Gang-gang: 100 years ago - Singin' in the rain

By Ian Warden
Updated April 23 2018 - 8:33pm, first published January 28 2015 - 2:34pm

Perhaps the Hollywood creators of Gene Kelly's joyous dancing-in-the-rain sequence in the 1952 musical Singin' In The Rain (Gene's character is deliriously in love and dances through a downpour) had heard of a famous incident in Goulburn. One hundred years ago this week the Goulburn Evening Penny Post marvelled "INDIVIDUAL'S CURIOUS ANTICS. WAS HE FROM THE DRY COUNTRY?

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