Recorded Personalities In Caricature (9)
WHO IS HE?-Had he been a couple of stones lighter we should never have seen that amiable, rather shambling, wide mouthed figure on the screen, or heard his records on the air. When he was seven he was apprenticed to a racing stable. Up at the crack of dawn (who, by the way, ever heard the dawn crack?) taking the string out and across the moors, cleaning his horse down, and preparing the second string — it was hard . work. But. he put on weight, and by 1921 was too heavy to ride. That year his father, a famous comedian of the same name, died. The son was never allowed in the theatres where his father appeared. ("One fool in the tamily’s enough," he used to say). One day he saw on the stage at the Victoria Palace, London, a comedian working his father’s material. " Nay, dash it all, if he can get away with that, so can I," thought the.son, Taking courage in both hands he returned home, carefully studied his father’s gramophone records, went on the stage, and within eighteen months he was "topping the bill."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 37, 8 March 1940, Page 27
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