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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 14, 1940.
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BARONESS SINGS IN NINE LANGUAGES, SPEAKS SIX
London, April 29.
While she was singing in classical
I talked to-day with Lena Morava, | concerts in France, Rene Blum spotted Russian baroness and wife of a Bri- tish Army officer, who will make her first appearance in a London floor show in May.
her, and she was offered a contract to go to Monte Carlo as a light operatic. singer. She then appeared in Con- tinental cabarets, having developed the sophisticated sentimental style which the Frenchwoman, puts over
She speaks six languages fluently and sings in nine, but in spite of her perfect English one would never mis- so well. take her for an English-woman, with│* Mlle. Morava then met and married her enormous dark eyes, animated | the Army officer who is now her hus- smile and quick expressive gestures.
"I did not dare to tell my husband that I meant to get a job, but waited until it was fixed and presented him with the fait accompli," she said with a laugh.
"The war has hit us badly financial- 1y. If I stay at home I cannot help worrying, but if I am working I feel that I am helping, and that makes me happy. My husband understands this, and to show that he has forgiven me, he is going to try to get leave for my opening night.”
ESCAPE FROM SOVIET
Lena Morava has had the most colourful life. As a child of six she escaped from Russia during the Re- volution with her grandmother and several other people, in a pig-cart. Eventually she reached the safety of her wealthy father's estate in Estonia. Owing to the privations and semi- starvation that she had gone through she was attacked by a spinal weak- ness. To cure it she attended the dancing school of a former ballerina of the Russian Imperial Ballet and showed such promise that it was de- cided to make dancing her career.
At the age of fourteen, however, her voice had developed so rapidly that she was sent to Paris to study singing under Donalda, who former- ly sang with Caruso.
JAPANESE NAVAL MANOEUVRES IN SOUTH
Kwong Chow Wan, To-day. Some 80 Japanese warships are re- ported engaged in manoeuvres in the Gulf of Tongking using Wai Chow Is- Land as a base of operations.
It is said that the "fleet" includes aircraft carriers and that the vessels arrived there last Thursday.
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New York, To-day.. The latest version of Hitler's much- touted "Secret Weapon" is that it is a gas which paralyses its victims temporarily and which penetrates the usual gas-masks supplied to the troops. According to reports reaching here,
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