Deserter Masqueraded As Stage Girl
LONDON, June 10. 1 A fire-eating "girl" who wore long liair, lipstick, rouge and red painted fingornails, and appeared at English music lialls uuder the name of Donna Delbert, pleaded guiltv at a United States air force General Court-martial in Laneashire to-day to a charge of having been absent without leave from the United States army from July, 104."). Donna Delbert was a pseudonym for iirst-class private Delbert Eugene Ilill, and the Court senteneed hiin to two years' hard lahour. Ilill told the Court-martial that the highlight of his eareer was when he gave a ('ommand performance for Queen Mary and was later presented to her.
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Chronicle (Levin), 13 June 1949, Page 5
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