From ' When Two or Three,' page 72

Leader, Frank Thomas
(West-Regional-Programme)

Dance Music

Directed by Joseph Muscant
Relayed from The Commodore Theatre,
Hammersmith
Joseph Museant has now been broadcasting with his orchestra for just over ten years, :for it was in the autumn of 1923, at Manchester, that he first faced the microphone. The Commodore, from which he has for some time broadcast, is one of the best equipped of the London cinema theatres, and as Muscant is equally well-equipped, as a director of music in the film world since he was eighteen years of ago, the popularity of his broadcasts is almost explained. Add that the members of his band make a brilliantly effective team, the music they play is oxcellently arranged--often by Muscant himself-the programmes are well-constructed, the acoustic properties of the Commodore Theatre are exceptionally good, and the said popularity is adequately accounted for.

' Hansel and Gretel'
Cast : -
CHORUS and ORCHESTRA of THE BERLIN STATE
OPERA. ORCHESTRA conducted by HERMANN WEIGERT
The B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra, conductor, Adrian Boult : Overture. Tahleau I, At Home—Hanset and Gretel: Mother and Father. Tableau 2;In the Forest (Sunset); In the Forest (Night). Tableau 3, The Sugar Candy House (The Awakening): The Sugar Candy House (Caught). Tableau 4, The Sugar Candy House (The Witches' Ride); The Sugar Candy House (Saved).
After the overture, the curtain rises on Hansel and Gretel in their humble home ; they are romping and singing when their mother returns to find them neglecting the tasks she had set them. She packs them off to the woods to gather berries, and no sooner have they gone, than the father comes home ; he has had a lucky day selling his brooms. When he hears where the children are, he is horrified, and soon makes his wife share in his terror ; a witch, he tells her, lives in the wood, who eats little children. They rush off together in search of Hansel and Gretel. Act II is in the wood, where the children have lost their way. In answer to their prayer, as they lie down to sleep, angels come down from on high to guard them. In the third Act we meet the witch, and hear of her enchantments. But Hansel's courage and Gretel's nimble wits are too much for her, and in the end she is baked in her own oven, and the story ends happily.

At The Organ of The Granada, Tooting
(Continued overleaf)

Directed by Frank Cantell
Walter Heard (Flute and Piccolo)
(From Birmingham)

A Tea-Time Entertainment by Artists new to the Microphone
(From Birmingham)

Football: Mr. W. WILLIAMS : My job as a Scout'
In what is surely the most popular game in Britain, a scout is a man with an eye for a promising player; scouting is a profession, and Mr. W. Williams , who broadcasts this evening, is at the top of his profession. He has discovered five Welsh Internationals-no small bag even for a professional scout. Among his Welsh Internationals to play last season were Murphy of West Bromwich (against England and against Ireland); W. Evans of Tottenham Hotspur (against Ireland), and O'Callaghan of the Spurs (in all three matches, against England, Ireland, and Scotland, he scoring two of the five goals against the latter at Edinburgh). Mr. Williams was Tottenham's chief scout for four seasons, and is now acting for the Arsenal, to whom he recommended this season's new players, Trim and Hitchcock. Nearly every League side has followed suggestions he has put forward.

(Section C)
(Led by MARIE WILSON )
Conducted by JOSEPH LEWIS
POPULAR LIGHT MUSIC BY BRITISH
COMPOSERS

Ambrose and his Embassy Club Orchestra
(Shipping Forecast at 11.0; Time Signal at 11.30)
(until 12)