AustLit

Comedian, elocutionist, singer, actor, stage manager, writer.

Former soldier Harry Scales established himself as humourist in Adelaide and regional South Australia (ca. 1907-1911) before securing a position with Edward Branscombe's Dandies in 1912 as a performer/stage manager and later as business representative (1914-18). Scales and Flockton Foster briefly toured the Scarlet Gaieties in 1918 and then took over the lease of Perth's Olympia Theatre where they presented the English Pierrots (1918-19) and Huxhams Serenaders (1919-20). During the 1920s and 1930s Scales was employed as a representative for the Universal Film Manufacturing Company. Based in Melbourne, he also worked occasionally as an entertainer on stage and on radio.

[Source: Australian Variety Theatre Archive]