Conductor, E. GODFREY BROWN
EVELYN GIBB (soprano)

by EDWARD MITCHELL

THELMA TusoN (soprano)

Extracts from Act III of Wagner's Opera 'The Mastersingers'
Elisabeth Rethberg (soprano),
Friedrich Schorr (bass-baritone): Sieh' Ev'chen (Where can she be ?)
Friedrich Schorr: Aha! da streicht die Lene (Aha Lene is about the house already)
Quintet: Brightly as the Sun
The British Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Bruno Walter: Dance of the Apprentices and Entrance of the Masters
Chorus and Orchestra of the Berlin
State Opera House, conducted by Dr. Leo Blech: Wach auf! (Awake! day is approaching)
Friedrich Schorr: Euch macht ihr's leicht (Sachs acknowledges the crowd's greeting)
Prize Song: with Chorus and Orchestra of the Berlin State Opera House conducted by Dr. Weissmann
Friedrich Schorr with Chorus and Orchestra of the Berlin State Opera House, conducted by Dr. Leo Blech : Finale, Verachtet mir die Meister nicht (Disdain our masters not my friend) 1

A Programme of Slavonic Music

Three Plays by Mona SWANN
3-MARY THE MOTHER
Characters
(By permission of Lilian Baylis )
With incidental music under ths direction of KNEALE KELLEY
Produced by PETER CRESWELL

THE BROSA STRING QUARTET: Antonio Brosa (violin) ; Norman Chappie (violin) ; Leonard Rubens (viola); Livio Mannucci (violoncello)
GEORGE PARKER (baritone)

' The Palestine Gendarmerie'
DOUGLAS V. DUFF
This is no political or social talk on Palestine, or a collection of dull statistics ; it is rather a story of Palestine as it is today. Douglas V. Duff has spent ten years out there. He knows the Jews who have re-settlcd in their ancient homeland and colonised derelict land by the way; he understands and admires the Arab peasants, and the Bedouin dwellers in the ' long black tents.'
He is to give glimpses of life as seen and lived by an officer in the Public Security Force. He describes a scene of cheering tribesmen with their wonderful battle-cry, Allah hu Akhbar -God is Great-with the same felicity as he tells of the workaday round of a police officer.
Thrilling adventures, cockney humour, a feeling for romance are interwoven in his talk, and many listeners who hear it will want to read Douglas Duff 's book ' Sword for Hire.'

JOHN COATES (tenor)
SAMUEL KUTCHER (violin)
Porpora was the greatest singing master that ever lived. He certainly enjoyed a great renown as a teacher and held many important posts in the world of music, not only in his native Italy, but throughout Europe.
A contemporary of Handel's, he spent two or three years of his erratic career in London, directing an operatic enterprise in opposition to Handel, in which he had the backing of a good part of influential London.
None of his own operas, however, survived, although he is supposed to have composed no fewer than thirty-three, as well as numerous oratorios, masses and smaller vocal and instrumental pieces. It is in some of these last that his best qualities are displayed.

Relayed from Canterbury Cathedral
Order of service
Hymn, 0 God, our Help in ages past
(A. and M. 165; S.P. 598)
Lord's Prayer and Vcrsicles Psalm 121
Lesson, Isaiah xl, 3-8 Prayers
Anthem, Remember not, Lord, our offences (Purcell)
Address by His Grace THE LORD ARCH
BISHOP OF CANTERBURY
Hymn, Through all the changing scenes of life (A. and M. 290; S.P. 677)
Blessing

This is entirely a Children's Hour production designed as an attempt to allow listeners young and old to hear an abridged version of Humperdinck's Fairy Opera. Both spoken dialogue and narration have been incorporated in order to smooth over the musical cuts which are necessitated in order to bring the story within the scope of one hour's production.