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Palace of Varieties

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Sixth visit to this popular theatre
Broadcasts from the Palace of Varieties are so popular and frequent that it is hard to believe that the theatre is entirely imaginary. Once again listeners will hear a first-rate programme which will be discussed as usual by two visitors in the stalls.
John Rorke will give some of his rollicking chorus songs. Warden and West, new to the microphone, will impersonate Biddy and Fanny, two dames so well known to visitors to the Windmill Theatre. Rossi, the boy virtuoso accordion player who has been appearing at the Palladium, will make his radio debut. Mabel Constanduros will tell of a ' Cycling Courtship'. George Jackley , the popular comedian associated with Lyceum pantomimes, will broadcast for the first time. James Stephenson will give George R. Sims 's station master story, with effects by Reginald Foort at the BBC Theatre Organ.
The Radio Ramblers, new to the microphone, are a discovery of Ernest Longstaffe 's. They are three young men who are extraordinarily clever at giving impressions, from Claude Dampier and Ronald Frankau to the Astaires.
Last, but not least, Joe Young and Company will appear in Buying a Theatre.

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John Rorke
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Mabel Constanduros
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George Jackley
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James Stephenson
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George R. Sims
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Reginald Foort
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Ernest Longstaffe
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Claude Dampier
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Ronald Frankau
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Joe Young

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