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Heart Song (Fox). Hurt in a hunting accident, the Duke de Pontignac (Charles Boyer) is ready to start recovering when, lying in bed with his eyes bandaged, he hears a girl's voice singing an unknown song. Well again, he tries to find the singer. At first he thinks she must be the stately, flirtatious Empress Eugenie (Mady Christians). Instead it turns out to be the Empress's vivacious little hairdresser (Lilian Harvey). The song was written for and dedicated to her by her sweetheart, an ambitious young musician. He does not much mind losing her when...
...notorious Dentist Laget who poisoned two wives; the Parisian ne'er-do-well Guy Davin who murdered the U. S. ne'er-do-well Richard Wall for $300; a multitude of arch-crooks, killers and underworld rabble. Fortune's fool was there too, a murderer named Boyer who was to have been executed the morning after an assassin killed France's President Paul Doumer (TIME, May 16, 1932). On the technicality that Boyer thus lost his last-minute chance of pardon, his sentence was automatically commuted to life imprisonment...
Many a catchy tune exported from Europe on phonograph records becomes in time a best-seller in the U. S. "Goodnight, Sweetheart," which Ray Noble wrote in London, ran such a course.* So did "Parlez-moi d'Amour," the fragile song which Lucienne Boyer introduced in Paris, and "Zwei Herzen im ¾ Takt" which plump, be-monocled Richard Tauber introduced in Berlin...
...Paris Lucienne Boyer has had several new songs to keep her night club customers buying champagne far into the morning. The best ones are "Ne dis pas toujours," "Quand tu seras dans mes bras" and "Ballade" which Yvette Guilbert could have sung with no more finesse...
Greta Keller, a deep-voiced Viennese who like Mile Boyer brings a unique, personal quality to the simplest of songs, has made a record of "Eine kleine Reise," a song whose lyrics might not stand censoring...