at the Organ of the Granada
Cinema, Bedford
Eric Smith started his professional career as an articled pupil at Luton Parish Church, and as a student of the Trinity College of Music, London. He gained his L.R.A.M. at the age of eighteen, and a year later his F.R.C.O., with the Lafontaine Prize awarded to the best candidate of that period.
He was appointed to the staff of Trinity College of Music and had six years as a school music master and as a conductor of choral societies. During this time he gave pianoforte and organ recitals in many parts of the country.
Smith has been in the cinema world for four years, at the Worthing Plaza and the Bedford Granada. Whilst at Worthing he twice appeared with the Municipal Orchestra as soloist in a Bach Concerto, and in Cesar Franck 's Symphonic Variations.