Directed by HENRY HALL
5.15 Daventry
The Children's Hour
'The Careful Queen'-No. 1. 'How the Queen made the King an April Fool' by EVELYN GLOVER , told by RONALD SIMPSON
A Special Programme by THE NEW
RADIO NOVELTY QUARTET
THE STAR GAZER
' THE CAREFUL QUEEN ' is the first of six stories round a very attractive but most foolish Queen, who is the cause of lots of fun. In the first story her children play a joke on April Fool's day, and you will see the part that their mother plays in it. The author makes her first bow in Children's Hour, but you all know Ronald Simpson and will immediately connect him with Winnie the Pooh.
' Mac ' heard about a new novelty quartet, and set off to listen to them in a little studio off Bond Street. The combination was so novel and their playing so fresh and lively that he at once engaged them. Al Shaw is their leader, and plays a steel guitar, which shines like aluminium. The other three instruments are piano-accordion, double bass, and violin. The violinist is also a tenor singer.
They all played for two years at
Quaglino's and at the May Fair Hotel, and decided to get together on their own. This afternoon you are to hear the New Radio Novelty Quartet on the air for the first time.