Word: lili
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lili Marlene (Crown Film Unit; Universal), like many popular soldier songs, is far from martial. Its words (which are sung by a lonely girl and her lonely sentry sweetheart) were written in Hamburg in 1923. Its trivial, contagious tune† was made in the Germany of 1938. It was given its drawling lilt in a Berlin cabaret, by a Swedish singer named Lala Andersen (played by comely Pat Hughes), who is now in a concentration camp. (Reason: she wrote in a letter, "All I want is to get out of this horrible country...
Last evening the Cambridge Summer Theatre ushered in the local straw has season with "Tonight or Never," a musical play by Lili Hatvany and musical play by Lili Hatvany and starring Ethel Barrymore Colt...
...news again. The U.S. filed a tax lien against him for $121,858 allegedly owing on last year's income. Sean, his two-and-a-half-year-old son, got his foot caught in a drainpipe in Newport (where he was winding up the summer with his mother, Lili Damita), had to be sawed free by police and firemen...
...know, Lili Marleen? Do you know, Lili Marleen...
...last week Lili Marleen, perhaps the Tipperary of World War II, had yet to be played...