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SUPPLEMENT TO RADIO TIMES, JANUARY 15, 1937 RADIO TIMES TELEVISION SUPPLEMENT

PROGRAMMES FROM JANUARY 1 & TO 2 3

THE SWITCHBOARD GIRL. Joan Miller, who introduces the characters seen and heard in the television magazine programme, ' Picture Page \ 2 RADIO TIMES TELEVISION SUPPLEMENT, JANUARY 15, I937

67ELEVISIO N is now definitely a domestic ^ / / realityEL . The best system of transmission has given us such excellent high-definition, flicker-free pictures that Television at last offers enjoyable and, in fact, thrilling entertainment.

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Reginald Smith NEWS for YOU VIEWERS joins the BBC at Alexandra Ho/7 and Farewell body except the leading lady. Also in the Palace as a y^ stage manager At the end of last week the tall figure of cast were those two well-known radio Cecil Lewis ran down the stairs from his personalities, Davy Burnaby and Edward fifth-floor office to say ' au revoir ' to his Cooper. Then came the West-End produc• colleagues. He is now in his villa in Italy, tion of Journey's End, in which he first played and in a few days' time he sails from Genoa the part of the Sergeant-Major and afterwards to New York en route for Hollywood. His that of Hardy. But he is particularly well book, ' Sagittarius Rising ', an account of his known for his work with Uncle Andre* in experiences as an airman during the war, is shows like Please I—in this production he first to be filmed by Paramount. He will write the met Jasmine Bligh — How do you do ? scenario, and will possibly play a leading part I H-diddle-diddle, and Char-a-Ban%. in it. After the BBC agreed to release him His hobbies, he says, are pin-tables, from his contract, Lewis signed up with paddle steamers, and the life of Queen Paramount for at least six months, with the Victoria. option of an extension to two years. But he hopes, however long he stays, to return to the Decoration Expert BBC television service afterwards. He leaves Serge Chermayeff, the architect, was one of behind him memories of a powerful and the designers who were consulted on the likeable personality and a fund of ideas for decoration of the studios at Broadcasting The Fastest Game on Earth outside broadcasts and talks. House. On Wednesday, January 27, he and The sport that has been described as the Mrs. Mary Adams migrates from Talks at John Piper will discuss ' the picture in the fastest game on earth, ice hockey, will be Broadcasting House to look alter tele• modern home '. Amongst other works, he featured on Tuesday, January 26. There will vision talks, and she will stay at least be a film of a match and two of England's three months. As for outside broadcasts, greatest players will come before the television no details have been finally settled at the camera, Art Child, the goalkeeper off Earl's time of going to press. There is another R. A. Rendall, Court Royals, and Jimmy Chappell, star appointment at Alexandra Palace, and who is now forward of Earl's Court Rangers. They will a very important one it is, too. R. A. Assistant Director be equipped with their complete kit and Rendall is now Assistant Director of of Television padding, and viewers will see and hear Television. He was once Programme them explain the finer points of the Director of the West Region, and game. There may be an ' actuality' immediately before his television ap• demonstration too, for it is hoped to pointment he was in Jerusalem as Acting bring into the studio a ten-foot square Director of Programmes to the Palestine of ice. Broadcasting Service. In addition to R. A. Rendall and What Shirley Temple Wears Mary Adams, there is another new face Shirley Temple is like caviare—either to be seen at Alexandra Palace, a round, you like her very much or you don't cheery face that belongs to Reginald like her at all. But even those mothers Smith, stage manager. He arrived soon who strongly disapprove of precocity after Christmas. may find much to appeal to them in what Shirley Temple wears, which will He Worked with Chariot be shown on Thursday, February 4, in a ' Reggie '—everyone calls him that by programme of children's fashions. Half a now—served in the last eighteen months dozen child models will wear her clothes, of the war, and at Merton was a leading and it is hoped they will show what the light of the O.U.D.S. J. B. Fagan gave younger set in smart London and New York him his first professional part as Mangan in was responsible for the design of the audi• circles will favour next spring and summer. Shaw's Heartbreak House at the Oxford torium of the Cambridge Theatre. Playhouse. His next important job was with Light Fantastic Chariot in 1928 at the Vaudeville, where he Films and Television was general utility man, understudying every• An unusual European international match On page 5 you will find an article on the takes place on February 7—a dancing contest relationship of films and television by between England and Denmark. Four days producer Dallas Bower. Before coming to before the competitors—the pick of England's Alexandra Palace he was one of the most dancers—cross the North Sea, viewers will brilliant young men in the British film have the opportunity of seeing them. There industry. He has written scenarios, he will be eight couples, and they will show the directed The Path of Glory and Victory Over three different types of ballroom dancing Space, and was assistant director in two which will be contested. A running com• Bergner films, As You Like It and Escape mentary will be supplied by T. R. Richardson, Me Never. editor of The Dancing Times. Potted Operetta Lunar Music Next Tuesday, Joan Luxton's Children's At one time or another the moon has been Theatre Company will be seen in a potted the inspiration of nearly everybody, from version of Cinderella. A fortnight later, on lyric-writers to lovers. The latest victim is Tuesday, February 2, another abridged but Spike Hughes, who is now busy devising an complete performance will be given—Johann orchestral programme of moon music to be Strauss's Die Fledermaus. The operetta will televised on-Friday, February 5. The show be divided into two parts, the first to be will be entitled ' Au Clair de la Lune'. presented in the afternoon, the second in Whether Hughes has been moved enough the evening. The cast, it is hoped, will to write original music is not yet known, but include John Wright as Eisenstein, Janet viewers will certainly hear ingenious varia• Hamilton-Smith as Adele, Arnold Matters tions on well-known melodies. Films will as Frank, and Sumner Austin as Falke. The be used for atmosphere, and it is hoped to Television Orchestra, specially augmented include the balcony scene from Romeo and Mary Adams, television talks producer for the occasion, will take part. Juliet. RADIO TIMES TELEVISION SUPPLEMENT, JANUARY 15, I937 RADIO TIMES TELEVISION SUPPLEMENT, JANUARY 15, I937 5 o By DALLAS TELEVISION ^ BOWER Former Film Director, / FILMS now a Television Producer How they might be combined in a new technique

