Britain's Master of Comedy
WILL HAY and his SCHOLARS
ELSIE STERNDALE
Comedienne
FRED LEWIS
Creates a good impression
MARIE BURKE
In Songs
BENNETT and MCNAUGHTON
Comedians
THE B.B.C. THEATRE
ORCHESTRA
Under the direction of HAROLD LOWE
The ever-popular Will Hay is to return with his scholars to the air this evening in his sketch On the Way to Cambridge, which was relayed from the Palladium about three years ago. He gave it at one of his three appearances in Royal Command Variety Performances. Listeners have asked if his elderly pupil is as old as he seems. Will Hay replies that if he were he would have to come to the studio in a bath-chair.
The Lancashire comedienne,
Elsie Sterndale , sang ' Chin Chin Chinaman ' at a Sunday School treat when she was three years old. Then she became more serious. Eventually she was, for six years, principal contralto soloist in Messiah in her church choir. Then her earlier love for light entertainment reasserted itself and she joined a concert party. She made a big success of her broadcast debut in ' First Time Here'.
Fred Lewis is to return to the microphone after an absence of eighteen months in a new act called Film Fan Fancies. He is a natural mimic, and in the Army mimicked his platoon sergeant to the platoon when the platoon sergeant wasn't there.
Fred McNaughton is the son of the late Fred McNaughton of the McNaughtons-as famous a cross-patter act as any in their day. Raymond Bennett comes of theatrical stock, too. When this successful cross-talk act was first broadcast in a relay from the Argyle Theatre, Birkenhead, it set the whole of England laughing, and was booked the next morning for twenty-seven weeks on the halls.
Marie Burke will be giving her last broadcast before going to America to play in Waltzes from Vienna. No artist at the microphone knows how to put a song over better.