From page 57 of 'When Two or Three '

Directed by John Bridge
Emilie Cawood (contralto)

Directed by Harry Davidson
Relayed from
The Commodore Theatre,
Hammersmith

Conducted by Peter Montgomery
Henry Crowther (baritone)
(Belfast Programme)

Directed by Frank Cantell
Emily Broughton (soprano)
Gretry lived in stirring times. He was writing operas under Louis XV and continued under the next reign, during the Revolution, and lived to be made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour by Napoleon himself. All this time he was writing operas as hard as he could go, but out of fifty which were put on in Paris, only three or four really survived, the most brilliant being a comic opera, one of the earliest he wrote, with a title which might be very topically translated as The Talking Picture.
Grftry cut some figure in the various cultured circles of his day. His operas were melodious and popular, and indeed works of marked genius. He was a witty talker and had a host of literary friends, but his chief fault was an excessive vanity, and he wrote not only his own memoirs, in which it is clear he thought himself a very fine fellow, but a number of writings on music which extolled the very fine works of this very fine fellow. There is no question, however, that Gretry was a great musician and had an immense influence.

At The Organ of The Granada,
Tooting

SYDNEY KYTE and his BAND
Relayed from The Piccadilly Hotel
5.15 Daventry
The Children's Hour
Part-songs by THE COSMOPOLITAN
SINGERS
' Shepherding ', an Australian Story by MARY GRANT-BRUCE
Piano-Accordion Solos by ANGELO Fusco
THE WOODMAN (A. Bonnet Laird)

Weather Forecast, First General News Bulletin and Bulletin for Farmers

CHARLES BUCHAN : 'Football : Into
Training Again'
In these last few weeks professional footballers have put behind them the leisures and slacker occupations of the summer and have drifted back to their various training grounds to get fit. They are not unlike race-horses who have been turned out to grass and brought back to the stable with too much flesh on them. Walking exercise, canters, and stripped gallops must follow before they can be fit for business again.
Resumption of training is a strenuous affair. The muscles of legs and thighs become stiff and sore with unaccustomed use. The footballer has to plod along in a heavy sweater in the heat of August. He spends the morning in the gym. and the afternoon on the running track, following a day at ball practice and sprinting. For the first few days of intensive training he finds it agony to get up once he has sat down.
Charles Buchan , who is now a sporting journalist on the News Chronicle, endured the rigours of football training for twenty-one years. He was four times captain of England. He was transferred by Sunderland to Arsenal and scored nineteen goals for them in his first season. His talk tonight on going into training again will be given by a man who knows all about it and by one who can talk at the microphone as well as any, as listeners agreed who heard his football talks last season.

HUGHES MACKLIN (tenor)
(West Regional Programme)

(By kind permission of Col. E. C. T. Warner, D.S.O., M.C., Lieut.-Colonel Commanding Scots
Guards)
Conducted by Lieut. HORACE E. DOWELL
Director of Music, Scots Guards
DAN JONES (tenor)
The story, of Der Freischiitz (The Marksman), Weber's most successful opera, is adapted from the mediaeval legend relating how the devil tempted huntsmen to sell their souls in return for magic bullets that never failed to hit their mark. In the opera Max is the huntsman ; he must shoot straight to win a contest, and the hand of Agatha. He is persuaded to make a contract with the devil for some magic bullets, and in the course of the contest nearly kills Agatha with one of them. All ends well, however, and the opera is not tragic.

with BRIAN LAWRENCE

Weather Forecast
Second General News Bulletin

THE B.B.C. ORCHESTRA
(Section C)
(Led by LAURANCE TURNER )
Conducted by JULIAN CLIFFORD
Overture, In Autumn Three Exotic Dances
I. Allegro Vivace ; 2. Valse lente; 3. Allegro con brio
Prelude and Call from Mary Rose Punch and Judy Ballet from The Punch
Bowl
Hornpipe
Norman O'Neiil and the Haymarket Theatre were almost inseparable terms. O'Neill was first appointed Music Director of the Haymarket in 1908 and, with one short break, he had been there for a quarter of a century. It was from 'his pen that a great deal of the delightful music incidental to the Haymarket plays has come. One of his earliest commissions in this regard was to write the incidental music to Maeterlinck's The Blue Bird in 1909 ; some of that music has been in concert programmes for nearly twenty-five years, and listeners will agree that it is still as welcome as ever it was. In 1920 he wrote the music to Barrie's Mary Rose ; that, too, still delights us.
Until his recent death, he was a professor at the Royal Academy of Music, and a member of the Board of the Royal Philharmonic Society, as was, by the way, his grandfather, Dr. Callcott, a hundred years ago.

HENRY HALL'S GUEST NiGHT with the B.B.C. DANCE ORCHESTRA
Shipping Forecast, on Daventry only, at 11.0