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: THE LONDON RADIO DANCE BAND
Directed by Sidney Firman, and CONSTANCE BRAMLEY (Mezzo-Soprano) ; WILLIAM A. TAYLOR (Baritone): EVENSONG
Relayed from WESTMINSTER ABBEY: Mr. J. C. SQUIRE : Special Ta:k to Secondary Schools, ' 'Poet Adventurers '
EVEN in the narrowest sense in which it can be applied,, the distinction between ' men of action ' and ' men of words ' is very far from being universal. In the talks, of which this is the first, Mr. J. C. Squire , the poet, essayist and editor (f The London Mercury, will sketch the adventuro is lives of Sir Philip Sidney , Lord Byron, and Rupert Brooke , three poets who died in war.: THE CHILDREN'S HOUR :
Animals in Story and Music. Piano Solos by Dorothy Howell. ' Hepzibah Hen Goes Balloon - Jumping ' (Olwen Bowen ). The Latest Zoo Babies '—a Zoo Talk by L. G. Mainland: Mr. FRANCIS TOYE : 'Music in the Theatre '
THEATRE music varies T considerably in quality, but some cf it is very interesting, and certainly worth knowing about. In these fortnightly broadcasts Mr. Francis Toye will indicate any points of interest in current musical comedy, ballet and opera, and criticize them generally in the same way as Mr. Percy Scholes deals with ' straight' music in his Friday talks. Mr. Toye, who is now music critic to The Morning Post, began writing on music nearly twenty years ago for Vanity Fair. He is a brother of the conductor, Mr. Geoffrey Toye.: Sir OLIVER LODcE: Pioneers in Astronomy —III, Gclileo '
UNLIKE most astronomers, Galileo has left'-' behind him not merely a monument of achievement, but a legend-the legend of his assertion of his theory after he had recanted it before the Inquisition. Apart altogether from this story, Galileo, who lived from 1564 to 1642, is one of the very greatest names in the roll of those who digged the foundations of modern astronomy.
: AN EVENING OF VAUDEVILLE
JOSEPHINE TRIX (Syncopated Songs)CLAPHAM and DWYER (in a Spot of Bother)
EDXA THOMAS (Negro Spirituals)
' WUN-TU ' or THE SEVENTH HEAVEN '
A Chinese Fantasy by FRANK COCHRANE and DION TITHERADGE
Music by ARTHUR WOOD
Characters :
To the houso of Wun-Tu comes Mee-Woo, seeking advice. He addresses the servant Li-Lo.
: Cecil Lewis: Old Rothenburg
In Rothenburg, that thousand-year-old city of Bavaria, as in the palace of the Sleeping Princess, time has stood still. The city stands with its walls and castles, its moats and bastions, but it seems to have been forgotten since the fifteenth century; and now wise people have embalmed it as a national treasure. Mr. Cecil Lewis will try to convey the atmosphere of this city of cobbled streets and deep gables - of the dusty palace of bygone princes and the log fires of hospitable inns.Contributors
: VAUDEVILLE
(Continued) including—RAY VlNCENT and his TRIO :
RAY VINCENT (Vocalist); CECIL NORMAN (Pianist) ; LESLIE NORMAN (Novelty Saxophone and Violin) and LEO HERBERT (Pianist)
'THE MARRIAGE ...
WILL NOT TAKE PLACE
A Play in One Act hy
ALFRED SUTRO
Characters :
IT is 1917, und the Groat
War progresses. In the study of his handsome West-end house Sir Henry Parker paces nervously to and fro, at times looking at his watch and cursing under his breath. A servant announces tho arrival of Mr. Free, and Sir Henry eagerly welcomes him.
Ivy ST. HELlER (Impersonations)
NEIL KENYON (the Famous
Scots Comedian)
Compere, HARRY HEMSLEY
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