at the Organ of the Rialto Cinema,
Coventry

' Winter '
H. E. Piggott
This is the last instalment of the Almanack. Folk songs of the West Country which are particularly associated with the winter months will be sung by Doreen Greenwood and Frederick Harvey.
(From West of England)

from the Houldsworth Hall. Manchester
A Pianoforte Recital by Frank Merrick with songs by Bettine Young (soprano)
Hope Squire (1878-1936), who married Frank Merrick in 1911, studied the piano under Henry Gadsby and afterwards had some greatly valued lessons from Ernst von Dohnanyi and Tobias Matthay. But she never received systematic instruction in composition. What helped her most was her wide knowledge of the musical works of many periods. Partly because she was anxious to leave behind her nothing of second-rate quality her works were very limited.
The song was her main preoccupation as a composer, and even her two most important instrumental pieces, the piano variations on 'Black-eyed Susan' and the tone poem ' Tom Bowling', are both based on songs. She combines finish of workmanship with keen attention to the words, both as regards their lyrical structure and their meaning.
FRANK MERRICK

Leader, Alfred Barker
Conductor, H. Foster Clark
Morgan Davies (baritone)

A programme of Variety, music, and drama from the floating playhouse, reviving for you some of the glories of the old showboat days
The cast will include
Dick Francis as ' The Showman '
Lorna Stuart Gordon Little
Jack Train and The Three in Harmony
The Orchestra (led by Josef Marais), conducted by Jack Clarke
The programme devised by Adrian Thomas and presented by William MacLurg
(Empire Programme)

and dance to the music of Al Collins and his Dance Orchestra
(By permission of the Savoy Hotel, Ltd.)