Word: lili
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...straighten you out on the Ladies Doverdale. In TIME [May 7] you have a photograph of Audrey, wife of Baron Doverdale. But the story accompanying the picture is an account of the vigorous dissent of Leslie, Lady Doverdale to the rendering of the song, Lili Marlene, in her presence at a Manhattan hotel. The Dowager Lady Doverdale (Leslie) is the stepmother-in-law of Lady Doverdale (Audrey), who, as a matter of fact, has been in England throughout the war in charge of the records section of the R.A.F. Comforts Committee at the Air Ministry...
...chandelier-hung Cotillion Room of Manhattan's Hotel Pierre, 250 diners listened happily (some a little fuzzily) to Singer Margaret Scott. She sang three songs and two encores. Among the calla lilies and white leather banquettes, the only wartime note was a scattering of well-pressed uniforms. Then the blonde chanteuse started to sing Lili Marlene...
Finally Singer Scott finished her song and slipped out. An Army major rose to explain what most of the world already knew: that German-born Lili Marlene had long been one of the top-ranking favorites of Allied soldiers in Europe...
...Lili Marlene first became a war song when it was broadcast by a Nazi radio in Belgrade, and was picked up by the homesick soldiers of Rommel's Afrika Korps. It also spoke to the hearts of homesick British soldiers. Lili Marlene became the favorite battle song of Montgomery's Eighth Army...
...bits of irresistible comedy (best: the florid, juicy Italian-tenor version of the song; the whooping refinement of its rendition by Frau Hermann Göring II, re-enacted at Berlin's Kroll Opera House). There is intelligent characterization (best: a subtle young Nazi radioman who introduces Lili Marlene at the height of the German victories, later had to announce major German defeats). But Lili Marlene is the least satisfying of Director Jennings' pictures to reach the U.S. Too many mush-mouthed, romantic studio shots dilute its realism and imaginativeness. The British propaganda version of the song...