Word: aspidistras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...year woman, she now pleads patriotic poverty. From 62 performances in the U. S. and Canada, she has turned over $130,000 to her country. Chorus from her hit song: We're going to 'ang old 'Itler from the very 'ighest bough of the biggest aspidistra in the world...
...British Empire and a police captain's badge good in Santa Monica, Calif., Comedienne Gracie Fields arrived for a vacation in the U. S. after patriotically entertaining Tommies at the front. For Manhattan ship newsmen she sang this extra verse of her famous song, The Biggest Aspidistra* in the World: They're going to string old Hitler From the very highest branch Of the biggest aspidistra in the world...