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Kōrero: Weekends

'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.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library

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

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Peter Clayworth, Weekends – Saturday – pay day, work day, half-holiday, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/ephemera/39786/pleasure-bound-revue-1933 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Peter Clayworth, i tāngia i te 30 November 2012.