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Arranged and presented by Victor Smythe
Apart from the ENSA shows given in munitions factories. Victor Smythe has discovered many factories in the North where some of the workpeople themselves entertain their fellow-workers during the midday break, rushing their own meals in order to do it. They have between them some first-class talent, for many a professional comedian, musician, and singer is now working on munitions. Big firms everywhere are giving their hearty support to the movement because diversion at lunch-time has a stimulating effect on the workers.
Today, in the second of the series, listeners will hear something of one of these daily concerts given by the staff to the staff of a large munitions works somewhere in England.

Contributors

Presented By:
Victor Smythe

at the theatre organ
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At the age of five Hunt could play the piano, and he had his first experience as a cinema pianist when only nine years old.
For some years he was musical director of the cinema in his
Staffordshire home-town, and with the coming of the talkies set to work to qualify as a solo organist. He received his first engagement in a Surrey cinema, joined Associated British Cinemas, and ultimately took up his position at the Empire Theatre, Coventry, in November, 1935.

'The band meets again'
Written by Charles Penrose
Produced by Ernest Longstaffe
Characters
The Pig and Whistle Chorus and Orchestra

Contributors

Written By:
Charles Penrose
Produced By:
Ernest Longstaffe
Unknown:
Whistle Chorus
Rosie Jones (the landlady):
Miriam Ferris
Old Granfer:
Charles Wreford
'Erb:
John Rorke
Farmer Greenacre:
Fred Yule
The Squire:
Bobbie Comber
Sergeant Evergreen:
Charles Penrose

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