JACK PADBURY 'S COSMO CLUB Srx
(From Birmingham)
' Paul the Parrot,' by Mary Haras
.MURIEL TOOKEY (Violin)
'Snapshots-those holiday mistakes,' by Hugo Van Wadenoyen
JOHN RORKE (Baritone) in Light Ballads
; WEATHER FORECAST, FIRST GENERAL NEws BULLETIN
(From Birmingham)
THE BIRMINGHAM STUDIO ORCHESTRA
Conducted by JOSEPH LEWIS
Pinafore was produced in 1878, and had a run of 700 consecutive nights in London. Besides that, it was produced in a pirated version at another theatre in London and had a tremendous vogue throughout the country. In the United States its unauthorised performances broke all records of that kind, and a contemporary report tells us that ' the spectacle was presented at every theatre and every concert of importance in the big cities, producing the same piece without the author and composer receiving a farthing for their work.' The matter became so serious that Gilbert and Sullivan together went to New York in 1879 to produce their own authentic version at the Fifth Avenue Theatre.
It is one of the few Gilbert and Sullivan Operas which the Germans attempted to adapt to their own stage, giving it the title Amor am Bord (Amor on Board). Its whimsical humour, poking fun at the old Admiralty methods, is not suited to the stolid German temperament; in those far-off days, at any rate, to poke fun at a Government department was simply 'not done ' in Germany, and Pinafore's delightful humour missed fire altogether.
Relayed from the Queen's Hall, London
(Sole Lessees, Messrs. Chappell and Co., Ltd.)
35th Season
PARRY JONES (Tenor)
GUNNA BREUNING (Violin)
BERKELEY MASON (Organ)
SIR HENRY WOOD and his
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
(Leader, CHARLES
WOODHOUSE)
Beethoven and Mozart
Concert
WEATHER FORECAST,
SECOND GENERAL NEWS BULLETIN
(From Birmingham)
COLLEEN CLIFFORD , JOHN RORKE , HAROLD SCOTT ,
ALFRED BUTLER , and EDGAR LANE
Supported by THE BIRMINGHAM STUDIO CHORUS and ORCHESTRA
Conducted by JOSEPH LEWIS
THE CAFE DE PARIS BLUE LYRES BAND from the CAFE DE PARIS
directed by JERRY HOEY , from the PICCADILLY
HOTEL
