Word: divas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Jive-diva Ella Logan, 29; and Writer-Producer Fred F. Finklehoffe, 32; in Greenwich, Conn. He collaborated on Brother Rat, produced Show Time, now starring his bride on Broadway...
More interesting than anything else in the play was the appearance in a bit part (an opera-singing cook) of Margaret Matzenauer-one of opera's fallen giants. For Contralto Matzenauer, who had been a diva in the days when Caruso and Toscanini were fellow Metropolitan headliners, Vickie might be a comedown. But it was made to order: Vickie's author, Hollywood Scripter Sid Herzig, got most of his ideas about opera singers at the age of eight when Contralto Matzenauer, newly arrived from Europe, lived in the Herzig family's Manhattan home. Vickie...
...farm near Menton, France, that young female operagoers at the Met banded themselves into "Lily Pons Fans," in imitation of the "Gerry-flappers" of Soprano Farrar 20 years ago. A Maryland town, whose chief industry is water lilies and goldfish, eight years ago publicized itself as well as the diva by taking the name Lilypons. The full flowering of this pun occurred when Lily Pons sang to the lily ponds, while politicos, from Maryland's Governor on down, listened in rapture. Last week at the Star-Spangled Ball, a big Manhattan benefit for the William Allen White Committee, Lily...
...some of the loveliest musichorines in years, entangling himself with a pair of acrobats, conducting a lunatic dancing class, giving a weird exhibition of marksmanship with strange guns. Best of his current gadgets: a piano attached to a velocipede arrangement that enables him to pedal Jane Pickens, his diva, about to the rhythm of the jaunty air Catsup on the Moon. His giggle is infectious, his puns hilarious and he has the Dancing De Marcos to add pace to his show. But not even Wynn's enormous talent can prevent the diligence of his comic efforts from appearing occasionally...
Almost as well known as the genesis of The Star-Spangled Banner is the history of God Bless America-how Kate Smith's Manager & Partner Ted Collins asked Irving Berlin to whip up a patriotic ballad for the diva's Armistice Eve program in 1938; how Songwriter Berlin sat down at a piano, pecked out a variation of a ballad he had written in 1917; how Kate Smith relentlessly plugged the song. Not so well known are the many commercial and artistic complications through which God Bless America has recently staggered...