AN OLD VAUDEVILLIAN IS TEACHING THE KIDS SOME TRICKS.

Looking like a remake of "Logan's Run," the centre of Melbourne, Victoria is filled with under 1930s. In other words, it's Comedy Festival time again, an occasion which has become an inadvertent celebration of youth. But in one venue, something else is happening. Comedian Reg Gorman, 70, is putting on a show called Hanging on to Vaudeville. Gorman was once known as "the atomic comic". Most of his working life was spent in television (TV) but it was in music hall that he got his training. In sketches like "Guzzler's Gin" — in which a 1950s TV presenter gets progressively drunker — Gorman gets laughs throwing his body into increasingly violent contortions.