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An excerpt from the pantomime at the Theatre Royal, Birmingham Book by J. Hickory Wood and Dan Leno Jnr. Music composed, selected, and arranged by May Clapham and Guy Jones
Cast
Specialities by The Sixteen J. W. Jackson Girls
The Twelve Dupree Babes
The Dario Bario Family of Clowns
The entire production staged by Robert Nesbitt under the personal supervision of Tom Arnold
Except for a break at the beginning of this century while the present theatre was being built, the Birmingham Theatre Royal has held annual pantomimes continuously since 1840, so that this year's is the ninety-seventh, and at the moment looks as if it will break all records.

Contributors

Book By:
J. Hickory Wood
Book By:
Dan Leno Jnr.
Arranged By:
May Clapham
Arranged By:
Guy Jones
Unknown:
J. W. Jackson
Unknown:
Dario Bario
Unknown:
Robert Nesbitt
Prince Florizel:
Evelyn Laye
Princess Beauty:
Hazel Jennings
Trixie (her maid):
Winnie Braemar
The King:
Albert Darnley
The Queen:
Tom Gamble
Rudolph (the Prince's Page):
Bunny Doyle
Claribel (the Good Fairy):
Mary Thornley
Maligna (the Wicked Witch):
Frank Attree
Father Time:
Gordon Whelan

' The Greatest Dynamic in the Folk-
Song "World'
A programme devised by Robin Whitworth
(with acknowledgment to A. H. Fox Strangways's biography)
The music selected by Peggy Kettlewell
Presented by Leslie Bowman
Vincent Curran
Hugh Morton
Leila Florence
Doris Aldridge (contralto)
Elsie Avril (fiddle)
Joan Sharp (pipe and tabor) and The Norris Stanley Sextet and with special recordings of William Kimber and Billy Wells
Production by Robin Whitworth
(This programme was first broadcast in November, 1937)

Contributors

Unknown:
Robin Whitworth
Unknown:
Peggy Kettlewell
Presented By:
Leslie Bowman
Presented By:
Vincent Curran
Presented By:
Hugh Morton
Unknown:
Leila Florence
Contralto:
Doris Aldridge
Contralto:
Elsie Avril
Unknown:
Joan Sharp
Unknown:
William Kimber
Unknown:
Billy Wells
Production By:
Robin Whitworth

Regional Programme Midland

About Regional Programme

Regional Programme is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 9th March 1930 and ended on the 9th September 1939. It was replaced by BBC Home Service.

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