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By Mildred Miller
DON'T ever let any of the New York smoke eaters hear you say anything against Kate Smith. And you better watch yourself if you make any insinuations about her motives for singing for the war veterans around where the veterans get their hospital chow. And that goes for all those who think they know it all down Broadway and have an idea that nothing fine or good is done without a selfish motive attached.
For whatever else she does and is Kate Smith, the Songbird of the South, is sincere. Don't ever forget that.
Now she is seeing California for the first time. And California is looking at her through camera eyes that will carry a story woven around her robust figure for all the world to see and hear. Yes, Mr. and Mrs. Radio Listener your Kate Smith is going places and seeing things.
But the reason her friend Pat came up to Radio Digest to see the editor was because somebody had been making
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of Kate Smith feel she is a victim of that curse. Pat brings a new slant on the character of the "Songbird of the South" as he explains to Miss Miller. Read it and you'll never doubt Kate Smith's rugged sincerity of purpose.
cracks about Kate not being on the level in all the nice things she has done for the boys who came out of the war minus parts and parcels of their anatomy, the same which has kept them confined in hospitals. Kate is all for them. When she gets paid for singing she gets paid plenty, but she's not crazy about money. She gets a lot more fun singing for people who enjoy seeing her and hearing her and it doesn't cost them a cent. Kate really sings for love and likes it even better than singing for money. Let's have that settled now and forever. We must in order to satisfy
her friend Pat on that score. Pat insists, not only for his friend, Kate Smith, but for 573,000 firemen of the Uniformed Firemen's Association of Greater New York. Pat was bitterly aggrieved although he had considered the men who wrote pieces in the New York papers about Kate refusing to sing at a certain benefit as among his friends.
"Now I'm not particular about quarrelling with these boys," he explained, "because they are sorry for what they said and have apologized, but I'm afraid harm has been done and will you please put it in Radio Digest that Kate is the finest, grandest young lady that it has ever been the pleasure of us to hear. And, Miss, you know yourself how she goes about the country singing in the hospitals for the sick and the afflicted, and it isn't once in a hundred times that ever a thing about it gets into the papers, so why could anyone be sayin' it is for publicity she seeks. No, not at all, at all.
Kate visiting the boys at the Naval Hospital in Brooklyn