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NE. of the brightest spots in the week’s broadcasts was the entertainment of ex-servicemen (and of course, of anyone else who might be listening), per medium of the Diggers’ Session from 4ZB, by members of the Tivoli Circuit vaudeville show. It might be said that in order to enjoy the revue or vaudeville type of programme you have to see as well as hear, but this certainly is not the case with Jenny Howard; although her act may owe much to her personality, it loses none of its vivacity on the radio. Comparisons are odious, and it may well be that Miss Howard is tired of being compared with Gracie Fields, but any comedienne who includes
a Lancashire accent in her songs can scarcely help courting such comparisons, Anyone who can put across, as Miss Howard does, a perfect reproduction of Gracie singing "Sally," possesses the art of mimicry to a nice degree of perfection; but such numbers as "I Never Cried So Much" are rendered with the full force of Miss Howard’s own rich interpretative personality, and the impact of her talent is at once obvious. The gusto of her performance, and the fact that she enjoys every minute of it, are factors in her immediate success with both stage and radio audiences.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 417, 20 June 1947, Page 10
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216With Gusto New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 417, 20 June 1947, Page 10
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