at the Organ of the Gaumont
Cinema, Doncaster
As a youth Hebron Morland was organist at the parish church of his native village of Hunwick, in County Durham. It was some years later that he got his first cinema-organ post, at the Scala, South Shields, from which he went to the Queen's Hall, Newcastle-on-Tyne, as solo organist. He has been at the Doncaster Gaumont since 1934, when he opened its very up-to-date new organ.
He recalls an amusing incident when the organ blower ceased to function during the playing of ' The Lost Chord', and another when a cat walked all over the organ in the middle of a soulful rendering of ' Softly awakes my heart '.