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Practical help for the housewife.
Presented by Joan Gilbert.

Fruit and Vegetables
What to buy this month.
Advice from Frances Perry.

Home Dressmaking with Kathleen Elliott: 1 - Introduction
How to select patterns and materials to suit any kind of figure.
Kathleen Elliott writes on page 27

Children's Teeth
A dentist calls in the aid of Andy Pandy to explain the importance of children being taught to clean their teeth.

Contributors

Presenter:
Joan Gilbert
Item presenter (Fruit and Vegetables):
Frances Perry
Item presenter (Home Dressmaking):
Kathleen Elliott
Producer:
S. E. Reynolds

Children's Newsreel

Poor Old Burton
A comedy by Kathleen Shepherd.
(Second performance: April 11)
(Walter Horsbrugh is appearing in "Witness for the Prosecution" at the Winter Gardens Theatre, London)

(to 17.40)

Contributors

Writer (Poor Old Burton):
Kathleen Shepherd
Settings (Poor Old Burton):
Eileen Diss
Producer (Poor Old Burton):
Pamela Brown
Bryonie:
Georgina Mackie
Roger:
Paul Streather
Kevin:
Robert Scroggins
Mother:
Rosemary Scott
Father:
Walter Horsbrugh
Mr. Burton:
Fred Johnson
Shopgirl:
Margaret Anderson
Mr. Protheroe:
Frank Atkinson
Passer-by:
Janet Joye

with Kenneth Horne in the chair and Elizabeth Gray, Patricia Cutts, Michael Pertwee and Kenneth Wolstenholme finding the letters.

Contributors

Chairman:
Kenneth Horne
Panellist:
Elizabeth Gray
Panellist:
Patricia Cutts
Panellist:
Michael Pertwee
Panellist:
Kenneth Wolstenholme
Special effects:
Alfred Wurmser
The game devised by:
Polly S. Cowan
The game devised by:
Louis G. Cowan
Presented by:
Dicky Leeman

[Starring] Eric Portman and Barbara Mullen in Aimee Stuart's play
with Andre van Gyseghem.
The action takes place in Scotland and the Continent. Time: late summer, 1938
(Second performance)
(Eric Portman appears by permission of the J. Arthur Rank Organisation, Ltd.)

Contributors

Writer:
Aimee Stuart
Producer:
Dennis Vance
Director:
David MacDonald
Musical score:
Malcolm Rayment
Settings designer:
John Cooper
Father:
John Laurie
Jeannie:
Barbara Mullen
Mrs. Whitelaw:
Hilda Fenemore
Bessie:
Margaret Gordon
Maggie:
Katherine Page
Stanley Smith:
Eric Portman
Porter:
Frank Atkinson
Attendant:
John G. Heller
Page:
Michael Barber
Hotel clerk:
Paul Sheridan
Count:
Andre van Gyseghem
Blonde:
Mila Parely
First waiter:
John G. Heller
Second waiter:
Cecil Brock
Maitre d'hotel:
W. Thorp Devereux
Jeannie's mistress:
Olga Dickie
[Actress]:
Hedi Schnabel
[Actress]:
Nickola Sterne
[Actor]:
Peter Morny
[Actress]:
Diana Fairfax
[Actress]:
Lesley Jackson
[Actor]:
Robert Stead
[Actor]:
Carl Lacey

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