Conductor, ERNEST W. GOSS
Relayed from Spanish Barn, Torre
Abbey, Torquay
(West Regional Programme)
The longest run on record of any musical production was made with the popular musical comedy The Maid of the Mountains. Harold Fraser-Simson 's melodious score contributed very largely to this success. It was first put on at Daly's in 1917, with Josd Collins in the cast. (Hers, too, was a splendid achievement, and is still one of the more delightful War-time memories of officers and men on leave.)
Fraser-Simson wrote music to other musical comedies, notably A Southern Maid, The Street Singer, and Betty in Mayfair ; but he is even better known to listeners by his settings of A. A,.. Milne's ' When We Were Very Young ', and more recently by the incidental music to the adaptation of Kenneth Grahamc 's 'Wind in the Willows', put on the stage under the title of Toad of Toad Hall.