Word: papas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...name is pronounced (approximately) to rhyme with lawns, but most people rhyme it with bronze. Lily Pons was born 36 years ago in Cannes, in the south of France, was named Alice Joséphine by her Italian mother and French father. Papa Pons was an automobile engineer who once attempted to drive from Paris to Peiping. After nearly starving in Tibet, he was towed into China...
...sophomore days of Fascism, a favorite gag in the U. S. was the one about Il Duce warning his little King: "Emmanuel, if you don't behave yourself I'll take your papa's picture off the olive-oil tins." Not the least significant of the incredible and terrible events of last week was that this gag should come true-in another land of another King. The Germans removed the likeness of King Haakon from all tins of the little sardines which Norwegians call brislings. To a seagoing fisherfolk, brislings were a symbol...
...orchestra. The Chicago Symphony, which got it as a gift from the late Composer Camille Saint-Saëns, trots it out rarely. But last week, when the Symphony began its soth season, its 36th under the still competent baton of stooped, white-haired old "Papa" Frederick Stock, was one of those times...
...audience thundered applause when Papa Stock entered, lifted his baton to begin a Festival Fanfare which he had written for the jubilee. Next to Stainer's Sevenfold Amen, the Fanfare was probably the longest (ten minutes) ever composed, gave every instrument in the orchestra something to do, finally had even the Schellenbaum (manned by a percussionist) shaking like a hula dancer...
GOLD COMES IN BRICKS-A. A. Fair-Morrow ($2). Alta Ashbury wrote $10,000 checks to "Cash." Ultimately her rich papa got Bertha Cool and Donald Lam to look into a matter of blackmail seasoned with murder. Donald, a little, disbarred lawyer whom women adore, even outsmarts Hashita, his jujitsu teacher...