“STREET SINGER’S RETURN”

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 11 September 1937, Page 14

“STREET SINGER’S RETURN”

j Arthur Tracy, who appears in the | new Associated British offering, “The Street Singer's Return,” is known by that title to millions of gramophone and radio enthusiasts. In this new production, Tracy appears as a famous singer, who is mistaken for a "Street Singer” by Jenny, : a beautiful but poor girl, who in real life is Margaret Lockwood, a talented I young British star. It is not generally known that Tracy : is a gifted linguist, and that whenever ; he sings in a foreign language, he is I hailed as a fellow-countryman b,v dozens of people who speak that lan- ! guage. so perfect is his accent. Actually he sings in a dozen different longues, which is clue to his natural (lair for languages, that lead him when a youth to take up the study of languages as a hobby. As a boy, his other interest was music, and the stage, which had such a great influence upon him that he was always waiting at threalre entrances to s'ee the players. At school nc organised a number of concerts, specialising in the classics II was during one of these concerts that a ! member of the famous theatrical firm of Shubert heard him, and signed him to appear in musical comedies for a period of eight years Thus the “Street Singer” became a I famous star.