and summary of today's programmes for the Forces
Records of Alice Faye , from her radio and film successes
While a child of fourteen Alice Faye got her first job with the Chester Hale stage unit at the Capitol Theatre, New York. After touring with them, she was engaged to do a dance speciality at Hollywood Gardens in Pelham Parkway. Then she appeared in the chorus of George White 's Scandals starring Rudy Vallee , and afterwards sang as soloist with his orchestra and in his radio programmes. She was introduced to Twentieth-Century Fox when they screened George White 's Scandals of 1934. She expected to be in Hollywood for six weeks. She is still there.
From Poor Little Rich Girl, starring Shirley Temple, in which Alice played the romantic lead, to Alexander's Ragtime Band and The
Great American Broadcast, her latest picture, her film career has been a climb of triumph.
Exercises for men
An interlude
A thought for today
J.W.O. Hamilton
followed by Programme Parade
Details of some of today's broadcasts
This week's posers
Mrs. Robins
A handful of records taken at random from the rack
at the theatre organ"
with Percy Underwood (baritone)
News commentary and interlude
from p. 29 of ' New Every Morning ' and p. 52 of ' Each Returning Day '
played by Joseph Lewis and his Orchestra
Singing together by Herbert Wiseman
Old King Cole (nursery rhyme)
Skye boat song (words by Harold Boulton )
Ould John Braddlum (nonsense song)
A Variety programme with artists new to the microphone
Produced by Richard North .
Some records of good jazz
1
by Charles Boulton
(A recording of yesterday's broadcast)
followed by a recording of last night's postscript
played by Edward Isaacs
Conducted by Lieut.-
Colonel George Miller , M.V.O., M.B.E.
Regimental march of the Grenadier Guards
played by Florence de Jong at the theatre organ
Florence de Jong, the first woman organist to broadcast, record and play at Command Performances, was the originator of that popular musical quintet, the Bag a'Tricks (organ, two pianos, and two singers), which included two of Florence's sisters, Ena and Celeste Baga, at the two pianos, and herself at the organ. Florence is now touring cinemas throughout the country, making a special feature of community singing for the Forces and general public, among them so many members of Civil Defence units. This feature, preceded by her signature tune 'Passing Thoughts', gets a rousing welcome wherever she goes.
A talk by Allan Reiach , A.R.I.B.A.
Leader, J. Mouland Begbie
Conductor, Ian Whyte
Nat Gonella's Georgians take their name from their signature tune ' Georgia '-the number with which, by the way, Gonella first attracted the attention of listeners. He appeared, at the age of sixteen, in an Archie Pitt -Gracie Fields show, and during his engagement Gracie Fields gave him a gramophone and some swing records. Through these Gonella heard trumpet-playing of a kind he had never heard before, with the result that he himself began to study the trumpet, and to develop his distinctive technique.
Stori radio gan Caradog Prichard
Fe'i darllenir hf gan Tom Jones
(A story in Welsh)
5.20 'The Wizard of Kilsein'
A comedy based on a Welsh tradition, by Rhys Dafys Williams
4 - 'Robin and the seven sucklings'
5.45 Scottish Songs and Dance
Tunes sung and played by Kathleen Moore and John Linn
followed by National and Regional announcements
A serial play in eight episodes by Mabel Constanduros and Howard Agg
Episode 6
Cast :
Produced by Howard Rose
Sonate a quatre in B minor
Jean Baptiste Loeillct (1653-1728)
Quartet for piano and strings in B minor (unfinished)
Guillaume Lekeu played by the Belgian Piano Quartet : Maurice Raskin (violin)
. Leonard Ardenois (viola)
Rodolphe Soiron (cello) Marcel Gazelle (piano)
by Robert Barr
Produced by D. G. Bridson
Presented by Harry S. Pepper and Ronald Waldman
Donald Peers
'Calling X2'
The eighteenth of a series of counterespionage adventures written by Ernest Dudley, with Jack Melford as British Agent X2
'Something old - something new'
Famous song-writers then and now
Magda Kun
'Puzzle Corner'
'S.O.S.'
'May we introduce...?'
Presented by Leonard Urry and compered by 'Quiz'
Singing commeres, the Three Chimes
BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell
On the anniversary of the recognition of the Czechoslovak Provisional Government, this programme tells the story of a Professor of Philosophy who journeyed round the world to found a republic
By John Midgley and Josef Schrich with Produced by Robert Kemp
played by the BBC Orchestra
Leader, Paul Beard
Conducted by Reginald Redman
by T. S. Eliot
A reading by Robert Speaight
Of the numerous long poems that T. S. Eliot has written, ' East Coker ', his latest, has been hailed by many critics as his greatest and most penetrating work.
There are few finer readers of poetry than Robert Speaight , who, it will be remembered, played Becket in the long run of T. S. Elioes Murder in the Cathedral.
with Dorothy Carless , Len Camber ,
Jackie Hunter , George Evans
