Recherche dans la collection - Kitty Marks, Madie Kenny and Dumbells

SHAW, Grace Lydiatt

1987-0416

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Grace Lydiatt Shaw (Interviewer)

interviewer, Grace Lydiatt Shaw

This is a worktape used in the preparation of the CBC Radio series Canadian Theatre Fact and Fancy, in which various interviews have been collected into descriptive segments, and supplemented with sound effects. Kitty Marks is one of the speakers, and she talks of the Marks travelling show. Other speakers on the tape may be Madie Kenny and Les Appleby, speaking of the conditions in which they worked during the early days of Canadian professional theatre. The recording concludes with an extract about the Dumbells. Jack Ayre, Ted Charter, Bill Tenant, Ross Hamilton, Al Plunkett, Bertrand Langly, Jerry Brayford, Bill Redpath and Jock McCormick are all mentioned. Anecdotes concerning Hamilton's first female impersonator's dress are told, and four Dumbells songs are included.

English

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MSS 25997

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