EFORE regular television was estab• and such an organisation would not Blished, there was a lot of speculation come within the scope of television about its effect on the cinema industry. broadcasting. In fact, as long ago as 1927 I was rash The technique of' live' television, enough to suggest that the cinema in its eventual form, will certainly ' renter' (or film distributor) might resemble the technique of the eventually disappear as films would be modern film, the present transmitted to cinema theatres from a monochrome of the television central station. picture and its two-dimen• sional quality being common Prophecy is always dangerous, par• to both. The transmission by ticularly to the prophet, and shots in the television of ' feature ' films dark are liable more often than not to is neither desirable nor appro• miss their target. At that time it was priate. But that is not to say impossible to foresee the development of films themselves are of no a real television ' eye ' or series of ' eyes ', use to television's future such as the modern television camera development. The value of represents. The cinema renter looks as if news films and short subjects he will remain secure in his position for of special interest as programme some time yet. For already it has been material is informative rather found that ' live' television, in distinction than purely entertaining, and to the transmission of films, is unquestion• they must certainly be con• ably the line along which development sidered as an essential part of will be most rapid. Moreover, large- screen projection is still hardly out of the Picture above : one of the pro• experimental stage. Film transmission to jectors in the film viewing-room at cinema theatres is likely to employ a wire rather than a wireless system of distribution, Alexandra Palace where films are selected for television. Below : a film camera crew at work

television material. But where the chief use of films for television lies is, it seems to me, in assisting the mounting of original productions. The possibilities of films for the purposes of what is known in the theatre as decor have hardly been explored in this country. The system known as ' back projection', which is used extensively in film production in creating the illusion that a scene (for example) is being played out of doors when actually it has been shot in the studio, can also be applied to many problems of scene design in the theatre. In this direction, one may legitimately foresee a combination of cinema tech• nique and theatre technique of which the potential scope is enormous. For television is a hybrid of stage and screen. From the point of view of a producer, the technique and the working conditions approach those of the film studio, but with the added complexity of perpetually being in a state of final dress rehearsal. Experiment with ' back projection' can be made only in the largest theatres. In television the problem is not bound up with available studio space; it can be solved electrically. In much the same way as two scenes in the cinema can be super imposed, so could actors in a television studio be super• imposed on a scene on film. Thus it is possible to look upon films in television in much the same way one looks upon the gramophone record in the consideration of ' sound ' broadcasting— as a background, a surround, a means of establishing atmosphere, a part requisite to the whole rather than the whole itself. RADIO TIMES TELEVISION SUPPLEMENT, JANUARY 15, IQ37 TELEVISION PROGRAMMES MONDAY JAN. 18 AND TUESDAY JAN. 19 : VISION 45 Mc/s SOUND 41.5 Mc/s

