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Concert by Prize-Winners
Relayed from the Central Hall, Westminster
Lady Gold Medallist. Vocal
Trinity College of Music Nine Guinea Exhibitioner either Vocal or Instrumental
Piano Solo. Winner of Eighty Guinea 'Chappell'
Piano
Tenor, Baritone, or Bass Gold Medallist
Winner of Federation of British Music Tndustries Fifty Guinea Challenge Cup, offered to the best performer at the Festival. May be lady or gentleman and either Vocal or Instrumental.
The Daily News £100 Scholarship, for a Vocal or Instrumental Candidate showing best promise.
A Massed Choral Performance

An Heroic Comedy in Five Acts by EDMOND ROSTAND
Arranged for Broadcasting and Produced under the Supervision of ROBERT LORAINE
Characters :
Citizens, Musketeers. Thieves, Pastrv
"ooks, Poets, Cadets of Gascoyne,
Actors, Spanish Soldiers, Spectators,
Academicians, Nuns and Others the plays begins at a sort of Tennis court arranged with a stage in the Hall of the Hotel de Boulogne in 1640. THIS fine romantic play, founded on the adventures of Rostand's large-nosed, but high-souled, hero was produced at the Garrick Theatre, London, in March, 1919, when Mr. Robert Loraine created the part that he will play tonight.
One of the very finest of our romantie actors, he is also very versatile, and amongst h.s most notable successes have been such diverse parts as John Tanner m Man and Superman, Rudolf in The
Prisoner of Zenda, and, quite recently.
Mirabell in Mr. Playfair's production of The Way of the World. Amongst his most notable broadcast performances was his impressive reading of the Biblical passages that linked up tho parts of Honegger's
King David,' when it was given in the tenth of the B.B.C.'s National Concerts.

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Loraine
Unknown:
John Tanner
Cyrano de Bergerac:
Robert Loraine
Christian de Neuvillette:
Henry Oscar
Comte de Guiche:
Ben Webster
Le Bret:
Ben Field
Le Bret:
Gordon Bailey
Carbon de Castle-Jaloux:
Andrew Churchman
Vicomte de Valvert:
Vincent Sternroyi,
Montfleury:
Edward Foster
Cuigy:
Henry Le Grand
Brissaille:
George Howe
Roxane:
Stella Patrick Campbell
Lise:
Juliet Mansell
Mother Marguerite de Jesus:
Viola Compton
Sister Marthe:
Gladys Gayner
Sister Claire:
Netta Westcott

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