From St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate
JOHANNA VOLLERS (Soprano)

LAUNCELOT QUINN (Light Baritone)
DOROTHY McBLAIN
(The Girl who Whistles in her Throat)

(From Birmingham) :
'LEGEND LAND OF THE WESTERN ISLES'
The Story Teller, MARTIN GILKES
The Singer, DENNE PARKER
ARTHUR LINDSAY will Entertain

(From Birmingham)
THE BIRMINGHAM STUDIO ORCHESTRA
Conducted by JOSEPH LEWIS
Overture, ' The Black
Domino ' .... Auber
Selection, ' La Poupée '
Audran
ALTHOUGH there has never been anything in music quite like the Gilbert and Sullivan Operas of which England is so justly proud,' the association of Auber as composer and Scribe as librettist was as nearly a parallel as it is possible for the French idiom to achieve. There are several points of diference, as well as of resemblance, notably this, that the two produced quite a number of serious as well as comic operas. But it is the latter alone which survive, and these only in such fragments as this Overture.
Auber had a deft hand, too, in sketching the personalities of his characters, in the music he gave them to sing. And his music is so full of those qualities of brightness and good humour of which a harassed world is sorely in need that it is a real misfortune to have them relegated, as they are, to neglect and forgetfulncss.

A PRINCESS OF KENSINGTON, with a libretto by Basil Hood , followed Merrie
England, in which he had also collaborated with German, in 1903. It is a charming fantasy in which a whimsical humour like Gilbert's is blended with something like the fancy of Sir James Barrie , and romance is woven into the fabric of modern London life with a subtle and delicate charm. German's music fits the story in the same happy way that Sullivan's music seems inseparable from Gilbert's inimitable nonsense, and the Opera promised at first to carry on the long series of Savoy successes, with the brightest of hopes for a still further series. And yet, although it was warmly welcomed later too, when the d'Oyly Carte people took it on tour, it has not contrived to hold the stage, and except in the form of such selections as this, is almost never heard.

S.B. from. Manchester A Play in Three Acts by T. STIRLING BoYD Produced by VICTOR SMYTHE
Rosie, a Maid
LUCIA ROGERS
Nancy Holland
EDITH TOMS
The Rev. John Valley , the Vicar
TOM WILSON
Mabel Carnegie , Alan's
Wife HYLDA METCALF
Alan Carnegie
IVAN BRANDT
Roger Heathcote
CHARLES NESBITT
A Police Officer
EDGAR LEWIS
Mr. Haddon, Alan's
Junior Counsel
W. E. DICKMAN
A Warder... P. HANNEN Sir James Blain, K.C.,
Alan's Leading Counsel
D. E. ORMEROD
Mr. Eldridge, Alan's
Solicitor
HAROLD CLUFF
Mr. Sefton, K.C., Leading Counsel for the Crown LEO CHANNING
An Usher .................... F. A. NICHOLS Mr. Justice Barker, the Judge
GEORGE BERNARD SMITH
The Clerk of the Assize .... MICHAEL Voysey The Foreman of the Jury .. J. EDWARD ROBERTS Mr. Semple ............ HECTOR R. WILLIAMS
Counsel, Warders, Ushers, Jurymen, etc.
Entr'actes played by THE NORTHERN WIRELESS
ORCHESTRA
Act I:
Scene 1 : Alan Carnegie 's cottage in the country, on the evening of June 7
Scene 2: The same: Two days later
Act II :
Scene 1 : A room in a Prison. The following
November
Scene 2: A Court of Justice. Four days later Scene 3 : The same. Two'hours later
Act III:
Scene 1 : Alan's cottage. Three weeks later-
December
Scene 2: The same. A fortnight later-January The action takes place in England at the present day

: Ciro's CLUB BAND under the direction of RAMON NEWTON