Word: simon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Love and Hisses (Twentieth Century-Fox). What makes this latest Walter Winchell-Ben Bernie hurly-burly bearable is that whenever the Broadway gossip and the band leader rest from their mutual belaboring, pretty, pouting Simone Simon surprises everybody by singing pleasingly in a muted, engagingly unprofessional soprano. As a Bernie find whom Winchell, sight unseen, has slurred in a radio broadcast, she changes her name to Yvette Yvette, warms up on the less fluty flights of Lakme's Bell Song, proceeds through Gordon & Revel's Sweet Someone and a repertory that finally forces Winchell to eat his unsavory...
...Love and Hisses" introduces Simone Simon as a vocalist. She sings a thin, pleasing coloratura that will never become particularly popular, partially because she cannot hope to vie with her compatriot, Lily Pons, in this type of singing, partially because the public prefers the more throaty strains of Alice Faye...
...SIMON OTTINGER...
...WORLD-Ernest Dimnet- Simon & Schuster...
Great sport was made in the House of Commons last week by humorist A. P. Herbert, M. P. of the Population Bill introduced by Minister of Health Sir Kingsley Wood. According to Sir Kingsley, one of the "Big Six" of the Cabinet (Chamberlain, Hoare, Simon, Hailsham, Inskip & Wood), the United Kingdom is ceasing at such an alarming rate to bear children that its population will have dropped from 44,000,000 to 5,000,000 in 100 years...