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...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...
...Greta Keller, the husky-voiced Viennese who for several years has had a big record-following in the U. S., was to have been in the Fourth Little Show this winter. She arrived in Manhattan to rehearse but the show was never produced. She finally got a contract broadcasting twice a week (Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. E.S.T.) for Tangee Lipstick. Five years ago singing for her supper was the farthest thing from Greta Keller's mind. She was playing the lead in the Viennese production of Broadway. A Prussian with pretty legs...
...songs were then becoming the rage in Vienna. Greta Keller knew no English but she made up sounds which resembled it, sang to the girls in the dressing-room between acts. They jokingly gave her schillings and she bought brandy to treat them all. Several months later she was asked to sing her "English" songs at Vienna's famed Pavilion. She bought phonograph records of "Mean to Me" and "Annabelle Lee," learned to sing them by rote-to the amusement of two U. S. vandevillians who had joined the Pavilion troupe...
Joseph ("Joe") Sargent (Harvard, class of 1922) and Stuart Ross, a University of California graduate, had reached Vienna via vaudeville engagements in London and Berlin. Sargent sang while Ross played the piano. Sargent and Keller got married. The trio toured Europe, sang in cabarets, over the radio. In London where they had their greatest success, Greta Keller went daily to the talkies to perfect her English inflection...
Sargent & Ross are broadcasting for Tangee Lipstick with Greta Keller. They help give the program speed which, but for the excess of advertising comment, would make it one of the best on the air. Greta Keller has started making U. S. records. Best one so far is "Willow Weep for Me" (Brunswick). But her talent is wasted on stereotype jazz. With her warm, persuasive voice she can establish a dozen different moods. Critics have spotted her as an ideal performer for any brewery which, in the next year or so, decides to do its beer advertising with leisurely, old-fashioned...