Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Ada Leonard was the leader of the All-American Girl Orchestra, the first all-girl group to tour with the USO during World War II The big-band band leader was a performer with a background in musical performance. In her early career, she worked as a burlesque performer.. While she played the cello and the piano, she did not play either instrument professionally. From 1952-1954, she hosted a variety show on television and subsequently went on to realize her ambition of leading an all-male big band. She was married, and widowed, twice: First to George L. McCall, who had managed her career, and subsequently Dr. Harold Bernstein, one of the founders of the Reiss-Davis Clinic. She died in Santa Monica, California on November 27, 1997, at the age of 82.. }
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- Ada_Leonard abstract "Ada Leonard was the leader of the All-American Girl Orchestra, the first all-girl group to tour with the USO during World War II The big-band band leader was a performer with a background in musical performance. In her early career, she worked as a burlesque performer.. While she played the cello and the piano, she did not play either instrument professionally. From 1952-1954, she hosted a variety show on television and subsequently went on to realize her ambition of leading an all-male big band. She was married, and widowed, twice: First to George L. McCall, who had managed her career, and subsequently Dr. Harold Bernstein, one of the founders of the Reiss-Davis Clinic. She died in Santa Monica, California on November 27, 1997, at the age of 82.".