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publish-notice--online-only"> <p>This article was published online in 2024</p> </div> <div class="biographyContent textContent" id="41817">  <div class="print"> <div class="mainPic"><a href="https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-3162891201/view" title="Jenny Howard's last appearance at Grand Coolangatta, by unknown photographer"><img src="/uploads/obituaries/33447/thumbs/nla.obj-3162891201-1_246x550.jpg" alt="Jenny Howard's last appearance at Grand Coolangatta, by unknown photographer" width='246' height='326' /></a> </div> <p class="caption"><span class="captionName">Jenny Howard's last appearance at Grand Coolangatta</span>, by unknown photographer</p><p class="credit"><a href="https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-3162891201/view">Papers of Bobby and Gracie Le Brun, National Library of Australia</a></p></div> <p>Jenny Howard (1902–1996), comedian, actor, and singer, was born Daisy Evelyn Louise Blowes on 26 November 1902 at Walthamstow, Essex, England, fourth child of Charles Joseph Blowes, labourer, and his wife Hannah Matilda, née Polaine. Dais, as she was called, was close to her mother, who encouraged her to sing but died in childbirth in January 1913. Abandoned by their father after he left to fight in World War I, the children moved in with their maternal grandparents. A ‘stagestruck’ child (Howard 1982), she attended a nearby girls’ school and enjoyed performing in school productions, local theatre shows, and talent competitions. She claimed that at twelve she was expelled for jumping onto a desk to sing George Formby Senior’s ‘I Parted Me Hair in the Middle,’ unaware of the risqué double entendre.</p> <p>Working in a nearby linen factory during the day and singing with local groups of an evening, Blowes adopted the stage name Jenny Howard. Dismissed from the factory for distracting her co-workers with impersonations, in the early 1920s she met Bertha King, whose husband Percy King (real surname Boughton) organised concert parties. Howard joined their troupe ‘The Yachtsmen’ at the seaside town of Margate. She performed professionally from then on, including in comedy routines with King playing the straight man to her mischievous ebullience. He became her manager and, after his wife died in 1924, the pair married on 28 March 1927 at St Luke’s Church of England, West Holloway, London. Unable to have children, they became a formidable artistic team.</p> <p>Although primarily remembered as a popular singer, Howard was a versatile stage artist. In her early professional career, she used her powerful if untrained voice only in encores. A diminutive five feet two inches (157 cm) tall with ‘beautiful blue eyes which twinkled with devilment’ (Trigg 1983, 4), she could dislocate her joints to perform comic dances and used her talent for mimicking facial and vocal characteristics to burlesque politicians, public figures, and other artists.</p> <p>Howard and King first visited Australia in March 1929 and ‘loved it the moment we got here’ (Howard 1982). They performed before appreciative crowds on the Tivoli circuit in Melbourne and Sydney, and at the Victoria Theatre in Newcastle, before returning home in July. Over the next decade, Howard became a headline act in regional and metropolitan variety theatres, including the London Palladium. She also released discs, performed on radio, appeared in a musical comedy film, <em>Dodging the Dole</em> (1936), and, in 1937, toured the West Indies.</p> <p>In June 1940 Wallace Parnell, the general manager of Tivoli Australia, brought Howard and King to Melbourne to produce pantomimes and to headline a new production, <em>The Crazy Show</em>, which toured Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, and Adelaide. A second <em>Crazy Show</em> opened in March 1941. Howard was considered ‘the live wire of the show’ (<em>Sydney Morning Herald</em> 1941, 12), and reviewers praised her ability to switch rapidly from ‘the most ridiculous to the most sentimental’ (<em>Telegraph</em> 1941, 10).