A Musical Play
[Starring] Edith Day and Harry Welchman
Book and Lyrics by Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein 2nd, and Frank Mandel
Music by Sigmund Romberg
Adaptation by Henrik Ege
Characters:
Sid El Kar … Sidney Pointer
Benjamin Kidd … John E. Coyle
Captain Paul Fontaine … Michael Cole
Azuri … Lola Waring
Margot Bonvalet … Edith Day
General Birabeau … Harry Welchman
Susan … Phoebe Hodgson
Ali Ben Ali … Dennis Hoey
The Dancing Daughters
(Trained by Rosalind Wade )
The BBC Theatre Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Stanford Robinson
Produced by John Watt
This is the first radio production of this popular musical play which was produced at Drury Lane in 1927 and revived at the Alhambra in 1931. It is a feature of tonight's broadcast that Edith Day, Harry Welchman, Dennis Hoey, and Sidney Pointer are to play their original parts, while most of the rest of the cast have at some time or other acted the parts they are taking.