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ERRATUM – a typo – ‘Mrs Hardy’ was married to Harold John Hardy (I inadvertently reversed the given names in the above). Hardy was prominent in tunny fishing out of Scarborough; and was admonished by the judge (see above) to do less of that and spend more time with his wife!

The tale is told that a meeting of the leading record companies was held in the USA in the 1950s. The Americans had independently developed a stereo technology with the two channels on the two groove walls, each cut at 45-degrees to the vertical and phased so the lateral motion summed as mono, and anticipated imposing a lucrative licencing system…[Read more]

Cyril Newton had three sons, not one. This information is in my 2015 biography of Newton printed in Memory Lane magazine (issue 189, Winter 2015, page 43). The primary sources are public official genealogical records and the Manifest of Alien Passengers on the SS American Merchant which departed London on 27 October 1933 and arrived New York on…[Read more]

The ‘World of Motion’ movie-theatre was in Fort Edward in upstate New York, not far from Glen Falls where Newton performed at the Bijou movie-theatre. It was not in Fort Edward Nova Scotia. This information is in my 2015 biography of Newton printed in Memory Lane magazine (issue 189, Winter 2015, page 39) and the source is a newspaper report in…[Read more]