A Musical Comedy in Two Acts
Words by Hugh Morton
Music by Gustave Kerker
The Singers
Arnold Matters
Tessa Deane
Betty Huntley Wright
Horace Percival
The compere, Fred Duprez
The BBC Revue Chorus and The BBC Theatre Orchestra
Conducted by Stanford Robinson
The programme arranged and produced by Gordon McConnel
Hugh Morton 's The Belle of New York, with its playful mockery of the Salvation Army, buoyed up by Gustav Kerker 's catching tunes' Teach me how to kiss ', The Anti-Cigarette Society', ' The Purity Brigade ', ' On the beach at Narragansett', ' When we are married ', ' She is the Belle of New York', and the rest-first captured London at the Shaftesbury in 1898, when it ran for just on seven hundred performances. Since then it hasi been revived again and again-in 1901, 1914, 1919, 1931, 1933, and 1934— always with outstanding success. The revival of 1914, for instance, ran for 151 performances despite the outbreak of the war.
' The Belle of New York will be broadcast again on Friday in the Regional programme at 9.45