Leslie Day(treble 1932) - Come back
Born Leonard Yeomans, he became a chorister at St. Barnabas', Hackney from where he was discovered and put on the stage of the Pavilion Theatre, London [March-June 1933] with the stage name of Master Leslie Day. His manager appears to have been Lilly Denville. According to a review, audiences clamoured nightly for encores. Aged fourteen or fifteen, Leslie Day made four records and later appeared in two films, Television Follies English, in 1933 - in which he sang Love's Old Sweet Song, and Musical Medley Mancunian, in 1935 (when he must have been seventeen). I have, as yet, been unable to trace copies of either film.
SRB
"The Era" (London) refers to the singer Leslie Day at the London Pavilion as "a boy whose pure tones of song are a joy to hear" (29 March 1933), and a "boy of superb voice" (3 May 1933). The same journal also notes that he was unable to appear in a concert at the Prince of Wales Theatre on 24 September 1933 as his voice had broken (27 Sept. 1933).
BJP
During World War II, Leonard Yeomans was a sonar operator searching for U-boats and Japanese submarines. He served in all of the theatres of war and also in other theatres entertaining the troops.
He was also a singer and a member of ENSA (entertainment group) and performed at ports all over the globe under the guise of Les Day.
'Come back', Toselli's Serenade