Royal Performance in aid of The Variety Artistes, Benevolent Fund
The artists who had the honour of appearing before Her Majesty the Queen at the London Coliseum on Monday, November 2. were: Virion Blaine, Hastings Girls' Choir, Mackenzie Reid and Dorothy, Ere Boswell, Edmund Hockridge, Ethel Revnell, Max Bygraves, Jimmy James, Ronnie Ronalde, Tommy Cooper, Jo, Jac, and Joni, Anne Shelton, Henry Cotton, Alfred Marks, The Tiller Girls, Danya and Alvarez, Gloria Nord, Jack Warner, Jimmy Edwards, Sheila O'Neill, and Viet Bethke, Lizbeth Webb
An excerpt from 'Guys and Dolls' with Sam Levene, Stubby Kaye, Ernest Butcher, Johnny Silver, Tom Pedi, Jerry Wayne, Lew Herbert, Colleen Clifford, Robert Cawdron, Phil Green and the Coliseum Orchestra
Alan Melville will re-create for listeners this great occasion in the Variety world with the aid of recordings made during the actual performance at 3.0