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MAURICE TOUBAS
Violin and Saw Solos, by permission of the Kit-Cat Restaurant
ALBERT WHELAN
The Australian Entertainer
BETTY BLACKBURN
Entertainer
GEORGE PIZZEY
Singing Compere
PATRICIA ROSSBOROUGH and IVOR DENNIS and Two Pianos
DORA MAUGHAN and WALTER FEHL
In Songs and Surprises
RUPERT HAZEL and ELSIE DAY
(' Harmonylarity ')
GRACIB FIELDS
(Comedienne)
JACK PAYNE and his B.B.C. DANCE ORCHESTRA

The career of Captain Kidd is among the great romances (if the term is not too elastically used here) in pirate literature. In 1695, we are told, he came to London with a sloop of his own to trade. Such was his respectability that he was recommended as fit to command a vessel sent to cruise the Eastern seas against pirates. With the King's commission in his pocket he sailed from Plymouth and, in 1697, reached Madagascar where, instead of hunting the pirates down, he consorted with them. Such was the fall of Captain Kidd. Two years later he was arrested and found guilty of murder and hanged. So strange a story makes a grand conclusion to this exciting series about those rogues who, for all their atrocities, still appeal to the simple man in all of us.

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