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'Pleasure bound' revue, 1933

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'Pleasure bound' revue, 1933

This programme is for the revue 'Pleasure bound', at the Grand Opera House, Wellington, on Saturday 28 January 1933. The revue, which ran for a number of weeks, starred Ella Shields and George Wallace. Shields was an American vaudeville singer who made her name in London as a male impersonator. She was particularly famous for the song 'Burlington Bertie from Bow'. Wallace was a popular Australian comedian and tap dancer.

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Reference: Eph-A-VARIETY-1933-01-front

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Peter Clayworth, Weekends – Saturday – pay day, work day, half-holiday, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/ephemera/39786/pleasure-bound-revue-1933 (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Peter Clayworth, published 30 November 2012.