Harry Welchman

b. 24 Feb 1886, Barnstable, Devon, Britain, d. 3 January 1966, Penzance, Cornwall, Britain. Welchman’s early stage profession included appearing within the Arcadians (1909), music by Lionel Monckton and Howard Talbot , lyrics by Arthur Wimperis, which went for 809 shows. Welchman, who got a nice baritone tone of voice, sang ‘The Just Woman Alive’, ‘Like Will Get’ and, with Phyllis Dare , ‘Fifty percent History Two’. He was within the Mousmé (1911), a play by Robert Courtneidge and Alexander M. Thompson using the same musical group plus lyricist Percy Greenbank , Oh! Oh! Delphine as well as the Pearl Woman (both 1913), The Movie theater Celebrity (1914), and Afgar (1919). In London within the 20s he was actor-manager for Like’s Prisoner in the Adelphi Theater and he made an appearance on Broadway in Princess Flavia, based on Anthony Wish’s book, The Prisoner Of Zenda, with music by Sigmund Romberg and lyrics by Harry B. Smith . This display opened up on 2 November 1925 in the Hundred years Theater, where it went for 152 shows. Welchman also made an appearance within the 1927 London creation of Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein II ’s The Desert Music. In an exceedingly early exemplory case of an original solid being documented, Welchman sang ‘The Riff Music’ and, inside a duet with co-star Edith Day time , ‘The Desert Music’. Welchman was also inside a 1936 UK touring edition of Peter Skillet with Nova Pilbeam. Welchman also made an appearance in silent movies like the Verdict FROM THE Center and Mr. Lyndon At Liberty (both 1915), and THE HOME WITHIN THE Marsh (1920). Then played in a number of talkies with the 30s, a few of them musicals: The Maid FROM THE Mountains (1932), A Southern Maid (1933, with Lupino Street and Bebe Daniels ), as well as the Last Waltz (1936). He continued to be active in movies with the 40s and in to the mid-50s, like the Common Contact (1941, which got musical occasions from organist Sandy Macpherson and pianist/bandleader Carroll Gibbons ), THIS IS Paris (1942, with Ben Lyon and Ann Dvorak), The Soft Sex and THE LIFE SPAN And Loss of life Of Colonel Blimp (both 1943), The Lisbon Tale (1946), Judgement Deferred (1952), and Three Situations Of Murder (1955).