DID HOT FORGET HITLER

Evening Star, Issue 23451, 16 December 1939, Page 4

DID HOT FORGET HITLER

GMCIE FIELDS IN FONM Grade Fields did not forget Hitler during her first half-hour broadcast after her illness. She honoured him in a ballad about the Aspidistra. She came on the air jn the terriffic good form we know of old (writes Seton Margrave in the ‘ Daily Mail ’). _ She Sang without a tretphr oi uncertainty, as if She had never been ill, ahd in a hundred moods known to her million fans —gay and serious, mocking and boisterous* proud and humble, dreaniy and intimate. Gracie started right away by buttonholing her audience in her old confidential style, and hardly waiting for John Watt to announce the numbers. First she sang ‘ Over tho Rainbow.’ Then she gave an eccentric number in her croaking, joking, squealing, and chortling manner. Next a romantic song trilling along on her well-known high violin-like notes. She joked With Louis Levy, “ gagged ” the revue chorus, and said, “ Come on, everybody—you’ve got to help me out of this.” It was a variety show of all the Gracies we have ever heard. At the end of her broadcast she turned to her excited audience and said, “ Thank you very much. I’m not ’arf ’ot. Now I’m going to cool off a bit.” And so the best broadcast tho 8.8. C. have given us—well, it seems for years—came to an end. It was Gracie revived and on top of the world. / The newest ailment diagnosed has been named Daventry ear.