Down with that dustpan!
Put away that ledger!
Come and have a posset with Tony Melrose and his gramophone records
This week in Singapore
at the Organ of the Granada, Welling
The Three Minx in close harmony
' We Three' introduced by Bob Williamson and Leslie Wills songs at the piano
Presented by Leslie Bridgmont
Will Glahe and his Orchestra
Inge Vesten (soprano)
Georg Haentzschel and his Rhythm-makers from Berlin
A serial version for broadcasting of Crosbie Garstin 's trilogy, ' The Penhales'
Read by Geoffrey Tandy
Ortho. Penhale, the young squire of Bosula, found that smuggling was a very remunerative occupation, after all, and continued in it some time. But an unprecedented piece of activity on the part of the local dragoons interrupted one run, and Ortho found himself running before a gale of wind in his gig with a dead man as his only companion, and not knowing in the least where he was heading.
By the morning his situation was desperate, and as he was wavering between running his boat under, and so finishing the whole business, and the remote possibility of making somewhere on the French coast, he was overtaken by a slave ship, picked up, and taken along with her to be sold in Salee on the Atlantic coast of Morocco. This instalment finds him arrived there.
from the Continental Restaurant,
Bournemouth with Bennett and Williams two jovial boys with their phono-fiddles
Pat O'Regan the popular singer
Renee Barr soprano
Robert Keys syncopating pianist
Eric Shrimpton
Spanish and electric guitars
Peter Valerio the wonder accordionist and Leonardi and his Wiener Orchester
Mario de Pietro with a small combination of star musicians
at the BBC Theatre Organ
When Al Bollington was only ten years old he was playing the organ in the chapel of his home village, South Normanton, in Derbyshire. A very few years later he got a post as pianist in a local cinema, and was at the same time helping his parents to run a sweet shop, and teaching children to play the piano. In 1924 he started playing in the orchestras of luxury steamships.
He began to study the organ when in America at a time when cinema organs in that country were just becoming the rage. Returning to England Bollington got an appointment with Spiero's orchestra at the Tower, Blackpool, and he later obtained his first solo organist appointment at the Streatham Astoria. He was there for five years, spent two years at the Plaza, Piccadilly Circus, and succeeded Reginald Foort at the Paramount, Tottenham Court Road.
He has given a number of broadcasts on the Paramount organ as well as transmissions from the BBC Theatre Organ.
