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Transmission by with both radio listeners and viewers 3.5 THE WORLD OF WOMEN the Marconi-EMI system for his sea stories, is in charge of New Series, I things, and altogether it seems he will have an exceptionally busy time. Sculpture in Wood, Bronze, As well as discharging his official and Stone Monday duties, he will give prizes for deck Dora Clarke games and compere the ship's concert, 3.0 FASHIONS FOR CRUISING and generally attend all the social Presentation by Mary Adams A Seasonable Parade of Clothes functions that are considered import• Dora Clarke studied at Havard for Sea Travel ant at sea. Possibly he will also find an Commerce and at the Slade School, opportunity to tell an anecdote or two. where she was awarded a scholarship Arranged by H. E. Plaister and Luckily, several of the passengers for sculpture. This scholarship was G. R. Kenward-Eggar happen to be well-known artists who specially created for her as hitherto At this time of the year hundreds of will give a professional touch to the there had not been one in existence people prefer to hunt the elusive sun concert. at the school. In 1928 she went to on a cruising liner, rather than try to Africa to study Negro types, and find a place in where the 4.0 CLOSE among the work she is exhibiting weather can be trusted to keep warm, today she will show some inspired and it is for them that this programme by that visit. Notable examples of has been specially devised. A display her work are the memorials of of clothes will be shown that will give 9.0 FASHIONS FOR CRUISING Joseph Conrad in New York and suggestions to the cruising holiday- London. maker from morning to night—beach A Seasonable Parade of Clothes pyjamas, afternoon dresses, bathing for Sea Travel suits, and evening gowns. There Arranged by H. E. Plaister and 3.20 GAUMONT BRITISH should be plenty of fashions, however, G. R. Kenward-Eggar NEWS to interest viewers who intend to have a more modest holiday at an English 9.15 GAUMONT BRITISH seaside resort. NEWS 3.30 THE BBC An interesting feature of this DANCE ORCHESTRA programme is that some of the models 9.25 CABARET CRUISE Directed by Henry Hall will be ' passengers ' on the ' liner ' that viewers will see in ' Cabaret Commander: Cruise '. A. B. Campbell 4.0 CLOSE In the Passenger List are: 3.15 BRITISH MOVIETONEWS The Geddes Brothers Mr. Walsh 3.25 ,, CABARET CRUISE Mr. Barker 9.0 KEITH WILBUR Commander: Miss Pamela Randall (mimic) CRUISE FASHIONS. Two of the A. B. Campbell Miss Margaret Fry Keith Wilbur comes from New In the Passenger List are: Mr. Neil Pascall Zealand. His act is known all over models who will show fashions The Geddes Brothers the English-speaking world. His first for summer cruising on Monday. The Ship's Band broadcast in this country was in 1927. Mr. Walsh Presented by Harry Pringle Mr. Barker 9.5 THE WORLD OF WOMEN 9.30 DORSET GARDEN Miss Pamela Randall 10.0 CLOSE New Series, I Miss Margaret Fry A Miniature Restoration Revue Sculpture in Wood, Bronze, Mr. Neil Pascall devised and produced by and Stone Dallas Bower The Ship's Band Tuesday Dora Clarke Presented by Harry Pringle The artists include: Presentation by Mary Adams This entertainment will present the ELINOR SHAW JAMES TOPPING lighter side of life on board ship. 3.0 Commander Campbell, a favourite (dancer) 9.20 BRITISH MOVIETONEWS JOAN CROSS The BBC Television Orchestra Leader, Boris Pecker Conductor, Hyam Greenbaum ^ This production will try to recapture the atmosphere of a well-known London playhouse of the seventeenth century, Dorset Garden Theatre, which was built facing the Thames in 1671. Pictures of its facade, which bore the arms of James, Duke of York, suggest that itw was designed by Wren. A quaint feature of the period was that footmen were ad• mitted to the galleries free of the usual charge of 2s. 6d. at the end of the fourth act of any production.

