Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Saturday 4 October 1952, page 12


"SMOKY'S" BACK

FROM USA.

IF Shakespeare writhed in his

grave when Cole Porter turned "The Taming of the Shrew" into a musical ("Kiss Me Kate"), what would he have done if he had learned that an Australian cowboy had played Petruchio?

Smoky Dawson, cowboy folk-singer, took the role in i New Jersey stage version of "Kate" during his recent year-long tour of the United States.

Back in Australia again, he will begin a new series of his "Smoky Dawson Enter-tains" programmes for the A.B.C. on Thursday (3AR, . 9.15 p.m.).

Dawson had a very suc-cessful year in America, helped, no doubt, by the pub-licity attached to the escape of his pet kangaroo in New York at the very time the

film "Kangaroo" was due to open-though Smoky swears it was not intentional

In America he was kept busy touring, lecturing on Australia, appearing exten-sively on the radio, and mak-ing a television film in Holly-wood. Many schools wheie he gave lectures have invited him to íeturn.

His broadcasts will be made up of his impressions of America ("my wife and I got sunburned tonsils look-ing at the New York sky-scrapers") , and songs he col-lected in his travels.