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ROBIN HEY J. B. HARICER

Wednesday, December 18 A LISTENER’S DIARY OF THE WEEK 8.0 Royal Children—Humperdinck’s Opera (London; • > In order that listeners may mike notes of items which they « • 9-0 A Military Band Concert (5GB) specially want to hear, we publish below a skeleton diary of the p week: other favourite items may be noted in the space provided.

-A/V'V Sunday, December 15; Thursday, December 19 3.45 Catterall String Quartet (5GB) 8.0 Albert Sammons in a Chamber Concert (5GB; 9.5 Concert from Hastings (London) 9.35 German National Programme (London)

Monday, December 16 Friday, December 20 • 8.15 Royal Children—Libretto Opera (5GB) 7.45 The Prisoner of Zenda (London) • 9.20 Ian Hay’s cThe Last Thousand * (London) 8.0 A British Composers’ Concert (5GB; ; 10.15 ‘ Preparation of a Daily Newspaper *. (London) 9.35 A Russian Concert, conducted by Malko (London)

Tuesday, December 17 Saturday, December 21 S.io Relay of The Student Prince (London) 7-45 Wagner Programme (London) 1 8.20 The Prisoner of Zenda (5GB) 8.30 Symphony Concert (5GB)

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T?OUR years ago two series of Twelve pleasure of seeing and heeding your fellow- S’ Talks on Music were put forward for listeners now and again. If he stops to explain consideration by the programme to a beginner something about a new chord, authorities, twelve on ‘ Music and the Ordinary and plays it three times when you only needed Listener,’ and twelve on ‘ Beethoven.’ By it once, think of the other fellow listening, good fortune they chose the former, and the and the thing said may take a new meaning twelve have become something like twelve and will always be entertaining. Sympathy times twelve, because the ordinary listener as between listener and unseen fellow-listener kindly agreed to listen. But it has long ago is as serviceable as direct sympathy between become high time that he should listen to listener and talker. other voices, and I rejoice to hand over the One’s greatest puzzle at the. microphone is task of meeting the invigorating and friendly how to beguile the beginner without wearying Tuesday night audience to so alive a thinker, the wise. If one has ever been tempted to so brilliant a writer, and so genial a talker as become technical, it has been a great help to my friend Dr. George Dyson. I can see him remember the tired surgeon who said he travelling up from Winchester on successive listened to my talks simply because my voice Tuesdays, wondering how he is going to get massaged his spine. If tempted to compla­ some particular point through. cency at the thought of having got a point This brand-new dual art of talking to an 4 over,’ it has been a good corrective to remem­ unseen listener, and listening to an unseen ber the little child who shouted to me down his talker, is growing apace. It will be a delight mother’s loud-speaker, ‘ Oh, shut up ! ’ and I to sit among the listeners and learn Chapter II shall recall with perpetual gratitude two other of the some-day-to-be-written primer, ‘ How listeners—one a little Irish girl of six years old, to Become a Microphonist.’ One is reminded who (although she could not understand a of Sir James Barrie’s quip when he describes word said) refused an invitation to a party a humorist as a man who never knows whether because it was 4 Waiford’s night ’—and the he has hit till the man at the target tells him. other, an unknown listener, who (on hearing But how can the man at a million unseen targets my name mentioned) remarked : 4 Oh—Wol­ give him any information on this point ? There ford Davies—yes—what a benevolent old seem to be indescribable ways, as borne out spook he is ! ’ These are sweet recollections by one remark made to me by a trustworthy that help one over the increasing sense of micro­ listener some Tuesdays ago, when I thought phone impotence which I suppose everyone the talk a fairly good one, till I got this must feel if they are to become any good at all. rebuff: ‘ No. When they arc good you are Even if there should arise a talker who could learning ■ from us. Last Tuesday we were focus the common human mind on uncommon learning from you.’ This astonishing remark beauty at the microphone to perfection ; who would bear a good deal of inquiry. could actually make clear to the earthly mind Does not the secret of this new art, still in its unearthly things that matter; there is still the veriest infancy, lie first and chiefly in a quick staggering thought that, however badly one may imagination on both sides of the microphone ? play some heavenly melody (say, of Beethoven’s), With this in mind I have often instinctively felt at Savoy Hill on a domestic piano, the air that I must mention one listener in the hearing waves are relentlessly converted into etheric of the others, if the listeners themselves are to waves and start on a journey, not only to know the kind of audience of which they form Aberdeen to be reconverted into air waves for

!■ f a part. Is it not possibly a help to the listening human ears, but on an etheric journey of missionary in Nigeria if he knows that there unknown extent. A distinguished agnostic is a listening civil servant in India (time 2.45 philosopher once startled his friends by saying a.m.) and another lonely listener in a Pem­ ‘ I believe in angels.’ When asked what he brokeshire lighthouse, as well as the ordinary meant he simply said : 4 Well, it’s inconceivable host of people (possibly including the lonely that man is the highest order of being in the listeners’ own wives and mothers) sitting com­ universe. It would seem equally presumptuous fortably at home in their armchairs in England? to conceive that a Beethoven melody, ctherically It is stimulating for everybody to know that the very same thought with a vast, friendly, but projected, matters only to aerial listeners. they are listening in company with enthusiasts critical concourse of minds, literally all over In conclusion, a special word of greeting to in Holland, in Germany, in Switzerland, in the place. Mr. Stobart’s descriptive formula, invalid listeners. Those who are bed-ridden, lonely islands in the Mediterranean and the 4 All the world in one room, the angels over- or imprisoned owing to chronic illness, arc the Atlantic, and in ships at sea, just as it is splendid hearing,’ serves its purpose thoroughly. greatest gainers of all through wireless, for thousands of invalids, possibly imprisoned Now, the man at the microphone, largely Perhaps, by the mental companionship or ‘ for the duration,’ to know that they arc through correspondence, gets some idea of all wireless, the chief terror ot a long illness has imbibing a school lesson in company with tens this, but in saying a grateful good-bye for a time thus been removed, of thousands of merry school children. So it to a well-loved Tuesday audience (or to such as Good-bye then for a time, trienclly 1 uesday- sccms a liberal education in itself to sit at your have patiently survived and chance to read this) nighters (especially the invalids)' whom having fireside at a quarter past nine at the end of a I find myself anxious to say: as you listen to not seen we love, day’s work, and—hey l presto /—you can think Dr. Dyson, give yourself the imaginative Walford Davies. 772 RADIO TIMES f December 13, 1929. r. ‘ The Broadcasters3 3 Notes on Coming Events.

