“ENTREPRENEUR EXTRAORDINAIRE” by Desmond Kelly ‘the Star of eLanka’ Time passes, but memories remain. On American Independence day, the 4th of July,2017, the people of Sri Lanka, formerly Ceylon, & especially those who formed the “Wonderful World” of Show Business in our beautiful Island, remembered him, DONAVAN ANDREE, who has “left the room” now, for 50 years. Those of us, Entertainers who were fortunate enough to personally work for Donavan, the writer being one of the very first to have the privilege, should never forget that it was this man who was responsible for ensuring that “his choice” got as far in a very demanding & difficult “Show-biz” career, as was humanly possible. Speaking for myself, as I usually do, an uncle of mine, Roy Demmer was one of Donavan’s “right-hand men” & when Roy wasn’t in the “guards -van” of one of the Ceylon Government Railway trains, doing his ...

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