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Getting Ready for the Party
Things to eat: Marjorie Russell, with the help of two young friends, shows how to ice a chocolate cake and make sweets with any icing that is left. She also shows how to mix special fruit drinks.
Games to play: Tony Branson shows a group of children some good party games and the best way to play them.

For Older Children
Picture Paper
A film showing how a story is chosen and prepared for the pages of a picture magazine.

(to 16.00)

Contributors

Presenter (Getting Ready for the Party):
Marjorie Russell
Presenter (Getting Ready for the Party):
Tony Branson
Producer:
Peter Thompson

Direct from the Empress Hall, London (by permission of Claude Langdon)
A spectacular skating pantomime, with dialogue, songs and music
Featuring the internationally famous skaters Maj Britt as Cinderella, Valerie Moon as Prince Charming, Eva Nyklova as the Fairy Godmother
with Paul Carpenter as Buttons, and: [see below]

With a supporting company of over a hundred
Metropolitan Concert Orchestra and Choir
Conducted by James Dowar
Written and produced by Eve Bradfield
Introduced by Wynford Vaughan Thomas

Tonight at 8.0

Contributors

Presenter:
Wynford Vaughan Thomas
Musicians/Singers:
Metropolitan Concert Orchestra and Choir
Orchestra and Choir conducted by:
James Dowar
Writer/Producer:
Eve Bradfield
Presented for television by:
Alan Chivers
Cinderella:
Maj Britt
Prince Charming:
Valerie Moon
The Fairy Godmother:
Eva Nyklova
Buttons:
Paul Carpenter
Dandini:
Paddy Woods
Baron:
John Moss
Sisters:
Diana Grafton
Sisters:
Jack Hamett
Broker's man:
Jan Tors
Broker's man:
George Turner

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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More