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The list of characters—Baron Over­ draft, the Prince, Dandini, Buttons, The Fairy * a.3. a: Queen, Cinderella, and Shinglet and Binglet, F we were asked to name half a dozen her Ugly Sisters—has a promising sound. We masters of the microphone, one of them have always regarded pantomime couplets as the I would certainly be A. J. Alan. We very highest form of poetry—and can recall the believe the secret of his success is simply that Fairy Queen at the Penge Theatre, years ago, he knows how to throw his whole personality rounding up her attendants with the classic into the tale he is telling. No other broadcast lines :— story-teller has learned how to insinuate himself ‘The Same Old Story.’ ‘ Now fairies dear, you’ve had your choice. into the room where you are listening, as A. J. Come, change the summer sun to snow Alan has done. With him it is often much more Old Heidelberg, a play which was broadcast and ice.’ the man who matters than the story. You know some three years ago. Early in life we fell in how, in everyday life, it is possible to be held love with Kathie, its flaxen heroine, whose We had feared that the popularity of the talkies spellbound by a quite ordinary tale—when the uncle kept * The Three Golden Apples ’ at might kill the annual revival of interest in panto right teller tells it. So with A. J. Alan : when Heidelberg, the inn to which the students, in —and were delighted, therefore, to see our con­ he broadcasts it is as if the listener were to find their impudent pill-box hats, flocked for beer. temporaries almost bursting their columns over himself buttonholed by the most entertaining We met her in the play, we met her again in the vexed question, * Who’s to be Principal and friendly man imaginable. He can impart Lubitsch’s superb film The Student Prince— Girl at Drury Lane ? * Though American a genial glow on any company—the healthy and we love her still. No simpering heroine psychologists aver that nursery rhymes are chuckle that goes with good nonsense. Ilis last of operetta, this Kathie, but the Girl We harmful to children, no one has yet impugned story, A Joy Ride, we thought particularly good : Always Dreamed Of. On Saturday next, we the improving influence of pantomime upon its matter was even more entertaining than usual intend to listen to the relay of two excerpts adults. Why, we learned all the geography we and its manner was quite impeccable. How from The Student Prince from the Piccadilly know from those long lines of ladies who many listeners, we wonder, realize the infinite Theatre. With a thrill of pleasure we see that crowded the finale in national costume, with capacity for taking pains that lies behind that all the familiar figures from the play reappear in banners bearing the words ‘ Canada/ * Austra­ apparent ease ? He will be broadcasting on this musical version of Old Heidelberg—Prince lia,’ and ‘ France.* Boxing Day, at night. Karl Frantz, Dr. Engel, Kathie, etc. The singing Keep of Romberg’s music is said to be very fine. the Carol Alive. 5Ware Ghosts! HOUGH pantomime still flourishes, wc FIRISTMAS is, by tradition, the season Nativity in Cornwall. are not so sure about the * Waits.’ Last HERE is true poetry in the yearly relay of ghost stories. Revellers are reputed T Christmas we were a great deal at home to crouch round the fire chilling each of the St. Hilary Nativity play which and had only one visit, from two small boys with C T this year is to take place on Monday other’s blood with weird invention. We fear no notion of tune who were obviously out for that tradition has died, for we have yet to meet evening, December 23—poetry in the touching gain, and quite without consciousness of the simplicity with which the Cornish villagers the man with skill enough to tell a really con­ dignified tradition of carol-singing. Lamp­ vincing ghost story. Not one in a million has speak their words, poetry in the mere fact of lighters, muffin men, and carol-singers—they tiie play being brought, almost on the eve of the art of A. J. Alan who, I daresay, could freeze are becoming rarer in London each year. The our marrow as easily as he tickles our ribs. Christmas, from the wind-swept shores of term ‘ waits,’ as we have explained before, is Mount Bay. St. Hilary is a fourteenth-century But there are written stories of ghostly goings- derived from the * waytes * (wind instruments) on enough to satisfy the most sensationalist church. It stands, sheltered by a close grove which accompanied carol-singing in the of trees, a few miles from St. Michael’s Mount listener. There is to be a novel meeting at eighteenth century. The origin of ‘ carol ’ is Savoy Hill on Christmas Eve, when Desmond within sound of the beat of the Atlantic. The * corolla,’ a ring-dance of pagan days, which play, as Father Walke, its author, points out was adopted and adapted by Christianity. in an article on page 778, is performed not as Carol, literally, means ‘ a song to be danced to ’; entertainment but as an act of worship on the in Seville, at Christmas, the choristers dance part of the village actors. The whole church is with castanets round the lectern. The B.B.C. their stage about which they move, from the is doing its duty by Christmas tradition. In west end to the Jesus Chapel and so on, as addition to a pantomime on Christmas Day and the action dictates. The play ends with a Boxing Day, it gives us two relays of carols on service of blessing for actors and congregation. Christmas Eve, one in the afternoon from It is almost unique in character and entirely King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, and an­ successful through the microphone. If you other, from St. Mary’s, Whitechapel, in the have missed it in previous years, be sure to evening. A new Carol by Peter Warlock, to listen on December 23. words by Bruce Blunt, will be a feature of next ‘Chilling each other’s blood.’ Easy-going Music. week’s Christmas Number. ENDELSSOHN’S music figures largely MacCarthy, W. W. Jacobs, and others, in the programmes of Christmas week. Christmas Morning at York Minster. gather at the microphone for a causerie M On the Sunday before Christmas there HE National Service on Christmas morn­ about ghosts and ghost stories. If you are will be a special Mendelssohn programme, ing this year will be relayed from timid, switch off; if you have iron nerves conducted by Percy Pitt, with Leonard Gowings T York Minster. Listeners have had and their iron has not rusted—lower the lights as the singer. The swinging, glowing music frequent occasions, recently, for hearing services and listen. Mr. Jacobs wrote ‘ The Monkey’s to A Midsummer Night's Dream (written from this favourite cathedral—notably the Paw,’ one of the very best of English ghost during a particularly happy summer spent mostly Enthronement, over a year ago, of Archbishop stories; and we hear that our Literary Critic in the garden of his Berlin home) is in the pro­ Temple. Although His Grace will not be giving has a shudderous manuscript up his sleeve. gramme. Moreover, throughout the week the the address at the Christmas service, he will Another topical talk on Christmas Eve will be ‘ Foundations ’ will be devoted to Mendelssohn’s broadcast a special message from the Palace at Mr. Will Goldston, the great illusionist, on pianoforte music, played by Reginald Paul, Bishopsthorpe at six in the evening. Parlour Conjuring. ■ v; '

