LEN JACKSON

Evening Star, Issue 19894, 16 June 1928, Page 18

LEN JACKSON

NOTED ENGLISH COMEDIAN Though but thirty years of ago, Len Jackson, the noted English comedian, who is at present engaged at the Dunedin centre of the Fuller circuit, is a veteran in stage experience. One of the most popular figures in the English music halls for several years past, h© was seen in the highly suocessrtil revue, ‘ Miss 1928,’ in London by Mr John Fuller, who immediately booked him for a tour of Australia and New Zealand under the firm’s banner. _ After a long period of active service in the Great War (he was the youngest English performer possessing the Mens medal) ? Len Jackson found his metier in variety entertainment. For years he enjoyed success after success, and the name of Len Jackson became synonymous with th very best in English vaudeville. The public, always the soundest of critics, established him as a firm favourite, and in all the principal music halls of the British Isles ho was always sure of a warm welcome. He was associated with many notable English producers in a series of big shows in London, and played principal parts in very successful seasons at the Palladium and the Alhambra. Mr Jackson is at his best in sketches of English life. Many of his sketches have been written entirely by himself. They have been taken from life, the results of a keen study of human nature and an intimate knotvlodge of social conditions. A ■ keen student of audiences, Mr Jackson has always catered to their tastes to a remarkable degree. Although ho has been in Dunedin only a short time, he considers local audiences to bo critical and appreciative of the subtle in-comedy, in preference to "slapstick.” New Zealand audiences are very much the same as those at Home. Mr Jackson says that the dominion and its people bring; vivid recollections of England back to him. Mr Jackson and his wife (Miss Jenny Russell) intend visiting the United States when their present contract with the Fuller firm has ©spired.