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Description: | 11th June 1945.
View shows the Vicar of Leeds, Canon A.S. Reeve, giving the closing 'Charge to Youth' speech on the final night of Youth Marches On. This show was put on by the Yorkshire Evening News and the Standing Conference of Voluntary Youth Organisation as a celebration of youth, shown through music, dance, song, pageantry and gymnastics. One of the sketches involved cast members dressing up as well-known personalities famous for great achievements at a young age including William Pitt who became Prime Minister at 25 and John Cornwall who won the Victoria Cross at 16. On the left of the view is a boy dressed in an 18th century style white wig standing next to the girl with a crown. This boy was Reg Blackshaw from Wortley, dressed as Mozart who performed a well received violin solo during this part of the show. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Grand Theatre Youth Marches On | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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