London Boy Crooner Gains Fame Overnight
GAINS FAME OVERNIGHT. LONDON, March 12. Freddie Young, 17-year-old son of a London bricklayer, who two years ago walked into stardom in a night, is back on the street corners. Two years ago his gilts as a crooner were discovered. He broadcast, appeared in a film, had a West End stage engagement, toured with famous dance bands, and sang in cabarets. In the new London Faladium production, “All Alight at Oxford Circus,” he was the success of the night. In South-Western Police Court this week he told his story: “I was in the limelight for just a season, riding about in big cars, meeting big people, going all over the country. Soon I forgot what it means to feel hungry and cold. Just when I thought I was made for good, agents quarrelled over me. I was back at the street corners. Now nobody takes any notice of me. Stars who used to call me ‘Freddie’ have never answered my letters.” Freddie was fined 40s for street betting.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 82, 7 April 1938, Page 2
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