Music: Judgment Day

The blonde, pleasant-looking girl in a summer print dress studied the bulletin board. For the first time she was seeing her name in print the way she had always wanted: Margaret Truman billed as soloist with Eugene Ormandy and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra.

In Hollywood last week, the President's daughter also met the press. Her omnipresent teacher, Mrs. Margaret Strickler, a bosomy, flop-hatted kind of Madame Svengali, was hovering near by. When reporters asked Margaret about one selection on her program, La Fauvette avec ses Petits from Grétry's Zémire et Azor, Mrs. Strickler muscled...

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