Harry Hemsley
Harry May Hemsley (Swindon, 14th December 1877 - 5th April 1951.) was an English music hall and radio comedian. His catchphrase "What did Horace say?" came from a series of sketches where he impersonated "his" four children Johnny, Elsie, Winnie and baby Horace, in varying falsetto voices in comic dialogues with Hemsley as "daddy". The fourth child, the baby Horace, was perpetually unintelligible, and had to be interpreted by his elder sister Winnie.[1][2][3] The fictional family featured on Ovaltiney's Concert Party on Radio Luxembourg from 1934 to 1939.
References
- ↑ Karl Williams 2015 Vintage British Comedy - Harry Hemsley
- ↑ Eric Partridge A Dictionary of Catch Phrases 2003 - 1134929994 Page 511 "What did Horace say, ... comes 'from Harry Hemsley's music-hall turn in the 1940s, in which he “did” the voice of a whole family of children, the ..."
- ↑ Theatrephile Issues 5-8 -1984 p 60 "Hemsley's imaginary family began with two, grew to three, and trihumphed finally with four, with the birth of his crowning achievement, Baby Horace. ... hearts out, on would come Harry Hemsley with this week's adventure of Elsie, Winnie and Johnny (interrupted only by the Secret ... and translated into English by little Winnie, thus giving the listening world the famous catchphrase, 'What did Horace say?"
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