From page 99 of 'When Two or Three'
, at 10.30

for Farmers and Shipping

at the Organ of the Paramount
Theatre, Manchester

Regional Geography
'The Monsoon Lands: China and Japan-Japan 2, Mountains and Basins of Central Honshu'
A. B. LOWNDES, B.Com.

Directed by ALFRED VAN DAM Relayed from the Troxy Cinema

Tims Signal, Greenwich, at 2.0

Discovering England
'The Isle of Man-2, History,
Legend and Custom'
W. C. MCHARRIE
Over a thousand years ago the Vikings attacked the coasts of Britain and plundered the interior. Today there still exists in the Isle of Man an m-stutioT founded by these early m-vaders : the Tynwald. it is the oldest parliament in the world. This after-n^on W C. MciTarHe will take listeners to the impressive parliamentary ceremony performed every year, when all the legislators gather together on Tynwald Hill to read aloud to the people the laws of the land Another interesting feature of the talk will be examples of the Manx language, now,
Whmatelv dving out, and songs and dance tunes that have been handed down from times long ago.

'Science grows up'
EILEEN POWER, Professor of Economic
History in the University of London

PERCY MANCHESTER (tenor) SEXTET PERCY MANCHESTER SEXTETLoin du bal (Far from the Ball) Gillet PERCY MANCHESTER SEXTET

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Restoration Dramatic Music
Chorus of little Cupids and Graces.....
The B B C Singers (A and B)
Produced by Julian Herbage
A Section of the Boyd Neel String Orchestra
Leader, Louis Willoughby
Ernest Lush (harpsichord)
Conducted by Anthony Lewis

MARIA DE LAGUNA

Part 2
The Public Social Services—8
' John Smith out of work '—2
R. C. DAVIDSON

by ERNEST LUSH

A broadcasting version founded upon the English stage version by Arthur Miller
Lyrics by Arthur Stanley
Music by Emmerich Kalman

The story of Emmerich Kalman's Gypsy Princess concerns Sylva, a cabaret star, and Maria Elsner, who made such a successful debut in The Countess Maritza last November (in spite of the fact that she was suffering from influenza and had to sustain this exacting role with a temperature of 101), is coming over to England to play the lead in this revival.

Maria Elsner was for three years at the Dresden Opera House under Fritz Busch; played the lead in Rheinhardt's production of The Student Prince in Berlin and in Fledermaus in Paris under Bruno Walter, and she has sung in Figaro at the Salzburg Festival. Since her last visit to England she has been playing in operetta at The Hague.

('The Gypsy Princess' will be repeated in the Regional programme tomorrow at 9.0)

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Conducted by the Rev. W. H. ELLIOTT
Organist, Reginald Goss-Gustard
Relayed from
St. Michael's, Chester Square

(Section E)
Led by MARIE WILSON
Conducted by JOHN BARBIROLLI
LIVIO MANNUCCI (violoncello) ORCHESTRA
Dickens's story of 'The Cricket on the Hearth' has been the subject of at least two operas, one by Goldmark and the other by Sir Alexander Mackenzie. The latter opera was completed in 1902, and it has been several times produced at the Royal Academy of Music, of which Mackenzie was then Principal. Mackenzie .has confessed that his idea of writing this opera was to check an unfortunate tendency of his students to take it for granted that opera must be tragic, melancholy, and lurid. By taking Dickens's simple story as his text, he at any rate proved that the lighter emotions can be equally well set to music. LIVIO MANNUCCI AND ORCHESTRA
Tchaikovsky's 'Variations on a Rococo Theme' was composed in 1876 and dedicated to William Fitzhagen, a celebrated 'cellist and Professor at the Moscow Conservatoire. It is a lovely work and beautifully written for the solo instrument. Although the entire technical resources of the 'cello ere exploited with brilliant and artistic effect, the music cannot be accused of being merely dazzling and showy. It possesses genuine poetic qualities that are deeply expressive. The theme, though ' rococo ' in style, is original in conception. After an introduction in which the theme is foreshadowed, the solo 'cello plays it in full with light support from the strings, and then follow seven variations, the last being the most brilliant and decorative of all.
When the ' Rococo ' Variations were played by Fitzhagen at the Wiesbaden Festival in 1879, Liszt heard the performance and remarked ' at last here is music again '. ORCHESTRA LIVIO MANNUCCI ORCHESTRA

Sydney Kyte and his Band
Relayed from the Piccadilly Hotel