Personally conducted by JACK PAYNE
ERNEST MELVIN (Light Ballads)

From Birmingham

MOLLY IVERSON (Soprano); JOHN VAN ZYL
(Baritone); ADELINA LEON (Violoncello)

(From Birmingham) :
' Your friend Schumann,' a Musical Play by H. G. Soar. Songs by Gertrude Davies (Soprano). Margaret Ablethorpe (Pianoforte)

From Birmingham
THE BIRMINGHAM STUDIO ORCHESTRA, conducted by FRANK CANTELL

(La Fanciulla del West)
Am Opera in Three Acts
(From the Drama by David Belasco)
Italian libretto by Civinini and Carlo Zangarini
English Version by R. H. Elkin
Music by Puccini
The Wireless Male Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Stanford Robinson)
The Wireless Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, S. Kneale Kelley)
Conducted by Percy Pitt

BORN in St. Petersburg only thirty-three years ago. Mr. Gerhardi literally leapt into fame with his first book. ' Futility,' a novel on Russian themes. In this, with a knowledge of Russia drawn from his experience in his own youth, and later as Military Attache at Petrograd during the Revolution and in Siberia from 1918 to 1920, he wonderfully portrayed the strange enigma of the Russian mind. His work since then has aroused much difference of opinion amongst the critics, but his brilliance is undisputed, and his latest novel, Jazz and Jasper,' shows that he has lost none of it so far. The story that he will read tonight is a keenly-drawn little study of the reactions of a girl in love with the man who plays the big drum.

(Continued)
ACTS II and III

: FRANK ASHWORTH'S
BAND from the Hotel Metropole.