Recorded Personalities In Caricature (6)
WHO IS HE?-WNo one would think from hearing one of his many delightful piano records that he was once a church organist in America. He lost this job because he extemporised on the organ, using modern harmonies. At fourteen he organised a local dance band of his school mates, then he made munitions during the war, and damaged two fingers. He has, in fact, been actively associated with the piano ever since he was five years old. If he didn’t practice, his father whacked him — so he became a good piano player. At the age of six he was playing at local and school concerts. He was a celebrity then, and he has been one ever since. Twenty years in England hasn't robbed him of his American accent. He is "very much married" to an English girl, and he has two strapping sons. He just can’t make a fuss over himself. He likes people who treat him as they treat their own friends. He does not like people who keep mumuring, "Oh, you’re so wonderful, I always listen to you over the radio." It’s certain that the Duke of Kent refrains from such fulsome flattery: they happen to be very good friends.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 34, 16 February 1940, Page 19
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207Recorded Personalities In Caricature (6) New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 34, 16 February 1940, Page 19
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