Dual Personality Man
\WELLINGTON has a dual personality man. During the daytime he performs the most delicate operations on the innards of watches. At night he casts aside
the austerity of his trade and sneaks into the dance halls, the concert cham-bers-any place where the lights of gaiety are gleaming. Yes, this is Henry Rudolph, the daytime watchmaker and the night-time musician and comedian. He’s been at it twenty years or more, and now is doing fine work as the leader of big concert parties visiting the camps. Because Henry plays a few dozen instruments and plays them all well, because he sings and yodels, he is a warm favourite with soldiers. The secret of Henry’s art is that he throws himself with unbounded glee into all his concert numbers. "Laughing Policeman," for example, would wreck the solemnity of a secret session of the Gestapo. There is indeed a third side to Henry -his organising ability. He composes music, re-arranges and re-sets old and new melodies, instructs chorus singers and soloists, and is the keenest seeker and creator of novelty effects. He can swing melodies on the big wurlitzer just as efficiently as he can play a wedding or funeral march on the grand organ.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 197, 2 April 1943, Page 7
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205Dual Personality Man New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 197, 2 April 1943, Page 7
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