Directed by Charles Kunz
Relayed from Casani's Club
(All Nationals except Daventry)

5.15 The Children's Hour
' The Sand-Castle ' a play by L. Du Garde Peach with music by V. Hely-Hutchinson
THE GARDENER
This afternoon The Sand Castle is to be given for the fourth time. It is an example of the best of L. du Garde Peach's imaginative work and of the most delightful of Victor Hely-Hutchinson's music, which the composer himself will conduct.
Two children are with their father on the beach, and a book of nursery rhymes is washed out by the sea. They all fall asleep and go down a tunnel under the sea in a dream.
There, under the guidance of a delightful lobster, who has a catch phrase, ' It's a system', they meet all the fairy-tale people out of the book. But Cinderella has lost her prince, the cat has lost Dick Whittington , the dog has lost Mother Hubbard , Red Riding Hood her wolf, while, contrariwise, the sheep which Bo-peep had lost in the rhyme, have found her and won't be shooed away.
The Pearls whisper, and the Tide talks, and the Little Waves sing little songs. And Little Boy Blue - but for the sake of the children who have not heard the play before, we mustn't give the secret away.
Olive Groves is once more to play Bo-Peep. She is featured in ' People You Hear ', on page 894.
(Daventry)