Oamaru veteran acted, danced, sang for the troops during WWII
“They were a really great crowd,” she said. Blakey, whose year-long romance with Hewlett began with a picnic for two, said her photograph still graces the wall of the club. “I got a great reception whenever I went back to Orkney.” Other famous people Blakey met during her wartime performing career were actors Laurence Olivier and Kenneth Connor, and actress Sybil Thorndike. One of Blakey's most vivid memories of her time on stage was the audience’s roar of laughter when she delivered the Hewlett-penned line, “I have come on the wings of a raven”, and learning later the word...
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