and his Band in ' Rhythm on Parade '
Tommy Kinsman was born in Liver-pool. At the age of thirteen he was working in a cinema as a page-boy, and was then promoted to cinema operator. Two thousand feet of film were burnt in an accident, so he decided to join the Mercantile Marine. During the last war he sailed regularly between England and America, and it was over there that he became interested in the new American jazz. In 1927 he formed his own dance band and he gave his first broadcast in 1935.