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MAIR JONES (Soprano)
Pipe-Major WILLIAM Ross

HENRI MERTON (The Phenomenal Mimic)
PATRICIA ROSSBOROUGH (Songs at the Piano)

hy EDGAR T. COOK
From Southwark Cathedral

Miss RHODA POWER: What the Onlooker Saw
(Course III)-Round the Shops '

ETHEL and BURGESS SOAR
(Light Ballads, Duets, and Solos)

'The Topless Tower,' from ' The Phopnix and the Carpet' (E. Nesbit )
' Caprice Sgarnarelle ' (Schutt), and other solos by CECIL DIXON
'Some General Hints on How to Play Tennis,' by Colonel R. H. BRAND
'Down Devon Way,' and two or three other songs sung by REX PALMER

SONGS OF SCHUMANN
Sung by JOHN THORNE (Baritone)
Op. 25, No. 26. Zum Sehluss (For the End)
Op. 35, 3, Wanderlied (Vagrant Song)
Op. 39, No. 11. Im Walde (In the Wood)
Op. 96, No. 1, Nachtlied (Night Song)
Soldatenlied (Soldiers' Song)

Act I
Relayed from the Royal Opera House,
Govent Garden
RICHARD STRAUSS describes his opera,
The Ross Cavalier , as a comedy for music. To the ordinary listener it is much the easiest of all his works to understand and enjoy. There is nothing abstruse or unkindly in it, and the waltz tunes in which it abounds make it plain how rich a vein of natural melody is his to draw upon when he chooses.
The opera is based on an old custom of a bygone age ; a suitor used to arrange for a suitable messenger to carry a silver rose to his lady-love in token of his devotion.
At the beginning of the first Act, the young
Count Octavian is paying his devotions to the Princess, wife of a Field-Marshal who is away at the wars. The lady is touched by the boy's devotion, but feels that she is too old to retain his affection, and has made up her mind that she must give him up. They are interrupted by the arrival of the Baron Ochs, and Octavian hides, and disguises himself as a girl. When he emerges, tho Baron is greatly taken with him, and there is much by-play between them, when the Princess is not looking. The object of the Baron's visit was to ask his kinswoman, the Princess, to choose for him a cavalier to carry his rose to the lady of his heart, and when she has sent him away, the Princess tells Octavian that he must undertake the task. The idea pleases him so much that in leaving, he forgets to take a tender farewell of the lady, to her evident chagrin.

Pre-Dissolution Series : Conservative Address

MURIEL MIDDLETON (Contralto)
LEONARD GOWINGS (Tenor)
THE GERSHOM PARKINGTON QUINTET

THE PICCADILLY PLAYERS, directed by AL STARITA, and THE PICCADILLY HOTEL DANCE BAND, directed by JAMES KELLEHER, from the Piccadilly Hotel