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9.20 GAUMONT BRITISH Ceylon, and Tibet. Two very rare Wednesday NEWS specimens of Egyptian masks, both more than 3,000 years old, will be 9.30 'PICTURE PAGE' televised. Roman masks carved from 3.0 stone will also be shown, in addition (Forty-Sixth Edition) An Exhibition of Play to several beautiful examples of A Magazine Programme of Eastern art, specimens from Ceylon, by General and Topical Interest Java, India, and Japan. The last- Devised and edited by CECIL MADDEN named country will provide specimens and Produced by ROYSTON MORLEY of the famous No masks, closely preserved as temple treasures. As in Willie Smith The Switchboard Girl: JOAN MILLER the first talk, viewers will also see This is the first television demonstra• 10.0 CLOSE extracts from films showing masks tion of snooker. Both the players are worn by natives. expertprofessionals. Horace Lindrum, Two more talks by Duncan Melvin a nephew of the great Walter Lindrum, Thursday are to follow, and in them he will comes from Australia and is one of the trace the evolution of the mask by few snooker players who can rival steps right up to the present day. , the champion. 3.0 INGRID LINCKE (See article on pages 4 and 5) (soprano) 3.20 GAUMONT BRITISH NEWS 3.10 DAFFODILS This is the second appearance of vivacious Ingrid Lincke. She made A display of various types of daffodils her television debut on March 12. 3.30 'AD LIB' from the Daffodil Show to be held on A Dane, she came from Denmark A Revue by Herbert Farjeon April 15 and 16 under the auspices of to England just before Christmas for the Royal Horticultural Society in the an audition with C. B. Cochran. The Music by Michael Sayer New Hall, Elverton Street. The As a result, she is now understudying with blooms will be described by one of ALFREDO TOMASINI, operatic Gitta Alpar in Cochran's Coronation NADINE MARCH the exhibitors. revue, Home and Beauty, at the baritone, is this week's ' Music Adelphi. She sings delightfully, and ELIZABETH FRENCH Maker '. He will be televised on Presentation by Mary Adams has an attractive foreign accent. She IRENE PRADOR Wednesday night. has appeared in musical comedy all HENRY CAINE 3.20 BRITISH MOVIETONEWS over the Continent. Viewers will have another opportunity of seeing and Chorus music by Michael Sayer. The cast 3.30 'PICTURE PAGE' her at 9.55. and includes Elizabeth French, whose (Forty-Fifth Edition) The BBC Television Orchestra voice and personality have charmed A Magazine Programme of 3.5 MASKS THROUGH Leader, Boris Pecker viewers several times previously. She General and Topical Interest Conductor, Hyam Greenbaum had an enormous success when she THE AGES—2 took over Lea Seidl's part in White Devised and edited by CECIL MADDEN Duncan Melvin Produced by Stephen Thomas Horse Inn at the Coliseum and Produced by ROYSTON MORLEY Presentation by Mary Adams In this production the lyrics of on tour, and later she played Lucy The Switchboard Girl: JOAN MILLER Herbert Farjeon (dramatic critic and in the musical version of The Rivals In this second talk Duncan Melvin revue writer, brother of Eleanor at the King's Theatre, Hammersmith. will deal with the evolution of the Farjeon, poet and novelist, Harry Another of her triumphs was as Sari 4.0 CLOSE mask through the ancient civilisations Farjeon, Professor at the R.A.M., in Bitter Sweet. Recently she sang of Egypt and Rome, and the various and Jefferson Farjeon, author of the part of the Tsarevitch in Boris cultures of India, Japan, China, Java, thrillers), are combined with original Godunov at Covent Garden, where 9.0 MUSIC MAKERS she also appeared in Pickwick, Julia, ALFREDO TOMASINI and Madam Butterfly. Alfredo Tomasini is a notable addition to the celebrities who have already 4.0 CLOSE appeared in the ' Music Makers' series. He was born in Winnipeg (his real name is Young) and before becoming a professional singer he had 9.0 THE BBC a half-share in a drug store. Both he and his partner were keen on singing, DANCE ORCHESTRA however, and nowadays he can afford Directed by Henry Hall to smile when he remembers how the shop used to be closed every after• This is the second appearance this noon so they could study. But if week of Henry Hall and the BBC Tomasini was not a good shopkeeper, Dance Orchestra. Before their per• he made up for it with his voice. formance last Tuesday, they had not Since 1932, when he joined an been in the television studio since operatic company in Italy, he has March 19, when they celebrated their been in the public eye as a baritone fifth anniversary. of fine quality in Europe, the United States, and Canada. 9.30 BRITISH MOVIETONEWS

