These Took "The Final Curtain"
ORLD famous celebrities whose \X/ deaths occurred during 1941 are honoured in two programmes entitled The Final Curtain, which will be heard from the ZB stations during the next few weeks. The first, which will start its round at 4ZB on Sunday, December 7, covers the first three months of the year, and commemotates Mischa Levitski, Lord BadenPowell, Frank G. Bridge, Dr. William
Wallace, " Banjo" Patterson, Sir Hamilton Harty, Arthur Penn, and Sir Henry Walford Davies. The second programme, which will be heard first from 4ZB on Sunday, December 14, features recordings by Ken Johnson and Al Bowlly, both victims of the Nazi bombing of London; Henry Burr, veteran recording artist; Paderewski, greatest pianist of his generation; John Coates, one of the finest tenors England
has yet produced; and Alfredo, the "vagabond violinist." In both programmes tributes are paid to other celebrities who died' in 1941 but who are not represented on records. These include Julius Knight, Hugh J. Ward, and Alfred Frith, all well known to theatregoers in Australia and New Zealand; Horace Sheldon, conductor of the London Palladium Orchestra; and Clifford Grey, author of many successful plays on the London and New York stage.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 128, 5 December 1941, Page 8
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201These Took "The Final Curtain" New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 128, 5 December 1941, Page 8
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