Licensee and Manager
Ernest Longstaffe
PETER BERNARD, The Three Graces, and The Rhythm Brothers in 'Raggymemories '
GEORGIE HARRIS (Small, but full of vitality)
RUPERT HAZELL AND ELSIE DAY (The Bright, Breezy Couple)
SUZETTE TARRI (Character Comedienne)
HUGHES AND LEVER (Four Hands and Two Voices)
FRANCIS WALKER (The blind harmonica and accordion wonder)
ABE AND MAWRUSS (in Arguments and Contradictions)
Chairman, HERMAN DAREWSKI
REGINALD FOORT at the BBC Theatre Organ
THE BBC VARIETY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ERNEST LONGSTAFFE
The feature of tonight's Palace of Varieties is that Herman Darewski, among the greatest of musical show-men, is to broadcast as the Chairman. When Ernest Longstaffe nervously approached him, Darewski, with his love of doing anything new, rose to it with enthusiasm. He had known personally one of the last of the Chairmen at the London music-halls — a great character who had long retired. Darewski made a sketch of him from memory and faithfully copied it in his make-up, as shown on the cover of this week's Radio Times. He has written all the material for the Chairman himself.
There is the usual excellent bill:
Georgie Harris, a very bright little man who made a name for himself in Hollywood, now making his radio debut in this country; Rupert Hazell and Elsie Day, well known to listeners; Suzette Tarri , a Longstaffe discovery, broadcasting a new monologue about lodgers in which she takes the part of a maid-of-all-work at a boarding-house; Hughes and Lever, who made their radio name in a 'Tea-Time Hour'; Francis Walker, a protege of Darewski's, who will be on the air for the first time; Abe and Mawruss, a popular Hebrew act, who have broadcast in 'Music-Hall'; and, as a sparkling finish, 'Raggymemories', headed by Peter Bernard, compere of Radiolympia in 1936, who has just returned from a tour of India.