JEAN SABLON
Sir,-I think that your commentator in Radio Viewsreel on page 19 of your issue for January 24 has been more than unfair to the French singer Jean Sablon. The unfairness would appear to spring from ignorance. Your commentator implies that Sablon is a crooner of post-war growth, Sablon was. immensely popular on the Continent before the war and his ree cords were best-sellers both there and in the United Kingdom, His present visit to America is due to his popularity with G.I.’s who heard him in Paris and preferred his light-hearted Gallic interpretations of popular songs to the saccharine brayings of their native-born artists. I would refer your commentator to an article on Sablon in Newsweek, September 2, 1946, and the picture of him reproduced there also shows that his eyebrows are no cuter than those of other mortals. Other appreciative articles on Sablon have also appeared in The New Yorker and Time.
J'ATTENDRAI
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 400, 21 February 1947, Page 5
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157JEAN SABLON New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 400, 21 February 1947, Page 5
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