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| | John Culme's Footlight Notes - Postcard of the Week - Week ending 25 January 2003 — Walford Bodie (1869-1939), ... |
 | | He was apprenticed at 14 as an electrician with the National Telephone Co, and two years later made his debut as an entertainer demonstrating the novel wonders of electricity. |
 | | Soon Bodie changed his name to "Dr." Walford Bodie, having adopted his sister's married name, and obtained an American degree in Materia Medica
Bodie's great success came a few years later, when he appeared at the old Britannia Theatre, Hoxton, under Tom Barrasford's control, in 1903. |
 | | The exhibition is a marvellously clever one, and should be seen by everyone who has any interest whatever in the discoveries of science, and, in particular, electricity. |
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