“VERA LYNN SHOW"

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30054, 12 February 1963, Page 11

“VERA LYNN SHOW"

Red Moore In Group

A variety programme called the “Vera Lynn Show” featuring the singer whose wartime songs and performances for troops earned her the title of “Sweetheart of the Forces,” will be presented in the Majestic Theatre from Friday until Tuesday, with an early evening performance on Tuesday. Vera Lynn was bom in London and began singing at the age of seven. She first broadcast with Joe Loss’s orchestra and was later associated with Charlie Kunz and Ambrose. She has frequently appeared at the Palladium and the Adelphi in London. In 1944 Verr Lynn went to Burma where she gave performances for the troops and then retired, returning to show business in 1951. A second member of the party making a first visit to New Zealand is the trumpeter, Eddie Calvert, Also in the party is Red Moore, formerly of Christchurch, and a former member of “The Kiwis,” the group which played for Allied Forces in the Middle East and Italy, and which, after the war, had a run of more than two years at the Comedy Theatre in Melbourne.

Red Moore began as an impersonator. He is a singer, a satirist, and a compere. After the Australian shows he went with the Marx Brothers to the United States and Canada.