HARRIS COMING
Rolf Harris, inventor of the wobble board, will hitch up his kangaroo next Monday and bound in to the Majestic Theatre to present the Rolf Harris Show—on a tour which has taken him to all the major Australian cities and will take him to Canada before be returns to England. The son of a Welsh migrant couple, Rolf Harris was born in Perth and trained there as a schoolteacher. He was active in local theatre and radio, and won an Australia-wide amateur radio talent contest. When he went to England, it was not as an entertainer but as a student at an art school—where he met, and married in 1958. a Welsh sculptor. He worked in a London night club and made television appearances to pay for bis art studies, and by 1960, when he recorded “Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport,” he was firmly established as a television comedian. Since then he has had his own radio shows, represented his country at Expo 67 in Montreal, and been signed by the 8.8. C. for three Saturday-evening television series. The first series ended a year ago with a peak audience of 15j million.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31678, 14 May 1968, Page 9
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