In Washington, D.C., Bolin worked for CBS Radio and during World War II she became the host of her own musical program.

[4] The following month she performed at the Brooklyn Museum on an all-Russian program with the Chamber Music Guild of Washington, with which she had been associated while living there.

[6] As a member of the NBC Opera Theater roster, she appeared on a nationwide telecast of Puccini's Suor Angelica on 5 December 1954 in the contralto role of The Princess.

[7] Bolin then portrayed Meg Boyd in both the 1955-57 original Broadway production and the 1958 film version of Damn Yankees.

Bolin did radio work in New York City for the Theatre Guild of the Air production of Allegro.

[14] The composers and lyricists were Vernon Duke, Alec Wilder, Noel Coward, Ira and George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, Larry Hart, Oscar Hammerstein, Jerome Kern, Ogden Nash, Frank Loesser, Johann Strauss, Edward Eager, Bart Howard, and John LaTouche.