A play by John Van Druten
(Aubrey Mather appears by permission of Stephen Mitchell)
(to 16.30)
(sound only)
A programme in which the contemporary American scene will be described in speech and picture.
Sir Frederick Whyte, K.C.S.I., Director of the English Speaking Union, will contribute a portrait of President Roosevelt and will introduce among others J.B. Priestley, Susan Ertz, S.P.B. Mais, Cedric Belfrage, Graham Hutton, and A. Lloyd James.
Documentary film from America and pictures by contemporary American artists will supplement personal reactions to the New Deal, American literature and language, the mixture of races, and the varied scene which is America.
A demonstration of black and white Boxing by Jack 'Dusty' Miller and Company Sergeant-Major Wheeler of the Army School of Physical Training at Aldershot.
Commentary by Major D.S. Lister, Amateur Heavyweight Champion, 1925
A demonstration by a team of international women players - Miss Elizabeth Corke, Mrs. Pat Cohen, Mrs. Niel Furse, Miss Kathleen Salmons. The experiment conducted by Hubert Phillips.
(to 22.30)