A cheerful selection of gramophone records
Records of Gitta Alpar, the musical-comedy star
Popular artists and bands fall in for your entertainment on gramophone records
Details of some of today's broadcasts
played by The Royal Artillery (Mounted) Band
Conducted by Mr. David McBain
played by Violet Carson and Edith Roscoe
Leader, Tate Gilder
Conducted by Harold Lowe
Today's king pin of comedy played the Knave of Hearts in the Lyceum pantomime of 1938-1939. He was heard in an outside broadcast from the theatre, and the previous year he was on the air in a scene from the Lyceum pantomime of 1937-1938, Beauty and the Beast.
Albert Burdon was born at South Shields and started life as a juggler. In course of time he introduced comedy into his act, and gradually juggling became a thing of the past and the art of getting laughs, at which he is a master, a thing of the present and the future.
at the theatre organ
' With a smile and a song'
When you're smiling
for the Canadian-Forces in Great
Britain
The eighth of a series of programmes relayed from Canada, containing news of activities at home and personal messages from their friends and families for Canadian soldiers, sailors, airmen, and nurses
' Conductor, P. S. G. O'Donnell
played by Jack Leon and his Orchestra
This series takes you to the famous music-hall where, from 1930 to 1940, the musical director was
Sydney Kaplan who will talk about and play records of some of the hundreds of well-known artists who have played there Sydney Kaplan , who now brings to a close his present series of memories of the Holborn Empire, met every top-liner during his ten years there. He has one dramatic memory. He saw the trapeze artist, Charles Warren , miss his heel catch one night and crash on top of the piano, within inches of his head. Fortu-' nately Warren was not badly hurt and is performing to this day.
Kaplan was at one time musical director of the Old London Music-Hall, Shoreditch, a famous try-out house. Max Miller , the Houston Sisters, and almost everyone who is a big name today made his or her London bow there.
Elsit and Doris Waters are god-mothers to his little boy Lionel David , nicknamed Bingo, now aged eight. In 1937, at the age of four, he played the Butcher Boy in the Harlequinade in Where the Rainbow Ends.
She is bound to be late again and so Billy Milton assisted by his manservant Fred Yule will while away the time until she arrives
Written by Ernest Dudley and presented by Eric Spear
(A recorded programme)
A record programme of famous trio and quartet singers
including messages sent by members of the Services in Egypt for their relatives and friends in Great Britain
(Arranged by Peter Haddon and recorded by courtesy of the Egyptian
State Broadcasting)
followed by National and Regional announcements
Guest conductor, Maurice Johnstone
A programme of Scots songs chosen and introduced by Her Grace the Duchess of Atholl
A weekly summary by the Canadian Press, specially prepared for Canadians overseas and read by Gerry Wilmot
(In collaboration with the CBC and the Canadian Press)
in an ENSA concert
From an R.A.F. Station somewhere in England
Presented by the Department of National Service Entertainment
(NAAFI)
Directed by Victor Silvester
The second in a new series of programmes. Each week Victor Silvester will give you a ten-minute dancing lesson. Victor Silvester and his Orchestra will then play dance music for thirty minutes to enable you to practise the steps you have just learned.
Presented by David Miller
Presented by James Moody
It goes quickly, and it has a pleasant jingle
A weekly show written by Ted Kavanagh with Doris Hare
Paula Green
Ian Sadler
Bettie Bucknelle
Alan Paul and Ivor Dennis
The Orchestra and Male Voice
Quartet
Conducted by Sam Rogers
Produced by Vernon Harris
presents
' Boogie Woogie '
A talk with illustrations at the piano by George Shearing