at the theatre organ

Movie memories
Popular melodies on parade
Nelson Elms must be the tallest broadcasting organist in the country, for he measures six feet seven inches. His signature tune is 'Trees' - the inference being that elms are more popular than other trees.

He first broadcast at the Leeds Ritz in 1935, and has since broadcast from cinemas all over the country. He has played dance music on a large four-manual concert organ at Wallasey Town Hall for a charity ball, and at Leeds Town Hall accompanied community singing for a boxing tournament. But perhaps his strangest experience was at the Clapham Junction Granada, where a circus was appearing on the stage during the week that he was playing there. Throughout his broadcast one of the tigers persisted in pacing up and down in its cage, stopping only to growl at him.