Barry, with all due respect, I find these comments of yours offensive.
Lighten up, Kathy. My comment to Moog was meant to be a humorous response to Moog saying that "You shouldn’t underestimate how shallow we guys can be sometimes" when we were discussing Linda Ronstadt in another thread.
If you watched the movie you would have seen that neither Sousa or his wife were offended by her audition. Indeed, he hired her to go on tour with his band as a singer and dancer.
As far as Debra Paget is concerned, she's a very talented actress, singer and dancer and enjoyed a long career in motion pictures. She was perfect in her major role in Stars and Stripes Forever. She was just nineteen years old when the movie was filmed.
Earlier in that post, I gave you a time mark in that motion picture where the Stars and Stripes march came to Sousa while he was at sea. In his autobiography, he mentions this and how he transcribed the march note for note for all instruments when he got ashore. I thought you would find the ocean liner scene relevant and to your liking. I guess I was wrong.