No. XIII of the SUMMER SEASON
Relayed from the NEW PAVILION,
BOURNEMOUTH
The BOURNEMOUTH MUNICIPAL AUGMENTED
ORCHESTRA
Conducted by Sir DAN GODFREY

(From Birmingham)
Edwin J. Godbold (Organist)
Cecilia Brassington (Mezzo-Soprano)
The author Scribe and Auber the composer formed a pair working in double harness as nearly like our Gilbert and Sullivan as anything the rest of Europe has ever known. Isolated numbers of many of the delightful Comic Operas they produced are well known wherever merry music is played and sung. And this Overture is not the least popular of those of Auber's which survive. It is in quite serious vein, and the story deals with a revolt, in Naples, in 1647. MasanieHo is the leader of the revolution, and his hatred of the oppressors is fanned by the wrongs of his sister Fenella at the handa of the Spanish Viceroy. The opera ends in tragedy for the chief characters. Masaniello goes out of his mind and is killed, and Fenella throws herself into the sea. An eruption of Vesuvius is a striking feature of the plot. Fenella, the heroine, is dumb, and the part was usually played by the chief dancer in the opera ballet, with gestures only. The opera is usually known abroad as The Dumb Girl of Portici.
The Overture, according to tradition, is made up of tunes from the opera itself.

(From Birmingham)
' ? ' by Margaret Dangerfield
Songs by MARJORIE HOVERD (Soprano)
Jacko will Entertain

; WEATHER FORECAST;
FIRST GENERAL NEWS BULLETIN

by T. W. NORTH
Relayed from the Cathedral, Coventry

(PAUL ENGLAND , BOBBIE COMBER ,
CLAUDE HULBERT , and EDDIE CHILDS )

Presented by WILLIAM T. WILSON

WEATHER FORECAST;
SECOND D GENERAL NEWS BULLETIN

The Wireless Military Band
Conducted by Charles Leggett

Between the austere domain of Grand Opera, much more often tragic than happy, and the frivolous realm of Musical Comedy there lies a delightful kingdom - the kingdom of what the French call 'Opera Comique.'
There is a wealth of light operas which really are comic, with plots which are often on a higher level, dramatically, than many so-called Grand Operas, full of gay and sparkling music which of itself, one might think, would have saved the works from falling into oblivion. The French composer, Auber, left a number of such operas, of which Fra Diavolo is the best known.

JACK PAYNE 'S B.B.C. DANCE ORCHESTRA