A Comedy by STUART READY
From Birmingham
THE scene is enacted in the kitchen of Matilda's cottage at Withingbottom. A large and airy room, with a door leading to the street, it has a big oval table set ready for tea. A dresser full of china and cooking utensils stands on the left of the door, with a saddleback couch standing opposite. The room is clean and tidy and has an air of homely comfort. The widow is busy preparing tea, when Emma Dowsett enters without being noticed. She coughs, and the widow nearly drops the tea-pot.

Among the all-too-few leading Composers of today who have turned their attention to the Military Band is Hoist, who has written two delightfully tuneful Suites for the Brass-and-Wood-wind combination.
The First Suite is made up of three separate pieces - (1) a vigorous Chaconne (a piece in which one bit of tune is repeated over and over again in the Bass, occasionally in other parts); (2) an expressive Intermezzo ; and (3) a lively March.