(The Famous Diseuse)
In Songs from her Repertoire.
Relayed from the Arts Theatre Club.

The art of the "diseuse" is not one in which England excels; our own stage has produced no one who can hold an audience, alone, throughout a whole performance, with the sheer personality that she puts into her recitations and her songs, in the way that Ruth Draper has made famous in America and Yvette Guilbert in France. Tonight listeners will have a chance to hear the Parisian shopgirl of forty years ago, who has held two Continents spellbound by the magic of her voice and the eloquence of her hands - those black-gloved hands that Toulouse-Lautrec drew so wonderfully when Yvette Guilbert was the sensation of the artistic world of the "Yellow Book" days. They will not see the hands, but this evening's broadcast from the Arts Theatre Club will be for many a unique and invaluable opportunity of hearing one of the really great artists of our time.