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Bert strings together some sketch jobs in NYC in 1905.
Bert is back after a bit of a Spring vacation. Let’s pick up on 1905 He has been in the US just under a year. He wrote in a 1912 biographical piece how he struggled in New York to get work as a sketch artist. Siegel Cooper and Co. Weber and Fields Music hall took…
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Goodbye Ginger Meggs..
Read about Jim Bancks story on Wikipedia below… https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/bancks-james-charles-jim-5119 NOW BERT’S CONNECTION ? In 1929, Bert is Dean of the Cartoonist Club in California and hosts fellow Aussie Jim Bancks at the Breakfast Club at Long Beach where members of the Cartoonist Club have gathered. See below Melbourne Herald article… Bancks wrote a piece titled…
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Happy New Year
“Shanah tovah” to you all. A day late but…. Regular reader and first responder Howard sends his greetings to fellow readers of Bert Levy’s blog ‘Happy New Year to you and fellow conspirators. It is 5874 so keep on living a little longer. That year commences on 26/9/22 so honey cake for all of you.’
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King sends condolences
Which King sent personal condolences to Bert & Harriet ? King George V, 1865-1936The grandson of Queen Victoria—and grandfather to Queen Elizabeth—George V was born third in the line of succession and did not expect to become king. That changed after his elder brother Prince Albert Victor died in 1892. George was also sometimes known as…
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Aussies in New York blizzard
From Left to Right, they are – Messrs- Phil Bracy was a stage manager for J.C Williamson in early 1900s. No photo yet found. Arthur Goldie – seemed to have worked in theatre in Melbourne and later managed troupes in China (1909) No photo yet found. Cecil Ward – Third from left standing. He was…
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Bert’s early work in the U.S attracts some local comment….
Bert falls back into some of his old satirical Bulletin style of sketches in early 1905 to make some money. This one published in New York Monthly magazine ‘The Judge’.
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Bert cracks Broadway Magazine February 1905
Reverting to a familiar ‘byline’, Bert secures a major piece in a New York monthly magazine..including photos, sketches and an extensive written piece of his first impressions of the Jewish way of life in America in 1904/05. Broadway Magazine was an illustrated magazine covering New York theater and culture from the 1898. Here is his piece…
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Bert’s ‘La Boheme’ moment !!!
Bert tells the Melbourne ‘Table Talk’ journo whose column was called the ‘The Interviewer’ the following account of his trip east in 1904.. ‘Having money in hand he travelled parlor-car, broke the journey here and there to go sightseeing, but had to stop at Chicago in order to obtain a little more work, and so…
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Bert’s arrival in New York.. 1904
Bert’s accounts on his arrival into NYC tend to vary according to whether he is writing it himself or telling to it to a journo… Here, he recounts once version of his arrival in New York 7 years later in the Lone Hand Theatre Magazine. He does acknowledge at the end of this bio piece,…
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