from the Gaumont State, Kilburn
Alfred Van Dam , conductor of the State Orchestra of twelve musicians, studied music at the Guildhall School of Music, and by the age of seventeen was a violinist member of the Orchestra of the Royal Carl Rosa Opera Company. He spent twelve months with this combination and then joined Gaumont-British. Although only eighteen years old he had his own orchestra which went round to the various theatres in the circuit.
Of his seventeen years with the company he spent seven at the giant Trocadero Cinema at the Elephant and Castle, from where his signature tune, ' Knocked 'em in the Old Kent Road was always heard as a prelude to his frequent broadcasts. Now that he is at the Kilburn State Cinema his tune is the ' State March ', a number of which he is part composer. Van Dam tells us that he has played at one time or another for almost every famous star in the country, and has been associated particularly with Carroll Levis , for most of whose ' Discoveries ' programmes the Kilburn State Cinema Orchestra supplies the music.
It was, by the way, Carroll Levis who introduced Alfred Van Dam to his wife, whom he married only two days before the opening of the Kilburn State. Van Dam is one of the busiest conductors in London, and the wild dash from Broadcasting House to the State Cinema in order to get there in time is a common experience for him and his orchestra after a broadcast.

(women's voices)
Conductor, Leslie Woodgate

' Mr. Wilkes at home in his own bar-parlour'
Presented by Pascoe Thornton and S. E. Reynolds
The eleventh in a series of programmes that are being broadcast weekly to the Empire

William Aspden
(Northern)

Walter Widdop (tenor)
Recit.: Deeper and Deeper Still.
Aria: Waft her Angels to the Skies (Jephtha) (Handel). Love sounds the alarm (Acis and Galatea) (Handel)

A programme of popular dance music on gramophone records

Five boys and a guitar in close harmony
(From West of England)

piano accordion
(Midland)

A discussion between
Dingle Foot, M.P.
Nicholas Macaskie , K.C.
Sir Stanley Reed , M.P.
Chairman, Lord Meston, K.C.S.I.,
LL.D.
(A recording of the discussion broadcast in the National programme last night)

(Proprietor: Fabre Fatscher)
Come up this afternoon with: Jacques Brown , Rita Cave , and William Ashley and listen to
Augustus Franzel 's Schrammel
Quartet and the songs of Rcserl, the landlord's daughter
(Emmy Ludwig)

A Rhythmic Programme in the Modem Manner with Eddie Carroll and his Orchestra
Gwen Jones
Ivor Davis
Jack Lorimer
The Three Brothers
At the piano, Eddie Carroll
Compere, James Dyrenforth
Presented by John Burnaby

with Sandra Shayne
Barry Gray from the Cafe Anglais