BERN ECKS
The Crazy Comic
JACK COLLINGS
Xylophone Solos
FLORENCE OLDHAM
Syncopated Songs at the Piano
MABEL CONSTANDUROS and MICHAEL HCGAN
ROBERT ALGAR
Baritone
BRITAIN'S MASTER of COMEDY
WILL HAY and his SCHOLARS
THE B.B.C. THEATRE ORCHESTRA under the direction of S. KNEALE KELLEY
THIS BILL might be summarised as Will Hay and his Scholars and a programme of broadcast discoveries. A Savoy Hill find was Mabel Constanduros, who must be as well known to listeners as any name at the microphone. She and Michael Hosan are to do another of their sketches this evening, and Mabel Coristanduros, as usual, will play all the women's parts.
Another Savoy Hill discovery was Florence Oldham, who came along one day not for an audition, but to accompany an artist who had one. When it was over she said, diffidently, to John Sharman: 'Now I'm here, I suppose you wouldn't hear me?' He did, with very happy results.
Jack Collings, who has made a name as a xylophonist, owes his position to pluck as well as to talent. He was trained as a singer, but an operation on his throat put an end to that. For two years he practised the instrument of his choice, and, with dogged perseverance, made himself a second career.
Hern Ecks prefers to do his act King flat on the stage. This posture produced such an effect at Ecks's audition that he got a contract straight away. An original as well as a Crazy Comic.
Then there is Robert Algar, who once found a little lost dog in the street and took it home and adopted it. It took to the stage like a duck to water until coming on with Algar as a gala performance. Then the dog fell in love with the balloons that were thrown, and refused ever to perform again without them. So now he has to sing alone.