Word: reynaldo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hours, she put her Spokane audience through a program that jumped from Handel to Reynaldo Hahn. At the end of an earnest evening, Jennie Tourel finally let the lowbrows in the audience have Songs My Mother Taught Me, My Hero (from The Chocolate Soldier), and a piece of heavy whimsy by Leonard Bernstein, called I Hate Music. Two nights later she sang in the little college town of Pullman, Wash., and half the town turned out to hear...
...London dressing rooms was described as ua corner of a dream." Through her salons moved such guests as Edward of Wales (who gave her his picture inscribed "To Gertrude?Edward P."); Manhattan Socialite Bertrand L. Taylor; Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (who gave her a 30-foot cabin cruiser); Peruvian Artist Reynaldo Luza; Adventure Writer Edgar Wallace; and her distinguished leading man, the late Sir Gerald du Maurier (who, despite his distinction, she describes as having been "just like an inky schoolboy with frogs in his pocket...
...short while before the Freiheitsender cut loose, Radio Paris, which the Nazis permitted the French to operate, was suddenly suppressed. Reason: the broadcast of a comic opera by Reynaldo Hahn which had as its finale the lines: "After the day of storm comes the summer sun. It is love that will give us back our liberty." Fairly screamed into the mikes of Radio Paris by an enthusiastic chorus, the lines gave the Nazis a nasty turn...