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THE MICROPHONE Records for Christmas Dancing. Concert of Three Nations. About Psychologists. ACK PAYNE and his Orchestra first broad- T 8.0 p.m. on Friday, January 3, there TT7TE have the most catholic list ofacquain- cast in March, 1928. In less than two will be broadcast from all stations, \ X/ tanccs imaginable; it was once our _J years they have built up a reputation as except 5GB, the first of a scries of VY ambition to know one of every kind one of the finest dance bands in the country, as three Composite International Programmes in and become a sort of social Mr. Noah with a good to listen to as to dance to. By their which England is combining with Germany and complete set of human animals to take away arrangements shall ye know them—and the Belgium. This will consist of a classical concert, with us in an ark. It took us some time to get orchestration of this orchestra is always lively a third of the programme of which will be pro- and original. Four new recordings of the yided by each of the countries participating, orchestra have just appeared, all on Columbia Listeners will therefore hear a complete and discs ; they are On her doorstep last night (5634), well-balanced programme of fine music coming Riding on a Camel (5635), I've goto Feeling (5635) from three of Europe’s great cities, with brief and My Wife is on a Diet (5630). The first and intervals to allow the engineers to change over last named are on the reverse side of recordings the lines. Each part of the programme will be by the Debroy Somers Band, while the other announced twice, once in German, French and two make up a double-sided record. The records English from Germany, Brussels and London in each case cost 3s. Put them on your list of respectively, and again from all three stations Christmas Presents for Good Licence Holders, in the language of the country from which the , . part in question originates. It has not yet been Major Stones Selection. decided whether Germany’s contribution is ‘The excitement is too great.’ N his programme broadcast during the to come from Berlin, Cologne or Frankfurt, to know a Fireman—but it was worth the waiting, luncheon hour on Friday, December 6, Listeners will enjoy a concert which combines Then we wanted a Seismologist, but one was I Mr. Christopher Stone includes part of the very best music of three countries with the nol immediately procurable. This rare specimen Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata, Cortot and Thi- imaginative stimulus of an international We at last obtained by writing silly letters to baud, H.M.V. DB1329-31 ; the Love Duct relay. Later programmes in the scries will be the Press about earthquakes and waiting for a from the second act of Wagner’s Tristan and a ‘ Modern Concert’ (March 18) and a ‘Popular rcnlv • he is now one of our dearest friends and Isolde, H.M.V. D1723-4; .Agar’s Wand of Concert’ (May 19). the programmes in each the pride of our collection" OnTspecimcn we Youth Suite No. 2, Decca Military Band, Decca instance being representative of the music of have never dared to collect, and that is a Psy- MS5-7 ; Tchaikovsky s 1812 Overture, Regal the three nations chologist. We fear psychologists; they know G1079 ; an extract from the H.M.V. alburn of t0Q much and keep on explaining it; they take records made by Yvonne Pnntemps and Sacha tiaio to tina us. the joy out of life by examining our reactions Guitry ; Chocolate Soldier Overture, the Edith ^ ISTENERS are curious about our identity. anci repressions. We see that, at 10.4^ a.m. on Lorand Orchestra; Gipsy Baron Overture, I ‘ Who arc you ?’ they ask—and we dare Boxing Day, the Hon. Mrs. St! Aubyn is talking. Symphony Orchestra under Bruno Walter, -A—not reply, for we are not certain what in the ‘ Parents and Children ’ scries, on Col. L2352 ; Richard Tauber (tenor), Parlo. use they intend to make of the information. ‘ Children’s Parties.’ She will dissect these R020099 ; Joseph Farrington (bass), Piccadilly However, there is a seasonable feeling of carefree cracker-orgies with a view to dis- 411 ; the Alpine Yodelling Choir, Regal generosity in the air, so we are disposed to let covering whether the excitement of parties is G9429 ; and Barclay’s Bank Male-Voice Choir fall a hint. The curious will find us at Chelsea t00 great to be good for the little participants, in Herbert Hughes’s Studies in Imitation, Col. Arts Ball in the Albert Hall on New Year’s Eve. 9801. The setting of this year’s ball is ‘ Noah’s Ark ’; A Giant Among Men. we are still uncertain whether to go as a snake or *|T ’T'ANDEL wrote the whole of Messiah, While Some Dance the Blues— an elephant. There will be a lot of other famous |—I from the opening note to the grand N December 23, Mrs. Nina Abbott is to people present, so be careful before dashing JL ftnal chord, in twenty-four days. talk about Christmas in the Bermudas, up to an elephant and tearing off his trunk And within a fortnight he was already at work o Mrs. Abbott has lived the greater part that he isn’t Lord Beaverbrook or Primo upon Samson. The effort is almost impossible of her life on Great Burmuda, the largest Camera. If you do discover us amidst the for the ordinary man to conceive. The mere island of the group, and has much picturesque Bohemian revelry, be kind to us. foot-pounds expended in setting the work on information to give us. Bemiuda grows fruit paper would put most of us to shame—let alone and flowers, but its main business centres A Guitar-player from Spain. the terrific mental concentration behind it all. around the various great hotels which are popular "J’T’ERE in England we hardly know the Handel seemed in a trance. He put the world with American millionaires. The dark popula- I—| possibilities of the guitar. We some- behind him. He never left the house. His times hear it rudely twanged in vaude- servant took him food—but more often than villc, and we sometimes come across a be- not Handel never ate it. He dwelt in heaven, ribboned and dusty specimen hanging in a back Never again was Handel to reach such heights parlour ; but as a real, live music-maker we of composition.. The oratorio remains a favourite scarcely know it. Germany has brought it into at Christmas ;.and listeners will be glad to know- everyday life by making it the acknowledged that it is to be broadcast from 5GB on Boxing instrument of the Youth movement: wherever Day in the evening, you meet youths striding over the hills or through the scented forests, you will hear songs Round Europe on Nezc Year's Eve. accompanied by the guitar. But even Germany HE approach of midnight on December 31 only possesses the instrument at second-hand. is customarily heralded by a special ‘Dark Mummers in Bermuda.’ Its ancient home was Northern Africa ; and its T New Year programme. This year’s modern home is Spain. There the guitar is programme will be in the nature of a rapid tion, descendants of the freed slaves of the even more common than the violin in England tour of the European stations, returning home Virginia Company, observe the old Christmas —everybody plays it: it is to Spain today, in time for Big Ben’s midnight strokes, ‘ Auld customs, even to the extent of performing among the people, what the folk-song was to Lang Syne,’ by the Wireless Singers, and an mummers’ plays along traditional lines. Thus, England in earlier times. Naturally, such con- appropriate word from one of our most popular while indoors New York’s butter-and-egg- stant usage produces many virtuosi, and the list preachers. This emphasis on the international men sway to rhythms derived from the African of Spanish classical guitar-players is a long and character of Radio, in the spirit of J. C. Sto- swamps, outside the negroes revive the buffoonery impressive one. Today’s most prominent clas- bart’s ‘Grand Goodnight’ which has been which had its root in mediaeval Christianity, sical representative is Emilio Pujol, who will broadcast in previous years, is particularly There can be few stranger freaks of civilization broadcast a concert from 5GB on Friday appropriate to the occasion, than this. If anyone has met with a more evening, December 27. Assisting him, in his If significant contrast than this, we shall be dc- programme, will be Matildc Cuervas, who will lighted to hear of it. play Andalusian folk-music. lh / pi lo J VT4 RADIO TIMES December 13, 1929. r ■ ■ * ECONOMICAL RECIPES FOR THE HOUSEWIFE Teaching Your Child to Speak More Help for the 30s.