being another helping of this popular mixture of Variety and community singing with Rupert Hazell and Elsie Day (host and hostess)
Gene Autry the singing cowboy of the screen
Regan and Ann 'such ado about nothing'
Harry Hemsley marvellous child studies
Campbell and Wise the weak guy and his weakness
Vine, More, and Nevard entertainers
Albert Burdon that funny little fellow
The BBC Revue Chorus
Al Bollington at the BBC Theatre Organ
The BBC Variety Orchestra
The show produced and conducted by Ernest Longstaffe
Do join in the choruses if you feel like it, and even if you don't
Gene Autry, who is at present over here on holiday, is one of the most popular cowboy film stars now playing. He is touring the British Isles in the caravan which he uses during film work on location in Hollywood, and is making a series of personal appearances at cinemas in big towns throughout the country. He is a picturesque figure in the true cowboy tradition, though he differs from some people's idea of the tough West in the fact of his beautiful singing voice. He is said to receive more fan mail than Robert Taylor, and his gramophone records sell in America even more than those of Bing Crosby.
Al Bollington, who started playing the organ in his own village at the age of ten, began to study the cinema organ in America at the time when this instrument was just becoming the rage of the States. Returning to England, Bollington got an appointment with Spiero's orchestra at the Tower, Blackpool, and be later obtained his first solo organist appointment at the Streatham Astoria. He was there for five years, spent two years at the Plaza, Piccadilly Circus, and succeeded Reginald Foort at the Paramount, Tottenham Court Road.
He has given a number of broadcasts on the Paramount organ as well as transmissions from the BBC Theatre Organ.