From the Studio
Order of Service
Hymn, Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God
Almighty (B.C.H., 25 ; Rv. B.C.H. 33 ; A. and M. 160)
Hallowing
Lesson, I John i, verses 1-9 Psalm ciii Prayers
Hymn, Lord, Thy Word abideth
(B.C.H. 207; Rv. B.C.H. 197; A. and M. 243)
Address by the Rev. F. TOWNLEY
LORD, D.D., of Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church
Hymn, Lead us, Heavenly Father, lead us (B.C.H. 427; Rv. B.C.H. 417; A. and M. 281)
Blessing
Time Signal, Greemoich, at 10.30
for Farmers and Shipping
Conductor, Captain ERIC BALL
DALE SMITH (baritone) (Soloist, A. BROWN> )
Leader, Alfred Cave
Conducted by REGINALD BURSTON
with OLGA ALEXEEVA (soprano)
MAX TURGANOFF (tenor)
VLADIMIR ELIN (baritone) OLGA ALEXEEVA Gypsy Song, My luck will changeThe Rustic Bridge ORCHESTRA Mashutka the Peasant Girl
ORCHESTRA
Selection, Songs of Moscow
(All arrangements by Medvedeff)
RispAH GOODACRE (contralto)
Facing the East
Christian Progress and Problems by the Rev. WILLIAM PATON , Secretary of the International
Missionary Council
by Christopher Marlowe
"The reluctant pangs of abdicating Royalty in Edward furnished hints which Shakespeare scarcely improved in his Richard the Second; and the death-scene of Marlowe's King moves pity and terror beyond any scene, ancient or modern with which I am acquainted." (Charles Lamb)
(Full details will be found on the previous page. See the article by Ivor Brown on page 6)
Characters: [see below]
The action takes place at various times in a street in London, Westminster, the New Temple, a hall in Gloucester's House, Tynemouth Castle, the open country, near Boroughbridge, the Tower of London, Paris, the Royal Palace, London, near Harwich, near Bristol, an Abbey, Glamorganshire, Kenilworth Castle, Berkeley Castle.
This afternoon at 5.20
Robert Speaight [appears] (By permission of Ashley Dukes)
Ion Swinley [appears] (By permission of Lilian Baylis, of the 'Old Vic')
William Fox [appears] (By permission of O.C.W. Syndicate)
Antony Quayle [appears] (By permission of Gilbert Miller)
Cecil Trouncer [appears] (By permission of the Daniel Mayer Co., Ltd.)
Charles Lefaux [appears] (By permission of Ivor Novello)
Jill Furse [appears] (By permission of Nancy Price)
DENNIS NOBLE
Born in 1898 at Bristol, Dennis Noble began his career as a chorister at Bristol Cathedral, joined the Royal Bucks Hussars and served in France, and after being severely wounded, joined Leslie Henson 's Concert Party at Lille. After the war he was appointed Lay Vicar of Westminster Abbey, and later became a member of the British National Opera Company. He has appeared all over the country in the principal baritone roles in opera and oratorio and has also sung for most of the leading concert organisations.
GWENDOLEN MASON Gretchen at the Spinning-Wheel Zabel
Gwendolen Mason is professor and examiner at the Royal Academy of Music and is well known in Britain and abroad as a gifted soloist. One of her great admirers is Dame Ethel Smyth , who has written for Miss Mason several elaborate harp parts in her operas and songs.
DENNIS NOBLE
An appeal on behalf of THE NEW SUSSEX HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN AND
CHILDREN, by IRENE VANBRUGH
This hospital of sixty-four beds was founded to meet the growing demand on the part of women for medical and surgical treatment by members of their own sex ; to receive and treat women and children as out-patients, and to provide private wards, for patients of limited means.
No subscribers' letters are needed for admission, and patients come to be treated from all parts of England.
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
Leader, MONTAGUE BREARLEY
Conductor,
STANFORD ROBINSON with THE B B C REVUE CHORUS
AULIKKI RAUTAWAARA"
(soprano)
Until the age of thirteen the Finnish singer, Aulikki Rautawaara , was "a pianist; a broken finger ]ed to vocal training. She studied first under her father, and later won a scholarship at Copenhagen. As well as singing in opera at Heslingfors, she sang last year in Figaro at Glyndebourne, where she will appear again this year.'
This is the last concert in which the BBC Theatre Orchestra will be conducted by Stanford Robinson. An article appears on page 7.
