from The Theatrical Garden Party in aid of the Actors' Orphanage
Relayed from The Royal Hospital Ground, Chelsea

Every summer, when the green lawns of the Royal Hospital in Chelsea are at their greenest-and there is no lovelier garden in London than this that Wren planned for the gayest of the Stuart- kings-the spirit of carnival finds a resting-place- for a day in the heart of sober London. The Theatrical Garden Party gathers together all the stars of the stage in their most care-free mood. Actresses whose names are known wherever theatres flourish run impromptu side-shows; critics burlesque themselves, and the best-known figures in Society applaud their efforts. Everybody who is anybody goes to the Garden Party, and the Actors' Orphanage, that admirable charity run by the most generous profession in the world, benefits from it all.
This year the B.B.C. will provide one of the most striking features of the whole show. Listeners will remember that at the end of certain programmes broadcast from the studios they have heard the applause of an audience sitting in' the studio itself. This afternoon any of them who are in the grounds of the Royal Hospital will have their chance to become a part of the studio audience. From three o'clock until seven; the B.B.C.'s marquee will be the scene of a succession of variety programmes, starting at every half hour, performed in the complete semblance of a London studio. The microphone will be there, the announcer, the control-box, the red-and-white lights — the whole studio atmosphere that anyone who has ever been present during a broadcast knows so well.
It is one of these variety shows that is being broadcast from half-past four to five. Among the well-known artists, of the air and of the boards, who are taking part during the afternoon, and who will probably be heard in the broadcast, are George Grossmith, Nelson Keys, Marie Dainton, Ann Penn, Dale Smith, Dorothy Bennett, John Henry and Blossom, Harry Hemsley, Muriel George and Ernest Butcher, Mavis Bennett, Clapham and Dwyer, and the Don Vocal Quartet. And at the end you will hear the London Radio Dance Band, which Sidney Firman is conducting outside the marquee in some of the intervals between shows.
So, even if you cannot get to the Garden Party, you will find it very easy to imagine you are there.