-'A-Week Home*Di*ied Fruits and Vegetables. (Continued). Budget. By E. C. MacLeod. LTIIOUGH at first sj^ht it seems a little By Florence Petty, late in the season to be talking of drying fruits and vegetables as a method of storing T" ET us continue our investigation. Supposing A 4 The Pudding Lady.* I we decide that the child did have plenty or preservation, it is not really so. Up to the of opportunity to hear speech, and perhaps F vegetables have all to be bought it is difficult present most of the crops from the home garden to get enough to keep off ailments. They and orchard will have kept well enough on the shelves got as fax as copying a few odd words, but never and floor of storeroom and shed, but from now began to make sentences for himself, the question I play such an important part in our lives that some fresh vegetables should be got every day, onwards quite a considerable amount of waste is wc must next consider is, whether he has ever likely to be occasioned by things going bad after really felt the need of speech, or whether he is getting if possible, and when no garden ones are available always remember that there are many wild veget­ they have been in store for some time, and a great all he wants too easily without the necessity of asking deal of that waste is easily preventable. for it. Sometimes a fond mother or nurse antici­ ables we can eat. For instance, very nice sandwiches pates every want, or the child has only to stretch out can be made from young leaves of the dandelion When fruit begins to go wrong it docs not go all his hand towards an object, or to cry, or scream, or chopped finely. Mustard and cress (from id. and 2d. over at once ; the rot begins in one spot, one side* perhaps make any easy little sound. If he gets packets) ran be grown easily in boxes or dishes. perhaps, and quickly spreads. So it is with roots. what he wants without further effort on his part, Lettuces in the spring months can be grown in odd If you are watching your stores you can arrest the it is quite understandable that he is not going to the corners of a small garden, also from cheap packets. mischief by cutting away the affected part and then trouble of learning the difficult business of talking. Then nettle tops, well washed and cooked like save the rest by drying. As a rule, when an intelligent child docs not begin spinach, either with a little water or without water, Although apples will be the first concern with to talk at the usual age, it is generally because too are very valuable for health salts, especially iodine, most people who have crops to consider, I do not much is being done for him in a routine way, and and are quite delicious to eat. A few dandelion think that at this time of the year they arc any more speech is unnecessary. If this state of affairs has leaves can be cooked with them, or, if it is possible important than are onions. As most housewives gone on a long time, it needs care and firmness to get them, one or two small horseradish leaves. know, onions often fail to keep well even after they in handling, but not force; it is impossible, or at Chickweed is another of the wild vegetables that is have appeared to be perfectly sound when put away, least highly inadvisable, to force a child to speak, good to eat, and is looked upon as a delicacy in some and as onions will dry so successfully, 1 should be as and will not help at all in the normal development countries. much concerned to dry them as anything else. If of speech. Always remember, also, that it is important to .sliced thinly, then dried by gentle heat, and stored, If a child does not, and is not able to make his keep well, and we can only do so by seeing that they will keep indefinitely ; and just a pinch of dried needs known in simple little words at the age of none of the vegetable salts are wasted. Cook your onion goes as far as a whole fresh one will.in a two, or two and a half, the mother should be careful vegetables with as little water as you ran and save soup or stew. to do what she can to make it necessary for him the water from all vegetables. Use the water as a Celery is another thing that can be dried, and to ask for little things, and should take the oppor­ drink, or for gravy, or as soup, thickening it with a celery has but a short season as we all know. It tunity of talking to hum in such phrases as 4 Where’s little oatmeal or flour if used as a soup. Do not always does not readily take up water again to serve as a baby’s sponge—or bottle ? ’ * Here it is ’; ‘ Into cook the dried fruits when you have any. If you vegetable, but it will give its pleasant flavour to the bath ’ and 4 out again,’ etc., whilst she is looking soak them well and then serve them, they are more dishes for months if we dry the leaves artd stalks after him. A little thought and the mother will find valuable than when cooked. for that purpose. Spinach, cabbage in shreds, plenty of little phrases which she can use daily to the Here is a recipe for a cake that would do for a shredded leeks, all dry excellently well and come baby, and little games like ‘ Pat-a-cakc, pat-a-cake, pudding but is equally nice as a cake :— back to their original appearance by soaking in baker's man,’ with speech and movements, until one cold water before cooking. And, of course, all day baby will have a try himself, and come out with Apple Cake. kinds of beans and peas are dried—it is the only one of them. When this happens, it must not be 4 lb. plain flour. { lb. raisins or dates. really suitable way of preserving than. { lb. brown sugar. greeted with wild excitement, but must be treated as | lb. apples, stewed with­ I have proved for myself that drying is a good a matter of course, and little or no notice taken, £ lb. margarine. out sugar. method of storing considerable quantities in small otherwise the child will get self-conscious and stop his 1 teaspoonful bicarbonate 1 teaspoonful mixed spice compass, and being so it makes it possible for people efforts at talking, frightened at the commotion he of soda. or ginger. who live in rooms and flats to keep a well-supplied has caused. Beat margarine and sugar to a cream (in cold cupboard, and prevents having to run out to buy A child who does not talk at the age of three weather slightly warm the margarine, but do not fresh supplies of common things like onions, beans, should be taken to a medical man for a thorough let it get oily). Stir the soda into the apples (when herbs, and so on. examination, and then to a speech specialist. I cold) ; then beat them into the margarine and sugar, I have a'so proved that after soaking overnight need hardly say that the sooner expert advice is alternately with the flour. Stir in the dried fruit these dried things return to their original colour taken, the better, as matters do not often settle and spices. Put into a greased cake tin (2-3 lb. size) and form, and arc of Infinitely better flavour than themselves without some help, and the child may or deep roasting tin. Bake one hour in a fairly hot the same things bought as pickled, salted, bottled become difficult to manage, irritable, fidgety, oven. Do not open the oven door till the cake has or otherwise preserved fruits or vegetables. been in at least half an hour. excitable and unhappy, as a result of his inability Some things, naturally, take much longer to re­ to express himself by speech. Sometimes parents Oatcakes. absorb the water they have lost than others do, but hesitate to take a child for advice because they fear \ !b. medium or fine £ lb. flour (plain). green beans, green cabbage and spinach, carrots, he may be immediately thought mentally deficient, oatmeal. 