C.V. Becker

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(b. 08/02/1881 - d. **/**/1933) Professionally Clarence (Clarrie) Vivian Becker was an attorney and a founding partner of Wertheim Becker, a law firm that still exists today. But clearly he was a man of many talents. A C.V. Becker is credited as playing one of two Cape Town detectives in The Vulture’s Prey (1922), the film directed by Dick Cruikshanks and William Bowden. Ralph Trewhela refers to C.V. Becker as being responsible for some of the earliest recordings in South Africa (1908), describing him as an attorney who specialised in “humorous monologues”. In fact, his name also comes up on the website of the Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music at the University of London. Finally, a C.V. Becker wrote the book “With the Springboks in England, 1906-1907: a press record of the tour”, a publication which is now considered very rare. (FO)

Sources

S.A. Pictorial, 29 April 1922

Trewela, Ralph - Song safari: a journey through light music in South Africa

http://www.charm.kcl.ac.uk/discography/search/search_advanced?operatorSel_0=and&parameterSel_0=composer&parameterKey_0=compo_002267&parameterKeyTxt_0=Becker,%20C%20V.

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