American Singer
At the piano, Helen Pope
"The story of Hassan of Bagdad and how he came to make the Golden Journey to Samarkand" by James Elroy Flecker.
The BBC Television Orchestra
Leader, Boris Pecker
Conductor, Hyam Greenbaum
This is the second part of the television performance of "Hassan", the first part of the story having been told on June 8. The Delius music written for "Hassan" will be played by the BBC Television Orchestra.
The cast assembled for this performance is one of the most distinguished yet seen in an Alexandra Palace transmission. Frank Cellier, who will be seen in the title role has had thirty-five years' stage experience in Great Britain, America, the West Indies, South Africa, and Germany. He was born in London in 1884, and obtained much of his early training in repertory companies playing a wide variety of Shakespearean parts. Amongst his most recent West End stage appearances were "The Mask of Virtue" and "Espionage". He has also had considerable success as a producer, noteworthy examples being "Toad of Toad Hall", "Admirals All", and "Orders is Orders". Filmgoers will remember him in "The Thirty-Nine Steps", "The Passing of The Third Floor Back", and "The Guv'nor". Antoinette Cellier, twenty-four-year-old daughter of Frank Cellier, made her first stage appearance in a play in which her father was acting in 1914, when she was an infant in arms. Her adult debut was made in 1932, since when she has scored notably in "Sixteen" and "The Wind and The Rain".
Douglas A. Clarke-Smith is familiar to listeners, filmgoers, and playgoers, and has been associated for two decades with almost every side of the entertainment profession.
American Singer
At the piano, Helen Pope
(Details as at 3.25)