Bernie has sent me a little more documentation about Ruby's earlier days as a singer: images of the programme for the Grand Farewell concert on May 3, 1949, and of an advert. for another Variety Show at about the same time.
Of course, I especially appreciate these images because they add to my earlier story about Ruby & Larry Peters.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/rlortie001/COI ... yShows.doc
Thanks again, Bernie.
Ralph
My story about Ruby and Larry Peters (Jim McGarry)
My story about Ruby and Larry Peters (Jim McGarry)
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Re: My story
Post fixed. The problem was a space in the URL tags. (It's a bug in the phpBB software that I just reported.)
My apologies.
My apologies.
Clarification of date
Hi, everyone.
In the file to which I referred you in my first note on this topic, I said that we didn't know if the the Variety press clipping was from 1949 or the following year. To settle this matter, I found a website which provides calendars for years gone by, and saw that the Variety Show must have been in 1950.
Coincidentally, I found this out on Monday, May 1st, the same day & date as in the advert, 56 years after the show.
Please open that link again to see the amendments.
This material has also been added to my story on Jimmy McGarry (aka Larry Peters), now 2/3 down Page 6 of Topics.
Please click on link in second-last message.
Best wishes. Ralph
In the file to which I referred you in my first note on this topic, I said that we didn't know if the the Variety press clipping was from 1949 or the following year. To settle this matter, I found a website which provides calendars for years gone by, and saw that the Variety Show must have been in 1950.
Coincidentally, I found this out on Monday, May 1st, the same day & date as in the advert, 56 years after the show.
Please open that link again to see the amendments.
This material has also been added to my story on Jimmy McGarry (aka Larry Peters), now 2/3 down Page 6 of Topics.
Please click on link in second-last message.
Best wishes. Ralph