1 teaspoonful sugar. even onions, quite quickly become ready for cooking. but I hope I have made it plain that this does not 4 teaspoonful salt. Cold water. Most fruits, however, are better for twelve, even necessarily follow; he is just as likely, or I may even 1 teaspoonful baking 3 oz. margarine or lard. twenty-four hours’ soaking. say probably, ‘ only out of gear,’ and needs help powder. badly—and if, unfortunately, he is deficient in brain It is the method of preservation that least alters Mix dry ingredients and rub in margarine. Add the real value of the fruit or vegetables, for all that is power, he is equally in need of skilled handling. enough water to mix to a stiff dough. Kneacl lightly dried-out is the water—all the other constituent Naturally, if a child does not speak, he is back­ and roll out to {in. thick. Cut in shapes, or divide elements remain unaltered. Returning the water ward for his age in many ways, as he cannot ask the the original lump into four and roll out each piece strings of questions which one expects from a child, restores the fruit or vegetable to its original con­ and therefore he does not learn in this way as others into a round, {in. thick. Cut up into six or eight dition. do, also he is usually backward at school, but this pieces. Bake 20 to 30 minutes in a moderate oven. Now you will want to know how home-dryinf? backwardness, even when extreme, may be only the Here is another recipe for a pudding or cake :— can be done. For the ordinary household th® direct outcome of his lack of speech, and not a sign $ lb. brown flour (plain) 1 tablespoonful syrup or ordinary oven is amply sufficient, and this can b® or proof of any lack of intelligence. 3 oz. suet or margarine. treacle. either the oven of your gas cooker or the coal range* I have not been able to give any exercises for 1 oz. sugar. 1 teaspoonful ground gin- or any modern type of combustion stove. The kind home practice, as each case must be dealt with 1 teacupful milk. ger. of oven matters little so long as you remember that individually, but I hope that I have said something 1 teaspoonful bicarb, soda. very little heat is required, and that the door must to show how speech development can be helped on Dissolve the soda in the milk. Stir it into the dry be left open. It is slow, gentle heat combined with in babyhood, up to the age of about three years. ingredients. (If margarine is used, rub it into the air that is needed. A cool greenhouse exposed It does not help at all to urge the child to speak, flour first.) Put the mixture in a greased basin. to the sun makes a very good drying-place. Another it only makes him cither very sensitive and possibly Cover with greased paper. Steam 1 to iJ hours. thing that helps the process of drying-out moisture tearful, or else it brings out the negative side of his Or put in a greased cake tin (3 lb. size) and bake is to spread the stuff to be dried on sheets of white nature, and he becomes deliberately contrary and three-quarters of an hour. An ounce of currants blotting-paper as this is absorbent. I have made dogged, shuts his mouth firmly, and says not a may be put in, or 1 oz. candied lemon peel, chopped a drying tray with a simple framework of wood and word. up. stretched canvas over this, but it is not really I have records of cases in which this state of necessary, only it has the advantage of being easily delayed speech has continued up to the age of portable if you are drying in the sun out of doors. seven, eight, or twelve, and yet, under suitable 'HOUSEHOLD TALKS * It takes several days to dry anything which contains much moisture, and the fact that you have to take treatment, speech was developed and became quite makes an attractive normal. your sheets in and out of the oven, leaving them CHRISTMAS PRESENT standing overnight, or carry them.in and out of doors z/- from any bookstall, or 1/3 post many times, is no detriment. It gives opportunity for turning over and picking out unsound specimens. In our issue of Nov. 29th the icord4 flour ’ should be free from the B.B.C., Savoy Hill. added to thc\Dumpling Recipe after the -word 4t>lain* (Continued on page 19c.) December 13, 1929.HAD 10 TIMES 775

FLEET STREET SYMPHONY The Hectic Orchestration of a Modern Newspaper Office will provide Monday's O.B. By as a roving foreign correspondent. I was the guest of Cretan insurgents H. N. Brailsford. under the bombardment of our own guns ; I was starved in the interior and spluttered to the limp of my messenger. of the island by our own blockad­ I had entered a regiment. I was one of a ing fleet; I watched the Turkish team. Amid the complex noises of the news­ Army in vanquished Greece ; I was paper I had learned the use of the editorial ‘ we.* a prisoner of war under arrest at a A newspaper has its silences as well as its Turkish headquarters ; I saw the noises. Suddenly the linotypes will stop; French Republic staggering under there is a faint hum of a diminuendo, as the the explosive revelations of the current is turned off. Down the stairs goes the Dreyfus case. But the adventure trampling of many feet, and while the printers which still seems to me the most sup, you are alone with your thoughts, more memorable in these years came solitary than any hermit, in a wilderness so still when at last I joined this news­ that a butterfly’s wing would make an intoler­ paper’s staff, and worked through able intrusion. Your work is done. Tired and my first evening within its walls. relaxed, you light your pipe and reflect oh what I made at last the acquaintance of you have written. Your dull sentences reform its great editor, to me a legendary and sharpen themselves into epigrams. You name. You may see his handsome will re-write that article. Too late 1 From a features in the fine bust which far wing of the great building comes the most The Editor’s Room, where words are collected Epstein made of him, but no bust ominous of all a newspaper’s noises. A quick from every comer of the world— can convey the lightning of his tap of wood upon metal, and then a rain of glittering eyes. Someone conducted remorseless blows upon some gentler substance. AYDN based a movement of one of the me, an intimidated youngster, to the little room With his mallet the compositor is fixing the happiest of his symphonies on the ticking in which I was to write. On the way to it, columns of lines that have come from the setting H of a grandfather clock. It is the simplest through a maze of passages, the noises of the machines, into the steel framework of the formes. of all possible rhythms, and the most pedestrian. newspaper began to assail my ears. They He locks them, and then beats upon the up­ Not Pavlova herself could dance to a pendulum. made a rhythm to which one’s feet learned to turned letters the soft matrix that receives their Yet on this rhythm the master could build his step ; through an opening door they would mould. It is the irrevocable finis. springing arches of patterned sound. Upon this rush in a cascade of sound, which pursued With the last of these noises a great peace bridge he can move into a free world where me even into the silence of my study. I steals over the journalist. The presses are time is despot no longer, until the ticking had caught glimpses of rows of men seated running in the basement. It is a leisurely move­ ! clutches him again, and he paces to the pulse at long tables, scanning and scoring, cut­ ment of giant cylinders, decently veiled, so that of inexorable destiny, the prisoner of its rhythm. ting and pasting thin sheets of waxy paper, their complexity do.