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...months ago, Britain's WAAFs (R.A.F. equivalent of WACs) were forbidden to sing the sentimental German marching song Lili Marlene because it might give German prisoners of war ideas about fraternization...
...Americans, C'est Fini sounded like a combination of Lili Marlene and I'll Never Smile Again. When they began to ask for it in every bar in southern France, the words were translated to English, the title was changed to Symphonic. By last week it was the No. 1 song hit of France. At Maxim's in Cannes, Yolande, the French Hildegarde, sang it. So did lesser entertainers from Monte Carlo to Marseilles...
Germans insisted it was an old Bavarian drinking song. Americans and British thought it was one of their own. Anyhow, they all sang it. The Beer Barrel Polka became the Tipperary of World War II, rivaled in popularity only by Lili Marlene, which had more homesick appeal, but less oompah...
...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...
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...