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IT HAPPENED TO ME WAS sitting in my flat, next to a theatre, one quiet Saturday afternoon, reading. There was an imperative knock on the door. "Come downstairs with me as quickly as you can; I’ll explain as we go." My visitor was the theatre manager, who seemed upset. He hustled me into the orchestral well, seated me at the piano and said: "As soon as you get the tip from meTl be in the right-hand wings — play the National Anthem." — >
eee On the stage Count Graf Von Luckner was nearing the end of the first talk in his lecture season, Down came the manager’s handkerchief, and I crashed out the anthem. The audience sang lustily, and the Count added his bass. ‘ "Thanks a lot, old man," said the manager, wiping his brow. "We had rigged up a sound system for the playing of the anthem but something went wrong." There was a bright sequel. I was instructed to call at the box office of the theatre where I was handed 5/9, union rates, as a casual, for my brief performance. Accompanying the fee were: two seats for the next lecture and an autographed photograph of the notorious count, whose later movements so many of us would like to know, Z
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 297, 2 March 1945, Page 7
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213SIMPLE STORY New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 297, 2 March 1945, Page 7
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