Failing as an eyelet boy in his father’s boot making business and then in his brother in law Pawn broking business, Simon Levy (Bert’s father) took a course of action that would finally recognise his son’s creative talent. We pick up again in Bert’s own biographical account in the Lone Hand Theatre Magazine of February 1912. To the one follower sceptical of this being a genuine name for Theatre Magazine here is the front cover of that edition –

Postscript – Bert would name his only son Alwyn ‘Gordon’ Levy.