PROMOTED
ROMOTED since he was last heard from commercial stations as Officer Crosby, the genial policeman at right is now principal player of Sergeant Crosby, a feature currently playing from 3ZB, 4ZB and 2XA, and soon to start from 2ZA. In real life he is Marshall Crosby, an actor with a lifetime of vaudeville and musical comedy work behind him. Crosby first "broke into radio" when 2SM, Sydney, gave him a job as announcer. "I was the most colossal failure that ever tried to be an announcer," he says. "Everyone offered a happy thanksgiving when I went back to the stage." Later auditioned for production work by the Australian Broadcasting Commission, Crosby was more successful. He has now forsaken the stage entirely for radio. In Sergeant Crosby the old vaudeville hand administers the law from the smalltown police station at Leasville. With an inexperienced assistant, Constable Magley, he deals with t!.e problems and peccadilloes of such Leasville characters as the snooty Mrs. Ponsonby Brown, the grasping shopkeeper, Candale, the local medico, Dr. Sackyale, and a young newspaper reporter, Julian Porter, Because of his long seryice to the community, Crosby has the confidence of most of Leasyville, but there are a few who would like to see a stricter interpretation of regulations. The good sergeant is anything but orthodox in the methods by which he assists his fellow citizens. Each episode of Sergeant Croshy is a complete adventure in itself, but through them
all run the humanity and humour of the sergeant and the intimate flavour of small towns anywhere. Listeners will get to know the principal features of Leasville-its busy market day on High Street, its hotel, the Victoria Lodge, its newspaper, The Gazette, and the neighbouring towns of Parkhurst and Renborough. Sergeant Crosby plays from 3ZB on Saturdays at 5.30 p.m., and from 4ZB_ on Mondays at 7.45 p.m. It begins from_ 2ZA oan Tuesday, March 31, at 10.15 p.m. and will be heard on Tuesdays and Thursdays thereafter,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 713, 13 March 1953, Page 15
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330PROMOTED New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 713, 13 March 1953, Page 15
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