| Show t ' The Tinning Point: 1 1 r r - at the battered piano had blues It was the day before Easter and she was sitting in an unused entertainment room of an inexpensive New York hotel rippling the yellowed keys and singing an aria from Aida She heard a step behind her It was another guest of the hotel standing in the doorway and applauding softly "Wonderful!" said a strange male voice "Who are you?" The girl shrugged "Nobody much" she said "My name's Margaret Phelan I'm trying to get in the Metropolitan Opera!" That was in 1945 After a minor triumph as guest soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra she had come to New York for an audition Like most young hopefuls Margaret (a native of Fort Worth Tex) was told she "would be notified" TnE :: I - ei: t r i r f" ' ! ! :i- - ''''' t-- r'''' ' - I - 1 I ktvi - I- i i : : - : - 4 a- - c - -----'-' t i - "' s - —- - - : 1 ' -g I Vrtserwlso - i el - : Nwl 0 - - ' i j ' i N - ft ' : ' v - 1 A '' 1 t i: - Ili t1) 4-- t '' 6 i t 4 e - i y"-'- I ' — ' 4- rt - t 1 1k ! r 04' s ! ':'"' - ' - 47-- : l r eV‘ ' I - — 4 - A 4 1 assist nger Helped editor 111111100g dirt direeSer Edward R Wade Oats editor Pauline E Reaves ON THE COVEN: This is how Tommy Woolf 4 of New York City will look on Christmas morning Like millions of other American children bell be surprised and delighted Of course Tommy knows all about Santa 'He comes right in our front door" says TOmmy "He's too fat to tit in our chimney" TAKE Of CONTENTS Traffic Sequel 2 Weak Sisters? 5 God's Tugboat 6 Minks Freeze Too Parade of Progress Two Holiday Punches10 11 I Met Harry New Year's Fashions-1- 1 Best Wit of '51 14 15 Sewers Get a Queen CREDITS-1PICTURE 3 ' t it ' Jr Robert P Goldman In 1948 she began singing in the top night spots — New York's St Regis and Waldorf-Astori- a Hotels Chicago's Palmer House Boston's Copley Plaza Houston's Shamrock San Francisco's Mark Hopkins and London's Bagatelle A total stranger started it all! II 1 P k essoc ossogisql emiffer Edward D Fa les to Los Angeles York ' (7 t teeseMil editor W Sprague Although she had no popular music and no wardrobe she clicked! So she forgot all about opera put in three years at small clubs from New a dream she gave up MARGARET PHELAN: editor club Buffalo - I Jess Gorkin "Would I I 1 I Pkiters blertztere December 23 1931 you be interested in singing popular songs?" he asked "I know an agent who handles night clubs" The girl from Texas didn't think twice She was broke "Sure" she said The next day Margaret was introduced to an agent He listened and within 15 minutes booked her into a 1 1 1 The Stierbay 15 Minutes It Took e "' " - 111 - ' r GIRL ' '1)o71-"- - nMersTrTM4Mwvoggpvr---mtr7-ftorrrirm---LtppFtr'Rr- Lida AA tiara& on 4 o bilm!kaUlOoWagSdj A44311 64041140046404iglaikiktor40 ''''''- ''''''''''''''- -' -° RdtakllLkALigLthGLtg11MP How to eat a Dutch hot dog (smoked herring!) ' '"1 ' I k- i f rti' '' t T - 1 ' 1 ) ''t-- 1 : '''!::-- -4 -:- ' !! '71i 4 ' i - I ' ' ': L r- 'i- & t r: ' I g -- t 4 ) t- ? 7 I 4-- 14- DKIMOte - 71-- N 1:1 - ' t' ik: 1 - t tst - F' 6' 4 -- 23 131 fisi ' 4t r :I 4 iF '7 ( 7 t 3 1 -4 I! tc : 44 '''N 14' 04 -- - "47: t--- !t - 'k 2 - —4w:A i - 404e 404ammioeWat'1-- -1 Soldier smartly eats herring cut in strips Companion gulps down the whole fish ' P 1 i r - i e - --- ri' - 4 i j ''' a ''' 4 1 N -- A --- ' 1 v A —-- - 4- It t ic' ) I ''': 04- - ' : ‘ : ' 1: E t 1 4 4 '' ' 4 ' - ' ''''' 1440 'El 0- i -n ' ' !' el 0 V 7------: : lioli 4 1 '': 4 1 : ' 'i it 4 b -vw —00 v gf I 'I ' ' - 4- - e 1 51! : po 1 asks Amsterdam herring mans Gentleman takes his plain parade l' is '1 1 'A n 4142a- - tia— "With onions lady?" 4 ""1!V 4 -- — L:Ais' E' I 1 - r": "1 -- -- t1 t -- i 1 9 t- ii-:-:- ''' 11! ( (it ti 1 1 f I ' ''A i 4' s ' ' A I ft - - 1 N s ' : L1 Bicycling youngster likes his cut in chunks Herring man hurriedly cuts up more - tiz:iteamgggsatzs - it40 i ' An expert! He takes half a herring dunks it in chopped onion flips back head I |
