BUSY BRADMAN.
STILL MAKING RECORDS.
(Received 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, September 18.
Don Bradman, the Australian batsman, free from the cares of cricket, surprised the Columbia Gramophone Company by arriving at the Petty France studios with a music case. Ho ' announced that he proposed to a pianoforte danco record, and forthwith sat down at the piano and made a highly successful record from an improvisation of two popular tunes, "An Old-Fashioned L.pcket" and "Our Bungalow of Dreams." \ v.. -
This was not precisely what the company expected, so Bradmari was asked to say something about cricket. He again gat down and wrote a brief talk upon the game, which he spoke, completing the record in five minutes. Bradman then hurried to Thurston's to see Walter Lindrum playing Falkiner at billiards. The greetings between the two Australians ran:— . v "Hullo, Walter." "Hullo, Don. I was just too late to see you. bat." ( "Well," Don replied, "I'm finishing as jou are. beginning hqre."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 222, 19 September 1930, Page 7
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