PERSONALITY PARADE : NO 12.
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# he was born in l£o9 at herbort, north otagd, and educated in now Zealand’s centre of culture, christchurohj worked ,as an engineer repairing bull dozers and the like, then changed bis job and became a motion picture projectionist, the host picture he remembers showing was ,l lives of a bengal lancer •* * * when i interviewed him in the services lines ho blinked at mo, his pipe in Us mouth* he gave me the history of his own and other peoples’ families, told me how to cook ants and spiders and cure rheumatics. unfortunately ho didnt tell me how to keep out of the army, it was rot till i sat down to write that i discovered 1 had got little relative information from him. * * * during the projectionist period of his life he had many oxciting experiences. ( no he told no ) including the incident which happened before the perfecting of sound * synchronisation, they were featuring R feeding time at tho zoo and loves sacrifice on the same programsa? the former gave dxhibitlons of the noise animals make when being fed, the latter contained a good deal of tho noise lovers make during a passionate embrace. tho records were mixed ( by.mistake i hope ) sc that when the keeper poked half a sheep into tho lion’s cage, it whispered n its too much darling, and in any case you cant leave me in thia condition 8 * * * he likes ronald ooloman’e acting almost as much as jeanette macdonald's figure -or was it voice ?***•” but i said, • you haven t mentioned that famous oanadiol tfbugh mixture your grandparents patented* there must ba large profits in that «* * * c honestly i dont get a cent out ©fit he answered me. ♦ ♦ * he didn’t think he had Buckley’s chance of getting into the. personality page bu some of those whose lives he endangered at waiouru thought otherwise, at that time, they considered him public enemy ici’.t.
# wo had to leave our n clean old wan bohlnd* in our abconce ho is settling down to smoke bis four hundred yards of cigarettes* for. forit gcorgo.
$ M bunny " aponcor too, was left to hie own doviceo. haw are they getting along* M bunny n ?
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Dozerdust, Volume 1, Issue 14, 13 September 1943, Page 3
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