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NAT HANLEY

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(ca. 1894-1952) English-born comedian, musician, revue writer, company leader, ragtime dancer, boxer. [Born

Nathaniel John Brooks]

After arriving in Australia shortly before World War I, Nat Hanley maintained a presence in the local entertainment

industry up until at least 1939. His built his whistling, impersonation and monologue act around his piano playing, but

also partnered other well-known artists. He produced revusicals in the 1920s, and was a member of numerous variety

companies, including the Gay Follies (1914), Empire Comedy Co (1915), K-Nuts (1919), the So and So's (1923), and

his own troupe the Nat Hanley Revue Co (aka the Zigzag Revue Co). Hanley also established several short-term

partnerships during his career, including those with Jack Kearns (1941), Muriel Dale (1917), Arthur Elliott (1922) and

Joe Valli (1933). He spent seven months working overseas in 1930 (including Britain, America and South Africa) and

remained active in Australia as a performer until the year before his death.

► See also: the AVTA's Nat Hanley biography.

NB: There are more images from the Brooks family at the end of this document.

Nat Hanley (left)

All images

courtesy of the

Brooks family unless otherwise

noted.

Maitland Daily Mercury (NSW) 22 Oct. 1914, 8.

Australian Variety (Sydney)

16 Dec. 1914, n. pag.

Maitland Daily Mercury (NSW) 24 Oct. 1914, 4.

Australian Variety (Sydney) 29 July 1914, 6.

Auckland (NZ)

New Zealand Herald (Auckland, NZ) 3 Aug. 1915, 4.

_____________

Observer (Auckland, NZ) 9 Aug. 1917, 9.

Auckland (NZ)

"Opera House." New Zealand Herald (Auckland, NZ)

4 Aug. 1915, 5.

http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-

bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=NZH19150804.2.33&srpos=

Wellington (NZ)

Dominion (Wellington, NZ) 1 Oct. 1915, 9.

Dunedin (NZ)

Otago Daily Times (Dunedin, NZ) 8 Nov. 1915, 1.

Regional New South Wales

Illawarra Mercury (Wollongong, NSW) 24 Dec. 1915, 7.

Illawarra Mercury (Wollongong, NSW) 31 Dec. 1915, 7.

Australian Variety (Sydney) 19 Jan. 1916, n. pag.

Regional New South Wales

Goulburn

Goulburn Evening Penny Post (NSW) 6 June 1916, 2.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/page/9597634

Bathurst

National Advocate (Bathurst, NSW) 12 Aug. 1916, 4.

Newcastle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW)

19 Sept. 1916, 8.

Bathurst

National Advocate (Bathurst, NSW) 27 Nov. 1916, 2.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/158532526

Goulburn (NSW)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post (NSW) 4 Aug. 1917, 2.

Brisbane (Fullers Theatres)

"Empire Theatre." Brisbane Courier 20 Aug. 1917, 4.

Wagga Wagga (NSW)

Daily Advertiser (Wagga Wagga, NSW) 20 Oct. 1917, 5.

Hobart

Kurri Kurri (NSW)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate

(NSW) 24 Apr. 1918, 6.

Newcastle (NSW)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate

(NSW) 6 May 1918, 8.

Wollongong (NSW)

Katoomba (NSW)

Blue Mountain Echo (Katoomba, NSW) 4 Feb. 1919, 4.

cont...

Moree (NSW)

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser (NSW)

3 June 1919, 2.

Blue Mountain Echo (Katoomba, NSW) 14 Feb. 1919, 1.

Sydney

Australian Variety (Sydney) 5 Sept. 1919, 5.

Theatre Magazine (Sydney) Oct. 1919, 28.

Theatre Magazine (Sydney) Nov. 1919, 28.

Australian Variety (Sydney) 24 Dec. 1919, 27.

Newcastle (NSW)

21 Feb. 1920, 12.

25 Feb. 1920, 6.

Bathurst (NSW)

National Advocate (Bathurst, NSW) 10 Apr.

1920, 3.

New Zealand

Fielding

Fielding Star (NZ) 25 May 1920, 3.

Gisborne

Poverty Bay Herald (Gisborne, NZ) 25 June 1920, 5.

http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-

bin/paperspast?a=d&d=PBH19200625.2.45&e

Dunedin

Otago Daily Times (Dunedin, NZ) 8 Nov. 1920, 1.

Christchurch

Press (Christchurch, NZ) 6 Dec. 1920, 1.

Wellington

Evening Post (Wellington, NZ) 3 Jan. 1921, 2.

Auckland

Auckland Star (NZ) 20 May 1921, 10.

Wellington

Evening Post (Wellington, NZ) 23 July 1921, 9.

Orange (NSW)

Bathurst (NSW)

Orange (NSW)

Maitland (NSW)

Brisbane

Brisbane Courier 26 Aug. 1922, 2.

"The Empire." Brisbane Courier 11 Sept. 1922, 8.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/20570615

Brisbane Courier 11 Sept. 1922, 2.

Newcastle (NSW)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW) 28 Sept. 1922, 8.

Adelaide

Mail (Adelaide) 21 Oct. 1922, 3.

West Australian (Perth) 8 Dec. 1922, 2.

Daily News (Perth) 5 Jan. 1923, 6.

Fremantle (WA)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW) 19 Sept. 1924, 10.

Sydney

Evening News (Sydney) 14 Jan. 1927, 4.

Mirror (Perth) 4 June 1927, 7.

Newcastle (NSW)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miner's Advocate (NSW) 24 Dec. 1927, 12.

Advertiser (Adelaide) 28 Jan. 1928, 19.

