KEEPING THEIR SPIRITS UP
Work Of The Kiwi Concert Party
LMOST anywhere in the Middle East you may see Army trucks halt and set down, not a nest of guns, nor a store of ammunition, but a concert stage, a set of instruments, and a whole band of travelling players. For that is how New Zealand’s Kiwi Concert Party travels about in the battle areas with its message of music and mirth for the troops. One member of the party who has just been invalided back to New Zealand after nearly two
years away is Max Roland, well known as a member of the Roland Family Sextette. He has already been heard with his violin at 3ZB, and will be on the-air again at 7.15 p.m. this Sunday, September 27. He brings back news of the service that the Kiwi Concert Party is doing in keeping up the spirits of the troops at the battlefront, The National Patriotic Fund Board has sponsored the concert party and provided its instruments, There are 35 men in the unit, including some who. were well known back here in New Zealand. Their officer-in-charge and producer is Lieutenant Fred McCallum, who was active in the repertory theatre movement in Auckland, and was. for a time manager of the Regent Theatre, Wellington. Another aftist is Terry Vaughan, of Christchurch. The men are trained as‘a fighting unit, and may be sent into action at any time, but their chief occupation is the entertainment of the troops. They have appeared before large audiences at times, and Max Roland also spent a large part of his leave taking his violin to hospitals and dugouts. Now that he is back, Max will continue his musical work. He is also making an appeal for copies of short plays, sketches and musical scores for the use of the Kiwi Concert Party. These may be sent to 3ZB, from where they wim pe tor- | warded to the Middle East, ©. meet '
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 170, 25 September 1942, Page 5
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