at the organ of the Rialto Cinema,
Coventry
Music from the Theatres
Directed by Pipe-Major Ross
(From Scottish)
A short story written for broadcasting by Jefferson Farjeon
Read by Carleton Hobbs
Joseph Jefferson Farjeon is a member of a well-known literary family and is famous for his thrillers-both novels and plays. His first play No. 17 was produced at the New Theatre in 1925 when Leon M. Lion made a great hit as Ben, the tramp, surely the best known of Farjeon's creations, for Ben has appeared in many plays and books and stories. No. 17 was revived at the Royalty Theatre in 1930. The story that listeners are to hear today is gripping from beginning to end and concerns an old gentleman who was quite positive that he was being haunted by a cat that brayed, although he knew quite well that no cat could bray. The mystery of the old gentleman and the cat is unfolded with masterly skill.
John Francis (flute)
Millicent Silver (pianoforte)
A vest-pocket vaudeville
Produced by Ernest Longstaffe with Hughes and Lever
Norman Carroll
Doreen and Harry Hemsley
Accompanied by Rae Jenkins (violin and viola)
Fred Alexander (violoncello and guitar)
Ivor Dennis at the piano
Lina Pagliughi (soprano): Son vergin vezzosa. Qui la voce tua soave (I Puritani) (Bellini)
Jussi Bjorling (tenor): Cielo e mar! (La Gioconda) (Ponchielli). 0 Paradiso! (L'Africana) (Meyerbeer)