This week's transmission will be by and Betty in The Party—she is a 9.0 ELIZABETH POLLOCK the Marconi-EMI system gifted mimic whose impressions have Impressions delighted huge audiences. 3.5 MUSICAL 9.10 MUSICAL Monday INSTRUMENTS—2 INSTRUMENTS—2 'Wood* •Wood' 3.0 THE ARTS LEAGUE OF Philip Thornton Philip Thornton SERVICE This is Philip Thornton's second talk in in this series. He will show and 9.25 GAUMONT BRITISH NEWS Folk Songs and Sea Shanties describe the functions of modern components of an orchestra such as 3.20 GAUMONT BRITISH the bassoon, oboe, clarinet, and flute. 9.35 Joan Luxton's Children's NEWS Instruments such as these have a long Theatre Company history, and their evolution can be in 3.30 CABARET CARTOONS—3 traced by a survey of musical instru• ments of die past and also those of the 'CINDERELLA' Cartoons by present day, some of them weird to by Margaret Carter Harry Rutherford Western ears, that are still used in as presented by Ronald Adam at the Cabaret by different parts of the world. Viewers will also see and hear examples Embassy Theatre Judy Shirley JUDY of early flutes; the ophicleide; the Cast: Songs SHIRLEY zurba, which comes from Turkey; the Cinderella Joan French The Bavera Trio sings in Cabaret Cartoons on gajas, which comes from Bessarabia; Prince .John Gatrell Skaters the Bulgarian duduk and kaval; the Monday afternoon bansri, which comes from India; and Ugly Sisters j Joan Luiton CalMcCord the agwaal, an instrument that is to I Margaret Carter Ropes and Yarns be found in the Atlas Mountains. Baron W. S. Percy Louise, Ouida, and Milroy 9.0 THE ARTS LEAGUE OF Chancellor Brember Wills Russian Speciality SERVICE 3.20 BRITISH MOVIETONEWS Dandini Patrick Gover Topsy Turvy Two in 3.30 THEATRE PARADE Lady Penelope Elfrida Burgess Upside-Down Dancers Choddles Geoffrey Wincott Scenes from a production now Marion and Irma Folk Songs and Sea Shanties Produced by Geoffrey Wincott Symphony in Motion showing at a London theatre Presentation by Stephen Thomas Presented by Cecil Madden 9.20 BRITISH MOVIETONEWS Presentation by G. More O'Ferrall 10.0 CLOSE 4.0 CLOSE 4.0 CLOSE 9.30 CABARET CARTOONS--4 (Programmes continued on page to) Cartoons by Harry Rutherford Cabaret by Zoe Wyn . ( - Songs The Bavera Trio Skaters Moray and Moyia Adagio Speciality Cal McCord Ropes and Yarns ' Symphony in Marion and Irma Motion ' 1 Symphony in Motion' {Farewell performance) On Monday Marion Topsy Turvy Two and Irma make a Upside-Down Dancers farewell appearance Sherkot before their return Silent Comic to America Presented by Cecil Madden

10.0 CLOSE All programme timings shown Tuesday on these pages are approximate 3.0 ELIZABETH POLLOCK Impressions Elizabeth Pollock made her first appearance on the stage at Wyndham's SHERKOT. Theatre in 1916, as the probationer in A Kiss for Cinderella. Apart from goalkeeper comic, will be her many successes in plays—she was seen on Monday at 9.30 Evelyn Lovejoy in Lord Richard in the . >• Pantry, Lady Caroline in Dear Brutus, RADIO TIMES TELEVISION SUPPLEMENT, JANUARY 15, I937 7

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VICTORIA HOPPER and her director, Basil Dean, who is also her husband, will be televised on Saturday

.i • iwrnmsmmm^ 8 RADIO TIMES TELEVISION SUPI I .«* LONDON C n& ftr'\^ B,J. who discovered many of the ch now extei

N my search for odd characters to broadcast in ' In Town Tonight' I Ihave had, as A. W. Hanson would tell you, to consider several things. One, whether the story to be told is good enough, and two, if the personality is strong. And I nearly forgot number three, whether the person being inter• viewed can read. Now that I spend much of my time finding London characters for television, the search runs on somewhat different lines. No script can be used before the television cameras at Alexandra Palace, which means that besides the qualities demanded of the people for ' In Town Some of the ' In Town Tonight-ers', Tonight', some further points of per• such as Mike Stern and Ras Prince sonality are needed. The ' character ' •,:-• Monolulu, are born for the television must have exceptional intelligence, and m screen. Ras is a picturesque person• above all, a good memory to face a ality, entirely without nerves, and scriptless performance before half-a-dozen has a most amusing command of dazzling lamps. racecourse jargon. The Pearly King and Like the other members of the team of Queen of Blackfriars, Mr. and Mrs. television talent hunters, I have found Tinsley, also took as readily to the lights that although a script cannot be used for so. They have to keep their minds and and cameras as they did to the sound the actual performance, it is wise, even their eyes alert for signs of ' drying up ' microphone. * necessary, to prepare one, and that it before the cameras on the part of the But in the long list of those who have should be more intensively in dialogue subject, who has been given as much figured in this three-years-old Saturday form than are ' In Town Tonight' time as possible to study the dialogue night feature, there are not many who scripts, which have often no more than script, roughly to memorise the questions would make good subjects for television. four or five questions in the two and a he will be asked and how he ought to That is why a new search is going on. half minutes allowed for each item. answer them. It sometimes happens that Though he did not seem to under• The television script is studied by both announcer Leslie Mitchell, who does stand exactly what television was, a the ' character ' and the announcer. Now the television interviews with the London Breton onion boy, Benjamin le Duff, who that the announcers—so I understand— characters, has to put words into their calls sometimes at my flat, cheerily agreed are to be heard but not seen in 'Picture mouths—narrative points which they have to figure in Cecil Madden's ' Picture Page ', their part of the interviewing job possibly forgotten in the excitement of Page ', onions and all. His English was is somewhat easier, though not altogether being televised. good enough to be understood and he 'LEMENT, JANUARY 15, I937