</p> <p>Howard’s energy and dedication became legendary. Between seasons of shows playing up to twice a day, six days a week, she supported Australia’s effort in World War II by performing at military barracks and in fund-raising events. One of her most famed numbers was the song and march ‘A Brown Slouch Hat,’ which was written by George Wallace in 1942 and became an enduring part of the repertoire for brass bands, particularly at Anzac Day parades. By war’s end, Howard and King were financially secure and living at North Bondi. King’s son, Richard Boughton, and Howard’s sister, Lilian Jane Leary, joined them in Sydney with their families in 1946 and 1949 respectively. Howard continued to travel extensively to perform, touring Korea and Japan in 1954 to entertain Australian armed forces. She cemented her reputation as ‘perhaps the greatest principal boy of her time’ (Bridges 1980, 96) in many Tivoli pantomimes, including <em>Cinderella</em>, <em>Babes in the Wood</em>, <em>Dick Whittington</em>, and <em>Aladdin</em>.</p> <p>Despite ongoing acclaim, Howard’s popularity began to decline during the postwar years, as her flirtatious comic girlishness seemed increasingly out of step with changing gender roles and sexual mores. She nonetheless refused to ‘act with the dignity and decorum befitting an octogenarian’ (Trigg 1984, 14) by appearing in charity concerts, clubs, and music halls; contributing to occasional revivals of variety and pantomime shows; and taking small roles in the television series <em>The True Blue Show</em> (1973), the stage musical <em>Pippin</em> (1974), and the feature film <em>Caddie</em> (1976). She won the 1981 John Campbell ‘Mo’ fellowship for services to the Australian entertainment industry and, two years later, starred in the closing night of Her Majesty’s Theatre in Brisbane. In 1985 she was awarded the OAM for service to the performing arts.</p> <p>Howard was an Anglican and a teetotaller who preferred cooking, cleaning, and sewing to extravagant parties. After King died in 1979, she moved to Burleigh Heads on Queensland’s Gold Coast. On 18 September 1984 she married Eric Albert Aitken, a retired businessman, at St John’s Anglican Church, Burleigh Heads; he died the next year. Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease about 1990, she lived in nursing homes at Coolangatta and then Tweed Heads, where she died on 21 January 1996. Her ashes were interred next to King’s in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park, reuniting their famed double act.</p> </div> <div> <span><strong>Research edited by Michelle Staff</strong></span> </div> <div class="infoList"> <h3>Select Bibliography</h3> <ul> <li>Bridges, Nancye, with Frank Crook. <em>Curtain Call</em>. North Ryde, NSW: Cassell Australia, 1980</li><li>Fryer Library, University of Queensland. UQFL524, Eddie Trigg Papers</li><li>Howard, Jenny. Interview with Bill Stephens, 24 July 1985. Recording. National Library of Australia</li><li>Howard, Jenny. Interview with Liz Wilson, 12–19 October 1982. Recording. National Library of Australia</li><li>Queensland Performing Arts Centre Museum. Jenny Howard Collection</li><li><em>People </em>(Sydney). ‘Five Feet One and a Saucy Look.’ 22 November 1950, 31–33</li><li><em>Sydney Morning Herald</em>. ‘Second “Crazy Show” at Tivoli.’19 April 1941, 12</li><li><em>Telegraph</em> (Brisbane). ‘Vaudeville is BACK at the Cremorne.’ 11 February 1941, 10</li><li>Trigg, Eddie. ‘Down Under.’ <em>The Call Boy: The Official Journal of the British Music Hall Society</em> 21, no. 4 (1984): 14</li><li>Trigg, Eddie. ‘The Kings of Music Hall.’ <em>The Call Boy: The Official Journal of the British Music Hall Society</em> 20, no. 4 (1983): 4–6</li><li>Van Straten, Frank. <em>Tivoli</em>. South Melbourne: Lothian, 2003</li> </ul> </div> <div class="infoList"> <h3>Additional Resources and Scholarship</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?keyword=%22jenny%20howard%22" target="_blank">Trove search</a></li> <li><a href="https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/243226239?searchTerm=%22jenny%20howard%22" target="_blank">bright show at Tivoli</a>, Herald (Melbourne), 18 June 1940, p. 16</li> <li><a href="https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/172717648/19748883" target="_blank">vaudeville is BACK at the Cremorne</a>, Telegraph (Brisbane), 11 February 1941, p. 10 </li> <li><a href="https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/17721964?searchTerm=%22crazy%20show%22" target="_blank">second 'Crazy Show' at Tivoli</a>, Sydney Morning Herald, 19 April 1941, p. 12</li> <li><a href="https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=3206261" target="_blank">touring