This series takes you to the famous music-hall where, from 1930 to 1940, the musical director was
Sydney Kaplan who will talk about and play records of some of the hundreds of well-known artists who have played there Sydney Kaplan , who now brings to a close his present series of memories of the Holborn Empire, met every top-liner during his ten years there. He has one dramatic memory. He saw the trapeze artist, Charles Warren , miss his heel catch one night and crash on top of the piano, within inches of his head. Fortu-' nately Warren was not badly hurt and is performing to this day.
Kaplan was at one time musical director of the Old London Music-Hall, Shoreditch, a famous try-out house. Max Miller , the Houston Sisters, and almost everyone who is a big name today made his or her London bow there.
Elsit and Doris Waters are god-mothers to his little boy Lionel David , nicknamed Bingo, now aged eight. In 1937, at the age of four, he played the Butcher Boy in the Harlequinade in Where the Rainbow Ends.