From page 48 of ' When Two or Three'

at the Organ of the Paramount Theatre,
Manchester

Regional Geography
'The Monsoon Lands'-2
Malaya (i)
ERNEST YOUNG
Last week Ernest Young left listeners looking at the picturesque temples and quays of Bangkok. This afternoon he will take them on a 700-mile journey to Prai, where a steam ferry will be boarded to reach Penang. Dr. Curnow once lived in this fascinating part of the Malay
Peninsula, and he will come to the microphone in person to speak of the interesting things he saw on the island.

Directed by ALFRED VAN DAM from the Troxy Cinema

LISA D'ESTERRE (soprano)

(Editor of John o' London's Weekly and supervisor of the term's course)

Tina Bonifacio (harp) ; Harry Dyson (flute) ; Gethyn Wykeham-George
(violoncello)
(From Belfast)

including Weather Forecast and Bulletin for Farmers

Early Chamber Music played by THE REGINALD PAUL PIANOFORTE
QUARTET:
George Stratton (violin); Watson Forbes (viola); John Moore (violoncello) ; Reginald Paul (pianoforte)
Pianoforte Quartet No. 2, in D
1. Allegro moderato ; 2. Andante con moto; 3. Rondo : Allegro

' Motives in Voluntary Social Service'
H. A. MESS , Ph.D.

(By permission of the London Palladium
Management) in AU at Sea'
This feature will be repeated in the Regional programme tomorrow

Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel played by SOLOMON (pianoforte)
In addition to the Variations on a Theme by Haydn and various movements in variation form, Brahms wrote a set for piano duet, Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann , and five sets for piano solo. Among the last mentioned is the Variations on a Theme by Handel, which is Brahms's crowning achievement in variation form. The Handel Variations were composed in 1861 when Brahms was conductor of the Hamburg Ladies' Choir. The theme is taken from the Little Suite in B flat in the second set of Handel's harpsichord pieces.
In these twenty-five variations the immense technical resources and great imagination of the composer are shown to the full by the wonderful variety of treatment and expressiveness that are secured within the strict limitations of the form. The finale is a masterly and imposing fugue that reaches a superb climax of power and ingenuity. The work as a whole is extremely difficult to play and demands considerable physical strength. Clara Schumann confessed to some friends in London that ' I cannot say how sorry I am that the Variations, about which I am so enthusiastic, are beyond my strength.'

including Weather Forecast and Forecast for Shipping

Rigoletto
Scene: Antechamber in the Duke's
Palace
Cast
Conductor, VINCENZO BELLEZZA
Chorus Master, ROBERT AINSWORTH from The Royal Opera House, Covent
Garden
The wicked Duke of Mantua has been paying court to Gilda ; though he is unaware of the fact, she is the daughter of his jester, Rigoletto, who has sworn to avenge his daughter's dishonour. But not long afterwards the Duke is attracted by the charms of Magdalena, sister of the assassin Sparafucile. Rigoletto has arranged with Sparafucile for the Duke's murder, but by an unhappy mischance Gilda, dressed as a boy so that she and her father may flee from Mantua, is stabbed by Sparafucile's dagger, and her body thrown into a sack. Rigoletto takes possession of it in the belief that it is his master's body which he is bearing away. His utter despair on finding that it is his beloved daughter who has been killed is the culminating point in the tragedy of the grim story.