LILY PONS
FEBRUARY 7
Belles
OF SAINT MARY’S
JOHN VALENTINE
FEBRUARY 10
Vol. IV, No. 9
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
February 7, 1941
Saint Mary’s Press
Meets Lily Pons,
Famous Met Star
Southern Colloquialisms Confuse
And Amuse French Opera
Singer
*^Tell me, tell me, tell me!” she
'^ried in half-amused bewildermpt
the first drawled question which
woke the awe-inspired silence of “the
wdies and gentlemen of the press.”
^or Miss Lily Pons of the Metro
politan is on friendly, hut far from
'^timate terms with the English lan-
page, and a southern colloquialism
oad confused her. She said the press
Conference was “like a school—I ask,
I
answer.”
she explained that her heavy gold
09n/-I/-> V»xr "Fcm! Into.
To her hracelet-mad interviewer
oangles were made by Paul Flato.
ccor jewelry, from the twisted pearls
the British lapel emblem, set otf
cpautifully her chic hlack and hur-
'hslied gold ensemhle with tiny hlack
sh
oes topped by soft velvet hows to
^atch her coat. She is very small;
^0 talks with her hands in typically
ip- ’ n ,
vondi gestures. She collects an
tin' - ’ ’ 1 .^1.
*^Ues, dogs, scrapbooks and South
American birds, her favorite of four-
tee
ai being a parrot which does
fc^les, sings, .talks, and keeps her
laughing to death.” She has a
Shetland sheep dog and a French
alldofi' iiaTTiefl Piano.
V Iler favorite operatic roles are
■IjIIAi.-, ITT 1 J.
pcia and Lakme, but just now she
j?^es to do “The Daughter of the
Regiment,” because it is gay and be-
cause she can play the drum. It
-use sue can piay tne arum.
,°c>k her two months to learn to
funi, “An’ if you think is easy, try
• You have‘to have the supple-
j.ess of the wrist—you know?” She
'kes concert work as well as opera.
her concerts she sings only one
^la, and in the rest of her ])rogram
j.*c tries to please everyone. She
j.,-cs southern audiences, and says
^t the South is “like my country:
6 more you go to the sunshine, the
people are enfhusiastique.”
tit slie is not so enthusiastic about
j, ^king movies. She asked if we
^ciuembered the lovely merry^o-
Tiftind scene in “I Dream Too
tj^'tch.” Then she told us plaintively
at because the scene was such a
SUCf
j ccess, they put a merry-go-round
GVfiM-.-. . -1 1 m .1
V, . '’cry picture she made. She does
, °t like
but play “slapsteeck” roles,
-at qf j___ T f. 1 _ 1—1—i.—„
I
one day I find a lovely story.
do it.’
a solemn voice, with a grave
Uod
rl pert, dark head she as-
Ust^e^- present that American
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•Courtesy of News and Observer.
tcllin" iVmi Scelcv, of the I5KI.LKS, of her sood luck in not missing a single
Miss kily I’ons IS s‘>»"^;,,*^t;,\\'J;:,, j;erforinaiu-e at ti.e Metropolitan in three years.
Order of the Circle
Initiates Members
In Secret Ceremony
Saint Mary’s Fails
In March of Dimes
For “Polio” Fight
Hepburn and Cast
Win High Praise
For Comedy Hit
Torchlight Procession
Impressive xorcmignu
Is Evidence of Tapping of
New Members
Only 138 Dimes Contributed
Towards Infantile Paralysis
Research
Laughter Is the Keynote in the
Interpretation of The
Philadelphia Story
those .
®all^ music is improving fantasti-
®la£m' • though the
stab • — ‘"VOS me j-vim, iiiougii
back conditions
abm crowded : “I am very sore
big ^hat.” Norman Cordon made
her five years ago in
Sbg^^’ ke is “so gay, so amusing.”
'^an do any of her coloratura
The Order of the Circle held its
second initiation of ^{l.^ing
ruary 6 and "’eicomed the follovi g
new members: Adelaide Cm tis,
Mary-Gene Kelly, Kathrjui h^ orman
Dorothea Herty, Gale Lamb, and
Margaret Gold Swindell.
An impressive torch-light proces
sion of figures garbed in ong black
robes and hoods was the school s only
evidence that new members ^ad been
tapped by this secret organization.
Membership in the Circle is consid
ered one of Saint Marys highest
honors. Qualifications for member
ship are based on scholarship, citi
zenship, fellowship, and sm'vice.
During this year the ^
acted as the “driving
Mary’s campaign for British
relief.
Did you contribute to the March
of Dimes last week ? Evidently Saint
Mary’s was too busy to think of the
“youngster around the corner” be
cause we fell far short of our goal.
There are at least three hundred
people in school that could contrib
ute the small amount of ten cents to
a worthy cause—only 138 did, for
our contribution was $13.80.
The campaign was initiated Wed
nesday morning, January 29, by a
talk by Mr. J. C. B. Ehringhaus, Jr.,
chairman of the city drive and son
of the former Governor of North
Carolina. The ancient phrase “and
this too shall pass away” was em
phasized and applied to infantile
paralysis which SHALL pass away.
Mr. Ehringhaus explained that half
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Katie didn’t go to Haiti, but she
really did go to town in the part of
Tracy Lord in the production of the
Philadelphia Story, and from the
time that the curtain rose for the
first act until it fell for the last time.
Miss Katharine Hepburn gave one
of the best and most delightful per
formances of her entire theatrical
career.
At first the audience had some
difficulty in understanding Miss
Hepburn’s lank, lax interpretation
of the Philadelphia society drawl,
but once having become accustomed
to her much-mimicked manner of
speech, they enjoyed themselves thor
oughly. Laughter was the keynote
from start to finish, and the memory
of the predicaments and whims of
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