Musical Len.

NZ Truth, Issue 1145, 10 November 1927, Page 6

Musical Len.

THERE is nothing bizarre about 1 Leonard C. Barnes, of Wellington. His friends and acquaintances will tell you he is the best vocalist m the city, but you will get no such extrava^ gant claim ' out of Len himself. . He will tell you m an off-hand apologetic sort of way that he sings a bit, ■' ■ ; After he left Christ's College m the southern city, Len 'came to Wellington: and' took on a Government job, but it did not fit m altogether with his scheme of things and he drifted into the motion-picture game! • Even then he was not satisfied and at last turned his attention toward cultivating the gift nature had given him — his voice, for as a boy he used to warble and carol m the .Cathedral choir m his home town. L.C.B. is a bit of a globe-trotter, but he sailed for America and England with a set purpose— whither he went to study. Later he returned to the land of his birth and from one end of the country to the other has appeared m opera, both grand and comic. A truly; cosmopolitan type, with a ready hand-shake, no doubt you will have heard him over the air from Wellington's 2Y;A. with the Orpheus Quartet. : ,