* not tease the mind. If Haydn could so play with the ticking of the ‘ flimsies ’ on which telegraphic reports of Everything in the orderly calm of that room a clock, what symphonies would he not have speeches and debates arc written, as they come breathes accomplishment. The work of choice woven from the noises of a newspaper ? The over the wire. 1 had jostled in the narrow is over; an unerring machine will do the rest. sounds from Fleet Street, which will be broad­ corridors against printers in their white overalls. To my fancy the first hum of the great rotary cast this week, might have inspired greater Presently a young man, with a face that expressed press seems like the purring of a gigantic cat. music than ever came out of Vienna. Fate endless toleration, made visits to my room, Somewhere in the cellars she must lie, half- trod a measure to the ticking of Haydn’s clock, bringing the first incomplete sheets of the speech dozing in ineffable content. Sleek and secure, but here is all humanity in the clatter of an engine. on which I was to write my comment. He was she is telling the world that it is warm and com­ Lucian, in one of his sceptical dialogues, lame, and the dragging of his left foot along the fortable, soft and safe, and that it is good to be fancied that he sat beside a trap-door in the passage made the rhythm to which my thoughts alive and more than half-asleep. floor of heaven, and listened to the prayers of began to move. With that rhythm in one’s ears, the rhythm all mankind. It was the jumble of frailties and But now from the windows of the floor above of rest, one mounts one’s bicycle to journey deceits, meannesses, and contradictions. Such me came the clacking of the linotypes. It is a homeward through the silent streets. The a trap-door will be opened for us as we listen in, restless, an unmusical sound, with a disturbing calm of the Seventh Day reigns in one’s senses. and through it will pour the tide of history. It rhythm like no other on earth, breathless and One has created a world. One glances at the is not to the jangling of metal that you will staccato, hurried yet remorseless in its con­ shutters and the blinds with the knowledge that listen, nor to the rush of the electric current, tinuity. Down go the keys as the quick one has stolen a march on mankind. Tomorrow, when the presses begin to hum. Through the fingers of the operator sweep across them, and behind those curtains, you will read of the floods stridency of steel, you will catch, if your cars then comes a pause which tells you that a line and the earthquakes, the battles and the revolu­ arc alert, the conflicting purposes, the passionate is set in indelible metal. It is your tremulous tions. Tonight they are my lonely possession. struggles of nations. In this medley of noises thoughts, your halting sentences the rebels are rushing the barricades ; amid which the machine has cast for ever this welter, kings and priests, ciders and mag­ in imperishable lead. Horace rejoiced nates stand fast to defend traditions. That that he had reared a monument shuffling of feet, as the printers carry their more lasting than brass, but I, a heavy loads of significant metal, is more than trembling novice, would have given the orderly hurry of Fleet Street; it is the tramp the most precious of my goods to of legions advancing to their predestined objec­ take back that first inadequate para­ tive in the divine tactic of history. These graph. But help there was none. machines arc not dealing with paper ; they are One was bound to the wheels of looms that weave the thoughts of a people. the machine. To and fro limped As they whirl, so must we think, and to their the lame messenger, the link which pattern must we shape our lives. Amid the bound me to the editor who scanned hammering of wooden mallets on passive types, my scribblings with those piercing the mirror is being fashioned in which we yet beautiful eyes, the shuttle which see the world. Compared with the tumult carried my manuscript to the lino­ of these noises from a newspaper, the ticking type, which engulfed and embalmed of Haydn’s clock was trivial prose. These it beyond recall. I had written.in rhythms arc the song of destiny itself. the calm of my own home, written My memory goes back to the night when in Turkish inns, and on the decks of first I heard these noises. I had worked hitherto Greek steamers in /Egean storms for a great newspaper as a contributor beyond Then I was an individual, and my its walls. I had begun by sending in reviews pen was my own. This day it — ind ihe Linotype Room, where they are given of books. Soon I was commissioned to serve scratched to the linotype’s rhythm. the brutal permanence of metal. 7TG RADIO TIMES December 13, 1929. . song and dance in the gay-tinted uniforms that still survive for rustic revels. All the beasts ICE AND ELECTRICITY of the Swedish field and forest are there, —or Modem Architecture Gleaming in a Summer Twilight elks, bears, and wolves, while the village musicians play under the trees on the ‘ key- IVOR BROWN, the Dramatic Critic, contributes this article on Stockholm, the last of our harp ’ and other native implements. And scries on cGreat Cities by Night* very charming it is to sit with this little orchestra and eat ‘ waffles ’ fresh from the grill. AM told that there is no time in Stock­ in the world with bread and biscuits to spread But if you dine more formally at Skansen, holm like Christmas-time, for the them on. And after that, whatever you have which you can do very cheaply and very well, I lovely capital of rocky island and of room for. A grilled trout, perhaps, and so you look out over the hill-side as the evening fiord is then officially festive, and man fights back over the water or through the pinewoods falls upon the town. Later, as you smoke and the long nights which Nature ordains for the to Stockholm. listen to the orchestra, the lights begin to far north by limitless illumination of the twinkle on the large boats at their moorings scene. The whole town is incandescent with EMEMBER first that Stockholm is a city of X\. rocky islands and peninsular at the rapids and on the little ones puffing back from the revelry, and Stockholm is a star-spangled bathing resorts. The waters darken and the banner flung across the waters of Malaren which form the outflow of Lake Malaren into an arm of the Baltic that is itself an archi­ new Town Hall, that most majestic of modem Sound. buildings, to make which a small democracy But very few English visitors ever see this pelago. It has * roads ’ in which large liners can lie at anchor, and smaller steamboats are has behaved with the ambition and the lavish­ town among the pine-woods when it is turned ness of a Renaissance prince, stands out as the into a glittering Christmas-tree. The average plying to and fro everywhere, almost from street to street. Great arms of water stretch worthy symbol and sentinel of Stockholm’s tourist is a summer migrant, and what awaits new pride in the civic splendour. What will him is the obverse side of the midwinter away into the woods, towards Lidingho, for instance, where you may dine on a cliff hard strike you at once is the extraordinary clarity medallion that glitters with ice and electricity. by what I think must be the loveliest modern of the air, the firmness of the outlines, and the He secs the luminous nights of midsummer great range of visibility. The beauty of the when days are an unconscionable time a-dying, house in the world, that is the house of the great Swedish sculptor, Carl Milles, who has English scene is normally a soft and hazy and do, in fact, scarce die at all, mocking the carved his home in the living rock, terrace loveliness; our trees at twilight become gathering night by their refusal to depart and Corot’s trees, our skies wear the fleece that by hurling their scarlet gestures of defiance to after terrace, all vivid with the statues of his own creation and dancing with the fountains Constable knew. The moisture of the air the dark. Stockholm’s nights in summer are which he loves to design. But, if there is no throws a blurred beauty on the line ; only • not nights at all. They are twilights that have time to go out to Lidingho in order to look rarely do our coloured counties, our downs broken bounds. You must go far farther out over the water and sec night come to the and our woods, stand out like graven images north, it is true, as far as Lapland even, to find city, it is possible to have a similar effect of with a rigid line—and then it is a hint of bad the sun that never sets, but in Stockholm you being perched in an eerie much closer home. weather. In the towns the smoke intervenes have the long nocturnal afterglow and an In Stockholm it is always wise to climb (or to to make grey and dusky harmonies of tint. exquisite