Word: mesritz
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...Lily Pons's mother, who after the father's death started a dressmaker's establishment in Cannes to provide for her three little girls, moved up to Paris when Lily decided she wanted to study piano at the Conservatoire. The other was Lily Pons's husband, August Mesritz, a wealthy Dutch banker and newspaper manager who retired to tinker at painting at the Riviera. Husband Mesritz first suggested that Lily study for opera. She had had some experience as a comedy ingenue, sang an incidental song once and had a small success. She set to work, within a year made...