HOMESICK
DARKIE BANDSMAN STRANDED IN AUCKLAND “Back home in Tennessee, Just try to picture me ’’ Clifford Duncan may not come from Tennessee, but that small detail does not alter the fact that for the next few weeks he will be singing to himself those words —or something like them. A past master of syncopation, “Darkie” Duncan came to New Zealand all the way from U.S.A. a few month ago, with the Ferris Jazz Band Revue Co. The company eventually dissolved into thin air and Duncan was left sitting on an Auckland doorstep, cold, hungry and broke. It was thus the police found him. When the “darkie” bandsman reappeared in the Police Court this morning, after a week’s remand on a charge of having insufficient lawful means of support, it was said that his passage to ’Frisco was all arranged and that he would leave Wellington to-morrow week. “You go away back,” was Mr. Hunt’s advice, and Duncan is only too anxious to take it. Imagine him thinking to himself as he stepped out of the dock: “They’ll be right there to meet me, Just imagine how they’ll greet me, When I get back ’’
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 22, 18 April 1927, Page 5
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