Recorded Personalities In Caricature (2)
WHO IS HE? At the age ot sight he made his first appearance on the professional stage in pantomime at Adelaide. Then he went with his mother to Sydney. Here he got engagements to sing at concerts. He loved the iiddle, and had lessons. In those days he was known as "The Boy Tenor." The next step in his life was a contract to play boy’s parts in one of J. C. Williamson's companies. He appeared in " Hullo Everybody," and in " Maytime," and went with the company to Melbourne. There he stayed four and a-half years. Then he joined "The Diggers," run by Pat Hanna. They put up a record when they played eighteen months in Brisbane. He remained with them for three and a-half years. and was still only seventeen. Then he realised his ambition, went to England, had at first what he called "a tough break," then, slowly, came ‘a change in fortune, until now he has his own band and is one of the most popular light singers of the day. Who is he?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 30, 19 January 1940, Page 23
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