Thank heavens she was the intelligent girl I had hoped for from the description given to me by her works manager. In HARACTERS to te/ . a few moments we were talking together ew in the artists' waiting-room with Cecil Madden's secretary in attendance to take C. CAN NELL ^O/) down in shorthand question and answer. While the type was still ' damp' on the script, Miss Knowles was having a quick aracters for 'In Town Tonight' and has rehearsal in a corridor. It wasn't merely a matter of answering questions, but also nded his field to television of having to display Christmas crackers in various intricate stages of completion. In spite of such drastically short notice, she was admirable. The plumber and his mate, Bill Traquair and Arthur Champion, who were in the Christmas Day programme . . . how did I find them ? Through the good luck of passing a building where they were repair• ing a water pipe on the roof. They were arguing, and I stopped to look and laugh. London characters for television are. found just like that—by chance meetings, walks through markets and the leisured exploring of byways. To Mary Sharpe, S. E. Reynolds, and Leslie Baily, who also have their fingers in this television pie, the problems of talent discovery are the same. Up to the present—touch wood !—not one of the characters has let us down or failed to achieve a reasonable effectiveness. I hope Mr. Gerald Cock, Director of Television, will agree with this statement I

(Left) The first ' Picture Page ' was transmitted in October 1936, and it is now a regular feature. Here are the pioneers in the studio after the broadcast. The group includes artists, interviewers, the editor and producer, the stage-manager, and the engineering and camera crew. J. C. Cannell, writer of this article, is seen behind the switchboard looking over the shoulder of the plume-crowned figure of Ras Prince Monolulu.

had a manner about him which made Miss Knowles, a young him tdevise in an amusingly effective woman who works in a way. He brought his wife to Alexandra factory making Christ• Palace. Henriette was so chic that G. mas crackers, was found A More O'Ferrall, the producer, was quite for television precisely 1 taken aback. He had not expected any• one hour before a full- one quite so smart. When he had dress rehearsal of the recovered from his surprise, he said whole programme he must have her in the programme was staged at too. So the onion boy's wife—who also Alexandra Palace. spoke acceptable English—stood with her This hurried husband on the chalk line in the studio. choice was due It was an entire lack of self-conscious• to a last-moment ness that made Benjamin le Duff so displacement of successful a television subject, and the a similar item. same can be said of his wife, who was Miss Knowles afterwards thrilled to see her picture, had to journey taken during transmission, decorating the from the factory front page of a weekly magazine. Six in Hampstead to copies she bought—two for friends at the television home in Roscoff, two for relatives in studios, while I Paris, and the remaining couple for raced up there to herself. meet her. 10 RADIO TIMES TELEVISION SUPPLEMENT, JANUARY 15, I937 TELEVISION PROGRAMMES WEDNESDAY JAN. 20 AND THURSDAY JAN. 21 : VISION 45 Mc/s SOUND 41.5 Mc/s

9.35 'PICTURE PAGE' 3.10 MASKS AND MIMES (Twenty-Second Edition) by H. D. C. Pepler A Magazine Programme of Death and the Maiden, to music by Topical and General Interest Schubert Lord Ronald, to traditional music Devised and Edited by CECIL MADDEN My Lady Poltagrue, to music by Produced by G. MORE O'FERRALL Frederick Page The Switchboard Girl: JOAN MILLER The Briery Bush, to traditional music St. George and the Dragon, to music by Frederick Page 10.0 CLOSE Presentation by Stephen Thomas

