POPULAR COMEDIAN

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 335, 16 January 1937, Page 4

POPULAR COMEDIAN

Who Is a Pharmaceutical Chemist. Calm and somewhat blase, betraying little of the droll characteristics which have made him a favourite in Australia in his capacity as radio and stage comedian Mr. Vincent Ryan, who appears at the Stratford Town Hall to-night with Senia Chostiakoff, strolled into the “Central Press” office this afternoon.

Enjoying a record run In New Zealand and with a packed house to look forward to this evening Mr. Ryan seemed to be feeling little of the strain usually associated with the theatrical profession. Even if audiences were to turn fickle and cense to take pleasure at his turns Mr. Ryan would be little worried for he holds his M.P. S. and Ph.C. qualifications. *

This means that the Sydney University is satisfied with the way he has carried out his three year’s course there and considers him a qualified pharmaceutical chemist. He went through this training in order to have something to fall back on, Mr. Ryan told us. The theatre was in his blood, however, and as soon as possible he was right into it, not that he was born in a theatrical family. On the contrary, his family living in the land of the surf at Bondi, are to uspi his own words, “Just the opposite.’’