LINA TYBER (Soprano)
ARTHUR BROUGH (Baritone)
FRASCATI'S ORCHESTRA, conducted by GEORGES HAECK
From the Restaurant Frascati
Miss C. VON Wyss : ' Nature
Study-I, White Butterflies'
2.55 Interlude
:t.O Miss M. BARBER : Stories and Story Telling in Prose and Verse.'
3.25 Interlude
: The
History of Embroidery — I, Early Times to the Ninth Century A.D.'
JANE FRANQUIN (Pianoforte) THE WESTMINSTER STRING
QUARTET
Played by ALEX TAYLOR
Relayed from Davis' Theatre,
Croydon
'THE TALE OF ERNEST THE POLICE
MAN,' as told in ' Toy Town' (S. G. Hulme-Beaman ), arranged as a dialogue story, with Incidental Music by THE OLOF
SEXTET
Weather Forecast, First General News Bulletin
PIANOFORTE DUETS by WEBER,
MENDELSSOHN, and SCHUMANN
Played by ETHEL BARTLETT and RAE ROBERTSON
ROGER FRY who iis giving this important series of talks on pictures, is among the few critics who are also artists of distinction. His best-known work, perhaps, is Vision and Design, and many listeners will be familiar with his trenchant and extremely individual artoriticisms in the Press. The series is intended to give some idea of what those who are most interested in the great masterpieces of art find in them, how they look at them, what they look for, and what they know it is useless to look for. Two of the pictures discussed by Mr. Fry in his first talk are Luke Fildes ' Doctor and a ' story picture' by Giotto ; the point emphasised being that the much greater skill of representation of the former does not compensate for the absence of other qualities which have made tho Giottc a joy through many centuries. The vision of everyday life, the vision of the ' ordinary ' man, is practical; the vision of the artist, however, is contemplative and disinterested—them is the key to Mr. Fry's analysis.
The pictures discussed week by week will be found reproduced in the current issue of The Listener.
In Another Spot of Bother
Acts I and II
A LIBRETTO OPERA TONIGHT AT 8.5
'THAI S'
A Lyric Comedy in Three Acts and Seven Tableaux, by MASSENET
Poem by LOUIS GALLET, after the Novel of ANATOLE FRANCE
English Translation by HERMAN KLEIN
THE WIRELESS CHORUS Chorus Master: STANFORD ROBINSON
THE WIRELESS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (Leader: S. KNEALE KELLEY) Conducted by PERCY PITT
(Relayed from the Parlophone Studio, by courtesy of the Parlophone Co.)
Acts I. and II. will be broadcast from 8.5 to 9.40, and Act III., at 10.15.
CAST:
Thais, Actress and Courtesan ........................... INA SOUEZ
Crobyle, a Slave ........................................ KATE WINTER
Myrtale, a Slave .. Evelyn ARDEN
Albine, Abbess ... Evelyn ARDEN
Nicias, a rich young man......................LEONARD GOWINGS
Athanael, an Anchorite .......................... DENNIS NOBLE
Palemon, an old Anchorite, .................... WILLIAM ANDERSON
Aslaee- ... ............ - .... STANLEY RILEY
Tom PURVIS Four Anchorites............ STANLEY RILEY SAMUEL DYSON
Chorus of Historians and Comedians, Philosophers, Friends of Nicias, the People and the White Nuns
Narrator: Filson Young
The story of the opera, told by Percy A. Scholes, will be found on Page 597.
WEATHER FORECAST, SECOND GENERAL NEWS BULLETIN; Local Announcements; (Daventry only) Shipping Forecast and Fat Stock Prices
MR. JENNlNGS, who is the author of 'In London's Shadows,' has made an exhaustive and first-hand study of the vagrancy question. This summer he lived the life of a vagrant for a month, tramping the roads, sleeping in casual wards, and making the acquaintance of hundreds of ' down-and-outs.' No one, even in the casual wards where he slept, discovered his identity. He tramped for 300 miles, from spike ' to ' spike,' begging his food and doing odd jobs by the way. Mr. Jennings, who has become known as the 'Doss House Parson,' broadcast some two years ago on the subject of vagrancy in the East End. In his talk tonight he will describe some of his racy and illuminating experiences during his most recent tour of the underworld.
Act III
JACK.HYLTON'S AMBASSADOR CLUB
BAND, directed by RAY STARITA ; from THE AMBASSADOR CLUB
