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...variety, her mother was a Russian princess. As a student at the Paris Conservatoire, she carried off first prize in every field she studied: harmony, counterpoint, fugue, organ, and accompaniment. With this array of musical proficiency, she took responsibility for the musical training of her first student: her sister, Lili Boulanger. As a teacher, she succeeded. In 1913 Lili Boulanger won the Grand Prix de Rome in composition, the first woman ever to do so. Characteristically, at the competition in the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris, sister Nadia accompanied the winning cantata. Nadia thought her sister's talent...
...frightened a soul as William Henry Pratt. Gypsy Rose Lee has done things that Rose Louise Hovick would presumably never do. Other real names seem to be struggling to express themselves. Merry Mickey Rooney was once Joe Yule Jr. Sam Goldwyn was Sam Goldfish. Shelley Winters was Shirley Schrift. Lili St. Cyr was Marie van Shaack. Diana Dors was Diana Fluck...
...many characters in it rant and shout; too often the camera sweeps in dizzying circles. One is left physically exhausted at the end. But it is, perhaps, worth it to see Judy Garland gone to seed (way over the rainbow) and hear Marlene Dietrich sing a snatch of Lili Marlene. The producers of the film undoubtedly think they have made the epic of the decade and solved all possible moral questions of Nazi Germany...
...Lili, A Solemn Music by Disciple Virgil Thomson, and the Requiem Mass of Gabriel Faure with an authority that convinced the New York Times that "she could hold up her end of the baton with most of her male colleagues." Tactfully shrugging off this bit of male chauvinism, Mme. Boulanger refrained from repeating her response to a similar comment when she led the Boston Symphony in 1938: "I have been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment...
Among Broadway's long-run tenants, Mary, Mary incites full houses to laugh along with Playwright Jean Kerr; Camelot's Round Table is becoming as durable as King Arthur's; Carnival! yields nothing to its Hollywood model Lili in poignance and charm-and there is always the grande dame of Manhattan's musicals, My Fair Lady...