Mrs. ARTHUR WEBB : ' 'Vegetable
Preserving'
Directed by JOHN BRIDGE
(From North Regional)
At THE ORGAN of THE BEAUFORT
ClNEMA
From WASHWOOD HEATH, BIRMINGHAM
Directed by JOSEPH MUSCANT
From THE COMMODORE THEATRE, HAMMERSMITH
GLYN EASTMAN (Baritone)
(From London Regional)
At THE ORGAN of THE REGAL, KING-
STON-ON-THAMES
(From London Regional)
(Continued overleaf.)
Conducted by CYRIL DALMAINE
THE Macfarren family was a distinguished one. George, the elder, was a dramatist, and he had two sons, George and Walter. George Macfarren, who became Principal of the Royal Academy of Music, and who was knighted in 1883, was born in 1813. Practically his whole career was connected with the Royal Academy, for he was first a student then a professor there, before becoming head of it. He composed a good deal, hut though he had some success at the time with an opera called Robin Hood , he is principally remembered by choral societies for his popular cantata May Day, which dates from 1856. His work as a teacher was distinguished in spite of the fact that in later life he became totally blind.
MAX and HARRY NESBITT
Songs and Duets with Ukulele Accompaniment
MARIE BLANCHE
In some of her Song Successes
At the piano, JOHN HOLLIDAY
EDWIN STYLES
Comedian
MARIE LORENZI
Harp Solos
RANDOLPH SUTTON Britain's Premier Light Comedian
ARTHUR PRINCE and ' JIM '
THE B.B.C. DANCE ORCHESTRA, directed by HENRY HALL , will play during the programme
ANOTHER popular Saturday night 'bill,' full of favourite names and well varied entertainment. Marie Blanche , charming singer and actress, is famous for her masterly ' principal boy ' roles, and as George Roboy 's leading lady in his revues of recent years. Randolph Sutton , the popular light comedian, makes his second microphone appearance ; his first was in -Music Hall No. 1. Arthur Prince , veteran ventriloquist, and Edwin Styles , raconteur, from Bow Bells, are other attractions in a lively programme.
WEATHER FORECAST, SECOND GENERAL NEWS
BULLETIN
THE WIRELESS CHORUS
THE B.B.C. THEATRE ORCHESTRA
(Leader, S. KNEALE KELLEY )
Conducted by THE COMPOSER ORCHESTRA Gypsy Overture, Chal Romano
The Queen Fairy Dances (Suite, In a Fairy Realm)
The Gnomes' March (Suite, In a Fairy Realm) By the blue Hawaiian Waters
A Birthday Greeting (First Broadcast Performance)
CHORUS and Orchestra
The sacred Hour In the mystic Land of Egypt ORCHESTRA
The Cockney Lover (The Cockney Suite
'Appy 'Ampstead (The Cockney Suite
A T the age of eleven Albert William Ketelbey played his first Pianoforte Sonata at
Worcester Town Hall, and soon after won a scholarship at Trinity College, London. There for six years he studied every branch of music he was allowed to and had time for, to say nothing of French, German and Italian, and took every medal and prize that came within his reach. Then lie was offered a professorship at Trinity College and an organist's job at Wimbledon, but presently abandoned these and his teaching work for theatre conducting. This in turn was given up for composition. At first he tried writing chamber music and major works of unimpeachable dignity, but the publishers failed him. They could' not live up to such high ideals, and ketelbey had to think again. So he took the best of the melodies out of his serious works, and dressing them differently, offered them to the publishers again. This time the more astute ones were delighted, and those who have been fortunate enough to be associated with Mr. Ketelbey in the remunerative business of best-selling must obviously have been delighted ever since. But what of those who were not so astute? For even when the young composer had decided to reform ho had great difficulty in persuading the majority of publishers that he and his music were a good thing. The famous In a Monastery Garden was already in existence; it had been commissioned for a seaside resort and performed there and was clearly ripe for publication. No publisher would, however, look at it at first. They required that it should be altered this way and that way, but Ketelbey refused to make any alteration. That the composer was right and the publishers wrong must have given rise to painful reflections in more than one boardroom in the years following its ultimate acceptance.
AMBROSE and his ORCHESTRA, from THE MAY
FAIR HOTEL
