Bom 1917. Still Crowing
Old Soldiers never die
ARTHUR MACKNESS
SEPTIMUS HUNT
WILLIAM MACK
PERCY MERRIMAN
CHARLES HARRISON
FREDERICK PAIN
In a Programme of Vaudeville items, concluding with the famous Army Route March with a military band led by CHARLES LEGGETT
The old roads again. Songs on the march. The old quips, the cheery banter, the happy laughter, the halt by the way (left of the road). Biscuits and raisins-and so home to camp
After the long absence of a year, The Roosters make a welcome return to the London Studio tonight, under the merry and efficient lead of Percy Merriman. They are a unique survival of those ' serving soldier' concert parties which, during the war years, set up their theatres of wood and canvas and galvanized iron between shell-holes from the Somme to ' Wipers and from
Flanders to Palestine. What they all did for war-weary troops in the zone of war, ' The Roosters' are doing now for a world still in need of laughter. Listeners tonight will hear not only fresh material, but the famous Route March which will recall to so many, ' Packs off and fall out by the side of the road '-a pave road that led away from Tipperary and London, and along which only a spirit of camaraderie and a sense of humour kept them going.