WEDNESDAY NIGHT VARIETY
] ET’S GET ON WITH IT is the intriguing title of a new series of light comedy-with-songs programmes by the popular. British comedienne, Jenny Howard. When Miss Howard takes the air at 9.15 p.m. on Wednesday, August 1, from all YA stations and 3YZ, listeners can hardly fail to recall another Lancashire lass-the girl from Rochdale, Gracie Fields. Broad comedy in a robust accent that packs a wallop like a mill girl’s clog is Jenny’s line, and one which has made her extremely popular in variety shows throughout Australia for many years past. She has visited New Zealand before, and this time is touring with the Peep Show company. Listeners will hear her sing such eminently moral songs of near escapes from disaster as "Shall I Be an Old Man’s Darling or a Young Man’s Slave?" "Oh, la la!" and "Fred Fanakapan." Following Jenny Howard at 9.30 p.m., same stations, same day, comes Enso Toppano, the Italian orchestral conductor and piano accordion soloist with the Thanks for the Memory variety company. Enso is a sound musician generally, as well as being a front-rank per-
former on his chosen instrument. Both he and his even more famous brother, Lou Toppano, have made many gramophone recordings of the popular piano — accordion repertoire,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 886, 27 July 1956, Page 15
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212WEDNESDAY NIGHT VARIETY New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 886, 27 July 1956, Page 15
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