REFORMATION OF COMEDIAN
AUDIENCE MYSTIFIED CAPETOWN. September 19. George Lacy, the comedian in the revue, “Merrily We Go.” when called before the footlights to say farewell,! astonished a packed house by saying: I “I have found myself. I wasn’t a very] good' ‘bloke,’ but I think I’ ma better! ‘bloko’ now. 1 have found God.” | The audience was mystified, but ! Lacy.proceeded to relate that he had ! joined the Oxford Group, which is i holding a world congress at Bloom- ! font ein. "I was drunk every night for] three years.” he said later. “1 am di-1 vorced. I will carry out the Group’s . principles on the stage, and 1 think 1 can get laughs without being | risque.” .'
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Greymouth Evening Star, 1 October 1937, Page 12
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