9.10 DAFFODILS 9.40 MASKS THROUGH In the afternoon at 3.10 viewers saw THE AGES—2 some beautiful specimens from the Daffodil Show to be held at the New Duncan Melvin Horticultural Hall tomorrow and the Presentation by Mary Adams day after. This evening two well- known market growers will describe the art of growing daffodils in England. 9.55 INGRID LINCKE An interesting addition to the dis• cussion will be a film illustrating the (soprano) various stages of growth to the final process of packing. ELIZABETH FRENCH will be featured in Ad Lib, a revue by Herbert 10.0 CLOSE Presentation by Mary Adams Farjeon with music by Michael Sayer, on Thursday and Saturday (Programmes continued on page 6) RADIO TIMES TELEVISION SU1 SIDELIGHTS by The Scanner' The Popu Rest for Engineers— The television premises at Alexandra Palace are compact. That is to say, a few yards' HE increase during the last few years walk or a few seconds' ride in the lift will Tin the popularity of snooker with all take you anywhere you want to go. There classes of players from the professional is just one far-flung outpost, however—the down to the veriest amateur has been theatre, which is one stuffed lion, several surprising. Snooker, after being kept in statues and slot machines, and many draughts the background since its earliest days by distant from the main wing. the long-established sister game of No longer is it used as a theatre. Beyond billiards, suddenly came into its own, and the foyer there is a large room fitted with with a rapid but very clean sweep has chairs and tables for use as a rest-room by become a national pastime, making the television engineers. Originally, I should imagine, it was a bar, but it has now been billiards take a back seat. given a sober and somewhat academic Consider the position as recently as appearance by a blackboard, which is five years ago. At this time it was the usually chalked with intricate diagrams. custom of the well-known professionals to play an occasional game of snooker —and Work for Scene-Painters after a long session of billiards. The game On Wednesday and Fridi The auditorium, with all the seats taken was seldom contested in a really serious away, has none of the shabby gloom and spirit, and it seemed merely to act as a Willie Smith will give a d nustiness and silence that so often make a sedative after the tenseness of the game disused theatre a place of ghosts. On its that had gone before. Frequently half sloping floor work men in white coats, the onlookers would file out of the hall The tournament was duly played off, artists with brushes and carj>enters with when the marker announced that a but it did not affect the professionals, saws, all busy making television scenery. It snooker match would be played. is here that Peter Bax's designs are carried who continued to confine their snooker to out. A good example of h * talent will be A visit to your club or local hall would a periodic game. Without the aid of seen by viewers in the se ing for Dorset have revealed that nine out of every ten frequent matches between the well-known Garden, the Restoration revue to be televised tables were devoted to billiards. There players it was impossible to popularise next Tuesday. was a professional snooker championship, snooker, and the game was almost at a standstill until a Shakespeare Celebration year or two later For Shakespeare's birthday on April 23, the necessary Stephen Thomas is now working on a tele• impetus came in a vision production of A Midsummer Night's most unexpected Dream, with ballet and orchestra. Some time fashion. later the play will be presented in a very A certain different form. There is more about it in the amount of pub• paragraph below. licity attended the visit to this Freely Adapted country of a The score of The Faery Queen by Purcell famous Canadian was lost in 1700, and, despite a reward of snooker player, twenty pounds for its discovery, it remained Conrad Stanbury. lost until it was rather emb?.rrassingly found Stanbury was in 1901 in the library of the Royal Academy above all a colour-, of Music. It is an adaptat on of A Mid• summer Night's Dream, in which Purcell ful player and as showed his independent spirit by not setting such was a god• one word of the original Shakespeare to send, in that his music. The