by Robert Collet
A thought for today
Morning physical exercises for women
(Recordings),
Overture, The Barber of Seville (Rossini). Minuet (Boccherini).
Perpetuum mobile (Johann Strauss )
Three English Dances (Quilter). On Wings of Song (Mendelssohn, arr.
Geehl). Romantic Violin (Bridgmont). Chanson de matin
Apres un reve (Faure). Morns Dance (Herbert Fryer )
A recital by Meriel St. Clair (soprano) and Roland Robson (baritone)
at the theatre organ
Yuletide Fun (arr.Porter-Brown).Valse Vanité (Wiedoeft).Somewhere a voice is calling (Tate). Dainty Miss (Barnes). Dance Favourites, Old and New (arr. Porter-Brown)
with Amalia Magri
Parisiana (Michaeloff). Funiculi, Funicula (Denza). Balkan (Knumann). Chez moi (Misraki). When the violins are playing (Love). The Latin Quarter (Warren). Blanco Flor (Mateo).The End of a Perfect Day (Bond). Madelon (Robert). Belle Bimbe Tirolesi (Guarino)
from page 105 of ' New Every Morning'
Richard L. Sharp
by Alfred Cave
Sicilienne (Bach, arr. Auer). La Chasse (Cartier, arr. Kreisler). Hebrew Melody (Achron, arr. Auer). Berceuse (Townsend). Hungarian Dance in D minor (Brahms, arr. Joachim)
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
Conducted by Gideon Fagan
A mystery play for four characters by Alan Melville and P. I. Keith Murray
The First Character-W. H. D. Joss ; the Second Character—
James McKechnie ; the Third Character-Halbert Tatlock ; the Fourth
Character-Arthur Black ; the Fifth Character
Production by Alan Melville
And who is the fifth character ? No one knows. It will be played, if it be played at all, by a ghost voice that has interrupted rehearsals time and again at exactly the same place. If today the voice becomes reticent, what will it matter ? The play will remain Male Quartette.
Oh gathering clouds (A carol) (Bain). An Old Sacred Lullaby (Liddle). Phantom Fleets (Alan Murray ). Largo al factotum (The Barber of Seville) (Rossini)
The ' Herne the Hunter ' Handicap
A commentary by Raymond Glendenning , assisted by Wilfrid Taylor as race-reader, from Rays Meadow Racecourse, Windsor
with Percy Manchester
Parade of the Tin Soldiers (Jessel). Waltz, Beviamo (arr. Troise). White Flower of the Islands (Abraham). Cachucha (Suite, In Malaga) (Frederic Curzon ). Nirvana (Adams). Wedding March of the Marionettes (Rathe).
Tango, Ghitarra Romana (LMzzaro). Paso doble, Morenita (Abbati)
Holiday Talk: Good King Wenceslas '—Heinrich Fischer
An excerpt from Prince Littler's pantomime
The cast includes: Widow Twankey-Barry Lupino ; Aladdin-Betty Huntley-Wright ; Abanazar—Harry Welchman ; Princess So-Shi-Winifred Scott ; Wishee Washee-Billy Nelson ; Peko-Jean Seton ; The
Emperor-Henry Latimer , Sixteen Famous Terry Juveniles
Libretto devised and presented by Prince Littler . Music selected and arranged by Tom Lewis. Ensembles arranged by Kathleen Barnard.
Orchestra under the direction of Tom Lewis from Streatham Hill Theatre
A programme of Fairy-Tale Music played by the BBC Orchestra
(Section C) led by Laurance Turner , conducted by the composer
Cinderella, A Phantasy. The Dance of the Orange Blossoms (The Jester at the Wedding) The Three Bears, A Phantasy
Sheffield Wednesdays. Chesterfield
A commentary during the second half of the Regional League match, by Ivan Sharpe , from the Wednesday Ground, Hillsborough, Sheffield
' How Dr. Goebbels does it'—W. A. Sinclair
The BBC Singers (B)—Sybilla Marshall ; Bettine Young ; Margaret Rolfe ; Winifred Downer ; Rene Soames ; Emlyn Bebb ; Victor Utting ;
Victor Harding
Conducted by Trevor Harvey. At the piano, Ernest Lush
English Folk Songs—1 Searching for Lambs ; 2 Farewell, Nancy; 3 The Shepherd and his Fife ; 4 The Bonny Lighter Boy (arr. Arnold
Foster). North-Country Folk Songs-1 The Water of Tyne ; 2 Dolly-a ; 3 Blow the wind southerly ; 4 Bobby Shaftoe (arr. Whittaker). Irish Folk Songs—1 The Foggy Dew ; 2 The Sword of Erin ; 3 My Love's an Arbutus (arr. Stanford). Slovak Folk Songs—1 Wedding Song from Poniky ; 2 Song of the Hay-Harvesters from Hiadel; 3 Medzibrod ; 4 Dancing Song from Poniky (arr Bartok)
