From page 33 of ' When Two or Three'

At The Organ of The Trocadero
Cinema, Elephant and Castle

Leader, Frank Thomas
Ethel Gomer-Lewis (mezzo-soprano)

Directed by Alfred Van Dam
Relayed from The Troxy Cinema

By ERNEST LUSH

Conductors, Dame ETHEL SMYTH and Sir DAN GODFREY
IRENE KOHLER (pianoforte)
Relayed from
The Pavilion, Bournemouth
Entente Cordiale is a One-act Comic Opera, founded on an absurd incident that happened at a base camp in France during the Armistice, and which was related to the composer by the late Robert Ross as peculiarly adaptable to stage presentment.
Throughout the work many of the bugle calls used in the Army are introduced, among them the beautiful call familiarly known as ' Hot Potatoes'
(which the composer now learns is ascribed to Haydn). Thfs call with its curious entry on the up-beat, supplies the orthodox second theme of the Overture, and towards the end furnishes a sort of pianissimo obbligato to the first phrase of ' Tipperary
Entente Cordiale was introduced at the Royal College of Music and subsequently figured in a one-week operatic venture at Bristol ; but it has never been given at a London theatre.
Dame Ethel Smyth 's Ballet Suite, taken from her opera of the same name is in four movements: (1) Royal Minuet and Musette (the latter being love music) ; (2) Bourrèe (danced by the Court Puppets) ; (3) The Rose Dance (worship by Pierrot of a rose piven him by the Queen) ; (4) The Mad Rout : Arrest of Pierrot: Despair of Columbine: Horror of the Queen: Love music.
This is the argument: It is midnight: there is a masked ball in the Royal Gardens, in which the Court Puppets take part. Pierrot, though Columbine is his mistress, is secretly in love with the Queen, and by chance witnesses an assignation between her and her exiled lover, who is wearing a Pierrot disguise, for the real Pierrot. Mad with jealousy she runs to fetch the King.
Warned by Pierrot, the lover escapes in time, and to save the Queen's honour, Pierrot declares that he himself was the culprit, and the whole thing a Carnival jest. Undeceived but furious, the King bids his guards hang Pierrot on the lintel of the garden temple where the assignation had taken place.
While the final ' Mad Rout', danced by nymphs and satyrs, is being dispersed by the guards, Columbine rushes in nnd swoons at the feet of the swaying corpse. Darkness : Enter the Queen who stands transfixed with horror ; but the music signifies that Pierrot has had the privilege of giving his life for love. (Slow curtain.)
Italian Symphony ........ Mendelssohn i. Allegro vivace; 2. Andante con moto ; 3. Con moto moderato ; 4. Saltarello, Presto
IRENE KOHLER AND ORCHESTRA
Concerto No. I .......... Tchaikovsky i. Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso ; 2. Andante semplice ; 3. Allegro con fuoco
, at 16.45 (4-45)

Variety

THE B.B.C. DANCE ORCHESTRA
Directed by HENRY HALL
5.15 Daventry
The Children's Hour
Songs by SINCLAIR LOGAN
The Careful Queen, No. 2—' How the Queen earned Fifty Pounds ', by Evelyn Glover , read by RONALD SIMPSON
THE STAR-GAZER

Weather Forecast, First General News Bulletin, and Bulletin for Farmers

(By permission of the Trocadero Restaurant)

THE WESTERN STUDIO
ORCHESTRA
Leader, FRANK THOMAS
Miniature Overture, The Merry-makers Entr'acte a la Gavotte
Fantasy, The Selfish Giant Suite, Summer Days
I. In a Country Lane; 2. On the Edge of the Lake ; 3. At the Dance
Concert Waltz, Dancing Nights March, London Bridge Suite, Joyous Youth
I. Introduction ; 2. Serenade ; 3. Waltz, Joyous Youth
(West Regional Programme)

A Second Variety Programme taken from the Sound Track of Recent Film
Successes, featuring
GRETA GARBO
MAE WEST
BING CROSBY KATHARINE HEPBURN
GRACE MOORE
ELIZABETH BERGNER
JOHN BOLES
' JESSIE MATTHEWS
PAUL ROBESON
SOPHIE TUCKER
EVELYN LAYE
SONNIE HALE WALLACE BEERY
NORMA SHEARER
FLORENCE DESMOND
TEDDIE BROWN
Devised and Introduced by CLAYTON HUTTON with the Co-operation of Gaumont British Picture Corporation, Ltd., British Lion Film Corporation, Ltd., Pathe Pictures, Ltd., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Ltd., Paramount Picture Corporation, United Artists Picture Corporation, Ltd., Columbia Picture Corporation, Ltd., and Universal Pictures, Ltd.
The programme will be reproduced by BritishAcoustic Full-Range Equipment

Weather Forecast
Second General News Bulletin

by CLEMENCE DANE
Characters
The scenes are at Haworth Parsonage,
. Yorkshire
The Production is by HOWARD ROSE

Lou PREAGER and his BAND
Relayed from Romano's Restaurant
Shipping Forecast, on Daventry only at 23.00 (11.0)
KATHARINE HEPBURN
Here are some of the stars whose voices will be heard in a further variety programme taken from the sound tracks of recent film successes tonight at 20.00 (8.0). Full details appear above.