Korea and Japan, 1954</a>, MP927/1, A12/1/204 (National Archives of Australia)</li> </ul> </div> <div class="infoList"> <h3>Related Entries in NCB Sites</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/wallace-george-stevenson-8961">Wallace, George Stevenson</a> (colleague)<span class="linkicon"><a href="https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/wallace-george-stevenson-8961"><img src="/images/site/adb/siteIcon.jpg" alt="go to ADB entry" title="go to ADB entry"/></a></span></li> <li><a href="https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/dyer-robert-neal-bob-12449">Dyer, Robert Neal</a> (colleague)<span class="linkicon"><a href="https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/dyer-robert-neal-bob-12449"><img src="/images/site/adb/siteIcon.jpg" alt="go to ADB entry" title="go to ADB entry"/></a></span></li> <li><a href="https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/le-brun-bobby-14144">Le Brun, Bobby</a> (colleague)<span class="linkicon"><a href="https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/le-brun-bobby-14144"><img src="/images/site/adb/siteIcon.jpg" alt="go to ADB entry" title="go to ADB 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</script> <div id="pageSidebar"> <div class="mainPic"><a href="https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-3162891201/view" title="Jenny Howard's last appearance at Grand Coolangatta, by unknown photographer"><img src="/uploads/obituaries/33447/thumbs/nla.obj-3162891201-1_246x550.jpg" alt="Jenny Howard's last appearance at Grand Coolangatta, by unknown photographer" width='246' height='326' /></a> </div> <p class="caption"><span class="captionName">Jenny Howard's last appearance at Grand Coolangatta</span>, by unknown photographer</p><p class="credit"><a href="https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-3162891201/view">Papers of Bobby and Gracie Le Brun, National Library of Australia</a></p> <div id="slideshowThumbs"> <h3>More images</h3> <a href="/uploads/obituaries/33447/awm.jpeg" title="Entertainer Miss Jenny Howard of the Tivoli Theatre singing to the crowd during the lunch hour Victory Loan Rally in Collins Street Australian War Memorial, 141140." rel="shadowbox[obit01]"><img src="/uploads/obituaries/33447/thumbs/awm_80x80.jpeg" width='80' height='61' alt="pic" /></a> <a href="/uploads/obituaries/33447/nla.obj-3162724132-1.jpg" title="Framed photograph of Jenny Howard Papers of Bobby and Gracie Le Brun, National Library of Australia" rel="shadowbox[obit01];title=Framed photograph of Jenny Howard, <a href='https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-3162724132/view'>Papers of Bobby and Gracie Le Brun, National Library of Australia</a>"><img src="/uploads/obituaries/33447/thumbs/nla.obj-3162724132-1_80x80.jpg" width='66' height='80' alt="pic" /></a> <a href="/uploads/obituaries/33447/nla.obj-144646795-1.jpg" title="Jenny Howard with male dancers in Lavender and old lace, ca. 1960 National Library of Australia, PIC/11157/49 LOC Album 1108" rel="shadowbox[obit01];title=Jenny Howard with male dancers in Lavender and old lace, ca. 1960, <a href='https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-144646795/view'>National Library of Australia, PIC/11157/49 LOC Album 1108</a>"><img src="/uploads/obituaries/33447/thumbs/nla.obj-144646795-1_80x80.jpg" width='80' height='67' alt="pic" /></a> <a href="/uploads/obituaries/33447/nla.obj-3162760151-1.jpg" title="Jenny Howard on stage Papers of Bobby and Gracie Le Brun, National Library of Australia" rel="shadowbox[obit01];title=Jenny Howard on stage, <a href='https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-3162760151/view'>Papers of Bobby and Gracie Le Brun, National Library of Australia</a>"><img src="/uploads/obituaries/33447/thumbs/nla.obj-3162760151-1_80x80.jpg" width='55' height='80' alt="pic" /></a> </div> <div class="audio-container"> <div class="audio-clip__control"> <button class="audio-clip__button" title="Listen to a voice recording"> <img src="/images/speaker.svg" class="audio-clip__button-image"> <span class="audio-clip__button-text">Listen</span> </button> </div> <figure class="audio-clip"> <audio class="video-js vjs-audio" controls preload="metadata"> <source src="/uploads/obituaries/33447/howard singing.mp3" 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