scenes are altered so as to give personality drew the clowns a greater prominence, and each attention to the one ends with the appearance of Titania j game. In the and a masque performed in her honour. ' matter of breaks A final gesture of freedom by the adapter it is true, but it was soon over and he was not as good as our own Joe Davis, is to be found in the last and longest act, but his unique stroke play was all that which is set in a Chinese garden. A tele• attracted comparatively little attention. vision version of it all is being devised by All of which suggests that snooker was was necessary to bring spectators. Dallas Bower for a date in May to be an• making Lttle headway; yet it was at that A short while later Clare O'Donnell, nounced later, the first part in the afternoon period, although it was scarcely realised, another Canadian, came over and engaged performance, the second part in the evening. that the game really began to progress. in several matches with our best-known Slowly but surely snooker was gaining professionals, each match leaving many • Made in Scotland ' more and more advocates. But it needed converted snooker players in its wake. Moultrie R. Kelsall, who has left his job as some sort of stimulus to bring it into the Finally, with an even greater reputation Aberdeen Representative of the BBC to forefront. than his predecessors, came Horace become Outside Broadcasts Assistant at Then in 1933 came the first big push Lindrum from Australia. He proved Alexandra Palace, has been responsible for in the form of a national competition. himself a real rival to Davis, interest was many successful broadcasts from Scotland, This tournament was a handicap event aroused at once, and championships began such as The Trial of Harry Gordon, The and was open to amateurs throughout to be arranged on a large scale. The upshot Pursuit of Pleasure, the ' Facets of Syncopa• the country. To the surprise of everybody is that today there are far more snooker tion ' series, and that extraordinarily fine matches than billiards matches played by country broadcast, The Farm Year. One of concerned, especially the organisers, there his revues, May Bee, which was given from was an entry of no fewer than five thou• professionals, and the same thing is found Scotland last year, is to be repeated on sand, which brought the realisation that in the clubs, homes, and halls throughout May 18 on the main Regional programme. snooker had begun to take root. the country, irrespective of playing ability. UPPLEMENT, APRIL 9, 1937 SIDELIGHTS of SNOOKER by The Scanner' Play about Goldsmith One of Oliver Goldsmith's characteristics a short while. This, you may feel, does was his inability to tell the truth, and as a not take into consideration the average good deal of what is known of his life came player of either game who seldom makes from his own lips, it is a little difficult to a break of thirty at billiards and only half disentangle fact from fiction. It is uncertain, that number at snooker, and who is thus for instance, whether he ever gained a degree never very long away from the table— as a doctor, just as it is certain he was once and yet still prefers to play snooker seven advised to prescribe for his enemies and times out of ten. not for his friends. But he was a charming bundle of eccentricities all the same, and This may be explained by the fact that on April 20 he will refute Garrick by talking the shot that is the most pleasing to like an angel in April Showers, a one-act execute and the most attractive to watch play by Nino Bartholomew. The period is in either game is the pocketing of a ball 1764 and it deals with Goldsmith's extra• from a difficult position. It is a spectacular ordinary introduction to Lord Northumber• effort that occurs occasionally in first-class land in Bath. There are four principal billiards, more often as the standard of characters—Goldsmith himself, who will be tey Horace Lindrum and play declines, but possibly twenty times played by Fred O'Donovan, his friend in any game of snooker, since the chief Robert Nugent, who will be played by John Abbott, Lord Northumberland, who will demonstration in the studio object is to pot the balls one after be played by Harry Hutchinson, and Lady another. Northumberland, who will be played by Another attractive feature of the game Cicely Paget-Bowman. The origin of snooker is somewhat is the leaving of what is known as a obscure, but the introduction of the game ' snooker ', when a player leaves the cue is attributed to Captain Snooker (hence ball in such a position that his opponent Enter Howard Marshall the name), who was an officer in the Bengal is unable to hit directly the ball next in turn. That fine sportsman, journalist, and radio Lancers in India. He developed snooker The method of recovering from a 'snooker' commentator, Howard Marshall, will shortly from a game known as ' pyramids', in is by a cushion shot, and it gives the be seen at Alexandra Palace. A noted Rugby which all the balls were red. Captain player an intense satisfaction either to player in his time, he has been captain of leave or to get out of a ' snooker '. both the Harlequins and Surrey. On April 30 Snooker, so the story goes, added the he will be seen as editor of a television various colours and laid the foundation Whether snooker will ever overshadow sports review, which it is hoped will be of the game as we know it today. The billiards to the extent that it was itself presented regularly. Films of sporting events first official snooker rules were drawn up overshadowed before the last few years is will be shown, together with personalities in 1901. a matter of conjecture. The best judges of the day, the whole programme being It is not difficult to see why snooker consider this improbable. Billiards has linked together by Howard Marshall. has, perhaps momentarily, ousted billiards been a national pastime for over a hundred from the limelight. There is so much years and as such would certainly die very Sketches by Nicolas Bentley more action in the game for both players hard. It may well be that the present and spectators. At billiards the profes• popularity for snooker will turn out to be Some time ago Olga Katzin illustrated Pearl just a passing fancy, that the players will Binder's verse before the television camera. sional frequently occupies the whole of a On April 21 Nicolas Bentley, the satirical session with a single break made up tire of constant potting, and welcome a artist, who made incomparable sketches for probably of innumerable close cannons at return to cannons and long losers. Hilaire Belloc's incomparable poems, and the top of the table, varied only by the who can draw a dinner-jacket as no one else necessary crossing of the baulk line or an can, will be seen at work. RADIO TIMES occasional ' pot' or ' in- readers with long memories will recall his off\ intended merely as illustrations for ' Samuel Pepys, Listener'. the means of securing a He is the son of E. G. Bentley, the writer of one of the best detective stories ever position for another written. avalanche of cannons. During a snooker ses• sion, it is usual to play at Coronation Tree least six games, or The idea of planting a tree as a memorial is ' frames ', as they are a good one. A tree is regarded in much the called. This means that same way through the years, which is more even if a player clears the than can be said of most statues. On April 19 the Marquess of Lothian will play the table after a few pre• leading part in planting a tree to commem• liminary shots, his op• orate the Coronation. The tree will be placed ponent will not be idly in the gardens at the front of Alexandra looking on for more than Palace, and the ceremony will be televised. Before the outside broadcast, there will be a talk from the studio.

Four Players, Two Hands Five days later there will be a bridge demon• stration. Two hands will be played in the allotted quarter of an hour, the players including experts like Mrs. Gordon Evers and Miss Kathleen Salmons, and the commentary will be given by that great bridge authority, Hubert Phillips. The hands will be shown to viewers before play begins. RADIO TIMES TELEVISION SUPPLEMENT, APRIL Q, K)$J TELEVISION PROGRAMMES FRIDAY APRIL 16 AND SATURDAY APRIL 17 VISION 45 Mc/s SOUND 41.5 Mc/s

