Word: singer
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...able to imitate successfully. A theme song - now obsolete in Hollywood - is heartily employed, but "Sous les Toits de Paris" is a pretty song, gay and nostalgic ; it ought to be popular if native orchestras bother to work out a dance arrangement for it. The plot concerns a street-singer and a street-hawker who fall in love with the prettiest girl in their neighborhood. One of them wins her in spite of complications caused by a bully-boy who gets possession of a key to her apartment. The cast is not famous (Albert Frejean, Edmond Greville, Pola Illery...
Before the War most typical of the gay luxuriance of Moscow was Yar's famed restaurant where gypsies sang and danced. A favorite at Yar's was Singer Nastia Poliakova whose deep, dark voice perfectly suited the purely emotional substance, the rambling, improvised style of gypsy songs. After the revolution Poliakova went to sing in a Paris cafe. This year she is in the U. S. to submit her informal, indefinable talent to the test of formal concerts. Manhattan liked her so much that last week she gave a second pro gram there, announced a third...
...interest of the juvenile holiday trade the Brothers Shubert have revived Victor Herbert's Babes In Toyland. The production has an air of Herbert-cum-Ringling Bros. For the chief attraction of the show is a troupe of Singer's midgets who dress up as penguins in the toyshop scene, play in a jazz band, direct the lumbering movements of three very large elephants. In the midst of the general merriment one midget rides across the stage on a reindeer. What is left of the Herbert score is ably handled by a cast of full-sized adults...
...aggressive one of the lot. She learned to play the violin, at twelve played in a concert. Then she studied piano, practiced patiently five hours a day. An amateur performance of Trial by Jury in Chicago perhaps hinted first at her dramatic talents. But she wanted to be a singer. To Paris she went, lived with a French family, studied diligently. Her debut at the Opera Comique came at a time when she was practically penniless. She had been engaged to do a small part the following season, meanwhile was permitted to attend rehearsals. One night the soprano singing...
Beethoven's Adelaide by Baritone Heinrich Schlusnus (Brunswick, $1.50)-A foremost lieder singer displays his fine phrasing, his immaculate diction. Sing Something Simple and Happy Feet (Victor)-The Revelers again get the effects of a full-piece band. Body and Soul and With a Song in My Heart by Jack Hylton and his orchestra (Victor, $1.25)-A famed British jazzman embroiders neat concert versions of two deserving songs. Dance Records: You're Lucky to Me and Memories of You (Okeh)-For those who like hot jazz with husky singing, husky trumpets. The band is Louis Armstrong...