THE VOICE FROM ELLIS ISLAND
ELL, this is it; we've heard the Hedda Hopper of the microphone. Anna ~ Russell has left a trail of red faces and tingling ears round the world, tilting at the musicelly pretentious, wickedly parodying every style of singing from Wagnerian music-drama to folk song. After a distinguished career as leading soprano of the Ellis Island Opera Company she knows her music, inside out as it were, and gets away with murder in burlesque, Nothing escapes’ her shafts, some heavy, some light, and at times she scores heavily. Take this one: "For the tone-deaf singer contemporary music is the thing . . . the further off key she sings the more contemporary it sounds.’ No one escapes; Dinah Shore and Isobel Baillie are on the same end of the lash as Lily Pons and Joan Hammond in a series of riotous sketches. Aw, what the heck, to quote Madame
i Russell, This is the best thing since Alec Templeton.
D.J.C.
M.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 729, 3 July 1953, Page 10
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200THE VOICE FROM ELLIS ISLAND New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 729, 3 July 1953, Page 10
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