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at the theatre organ
Cecil Chadwick has had many years of experience in the musical side of the cinema industry. Immediately after the last war, in which he served for four years, he became a pianist in a Manchester cinema, and thereafter began a long series of musical engagements. He was musical director of the Palace Cinema, Southport, where he stayed for seven years. He then began to study the organ, and soon got his first cinema organist's job at the Plaza, Stock-port. Since that time he has given hundreds of broadcasts.

Contributors

Unknown:
Cecil Chadwick

at the theatre organ
Selection: Gone with the Wind
G. T. Pattman , who has broadcast over thirty times on the BBC Theatre Organ, must be one of the very few theatre organists who was previously organist at a cathedral. He was for twelve years at St. Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow, up to 1915. Pattman was the first to tour the halls with an organ specially built for the purpose.
A Hendon man, Pattman has been touring the borough with a portable organ on a lorry in aid of the Mayor of Hendon's fund to buy four Spitfires at a cost of E5,000 each.

Contributors

Unknown:
G. T. Pattman

A musical mosaic of South America
Devised by Walford Hyden
No... 6: Pernambuco
Vera Lennox , Ian Sadler , Cleo Nordi , Isabelita March, and Marcel de Haes
Walford Hyden and his Orchestra
Continuity by Aubrey Danvers-Walker
Presented by Michael North

Contributors

Unknown:
Walford Hyden
Unknown:
Vera Lennox
Unknown:
Ian Sadler
Unknown:
Cleo Nordi
Unknown:
Marcel de Haes
Unknown:
Walford Hyden
Unknown:
Aubrey Danvers-Walker
Presented By:
Michael North

A show for the Home Front with Gwen Lewis , Frederick Burtwell , Reginald Purdell , Sylvia Marriott ,
Joan Gates , Jan van der Gucht
Shelter marshal, Lionel Gamlin
Devised by Francis Worsley and Jenny Nicholson
Produced by Reginald Purdell and Lionel Gamlin
Music by Maurice Winnick and his
Orchestra
This wartime show with the clever title owes most of its laughs to two of our oldest and most popular radio comedians, who are always at their best when they are together. Both won fame in Toytown-Hulme-Beaman's classic of the London Children's Hour, Reginald Purdell creating the parts of Dennis the Dachshund, the Inventor, and the Magician ; Frederick Burtwell (always the Toad in Mr. Toad of Toad Hall) creating the part of Captain Higgins.
In Helter-Shelter they bring down the house as two Cockneys, who do all the odd jobs, as listeners know. With Lionel Gamlin as shelter marshal, this show should be a titbit for the Forces I

Contributors

Unknown:
Gwen Lewis
Unknown:
Frederick Burtwell
Unknown:
Reginald Purdell
Unknown:
Sylvia Marriott
Unknown:
Joan Gates
Unknown:
Lionel Gamlin
Unknown:
Francis Worsley
Unknown:
Jenny Nicholson
Produced By:
Reginald Purdell
Produced By:
Lionel Gamlin
Music By:
Maurice Winnick
Unknown:
Reginald Purdell
Unknown:
Frederick Burtwell
Unknown:
Lionel Gamlin

Some light fare with a Hibernian flavour, arranged and produced by Gordon McConnel
Cast -
At the piano, Gwen Williams
BBC Theatre Chorus, BBC Theatre Orchestra (leader, Tate Gilder ), conductor, Stanford Robinson

Contributors

Produced By:
Gordon McConnel
Piano:
Gwen Williams
Leader:
Tate Gilder
Unknown:
Stanford Robinson
The singer:
Gwen Catley
The compère:
Denis O'Neil
The commère:
Mary O'Farrell

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