RECOVERED SIGHT
NOT WHOLLY A BLESSING
(By Trans-Tasman Air Mall, from "The Post's" Representative.) SYDNEY, August 10. Three years ago, Roy Kendrick, of Sydney, recovered his sight after ten years of blindness, but today, he says, he finds it easier to shave without a mirror and to play the piano with his eyes closed. Since he has been able to see again, his senses do not accept what his eyes tell him. He cannot distinguish the speed of motor-cars or how far they are from him. He is nervous of risks he had not known before. For three years he has tried in vain to adjust his regained sight to' his new life. "I have my sight now," he said, "but I am still a blind man."
Before Kendrick recovered his sight, he was known as the "Blind Entertainer," and earned his living on the stage, the lecture platform, and the radio. "Now I have lost my value as a blind entertainer," he said, "and I have no experience to qualify for any other job. I have discovered that sight, for me, is a handicap."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 39, 14 August 1940, Page 5
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185RECOVERED SIGHT Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 39, 14 August 1940, Page 5
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