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TIME [May 1] says: "Comedienne Gracie (The Biggest Aspidistra in the World) Fields...
Comedienne Gracie ("The Biggest Aspidistra in the World") Fields sadly noted that the old songs don't satisfy the public any more. "People are getting a bit too dirty," she said. "People want sophisticated songs...
...Britain's current production drive. Britons are fondly familiar with the "low but clean" pattern of a Fields performance. There are 45 minutes of sentimental ballads, sung in an ear-jarring soprano that sometimes shrills up to high C, and comedy songs (like her famed The Biggest Aspidistra in the World), screeched out in unabashed Lancastrian...
...first commercial radio series (now in its fourth week) do not hear it. On the air (Monday through Friday, 9:55 p.m.) Gracie doles out only a five-minute teaser-enough for "a song and a bit of a story." Last week, typically, the song was The Biggest Aspidistra in the World and the story about cockney Bill who was blown out of a window by a bomb, came to, remarked "Crikey! I got outa there just in time." For this token program Gracie receives a handsome $2,500 a week (from Pall Mall cigarets...