Thursday 3.25 BRITISH MOVIETONEWS 3.35 GERALDO 3.0 NEW FASHIONS IN FURS AND HIS ORCHESTRA A display with mannequins (by permission of the Savoy Hotel, Ltd.) As a youth Geraldo learnt to play the arranged by piano while he was touring Europe, H. E. PLAISTER and and his first job on the stage was as a ANN LENNER. sings with Eric relief pianist. Until 1930 he directed G. KENWARD-EGGAR Wild and his Tea-Timers in small orchestras of his own in programme on Wednesday with cabaret on Thursday Today viewers will see half-a-dozen England and on the Continent. His a demonstration of magic mannequins who have been specially Gaucho Tango Band appeared at'the chosen for the television camera. Savoy Hotel in August 1930, and They will display furs from London as a result of his broadcasts and stage appearances he became known and Paris that will be worn in the 9.25 COOK'S NIGHT OUT spring and winter. The coronation as ' The Tango King '. Afterwards Wednesday that will take place in May, has had a he formed a combined straight, dance, Marcel Boulestin will demonstrate considerable influence on fur fashions and tango orchestra at the Savoy before the camera the making of the 3.0 THE THEORY OF the extent of which will be shown in Hotel, where he still plays. first of five dishes, each of which can MAGIC EXPOUNDED this programme. 4.0 CLOSE be prepared as a separate dish, while Russell Swann Harold Plaister and G. R. Kenward- the whole together make an excellent Eggar are two authorities on women's five-course dinner. In his first talk, fashions. They were once very M. Boulestin will demonstrate the 3.15 Film successful track and road racing cooking of an omelette. 'ALONG CAME A DUCK* motorists who broke records all over 9.0 NEW FASHIONS IN FURS Europe and America; their first A display with mannequins 9.40 GAUMONT BRITISH 3.25 'PICTURE PAGE* meeting was at well over a hundred NEWS (Twenty-First Edition) miles an hour on the Byfleet banking arranged by at Brooklands. H. E. PLAISTER and A Magazine Programme of 9.50 CABARET Topical and General Interest ' Sound ' broadcast listeners know G. KENWARD-EGGAR them for their ' Strange to Relate' ERIC WILD Devised and Edited by CECIL MADDEN series, and viewers for their fort• 9.10 MASKS AND MIMES AND HIS TEA-TIMERS Produced by G. MORE O'FERRALL nightly programme of television man• nequin parades. {Details as at 3.10) with The Switchboard Girl: JOAN MILLER ANN LENNER 3.50 GAUMONT BRITISH Eric Wild's Tea-Timers are an unusual NEWS combination consisting of a xylo• phone played by Gilbert Webster, 4.0 CLOSE bass by Fred Underhay, guitar Eric Robinson, saxophone Ken Bray, trombone Bill Tesky, and cornet by Eric Wild. It specialises in the soft, rhythmic style of playing. All these 9.0 Starlight players are members of the BBC YVONNE ARNAUD Television Orchestra. This is Yvonne Arnaud's second Nearly three years ago Carroll appearance before the television Gibbons heard this evening's voca• camera. Viewers will be pleased to list, petite Ann Lenner, singing in a know there is a possibility of her night club. Soon afterwards she performing once again in the near signed a long-term contract to appear future, in scenes from Shakespeare's with him at the Savoy. She made Henry V. Although she started her her television d£but on January 2, professional career as a pianist after with a band that wa's assembled and leaving the Conservatoire in Paris—she conducted by Val Rosing. Her first was only a child when she toured stage appearance was at the age of Europe and the United States—her thirteen, when she was one of the fame in England rests mainly on her Babes in The Babes in the Wood. brilliance as an actress. She had no Before joining Carroll Gibbons she special preparation for the stage, and made a big name for herself in cabaret made her dehut at the Adelphi and revue. Theatre in 1911. Her sister, Judy Shirley, took part in ' Cabaret Cartoons', which was 9.15 THE THEORY OF televised on Monday, January 18. MAGIC EXPOUNDED 10.0 CLOSE Russell Swann YVONNE ARNAUD is a pianist as well as an actress, and it is at (Programmes continued on page 12) 9.15 BRITISH MOVIETONEWS the piano that viewers will see her on Wednesday KAniO TIMES li.UiVl.MON SUPPLEMENT, JANUARY 15, 1937 II 12 RADIO TIMES TELEVISION SUPPLEMENT, JANUARY 15, I937 TELEVISION PROGRAMMES FRIDAY JAN. 22 AND SATURDAY JAN. 23 : VISION 45 Mc/s SOUND 41.5 Mc/s

