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...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...
...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...
...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...
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...