Recorded Personalities In Caricature (19)
WHO ARE THEY?-Their clever fooling ‘has made millions laugh, and they owe their world fame entirely to broadcasting. Prior to their first engagement by the BBC it is said that they were not professionals, but. merely gave occasional "patter turns’ at smoke concerts and similar functions. The day after their first broadcast they were famous. The lightweight of the team was trained for law, became a _ barrister’s clerk, then a Tommy in the London Regiment in‘1914. He played straight parts in a wartime concert party-and incredible though it sounds to-day, no one thought he was funny! The heavyweight was the son of a Moore and Burgess minstrel. After leaving school he spent his. pocket money on singing lessons. He, too, went to the war, but the trenches sent him back with a weak heart
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 47, 17 May 1940, Page 27
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