A True Londoner's Night
(N.B.-A real Londoner is one born and bred within the sound of Bow Bells)
The Station Orchestra
Conducted by Warwick Braithwaite

Although this Overture is already a quarter of a century old, the London of which it gives so bright a picture is very much the 'Town' as we know it today-many-sided, many-coloured, carefree and haphazard, but yet with a thought of its own dignity. And the picture is no doubt the more true, embodying, as it does, the impressions of one who neither claims nor aspires to be a Londoner himself.
It is dedicated, and the words are surely among the most gracious and kindly which stand upon any title-page- 'To my many friends, the Members of British Orchestras.'
The opening is eloquent of the crowded streets - the bustle of every day. Quite soon there is an episode descriptive of the more serious and dignified side of London's character, and, after a return of the gay opening, we hear a theme which portrays two young lovers. London urchins are then cunningly presented by a merry doubling of the 'Nobilmente' theme (London's dignity) in the very way in which Wagner's 'Apprentices' make fun of the stately Master's theme. A new episode is a Military Band heard first afar off, drawing near, and passing by with blatant pomp and brilliance, fading again into the distance. Again a little later, the young lovers are assailed by band-music - this time a rough-and-ready street band. Its well-meant, but dissonant, efforts are heard in a grotesque version of the first band time. A quieter section follows; the lovers have found sanctuary, and only echoes of the busy streets can reach them. What follows is repetition of these episodes, and the Overture finishes in the gay mood in which it began.

Some Showers
A Cockney Play by W. Pett Ridge

Mixtures
A Cameo Sketch by W.P. Thomas
Maurice Fitzgerald is an actor, down on his luck; Harry Hampton wants to hear him recite and gives him jellied eels as a bribe.

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