Leader, ALFRED BARKER
Conducted by CRAWFORD McNAIR
In 1903 Sir George Alexander produced a play entitled Old Heidelberg at the St. James's Theatre. It proved to be a highly sentimental but well-constructed play with considerable charm, and was a great success, being revived in 1909 and again in 1925. In Germany it is practically a classic of its kind.
In 1926 a musical version of it was put on at His Majesty's Theatre ; this, entitled The Student Prince, had some success chiefly owing to the introduction of a number of authentic students' songs sung with the precision and spirit one is led to expect from the undergraduates in a German university. This version, too, was revived in 1929 at the Piccadilly Theatre.