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Concerned with the moon, like that of almost all her rival crooners, her theme song is called "When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain." She is proud because she helped write the lyric. Kate Smith is so popular that last autumn she received a letter from the president of the Uniformed Firemen's Association of Greater New York saying that she had been chosen "Sweetheart of the Fire Department of the City of New York." She gave an even more convincing demonstration of her appeal when, with Funnyman Lou Holtz, she was a principal on the bill which smashed all records by lasting eleven weeks at Manhattan's Palace Theatre, No. 1 vaudeville house in the U. S. Singer Smith is 23 years old, addicted to plain clothes, backgammon, soda fountain drinks, prizefights. Like Caruso, she has small vocal cords, immensely powerful lungs, a jolly disposition.
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