9.10 FIRST AID—2 Friday (Details as at 3.10) 3.0 NANCY LOGAN Songs at the pianoforte 9.25 BRITISH MOVIETONEWS 3.10 FIRST AID—2 9.35 THEATRE PARADE Accidents on the Road by ALICE THROUGH THE W. C. BENTALL, O.B.E., F.R.C.S., LOOKING GLASS L.R.C.P., Assistant Surgeon-in-Chief, (Details as at 3.35) St. John Ambulance Brigade 10.0 CLOSE 3.25 GAUMONT BRITISH NEWS 3.35 THEATRE PARADE Saturday Scenes from Nancy Price's Little Theatre production of 3.0 BALLROOM DANCING ALICE THROUGH THE A novel method of instruction by LOOKING GLASS six squares marked out on the floor by LEWIS CARROLL to demonstrate steps, which can be Being a living reproduction of the easily followed by the viewer in his original Tenniel drawings own room by ALEX MOORE and PAT KILPATRICK Cast: Alice Ursula Hanray Humpty-Dumpty Esme Percy 3.20 BRITISH MOVIETONEWS Tweedledum Andrew Leigh Tweedledee Ernest Butcher 3.30 THE WHITE COONS White Queen Elizabeth Maude CONCERT PARTY White Knight Fred O'Donovan arranged by Dinah, a kitten Harry S. Pepper and Doris Arnold broadcast, and it was little guessed 9.10 STARS AND THEIR Presentation by G. More O'Ferrall Today, viewers are to have the oppor• that the originally planned series of DIRECTORS four a year was to grow in popularity 4.0 CLOSE tunity of seeing the first concert party on the television screen—the famous until the White Coons became a VICTORIA HOPPER White Coons, to be introduced by regular feature once a month. and Harry S. Pepper, son of Will C. The party is formed of Wynne 9.0 DANCING TIMTIME Pepper, who founded them away back Ajello, soprano; Jane Carr, who gives BASIL DEAN Dancers from a London cabarecabarett in the 'nineties. When Harry joined clever monologues which she writes (by permission of will appeaappearr his father, between eight and ten herself; Paul England; Denier Warren, Associated Talking Pictures, Ltd.) accompanied by companies were showing at different who writes the book and is ' the February 6 was the date originally THE BBCC TELEVISION ORCHESTRORCHESTRA seaside resorts. On August 31, 1932, naught}' boy'; that grand old man arranged for this programme, but Conductor,, HYAM GREENBAUGREENBAUMM the first White Coons show was Joe Morley (' Lightning Joe Morley'), Victoria Hopper and Basil Dean are who appeared with the original able to appear before the television company and composes a new banjo camera this evening, a fortnight earlier. solo for every show; Tommy Handley, Victoria Hopper was born in THEY WILL TEACH who succeeded Stanley Holloway, as Vancouver and originally studied the schoolmaster; and last but not operatic singing—she has a fine least, Harry Pepper and Doris Arnold soprano voice, which listeners heard YOU TO at two pianos. recently. Her first important stage success was in the name part of Jean DANCE 4.0 CLOSE Jacques Bernard's Martine. She is now one of the most brilliant actresses on the West End stage. 9.0 MUSIC MAKERS Basil Dean, her husband, is a well-known theatrical figure. He has WILLIAM PRIMROSE been actor, producing manager, stage director, dramatic critic, and author. William Primrose, only in his early His many successful West End stage thirties, ranks with Lionel Tertis as productions include The Skin Game, one of the finest viola players in the A Bill of Divorcement, Lovalties, East world. He first studied the violin of Suez, R.U.R., Rain, the Vortex, under Cammillo Ritter in Glasgow Young Woodley, Autumn Crocus, and showed such extraordinary talent Service, and Call It a Day. As a film that when he was sixteen he gained a producer he has been responsible for scholarship to the Guildhall School The Constant Nymph and Lorna of Music, where he became a proteg£ Doone, in both oft which his wife of Sir Landon Ronald. From 1925 starred. Primrose studied under Ysaye who advised Primrose to change over to the viola—advice that Primrose took when Waldo Warner resigned from 9.20 GAUMONT BRITISH the London String Quartet. NEWS Since then he has carried on the excellent work of Tertis to popularise the instrument that Berlioz called the 9.30 THE WHITE COONS Cinderella of the string family. The CONCERT PARTY Alex Moore and Pat Kilpatrick will give a ballroom dancing lesson London String Quartet is no more, on Saturday afternoon at 3.0. This rehearsal group in the studio but Primrose has shown nearly every (Details as at 3.30) musical centre of the world that the at Alexandra Palace shows (left to right) Pat Kilpatrick, Alex viola deserves its place amongst other Moore, Elizabeth Cowell, and Leslie Mitchell. accepted solo instruments. 10.0 CLOSE !

