Word: liliane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Take Thy Rest." Dark-haired, vigorous Conductor Jones had few worries about his soloists (one, Contralto Lilian Knowles, is his wife) or about the great choir before him. Some of the choristers didn't even need scores. Mrs. George W. Halliwell, 82, was a charter member who had been singing in the choir ever since its founder, J. Fred Wolle, came home to Bethlehem 50 years ago from his studies in Munich, determined to dedicate himself and Bethlehem to Bach. Two others had been singing for 47 years, and more than 40 had been in the choir...
...Walter de Havilland was a British patent attorney living in Tokyo, where Olivia was born in 1916. When she was about eight, an event occurred which -as any cocktail party psychoanalyst knows-was enough to give her complexes to last a lifetime. Her father (in the words of wife Lilian, he "spoke like God but behaved like the devil") decided to leave his wife and marry the De Havillands' Japanese maid. Mrs. de Havilland had already taken Olivia and her younger sister Joan to Saratoga, Calif. There, after divorcing Walter de Havilland, she married George M. Fontaine, manager...
Died. Dame Lilian Braithwaite, D.B.E., seventyish, tart-tongued grand old lady of the English stage (The Vortex, Arsenic and Old Lace); of a heart ailment; in London...
...Jose, Calif., British-born Lilian Augusta Fontaine, mother of Actresses Olivia de Havilland (who became a citizen in 1941) and Joan Fontaine (who became a citizen in 1943), was awarded citizenship after 29 years...
...Benn Levy's British farce, Springtime for Henry. In 15 years of off-&-on touring, Henry has brought Edward Horton almost $1,000,000. This summer, for the fifth consecutive season, Edward has taken the old boy on the summer circuit with a supporting cast of three (Lilian Bond, Elaine Ellis and Matthew Smith) and the prospect of an average $1,800-a-week net to add to Horton's earnings...