A series of programmes devised by Gwen Williams and Stanford Robinson 3
-Sidney Jones
Doris Gambell (soprano)
Dennis Noble (baritone)
Horace Percival (baritone)
BBC Opera Chorus
(Trained by Alan G. Melville )
BBC Opera Orchestra (Leader, John Sharpe )
Conductor, Stanford Robinson
It was in the gay nineties that Sidney Jones ' lilting melodies were first hummed and whistled round the world. He was born in Leeds in 1869 and became king of Daly's Theatre in his twenties with ' The Geisha,' ' A Greek Slave,' and ' San Toy.' Marie Tempest was his reigning queen, singing such delightful numbers as ' The Amorous Goldfish.' H. N.