traits of Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, York's in 1934, when, they appeared Friday the late Bishop Gore, and John in Happy Week-End. Steve Geray Masefield. He is now at work on a played the part of Richard Brunt, and 3.0 FREDRIKA portrait of the Marquess of Lothian. Magda Kun that of Mitzi Prisky. (mezzo-soprano) They have endeared themselves more 3.20 BRITISH MOVIETONEWS and more to English theatre-goers Accompanied by Gilbert Stacey and cinema-goers and in West-End Fredrika, the daughter of an Austrian cabarets their act has been a star mother and a Polish father, was born 3.30 THEATRE PARADE attraction. They made their tele• in Vienna. At the outbreak of the war Scenes from a play now running vision debut on March 23, and their she was in Belgium and left it to in London act this evening will be their second find shelter in England. Small as she Presentation by G. More O'Ferrall . visit to Alexandra Palace. was in those days, she charmed thousands with her performances in 4.0 CLOSE 10.0 CLOSE concerts on behalf of wounded soldiers. An introduction to Adrian Boult and the late Alfred Kalisch 9.0 Musical Interlude made it possible for her to study at Saturday the Royal College of Music under Gustave Garcia. Since then she has 9.10 ARTISTS AND THEIR appeared all over the world. A point WORK 3.0 DEMONSTRATION of interest about this programme is Details as at 3.10 OF RAILWAY that she appeared in a television pro• LOCOMOTIVES gramme at the end of 1932, long 9.25 GAUMONT BRITISH from the Alexandra Palace Station before the BBC television service NEWS was installed at Alexandra Palace. A Silver Jubilee engine and contrasting type of engine 9.35 SNOOKER 3.10 ARTISTS AND THEIR These two engines will be brought WORK An Exhibition of Play specially for the occasion to the TOMMY HANDLEY will appear as the officer in the famous war• Portrait Painting by Alexandra Palace Station of the Horace Lindrum L.N.E.R. time sketch, The Disorderly Room, John Mansbridge will describe the on Saturday afternoon principles which underlie portrait and The Silver Jubilee type of engine to painting, and will also demonstrate Willie Smith be shown today has already broken two records. On a trial run it reached his own methods, with the use of a {See article on pages 4 and 5) living model a speed of 112.5 miles an hour in from the Films', the Toy Town September, 1935, and in August, series in the Children's Hour, and Presentation by Mary Adams 9.45 STARLIGHT 1936, it reached a speed of 113 miles No, No, Nanette. He made his first an hour with a full load of coaches appearance on the stage as a child It is hoped that in this programme STEVE GERAY and viewers will see a famous literary and passengers. As an example of entertainer at the Camberwell Palace figure sitting as a model. John MAGDA KUN the development in locomotive design of Varieties in 1911. Since then he Mansbridge is a very well-known These two brilliant Hungarian artists the modern streamlined type will be has done almost everything in the artist who is particularly famous for —they are husband and wife—made shown with an engine made about show world : he has shown amazing his portraits and Underground posters. their first appearance together in thirty years ago. versatility by acting, producing, and Amongst others, he has painted por• London to play at the Duke of writing for the theatre and cinema. Films in which he has appeared 3.20 CORONATION WARE include The Middle Watch, Congress John Thomas, Ph.D., one of the Dances, On the Air, The Old Curiosity research experts for Wedgwood Pot• Shop, and Key to Harmony, and on teries, will bring to the studio samples the stage, to mention only three of Coronation ware, past and present important rdles, he has played Waggermeyer in Orders is Orders, Presentation by Mary Adams Anthony Cheshire in Nippy, and Janczi in Viktoria and Her Hussar. 3.35 GAUMONT BRITISH NEWS 9.10 CORONATION WARE 3.45 TOMMY HANDLEY John Thomas, Ph.D., one of the research experts for Wedgwood Pot• AND COMPANY teries, will bring to the studio samples in of Coronation ware, past and present Eric Blore's famous war-time musical sketch Presentation by Mary Adams 'THE DISORDERLY ROOM' 9.20 BRITISH MOVIETONEWS with Tommy Handley as the Officer 9.30 'AD LIB' This is one of the most popular A Revue by Herbert Farjeon sketches about Army life on the The Music by Michael Sayer Variety stage. Tommy Handley, who with takes the part of the officer, was last seen by viewers when he was televised NADINE MARCH with the White Coons. ELIZABETH FRENCH IRENE PRADOR 4.0 CLOSE HENRY CAINE and Chorus and 9.0 REGINALD PURDELL The BBC Television Orchestra (comedian) Leader, Boris Pecker Reginald Purdell has appeared as a Conductor, Hyam Greenbaum singer and as an actor in scores of Produced by Stephen Thomas REGINALD PURDELL, who has appeared in innumerable radio and important radio productions such as stage shows and many big films, will be seen on Saturday night ' Songs from the Shows ', ' Songs 10.0 CLOSE RADIO TIMES TELEVISION SUPPLEMENT, APRIL 9, I937 7

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