Britain's Master of Comedy
WILL HAY and his SCHOLARS
MAX and HARRY NESBITT
Songs and Duets with Ukulele Accompaniment
BERTHA WILLMOTT
Comedienne
HAL SWAIN
Saxophone Solos
THE SINGING SISTERS The Famous Viennese Septet
THE B.B.C. THEATRE
ORCHESTRA
Under the direction of KNEALE KELLEY will HAY has been on the Halls for twenty years. Graduated from old-fashioned Minstrel Troupes, and has played sketches in every English-speaking country in the world. Writes practically all his own material.
First broadcast in July, 1922, at the old Marconi House studio.
Bertha Willmott has worked as a ballad singer. Did seven years on the music-halls. Has done a lot of concert-party work and revue. Was educated in a convent; and the nuns discovered she had a voice and trained it. She won certificates at the London College of Music, and the Stratford Festival.
Max Nesbitt plays the uke and piano, and Harry is the vocalist. South Africans : brothers : write all their own songs.
The Singing Sisters. All Viennese.
Arrived in England last September.
Hal Swain was a little boy cornetist in a band at Halifax, so small he had to stand on a ginger-beer box to watch the beat. Then he went overseas and grew so big that he became a Quartermaster in the Canadian Army. First Musical Director of the Cafe Royal, and played in a band for four years at Prince's Restaurant.