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GULliver 1972. COLLECTOR is dispersing a collection of adjoining extensive recreation grounds, etc. A antique swords, pistols, and daggers. 5 minutes* from Green Line and buses. 1 mile Moderate prices. No dealers.—Box 506, LECTRIC Sewing Machine (Singer) for from railway station (S.R.), excellent train MAYFAIR. Television Supplement, 35, High Street, E sale, almost new; current 240 A.C. Cost service.—For full particulars apply Box 351, See Television Demonstration at Murdochs, Marylebone, W.l. £16 16s. ; will accept £10.— Write Box No. 604, Television Supplement, 35, High Street, 461, Oxford Street, W.l. Daily 3-4 p.m. (Sat. Television Supplement, 35, High Street, Marylebone, W.l. excepted) or 9-10 p.m. Phone MAYfair 7886-9. PRIVATE COLLECTOR wishes to pur• Marylebone, VV 1. A chase lots of old stamps—loose, or in albums. Lowest price should be stated. No EMI-DETACHED House to be sold in PICCADILLY. dealers. Exchange may be considered.—Box- S Church End, Finchley. Excellent position IANO (Upright) Steel frame. Beautiful near shops and station. Three reception rooms, Television demonstrated daily 3 to 4 o'clock. No. 507, Television Supplement, 35, High P tone. Price £11 10s.—Box 608, Television Piccadilly Radio Stores. Specialists in Midget Street, Marylebone, W.l. four large bedrooms, tiled bathroom, separate Supplement, 35, Marylebone High Street, W.l. W.C. Large garden stocked fruit trees. Ample Radio Sets, 169, Piccadilly. London, W.l. space for garage. Long Lease. Apply Box No. 353, Television Supplement, 35, High TELEVISION DEMONSTRATIONS Street, Marylebone, W.l. 3-4 p.m. daily at KEITH PROWSE, 159, New PLEASE HELP Bond Street, W.l, 163, Regent Street, W.l, and 48, Cheapside, E.C.2. Keith Prowse (Est. 1780) A pathetic household of four women R SALE, Freehold House, North Ching- are London's leading radio dealers and offer live in a Suffolk village. The mother, Pford. Two reception rooms, three bed• unrivalled sales service terms, including good aged 82, an invalid with diabetes, is rooms, tiled kitchen and bathroom, with exchange allowance on old sets. 1937 All- separate W.C. Garage. Near Forest and bus Wave Radio is being demonstrated at the above looked after by a daughter, a trained route. Ten minutes from station. £795 or and following branches of Keith Prowse. nurse who gave up her work to care near offer.—Apply Box No. 357, Television 5, Coventry Street, W.l., 50, Fenchurch Street, Supplement, 35, High Street, Marylebone, W.l. E.C.3., 68, Cornhill, E.C.2., 47, Kensington f jr the invalid. An older daughter of High Street, W.8., 167, Finchley Road, N.W.3. 64 is deaf and dumb, and cannot earn a living. All four depend on the meagre To learn the why and wherefore of tele• wage of the youngest daughter, herself HOUSES & FLATS TO LET vision; to keep yourself up-to-date in aged 60, who works in the village shop, everything relating to it; even to Build a Guaranteed Television Receiver for your• plus the mother's old age pension and self—there is just one way—read an allowance for the deaf and dumb HOUSE TO LET.—Available from May 1, sister—a total income of 35'- a week. A a pre-war substantially built select Residence ;n the Bexley Heath district. Four bedrooms, Their rent is 12'- weekly. We know dressing room, three reception rooms, kitchen, TELEVISION these people have a terrible struggle and scullery and usual offices. A large fruit tree Monthly 1'-. Send postcard to " Tele• garden. Constant hot water, gas, numerous vision " 37, Chancery Lane, W.C.2, for FRIENDS OF THE POOR electric light and power points. Close to shops, free specimen copy. station (25 minutes' from Charing Cross by 42, EBURY STREET, S.W.I Southern Railway) and buses. A healthy, high plead for at least £10 to help them. situation. Rent £110 per annum—long lease RADIO SET SERVICING available. Tenant responsible for decorations. Rates 10/8 in the pound. The house is rated BATTERSEA at £40. Water rate £2 14s. No other outlay.— RADIO-GRANT, 207, Lavender Hill, S.W.ll. Write Box No. 350, Television Supplement, Also at 58, High Street, Wandsworth, S.W.I8. Wise Girl! • DRESS* 35, High Street, Marylebone, W.l. Telephone BATtersea 2029. She goes to a Hair• CREATIO KENSAL GREEN. O LET AT STANMORE, MIDDLESEX. MODERN UTILITIES, 906, Harrow Road, dresser who uses the A FREE BOOKLET T —Modern Semi-detached House. Three Kensal Green, N.W.10. YOUR MURPHY is offered giving full particulars of bedrooms, two reception rooms, kitchenette, DEALER. Phone WILlesden 5996-7. the many fascinating and remun• bathroom and lavatory. Large garden artistic• erative careers available in the ally laid out and well stocked. Electric lightmg TURBINATOR higher branches of the Dress Trade. and heating points. Ideal boiler. £75 per PECKHAM. Authentic information re• annum inclusive. Tim house is not yet three Peckham Gram. & Radio Stores, garding training in Dress• years old and is within five minutes' walk of 141, High Street, Peckham, S.E.1S. making, Millinery, Lingerie, shops and station connecting with electric Phone : NEW Cross 1700. It's so much quicker trains to Euston, Broad Street, and the West- Creative Designing, Pat• End.