Alice Joséphine Pons, known professionally as Lily Pons, was a French-American operatic soprano and actress who had an active career from the late 1920s through the early 1970s. As an opera singer she ...

Some 3,500 people in the new War Memorial Opera House, 15,000 in huge Exposition Auditorium and another great crowd outside City Hall, heard pretty little Lily Pons do her trills and cadenzas in San ...

Last March the S. S. Ile de France brought into the U. S. a French girl who spoke no English. Her name was Lily Pons but it mattered to no one. She went to bed for eight days to recover from ...