Lily Pons Becomes “Female Tarzan ”
The critics accused Hollywood of‘ making a ‘female Tarzan” out of Lily Pons, world coloratura soprano. Perhaps they did, for during most of her new picture, “Hitting A New High," Miss Pons appears as a fantastic “bird girl" of the jungle. In the jungle sequence?, said to be one of the most beautifully pictorial backgrounds ever filmed, .Miss Pons sings Saint Saens’ “The Nightingale’’ for her bird friends. KKO Radio studios made a pool iu the floor of a sound stage, filled it with 8000 gallons of bottled water, heated to 80 degrees temperature to protect Miss Pons against cold, created a jungle and obtained 100 tropical birds trout the Californian Zoo to keep her
r-mipauy. Miss Pons’ costume weighed eight ounces. It was made of vulture and goose feathers, selected because of their water shedding qualities.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 45, 23 February 1938, Page 11
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