Listings
: Reveille!
A cheerful selection of gramophone records: Bing Time
A weekly ration of records made by America's Crooner Number One: ' ON PARADE !'
Popular artists and bands fall in for your entertainment on gramophone records: Music While You Work
played by Sydney Phasey and his OrchestraContributors
: and programme summary followed by 'TUNES OF TODAY'
Recent recordings of popular hits: LESLIE TAFF
at the theatre organ: THE ARLINGTON'
with Helen Clare , Gwen Lewis , Jacques Brown , Ian Sadler , and Luanne ShawBBC Revue Orchestra, conducted by Hyam Greenbaum
Here is a new show devised by Eric Spear , who was in turn dancer, actor, stage manager, scene designer, and composer before joining the BBC a year ago. He wrote forty-eight numbers for ' Melody and Co.' in nine weeks-a pretty good record.
' The Arlington', it seems, is a luxury hotel with all the amenities. One is likely to hear something of an economy mannequin parade — in clothes made from substances which cannot be used for salvage. Jacques Brown plays a character with a mania for salvage, and Helen Clare is the receptionist. With Mrs. Ponsonby from ' Danger-Men at Work! ' as a guest artist, one can imagine the fun. The hotel will have its own band — the BBC Revue Orchestra, and a strange Mexican, played, by Ian Sadler and based on a real Mexican he knew, will wander about the place.
Contributors
: JOE LOSS and his Orchestra
with Monte Rey , Paula Green , and Bob ArdenOnce again Joe Loss , famous for his broadcasts from the Astoria Dance Salon, which he left in March this year to tour the halls, provides the band of the week. At the age of thirteen he won a scholarship to Trinity College, and for the next three years studied the classics. Then he rebelled. He formed his first dance-band combination of four amateur musicians when he was sixteen. They received five shillings a week each for five hours' work at a Kensington club. His first broadcast was in a ' First Time Here' programme in 1934. For the last two-and-a-half years
Monte Rey , who has sung in so many of Geraldo's broadcasts and stage shows, has been regularly on the air with Joe Loss and his Band.
Contributors
: 'GOOD OLD SONGS'
A programme of tunes you all know, on gramophone records: BBC THEATRE ORCHESTRA
Leader, Tate GilderConductor, Stanford Robinson
Contributors
: Music While You Work
played by Sandy Macpherson at the theatre organContributors
: 'NO TROUBLE'
A bit of unassuming Variety with George Melachrino , Dorothe Mor row, Gwen Lewis , C. Denier Warren , and the BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles ShadwellProduced and compered by James Dvrcnforth
Contributors
: 'SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY'
to the music of Noel CowardScript by Spike Hughes
Produced by Douglas Moodie
Contributors
: JOHN HILTON TALKING
Perhaps no broadcaster has the gift of instilling in his listeners cheer and reassurance quite to the same extent as John Hilton , who made his name with his weekly chat ' This and That' to unemployed listeners nearly six years ago. His talks last year on events of the week drew the same big audience and mail, as did the weekly article he contributed to the News Chronicle under the heading of ' 'Life'.The keynote of this series to the Forces, whether they are in the East, or on the seas or in camp in parts of Britain far from their homes, is to keep them from worrying about their people-to give them news concerning things, or to explain legislation affecting them, or something of the kind.
Contributors
: NAVAL LOG '
A description of recent events at sea: ' DOING WELL*
The microphone introduces you to some scores of soldiers who are convalescing at a military hospital,' Somewhere in Wales '
: AUSTRALIAN NEWS-LETTER
A weekly summary, specially presented for Australians in this country and read by Colin WillsContributors
: Radio Orange
A programme in Dutch under the auspices of the Dutch Government.: SANDY'S HALF-HOUR
A programme designed to unite members of the Forces with their friends and families at home: Cyril Fletcher will be 'THANKING YEW!'
with Pat Rignold , Bettie Bucknelle , Navaa O'Reilly , not forgetting 'Mr. Maloney', and the Dance Orchestra, conducted by Billy TementProduced by Harry S. Pepper and Ronald Waldman
Contributors
: ' WANT TO BE AN ACTOR'
Devised by Rion VoigtVernon Harris ' auditions ' men and women of the Forces at a garrison theatre
Contributors
: VICTOR SILVESTER
and his Ballroom- Orchestra: BBC MILITARY BAND
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