a delirious private, and was virtually torn to pieces trying to get to her dressing room...
...near Strasbourg. Ranked a lieutenant colonel in the French Army, 49-year-old Malraux, who was once punch-drunk with politics, is now soberly concentrating on military matters: "I cannot see why we French must be so occupied with politics while the Germans are still on French soil." Marlene Dietrich, wearing a fleece-lined, ear-muffed pilot's cap, paused in her U.S.O. tour of Belgium, braced herself for the usual souvenir-snatching. To A.P. War Photographer Peter Carroll, she said: "The airborne boys . . . asked for my garters. What do you want . . . my scanties?" Said practical Photographer Carroll...
...there is much less entertainment these days in a France where only trained polar bears would find trouping comfortable. In addition to a limited, valiant rank-&-file, there are just two top-rank entertainers: Katharine Cornell and Marlene Dietrich. But Cornell, with a production of The Barretts of Wimpole Street (co-starring Brian Aherne), and Dietrich, with a live-wire troupe, are both doing the work...
...Army Girl. The lustrous-limbed Dietrich has played the European circuit longer than any other star, has heard every kind of enemy fire except snipers' bullets. She flew to the Mediterranean last March, shoved across Africa, wheedled her way to Anzio, rattled into Rome two days after it fell. In August she was off again, hopping around Labrador, Greenland, Iceland, getting lost in fogs, doing four-a-days in England. In October she reached France. Last week she was singing in hospitals near Paris; this week she was off to tour the Ninth Army...
...glacial weather Dietrich peels off a half-dozen layers of G.I. greatcoats and woolies, usually slips on a gold-spangled white chiffon evening dress. She has learned not to stand too near the mike: it broadcasts her chattering teeth...