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.
' 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)
Vienna Symphony Orchestra:
Spanish Dance No. 1 (Mosskouski)
Fritz Kreisler (violin): Londonderry Air (arr. Kreisler). Schon Rosmarin (Kreisler)
New Light Symphony Orchestra:
Spanish Serenade (Bizet)