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...London this winter, the bright young people of Mayfair danced nightly to "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" and "You're Blase," smart tunes made right in London. In Paris, people go to swank Monseigneur especially to hear Lucienne Boyer sing "Parlez-Moi d'Amour," a.soft, fragile French song. In Berlin Tenor Richard Tauber, the monocle man. is making "Du bist mein Traum" a worthy successor to "Dein ist mein Ganzes Herz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Foreign Records | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

...popular records made abroad. London has sent several outstanding numbers: "The Pied Piper" arranged with a catchy, recurring ^'piper" motif; a good dance record of "You're Blase" and a two-piano version neatly embroidered by Peggy Cochrane and William Walker. From Paris there is Lucienne Boyer's "Parlez-Moi d'Amour" which took a prize last year for being the best popular record made in France; and colored Josephine Baker's "J'ai Deux Amours." From Germany there is a Marlene Dietrich record, "Jonny" on one side, "Peter" on the other, for people who like naughty lyrics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Foreign Records | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

...speak French? Parlez vous Francais? No, don't clip the accompanying coupon, don't even bother to take another French course. Go, instead, to the Opera House and see the Guitrys. Then, if not before, you will realize that though it may be imperative to study Russian, Sanskrit, or Middle High German in order to make your way in the world, all an audience at such French plays needs is a program and two good eyes...

Author: By R. K. L., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/17/1927 | See Source »

...Palos went down river to Shanghai early last spring for overhaul and since then has never gotten further up river than Ichang, although she has been badly needed on the upper stretch, and has made several attempts. Chungking residents have a popular ditty to the tune of "Parlez-vous," the two essential lines of which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 10, 1927 | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

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