Everyone's (Sydney) 1 Aug. 1928, 42.

Brisbane

Worker (Brisbane) 5 Dec. 1928, 15.

Brisbane Courier 12 Dec. 1928, 7.

Sydney

Launceston (Tas)

Mercury (Hobart) 8 Jan. 1929, 5.

Daily News (Perth) 1 Feb. 1929, 7.

Daily News (Perth) 12 Feb. 1929, 10.

cont...

Queenslander (Brisbane) 12 Sept. 1929, 58.

(Keith Conley is actually Keith Connelly)

Townsville (Qld)

Townsville Daily Bulletin (Qld) 5 July 1930, 3.

Sydney

Sydney Morning Herald 22 May 1931, 2.

Daily News (Perth) 21 Sept. 1931, 2.

Newcastle (NSW)

Newcastle Sun (NSW) 3 July 1931, 8.

Mirror (Perth)19 Sept. 1931, 11.

Wollongong (NSW)

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus (NSW)

30 June 1933, 9.

Illawarra Mercury (Wollongong, NSW) 20 Oct. 1933, 5.

Illawarra Mercury (Wollongong, NSW) 27 Oct. 1933, 6.

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW) 13 Feb. 1934, 12.

Adelaide

Advertiser (Adelaide) 14 July 1934, 2.

Brisbane

Courier Mail (Brisbane) 1 Sept. (1934), 2.

Townsville (Qld)

Townsville Daily Bulletin (Qld)

22 Dec. 1934, 3. ►

Sydney

The Biz (Fairfield, NSW) 8 Mar. (1935), 5.

Newcastle (NSW)

Wollongong (NSW)

Illawarra Mercury 10 May 1935, 12.

13 Apr. 1935, 2.

Sydney

Cootamundra (NSW)

Cootamundra Herald (NSW)

13 Sept. 1935, 6.

291922

Cootamundra (NSW)

Cootamundra Herald (NSW)

16 Sept. 1935, 2.

Echuca (Vic)

Riverine Herald (Echuca, Vic)

10 Oct. 1935, 1.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/

116558650

Riverine Herald (Echuca, Vic) 7 Oct. 1935, 3.

Tasmania

Hobart

Mercury (Hobart) 7 Nov. 1935, 7.

Franklin

Huon and Derwent Times (Franklin, Tas) 21 Nov. 1935, 5.

Hobart

Brisbane

Courier Mail (Brisbane) 30 Apr. 1936, 4.

Courier Mail (Brisbaner) 18 July 1936, 11.

Courier Mail (Brisbane) 1 Sept 1936, 2.

Courier Mail (Brisbane) 7 Sept 1936, 2.

cont...

Queensland Times (Ipswich, Qld) 8 Sept. 1936, 9.

Queensland Times (Ipswich, Qld) 23 Oct. 1936, 3.

Courier Mail (Brisbane) 27 Nov. 1936, 2.

Queensland Times (Ipswich, Qld) 23 Dec. 1936, 5.

Brisbane

Queensland Times (Ipswich, Qld) 22 Jan. 1937, 4.

Worker (Brisbane) 26 Jan. 1937, 24.

Courier Mail (Brisbane) 6 Feb. 1937, 9.

Queensland Times (Ipswich, Qld) 12 Feb. 1937, 5.

Courier Mail (Brisbane) 17 Apr. 1937, 10.

Rockhampton (Qld)

Central Queensland Herald (Rockhampton)

9 Sept. 1937, 57.

Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay and Burnett Advertiser

(Qld) 15 Sept. 1937, 10.

Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton, Qld) 22 Sept. 1937, 12.

Brisbane

Queensland Times (Ipswich, Qld) 24 Sept. 1937, 11. Hanley's company possibly being managed by Bert Corrie.

Rockhampton (Qld)

Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton, Qld) 25 Sept. 1937, 2.

Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton, Qld) 15 Oct. 1937, 12.

Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton, Qld) 16 Nov. 1937, 12.

Courier Mail (Brisbane) 3 Mar. 1938, 18.

Courier Mail (Brisbane) 11 May 1938, 25.

Brisbane

Courier Mail (Brisbane) 20 Sept. (1938), 19.

Courier Mail (Brisbane) 31 Dec. (1938), 12.

New South Wales

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus

(NSW) 7 July 1939, 16.

Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate (Parramatta, NSW) 11

Oct. 1939, 8.

1940-1952

cont...

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus (NSW)

10 May 1940, 6.

Sydney Morning Herald 15 Mar. 1941, 2.

Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate (Parramatta, NSW) 25 Sept. 1946, 11.

Newcastle Sun (NSW) 5 June 1947, 16.

Wellington Times (NSW) 9 May 1949, 6.

Wellington Times (NSW) 12 May 1949, 7.

Sydney Morning Herald 1 Nov.

1946, 7.

Sydney

Newcastle (NSW)

Rockhampton (Qld)

Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton, Qld) 10 June 1949, 2.

Cumberland Argus (Parramatta, NSW) 4 July 1951, 1.

Goulburn Evening Post (NSW) 21 Dec. 1950, 4.

Miscellaneous and Family Images

L: With unidentified friend (possibly 1920s).

ca. 1940s

Making blackface charcoal in a drum

So and So's Company postcard (Perth, 1923). (see Nat Hanley biography for front of postcard)

Connie (4th

from left), n. yr.

Additional information contributed by Terry Brooks (Nat Hanley's son). All images are from the Brooks family collection unless otherwise noted.

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Top row, third from left

With Colin and Natalie (ca. 1950).

R: With sons Colin (L) and Terry (R) in1943.

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