Listings
: Lozells Picture House Orchestra
(From Birmingham): JACK PAYNE and The
B.B.C. DANCE ORCHESTRABOBBY ALDERSON (American Songs at the Piano)
Contributors
: THE CHILDREN'S HOUR :
(From Birmingham)Mr. Binks and the Money Box Pig,' by Barbara
Sleigh
Songs by AUNTIE RUDY, UNCLE LAURIE and HORACE OF NOTTINGHAM
'Syphons and so on,' by Nicolina Twigg
NORBIB STANLEY (Violin)
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: Light Music
THE LUTON RED Cross BANDConducted by EDWARD S. CARTER
Contributors
: 'A Sea Change'
or ' Love's Stowaway'A Comic Opera written by W. D. HOWELLS
Composed by Sir GEORGE HENSCHEL
Dramatis Personœ :
The Captain of the Mesopotamia. JOSEPH FARRINGTON
Mr. Theron Gay
JOHN ARMSTRONG
The Deck Steward
ARTHUR HOSKING
Mr. Matthew Vane
Mrs. Matthew Vane
Miss Vane's Maids
The Man at the Wheel
The Engineer
Chorus of Passengers, Seamen, and Iceberg Fairies THE WIRELESS Chorus and THE WIRELESS
ORCHESTRA
Conducted by STANFORD ROBINSON
Scene: The Promenade Dock of the Steamer
Mesopotamia
Time : Morning, before breakfast
The action all takes place on board ship, so that listeners will inevitably be reminded here and there of Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore. There are, indeed, one or two numbers cast in the same whimsical strain, and the discipline on board was not like that which prevails in real life. There is a fairy element, however, of which the happiest use is made both in the text and in Sir George Henschel 's music.
Contributors
: Paddly Pools
(From Birmingham)A Fantasy by MILES MALLESON
The Spirit of the Sunset
This little fairy play takes place during the War. Outside an old creeper-laden cottage, in a clearing in a wood, sits Grandpa, asleep. In the foreground lies.a child, flat on his back, and around him are strewn his toys.
This will be preceded by VINCENT CURRAN rcading
After Hell,' from ' Unhappy Far-off Things '
(Lord Dunsany)
1 Peace,' from ' Fairies and Fusiliers ' (Robert
Graves)
Incidental Music by The MIDLAND PIANOFORTE
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