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Roy Rene (15 February 1891 – 22 November 1954), born Henry van der Sluys, was an Australian comedian and vaudevillian. As the bawdy character Mo McCackie, Rene was one of the most well-known and successful Australian comedians of the 20th Century.
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Near the city center (1.56 Miles), in the heart of the surrounding Aix En Provence countryside, La Bastide du Roy Rene offers a level of comfort in an historic setting. In 1472 King Rene', Duke of Anjou and Count of Provence, had the Bastide de Perignane built and from the beginning perpetuated there an ambiance of pleasure and feast. Later, the bastide was acquired by the Saint Sauveur Cathedral of Aix and took on religious functions until the 17th century when the Bastide was transformed into a hospital, a shelter for victims of the epidemics which ravaged Europe at the time. renovation, the ancient Bastide has become a nice residence welcoming business guests, tourists and admirers of Aix-en-Provence.
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Roy experimented with radio in the late 1930s, and in 1940 he had a lacklustre series on the ABC called The Misadventures of Mo. He bounced back a few years later in Calling the Stars over the Macquarie Network. Suddenly he had a vast, new audience. In one night he could reach more people than could see him on stage in a year. Fred Parsons’ scripts allowed him to expand the aural aspects of his comedy before a ‘live’ studio audience. Suddenly you didn’t need to see Mo: the words and their delivery were enough. McCackie Mansion ran for five years.
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Rene briefly returned to the stage in 1949 in the revue, McCackie Moments, at the Kings in Melbourne. By the time his radio contract expired in 1950 he was plagued by ill health; he appeared once in McCackie Manor for the Australian Broadcasting Commission in 1951 and in 1952 starred in The New Atlantic Show, again capturing a nationwide audience.
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Roy Rene never ventured further than New Zealand: not for want of offers; he just didn’t want to leave the audiences he was comfortable with. He was an unassuming, unpretentious man, who valued family and friends rather than fame or wealth. He clowned because he loved it, and to make a comfortable home for his family. He had little or no comprehension of his uniqueness; he worked instinctively and he worked hard.
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