Kiwi Concert Party's Record
MELBOURNE, June 30. It is estimajted that more than .500,00.0 people have now seen the Kiwi .Coii.'ert Party at the . Comedy Thoatre, Meibourne. This all-New Zealand exservicemen 's sho w has broken all Aus^raiian and New Zealand iong per^ormance reeords with more than 600 .ippearances in a.n unbroken period of i.8 months. The previogs record was also held oy a company of New Zealand • ex-ser-vicemen — Pat Hanna's "Diggers," who ih 1924-25 ran for 480 nights at the Cremorne Theatre, " Brisbane; The Kiwis say that they are nowhere near the end of their run and are contemplating adding another programme to their repertoire. A cemarkable feature of this feat is that it has been aecomplished in a city of just a ittle more than 1,000,000 people. Recently, Mr. Hanna presented Mr. Terry Vaughan, the producer of the Kiwis, with'a' 'sc'rool ' in aeknowledginent of the fact that his long-stahdihg record had been eelipsed.
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Chronicle (Levin), 1 July 1948, Page 3
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155Kiwi Concert Party's Record Chronicle (Levin), 1 July 1948, Page 3
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