SIR HARRY LAUDER.
JOINING J?RED ASTAIRE? IN A WODEHOUSE FARCE. Sir Harry Lauder, now in Hollywood, Is being negotiated by R.K.0., for a part with Fred Astaire, in the film version of Wodehouse’s 44 Damsel in Distress,” but he has not yet succumbed. Though he rejected a big offer to sing for ten minutes on the radio, he sang free of charge to please an old friend in the south, one Captain George Hill, who was chief of police at Kilmarnock when Sir Harry was working for thirty-six shillings a week as a clerk.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20254, 24 July 1937, Page 17 (Supplement)
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94SIR HARRY LAUDER. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20254, 24 July 1937, Page 17 (Supplement)
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