—For full particulars apply to Box No. tern Making, Draping & 352, Television Supplement, 35, High Street, and so comfortable Modelling, Fashion Art, etc., Marylebone, W.l. * STREATHAM. by Day, Evening and Postal D. L. KINGS & CO., Radio Engineers, Courses is also included. 7, Astoria Parade, Streatham High Road, Hairdressers may have a The supply is limited, so please S.W.16. Phone STReatham 7473. call, write or 'phone for your HpO LET.—Unfurnished Self-contained Turbinator in their Salon FREE COPY-AT ONCE! * Ground-floor Flat in Wallington, com• BRITISH INSTITUTE prising 3 rooms, size 8 by 10, 13 by 15, and TOTTENHAM. for a week's free trial. of DRESS DESIGNERS 13 by 18; small conservatory, hall, kitchen, and B. H. Radio Service & Television Ltd., 210b-2!l, PICCADILLY, W.l. bathroom, etc. Electricity and gas. Newly 272, High Road, Tottenham, N.15. Phone Museum 8739. decorated. Very quiet road, 8 mins. from Phone STAmford Hill 1520 Telephone: REG. 2956 station. Half an hour from Victoria or London Bridge. Frequent trains. Rent £6 10s. per month.—Box 603, Television Supplement, CORONATION SEATS 35, High Street, Marylebone, W.l. IOLIN, Matthias Neuner, genuine, two CARS FOR SALE ORONATION SEATS.—Business House V good bows, case. Excellent instrument— C would purchase about 1,000 seats on suit soloist. £16 16s.—Apply Box No. 609, Television Supplement, 35, High Street, ED-SITTING ROOM.—A large comfort• return route for about £1,000.—Box 701, Marylebone, W.l. ORRIS-OXFORD Six Cyl. (1931 Tourer) Television Supplement, 35, High Street, W.l. M in good order, overhauled last year, B able Bedroom or Bed-sitting Room with good tyres, and many extras. Price £12 10s. use of other rooms and bathroom; hot water, EDALS and OLD COINS WANTED. —Box 602, Television Supplement, 35, Maryle• every convenience, meals optional. Would suit TRANSLATIONS bone High Street, W.l. one lady or gentlemen or two friends sharing. M Must be in perfect condition. State Near trams, buses, and trains (N.9 district).— price and supply soft pencil rubbings of both Box 610, Television Supplement, 35, High cientific and Technical Translations. sides of each subject. Exchange may be con• Street, Marylebone, W.l. S GURRIN'S, sidered.—Box No. 508, Television Supplement, ILEY 1928 4-seater Tourer. Very fast and International Translations Agency, 35, High Street, Marylebone, W.l. R reliable. Leather upholstery, good hood Bath House, Holborn Viaduct, arid sidescreens. Very good condition through• London, E.C.I. out. £25 or nearest offer. Telephone BOOKS Estb. 54 years. Tel. CENtral 5341. ANTED, a large second-hand Reflecting MITcham 3041. W or Refracting telescope in good condition, complete with all the necessary accessories. Enjoy an ideal Winter at No dealers. Write in the first place, giving 10^0 RILEY 9 Monaco Saloon, fine McGraw-Hill Book* on description and rock bottom price to Box 17JU leather pneumatic upholstery. £33. RADIO AND TELEVISION No. 504, Television Supplement, 35, High —Box 605, Television Supplement, 35, High By leading International Authorities THE ROCK HOTEL Street, Marylebone, W.l. Street, Marylebone, W.l. For complete list Rock, nr. Wadebridge, Cornwall. Post this Coupon to-day To McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., Ltd., Facing south, overlooking Camel estuary. Aldwych House, London, W.C.2. Adjoining the famous St. Enodoc Golf ANTED, early numbers of proceedings of 107A 3-LITRE BENTLEY, open sports Learned Institutions. Must be in per• Please send me free and post free a copy of Course. Hot and Cold Water in all rooms. W • 7Z#U 4-seater body by Park Ward, colour your list of books on Radio and Television Comfortable beds. Bedside lamps. Hard fect condition and at moderate prices. No green. Recently rebored and overhauled, in dealers.—Write stating full particulars to Box magnificent condition; low-pressure tyres; very Name tennis. Good food. Fully licensed. Write Address -. for terms today. No. 510, Television Supplement, 35, High fast. £165.—Box 509, Television Supplement, Street, Marylebone, W.l. 35, High Street, Marylebone, W.l. RADIO TIMES TELEVISION SUPPLEMENT, JANUARY 15, I937 15 "Wish / had a Children's Hour Annual * >

Do your kiddies 'listen-in' at 5.15? Just think of the thrill they will get out of their own annual, edited by their own UNCLE MAC. They will meet in these pages many old friends, for among the contributors are Commander King-Hall, The Zoo Man, Stargazer, L. Du Garde Peach, Mortimer Batten, Hugh E. Wright, Olive Dehn, Franklyn Kelsey, Norah Holloway, George C. Nash, P. G. H. Fender, and Barbara Todd, who write charming stories and articles for children of every age. With a foreword by A. J. Alan. Your radio will be twice as valuable if the kiddies own this annual. It will give them hours of joy.

y^ If you want to buy something that your kiddies will really love, here is the ideal present. 168 pages of fascinating reading, 1 full-colour plates, 5 photogravure plates and numerous line drawings by famous artists. And the attractive cloth binding will stand quite a lot of rough handling. HOUR Get one to-day from your bookseller HUTCHINSON ANNUA! r6 RADIO TIMES TELEVISION SUPPLEMENT, JANUARY 15, 1937

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