No Choice - My Life in Vaudeville and Variety Around New Zealand

Hodder and Stoughton, 1980. Reasonable second-hand condition.

Eddie Hegan writes of show-business during the twenties, thirties and forties, his experiences with touring vaudeville and variety shows, the early days of radio, the entertainment troupes of the war and immediate post-war years.

No Choice brings to life the times when radio was little more than a gimmick and television was far in the future, and Hegan?s descriptions of the small towns of New Zealand during his many tours of them, and the characters who peopled them and their way of life, make fascinating reading.