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At the ROYAL ALBERT HALL
Arranged by the London Schools
Music Association
About fifteen years ago it was decided to form an organisation that would supplement the valuable work of the competitive Festival movement. This organisation, now known as the London Schools Music Association, is based on the idea of co-operation rather than competition. Its first purpose was to arrange for affiliated schools to rehearse a set programme of songs, which should first be taught by the teachers to their singing classes, and then performed publicly under the direction of a district conductor at a Festival concert, each school sending its own representative singers. This new departure in school music proved highly successful and the idea was developed to cover practically every form of musical expression-pipe and percussion bands, string and full orchestras, military bands and folk dancing.
A good idea of the quality and quantity of the work that is now being carried on by the London Schools Music Association will be seen at the Children's Jubilee Festival, taking place at the Royal Albert Hall this afternoon. The choir consists of 1,600 voices, there is an orchestra of 200 players and a brass band. In addition, folk dancing, classical dancing and new eurhythmics will be carried out by 200 children. All the performers taking part are drawn from schools maintained by the L.C.C.

For sixteen years Brent Wood has been watching first-class football. Hundreds of matches, each clear as a picture at the time, but one very much like another in retrospect. And yet one game here, another there, is singled out in his memory because of the personality of some player.
Nobody can say just what personality is. The man who possesses it is somehow different from all his fellow men. He compels attention. And at football, just as he himself is different, so is his game. Nobody who watched the last Cup Final is ever likely to forget Ronald Starling.
In common with several great football personalities Brent Wood is going to discuss, Starling seems to make the ball come to him and raises the game to greatness, as ' Manchester United' Frank Barson and 'Huddersfield' Sam Wadsworth did. Wood will discuss this incredible gift of anticipation; Charlie' Buchan's 'combined wizardry of mind and feet, 'Sheffield Wednesday' Walker's brains, 'Liverpool' Elisha Scott's gift for saving penalties, 'Huddersfield' Smith's genius for being there at the right moment, and the pace of Hulme the 'Highbury Express'.
Brent Wood is a well-known broadcaster in the North, 'Odysseus' of the Children's Hour, and Honorary President of various Northern branches of the Rhythm Club.

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Brent Wood
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Ronald Starling.
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Frank Barson
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Sam Wadsworth
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Elisha Scott

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