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...long jump up the coast from Port Elizabeth, in subtropical Durban, U.S. Negro Bishop John Gregg stopped over on his way to visit U.S. Negro troops in the Middle East. No hotel would put him up. Finally he got bed & board in the McCord Hospital for Negroes. Said Bishop Gregg: "Maybe this hospital is the right place for me. After traveling half around the world I have suddenly discovered in South Africa that I suffer from an incurable disease, malignant pigmentation...
Somewhere on the high seas two U-boats caught an Allied merchant vessel and surfaced to shell it. A high-explosive burst hit squarely on the bridge. Captain Arthur William Folster, of Durban, South Africa, collapsed on his deck, riddled with shell fragments, his right arm and left leg torn...
...first picture last week of Durban Harbor's Perla Siedle (see cut), onetime Wagnerian soprano whose tireless waterfront singing to Allied convoys has made her one of South Africa's great wartime personalities (TIME, Nov. 15). Perla, known affectionately to thousands of soldiers and sailors as Durban's Lady in White, sings God Bless America for Yanks, There'll Always Be an England for Tommies, Waltzing Matilda for Aussies...
Honest Injun, it's about time somebody told him that these situation comedies without situation and without comedy are getting on audiences' nerves. Deanna Durban is a very nice kid who once had a very beautiful soprano voice, but the voice has either lost some of its touch or Deanna has just become very boring. At any rate, she isn't cute. And, to help matters, she kisses like Shirley Temple...
...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 want Waltzing Matilda. South Africans prefer their...