Harry Corbett with children and glove puppet Sooty

Feb. 25 Sooty Helps Build Harry Corbett's New Wing: A new extension to the Corbett house is being built at Guiseley. Into everything, as usual, Sooty must hemp lay the bricks. Harry Corbett got the idea for a new Sooty episode while watching progress with Peter Corbett, 71/2, Jennifer Ward, and David Corbett, 101/2. Already he has his Sooty-size cement mixer wheel barrow and. flooded with correspondence.ll Garret, the handyman has never had more order. And it was barely three years ago that Harry Corbett, then an electrician, bought a glove puppet on the beach at Blackpool. He paid 7/6d for the first Sooty, to amuse his children.He first realized he had b something with a future a fort-night later at a children's party. Two childreniked his improvements turn so much, that someone watching arranged for him to appear The show in TV in Manchester. That one appearance started Sooty has his own solicitor, accountant, agent, secretary, a ript writer, pro department, ideas man and wardrobe mistress (Mrs Corbett); and Harry is building a new wing to his house as well as having thrown in his old job. BBC, Commercial TV, films, stage and private engagements, an well as the commercial exploitation of Sooty-toys keep him a busy man, and the money rolling in. Harry's two sons now go to boarding school, and the Corbetts are in the money, to the tune of a10, 000 income from the BBC a five figure contract from NBC of America for the Walt Disney films and12, 000 from Commercial TV. Them there is the unpublished sums from commercial exploitation. Even Harry can hardly believe it all. Only chap who in quite unaffected is - Sooty. Perhaps he knows the secret of his is that he is the mischior that is in everyone's heart

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