A Popular Tenor

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 35, 15 March 1929, Page 8

A Popular Tenor

‘HAT popular tenor soloist, Mr. Herbert F. Wood (of the De Luxe Theatre), has been engaged for concert work at 2YA on March 25. It is rather interesting to record that Mr. Wood was the first artist to sing by wireless in Australasia, as he was associated with the first demonstration of sound

‘ amplification on April 7, 1922. "Tony" Wood (as he is familiarly known) has sung in nearly every theatre of New Zealand and Australia, As an interpreter of Gilbert and Sullivan, the late Tom Pollard paid the highest possible tribute to Mr. Wood. Who hasn’t heard him sing "Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes," "A Wand’ring Minstrel," "I Love You in Velvet," etc? A few seasons back he was engaged to sing in

Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide, and so successful was his appearance that the Melbourne "Punch" wrote: ‘"Herbert F. Wood is one of the finest tenors in Australasia, we welcome him, New Zealand may well be proud of him." His services are in constant demand in Wellington, and at the Sunday. band concerts held last year the audience would not let him off the stage until he had sung five or six times.