Author: LEWIS, CARROLL
Title: A Showman Goes East
Description: London: MacDonald & Co, 1944. Ninth Printing. Ex-Libris; B & W ; 5 1/4 x 7 1/2; 223 pages; Hard cover is yellow with red lettering on spine. Light rubbing, scuffing, bumping to covers. Previous owner's bookplate on front end paper. DJ has light rubbing, sunning, bumping, shelf wear; in a mylar cover. B/w frontispiece. Pages are clean and tight. 'Carroll Richard Levis (1910 – 1968) was a Canadian talent scout, impresario and radio and television broadcaster, mainly working in Britain. In 1935, he decided to move to England. He met radio producer Eric Maschwitz, and they developed a tour of British cities to find new talent. His touring stage shows attracted thousands of applicants from potential performers, as well as large theatre audiences, and his first radio shows, Carroll Levis and his Discoveries, were broadcast in September 1936. The Radio Times reported the following year that "in the last two years [he] has heard thirty thousand people. Of the amateur acts he has introduced, forty-five have turned professional. Not one of them is earning less than £5 a week, and one is getting as much as £25.". Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .

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