with Nina Mae McKinney and Leslie Thompson
Nina Mae McKinney will need no introduction to viewers, for she has already appeared successfully at Alexandra Palace; but Leslie Thompson, the trumpet player, who makes his debut in this coloured revue, will be a new name to many. Born in Jamaica in 1908, he commenced his musical career playing the euphonium in a school military band. During his youth he also studied the cello and many other instruments, as well as arranging, and in 1917 he came to England to augment his musical education at Kneller Hall. Returning to Jamaica, he became musical director at a Kingston cinema until 1929, when the advent of talking pictures cost him his position. He then tried his luck in England again, and recorded on trumpet and trombone with Spike Hughes's Orchestra. He has been in the pit bands of many London revues. His latest undertaking is the formation of an all-British coloured dance orchestra.