The ' Feast of Stephen '
A programme for Boxing Day by M. Melville Balfour
A Dashing Revue-Christmas Edition with Kenway and Young, Eileen Vaughan , Jacques Brown , Jack Train , Evans and Monelle, Warden and West, the Revue Chorus and the Revue
Orchestra, leader Boris Pecker , conducted by Hyam Greenbaum
Produced by Leslie Bridgmont
survey of what is being thought, done, and said in different parts of the British Isles over Christmas Introduced by Peter Fettes
Funf and Games for Everybody
Tommy Handiey
Ci Vera Lennox , Jack Train. Maurice Denham , Sam Costa , the vendish Three, and the Dance Orchestra, conducted by Billy Ternent e show written by Ted Kavanagh and produced by Francis Worsley
Adapted from the ' Just-So' story by Rudyard Kipling and produced by Maurice Brown
With D. A. Clarke-Smith , Joan Carr , Alan Wheatley , Barbara Couper ,
Valentine Dyall , Susan Taylor , Angela Kirke , Betty Astell ,
Cathleen Cordell. and Val Gielgud as the Storyteller
You are invited to join a Boxing Day trip round the pantomimes to hear:
I-An excerpt from 'PUSS IN BOOTS'
Presented by Tom Arnold (for Julian Wylie Productions, Ltd.), from the Empire Theatre, Newcastle
Cast: King Herbert I and Queen Gosalin, his wife - Shaw and Weston; Princess Rowena, his daughter - Solly Stewart; Plong, his chamberlain
- Roy Jefferies; Carolus, the miller's eldest son, and Caleb, the miller's second son - Nixon and Morrison; Colin, the miller's youngest son - Ann Drummond-Grant; Flyboots - Laurie Mellin; Gurcher, the ogre - Donald Keir; Heartless, his henchman - Phil Lester; Fairy True Love - Olga; Puss-in-Boots - Mildred Powell; Georgie, the miller's man - George Clarke; Betty and Olsa; Pepino's Circus; Sixteen John Tiller Girls; Twelve Eileen Rogan Children; Chorus and Ballet; Kirby's Flying Ballet
2-An excerpt from 'BABES IN THE WOOD'
Presented by the New Hippodrome, Coventry, by arrangement with Bertram Montague
The cast includes: Sandy - Sandy Powell ; Dame Trot - George Bolton ; Robin Hood - Marjery Wyn ; Maid Marion - Freda Gardner; Willy - Pam Crouchen; Tilly-Joan Stansbury ; Baron StoneyâÂÂJimmy Plant; Lancelot Raffles-Arthur Pond ; Jill-Barbara Bentham ; Johnny Green -Alec Sander ; Tommy Tucker-Fred Walker ; Thomasina Tucker -
Betty Ray ; Cook's Comedy Performing Ponies ; Billy Scott-Coomber 's
Sextet ; Colores and Barri ; Twenty-Four Zio Angels ; Sixteen Frances
Whitmer Coventry Babes ; Barbara and Pam ; the Jerry Builders
Orchestra directed by William Pethers
Written and produced by Lewis Marks
3-An excerpt from Emile Littler 's pantomime from the King's Theatre,
Edinburgh, ' HUMPTY DUMPTY '
Book by Emile Littler. Music by Jack Hill. Lyrics by Edmund Wynschenk. Orchestra under the direction of Albert Leggett
Cast : Count Nine, Lord Chancellor, and Count Ninety, Lord
ChamberlainâÂÂde Haven and Page ; Shrimps, the King's Secretary-
Ernest Arnley ; Humpty Dumpty-Betty Barker ; Agatha Applepip , Postmistress of Moth-hole-Bobbie Comber ; King Yolk of Eggville-Gene Gerrard ; Prince Rupert of Truly Rural-Betty Baldwin ; Princess
MarigoldâÂÂElla Drummond ; the Wicked Witch-Leslie Beaufort;
Fairy PetalâÂÂSheila Hawthorn ; The Tiller Girls ; the Danetree Girls ; the Tower Singers ; the King's Musicians (Archie's Juvenile Band)
Devised, presented, and produced by Emile Littler
The programme presented by Pat Hillyard
A black-faced minstrel show devised and produced by Harry S. Pepper
Bones, tambourines, corner-men, crack banjo team, stump speech old and new melodies
The cast includes Scott and Whaley, Ike Hatch, Sidney Burchall, C. Denier Warren, the BBC Variety Orchestra and the Male Voice Chorus, conducted by Leslie Woodgate
Music arranged by Doris Arnold and orchestrated by Wally Wallond.
Book written and remembered by C. Denier Warren
Conducted by Ian Whyte Albert Sammons (violin)