midsummer night’s gleam. Whether be carried upwards) for your dinner. There But Stockholm burns in the dry heat with a it is worth another thirty-six hours in the train is much to look down upon. hard gem-like flame, and at nightfall every to salute the midnight sun, I do not know. tower and tor is silhouetted in absolute If you happen to be a salmon-fisher as well as /^VNE simple way to enjoy the Stockholm definition against the horizon. So the scene a sun-hunter, go to Lapland by all means. \Jnight is to go to Skansen, which is a pocket- turns theatrical ; the great blue bowl of the The Swede is most eager to show you his size national park laid out on a hill well inside sky is the cyclorama of a modern stage against farthest north, and the hotels, I hear, offer all the city. In Skansen the curators have which are massed the spires and pine-clad the comforts of less far-flung holidays. In collected everything that is typical of Swedish spurs of the city and its suburbs. As the sun any case in Sweden, as in Denmark, you are life, art, culture, and entertainment. There at last goes down a flame of scarlet shoots reassured on one point. You will never see is an open-air theatre, open-air museum, and across the steel sheet of darkling blue; the a speck of dust and, if by some rare mischance open-air dancing. You may see the tented afterglow is here. in a million you do, there will be a telephone field of the Lapp or the peasant going to his So back to the hotel, or on, if you are eager, to at your side wherewith the cabarets and dance halls to make complaint. The of the pleasure park which Swede has electricity and lies just below Skansen. telephones everywhere. I But these are not particular imagine that, when you to the city; so why not do get to the midsummer go to them in London night’s sun of Lapland, or Paris ? What is the you will hear the natives special privilege of the calling the reindeer home traveller in Stockholm is by telephone. a midnight walk along the ' Meanwhile we arc stay­ quays with the moonlight ing in Stockholm. I can playing on the palaces assure you that whatever and the mansions of the the beauties of the Arctic old grandees or on the Circle, we are not at all communal structures of anxious to move on. For the new architecture of the sun is radiant and we which Sweden is so justly spend our days with an proud. Nature gave the hour of sightseeing and city much, not least its then a run down to summer nights ; man has Saltsjobaden, where is the taken the gift in both best bathing in the lovely hands, honoured, enlarged, Baltic fiords and every and adorned it. apparatus for basking on Ivor Brown. sun-scorched boards; after bathing there is Schnapps and Smorgas­ Don’t forget the e.s.A. bord (bread-and-butter- STOCKHOLM, THE HOME OF ‘MODERNIST* CIVIC ARCHITECTURE. CIu istmas Number, board), which really means Pictures of the Town Hall have previously appeared in these columns. The picture above Friday next. every kind of hors-d'oeuvre shows the magnificent new Concert-Hall, the musical centre of Sweden’s capital. i

December 13, 1929. RADIO TIMES 777

A NICE QUIET EVENING A One Act Play for Listeners By J. B. Harker [N.B.—The author of A'Nice Quiet Evening has given permission for its performance by amateur actor during December, 1929, and January, 1930.—Editor.] Characters : Mother (reading): A motor-car at Watford Ratiier : About Fifty—with a walrus mous­ this afternoon mounted the pavement and tache. entered a butcher’s shop. Father (sarcastically) : Yes, and cut itself a Mother : A Placid Soul. fillet steak, I suppose ! Can’t you sec I’m Emma : The Maid—with adenoids. trying to tune in ? Kate : The Eldest Daughter—homely and Mother : Sorry, dear. I didn’t hear any tune ! practical. I thought------Ted : A haberdasher’s salesman with a bril­ {Father gives vent to a gasp of annoyance. liant club tie. Mother subsides, They resume their reading Jean : The Second Daughter—a bright young and twiddling.) Ted: ‘It’s the Argentine Tango.' Mother : Oo ! Father------! Father: * Sounds like Primo Camera thing. dancing the Polka.’ ather Harold : The Only Son—short-sighted and F : What the----- ? Mother : Just this once, dear, and then you studious. martyrdom. Kate begins to operate the sewing- can go on with your game. You remember machine. Father moves very close to the set The Scene : The Parlour of the Old Home— Mabel Banks ? and puts his ear against the loud-speaker. oleographs. on its walls, china dogs on the Father {zvearily) : Yes. What’s she done—run A knock at the door.) mantelpiece and bullrushes standing in the into a butcher’s shop, too ? If she did some- Father {furiously): Come in ! corner. There is a table with a plush cloth on one might mistake ’cr for a calf’s ’cad ! {Enter Emma.) it—a smaller table {bamboo) carrying a wireless Mother : Do you recollect her Bertram ? Emma : It’s odely be, sir. set—one comfortable chair and several hard Father : Recollect ’im ? ’E borrowed a quid Father : It sounded to me like an earthquake, upright chairs. of me to bury ’is father with—and that’s the Mother : You are cross, dear. What is it, Father, who has just returned from work, last I ’card of ’im. Emma ? is sitting in the comfortable chair, removing his Mother : Well, they’re married ! Did you Emma : Miss Jead’s yug bad ’as cord, bub. boots, while Mother stands beside him with his ever ? {Reading.) REGISTRY OFFICE Mother {joyfully, to Father) : Do you hear, carpet slippers. ROMANCE. dear ? Ted Foster’s called to see Jean. Oh, Father {clapping his ear to the set) : There ! I wonder if he’s going to ask you for her hand ? Father (dropping his boots and taking slippers): What was that ? Father : If anyone comes asking anything more East or West, Mother, ’ome’s best—and Mother {startled): What ? Where ? they’ll get my ’and—and where they least there’s nothing like a nice quiet evening with Father : There ! That was 5GB—and now expects it! the wireless ! (Looking round.) Where’s you’ve gone and made me lose it! Mother : Show him in, Emma—oh, and tell The Radio Times got to ? Mother : Oh, was that all ? I thought you’d Miss Jean, Mother : It was on the table. I daresay Emma seen a ghost. ‘ REGISTRY OFFICE Emma : Yes, bub. {Turning in doorway.) ’E’s moved it when she was dusting ! I’ll ask ROM------* brought ’is grabaphode ! {Exit.) her. (Going up to the door and opening it.) Father : Can’t you read to yourself ? You Father : What's ’e brought ? Emma ! Emma ! oughter go to Savoy ’111, you did—you’re so Mother : His gramophone, dear, Emma {appearing in the doonvay) : Yes, bub ? proud of the sound of your voice. Father : And what next ? If ’e so much as Mother : The master wants The Radio Times. Mother : Oh, you are ill-natured ! starts to turn the ’andle I’ll—I’ll------Emma : The Radio Tibes, bub ? {Father, unmoved, twiddles on, gets a station, {Enter Ted Foster, carrying a portable Father : Are you deaf, girl ? smiles and returns to the comfortable chair, gramophone. Father breaks off short in his Emma : Do—but I shad be id a binnit, sir! finds Mother in it, shrugs his shoulders, takes a outburst and glares at him.) (Father snorts). I’m sorry, bub, but whed hard upright chair and drazes it to the wireless Ted : What cheer, ail ? I was diding the fire this bordig I ’adn’t got set. He is just leaning back and beginning to Father {gloomily) : What cheer ? no baper ad so I------enjoy himself when there comes a knock at the (Ted shrugs his shoulders and looks signifi­ Father : So you took my Radio Times ! I see. door.) cantly at Mother.) I wonder you didn’t choose the ‘ B.B.C. Father {impatiently): Come in ! {Another Mother : Good evening, Ted. Jeannic will Year Book * while you were about it. It’s knock.) Come in ! {Another knock. He gets be down in a minute. What’s your news ? bigger and cost more and ’ud burn better ! angrily up and opens the door, revealing his Ted : It’s a secret. Mother : Never mind, dear. There’s the eldest daughter Kate carrying a sewing-machine Mother {coyly) : Oh, of course, if it’s a secret— evening paper. It gives all the programmes in both hands.) You and Jean have a lot of secrets. Vll be 1 —and much more correctly. That will do, Father : Ho ! it’s you, is it ? Why couldn’t bound ! Emma. you come in straight away—without waking Ted : Well, I’ll tell you. You see, it’s like this. Emma {departing): Yes, bub. the dead----- ? Jean’s that crazy on dancing—and so I’ve {Mother hands the paper to father.) Kate : Because both my hands was occupied, been having lessons from Professor Brightwell Father (reading) : * London and Daventry. see 1 And so I knock with my foot >n the High Street—you know, three for ’arf a 8 p.m. Chamber Music.’ Lor’ love us! Father {sarcastically) : Reely ? I thought you guinea—and I’ve picked up the Tango a treat, Tut tut! ‘9.15 National Lecture, “The took a sledge-’ammer to it! Quite the Jigollo (if you’ll pardon the expres- Scientific Juxtaposition of Matter in Four {Kate dumps the machine on the table while sion). Now I’ve come round to show Jean Dimensional Magnetic Fields’” Pip-pip! her Father returns to his chair.) and- ‘ 10 o’clock : Travel Talk : “ Across Tibet on Father: You ain’t never going to work that {EnterJean.) a Tricycle.” * Well, I’m------! Let’s ’ave a look thing in ’ere ? Jean Hello, Ted ! at 5GB. Ah, that’s better. * “ ’Ave an­ Kate : Of course I am ! {To her Mother): Ted ’11°, duck 1 ’Arf a sec. while I put on other !—a nalcoholic revue in four gulps. *»» Mum! the gramophone! , . 5GB for me ! Mother : Yes, dearie ? Jean : Whatever are you gorng to do ? {Father goes over to the wireless set and Kate: You remember that pattern they gave Kate: Its a secret. begins to tune. Mother sits down in his vacated away with last week’s Saucy Tales ? Father * It’s a pity ’e can’t keep it a secret chair and begins to turn over the nezvspaper. Mother : The Dirikie Three-Piece Boudoii x xr.,, Father is listening intently. At each rustle of Ensemble? Yes, dearie. Ted {starting the gramophone) . Now you watch the paper he looks round with annoyance. At Kate : Well, I've started it—in sateen 'Ted heS",s 10 demonstrate the Tango tilth last she settles down to read a page. With a Father- And you'll finish it in the kitchen much heavy stamping.) smile of relief Father resumes his twiddling.) What next 1 I suppose you'll be asking for a it sounds like Primo Mother : Oh, father------! (No reply.) Listen boudoir to wear it in. Tut-tut ! 1 AT1IbR • 1 ru . v p u.„ » a to this, dear ! {Father settles back in his chair and begin* Camera dancing t ie o Father : Well------? to listen to the wireless with an elaborate air of (Continued overleaf-) : 778 - RADIO TIMES December 13, 1929. (Continued from previous page.) Ted : It's the Argentine Tango. THE VILLAGE PLAYERS OF ST. HILARY Jean : Oo, you are a one ! Do show me ! The Rev. Bernard Walke, Vicar of the Cornish Church of St. Hilary, from which the yearly (Ted takes Jfecui in his arms and begins to Nativity Play will be relayed for the third time on Monday, December 23, describes the daily demonstrate. Father clamps his head to the life of the actors and its influence on their performance. loud-speaker zath an expression of frightful ____ suffering.) f | MIREE years of St. Hilary to the Mother : What grace 1 I a2° the Prior of St. Mi* Father (really roused at last) : What a *ffsgracc> , 9* chael’s Mount on you mean ! 'Ere, clear out the lot of you ! macl* «PerI‘ the condition that (They stop dancing in dismay. Ted stops the nientof broadcast- the monks should gramophone and begins hurriedly to close it.) jjjj* ~ K f\lvl X entertain four of his retainers with Jean : Oo, you ore in a rotten mood ! from thcChurch of their horses, grey­ Father : You go and make your noise some- St. Hilary. It was hounds, and spar- where else. It’s my opinion that them doubtful at the rowhawks at phonographs ought to be put down by law ! time whether the Christmas, Easter, Ted (brightly) : Look here ! It's Friday night simple piety of the and Whitsun. His and I'm flush. I’ll stand treat af the'.pictures, scenes could be work differs very Jean : They’ve got Fifi Finch in Kissable Ankles conveyed through little from the at the Scayla. the wireless, or work of those who Ted : You, too, Mrs. B.—and Katie. even whether the lived on the farm words spoken by at that time ; he Mother : You are kind. those untrained The Story that never grows stale. is possessed of Kate (leaving her serving) : I’ll run and get my voices would be A scene from 'Bethlehem,’ a Nativity Play performed that slowly-ac­ things on. (Exit.) intelligible to lis­ every year near the Cornish village of Goldsithney. quired knowledge Jean : I’ll wear my new hat. Come and watch teners. of the nature and me put it on, Ted i The play has been broadcast each successive treatment of the fields on the farm, the ways Ted : I should shay sho. I’m a connossyer of year, and by the thousands of letters that I have of cattle, of thatching and hedging, and the ladies’ millinsiry ! received and the crowds of people who continue building of walls, which has been handed down tExeunt Jean and Ted, who carries his each year to visit the church, it is evident that from generation to generation. He is also pos­ gramophone.) the play has certain qualities that make for a sessed of that culture and charm, which is not Mother (at door): Now you can have a nice wide appeal. Apart from the supreme interest of art or of learning, but comes from living in quiet evening for your listening, dear. There’ll of the story of how God 4 for us men and our close and tender relationship with the fields in be no one in but Emma. salvation came down from Heaven,’ its value lies which he works, and the cattle he tends. in its simplicity and sincerity. Father (suspiciously): Where’s ’Arold, then ? The deep-voiced shepherd is an underground man, who works in a mine beneath Godolphin ' Mother : At his night class. Good-bye, dear. The play is acted in different parts of the church without any scenic effects beyond the Hill, an inheritor of a tradition almost as ancient . Father : Good-bye. as agriculture. The mother of the family sits (A short interval while Father listens zeith gay decorations of Christmas, a bundle of straw strewn on the floor of the belfry, a place for a at home and listens to the tales of the children a sigh of relief. Then enter Harold, carrying a and greets strangers who call at the cottage witb bundle of books, a copper pot and a hammer.) fire, and some few bits of furniture for the home in the chapel and the Christmas crib where that quiet dignity common to country people. Harold : Hello—all gone out ? people offer their devotions apart from the piny. The shepherd’s boy and the little girl who Father : To the Pictures. I thought you were The story is of Bethlehem, of angels, and clutches the toy lamb and asks her mother ‘ Why * at your classes ? shepherds, and wise men, but the life that is God made this world so cold and cruel,’ are well Harold (sitting at table and arranging books, presented is that of today as it is lived in the aware of that tenderness of young things, for etc.) : I’ve finished the lectures, so I thought country all over England. they, have looked into nests and seen the young I’d come in and get on with the practical The words of the shepherd, ‘ Man’s time is birds without any feathers and brought up lambs work, like die lecturer said. set by God who rules the sun ; God’s time is by hand whose mothers have died. Father : Practical work! IIo! and what any time, neither ended or begun,’ may tfe taken All these people are part of a great tradition may that be ? as representing the outlook of those who live which, notwithstanding the invasion of the Harold : I’m making a Christmas present for in the country, whether Shepherds of the country by people from the towns and the Ma. Nativity or workers in the fields of today ; for changes that have taken place in the country Father (only half interested, one car on the them life passes in an ordered procession ; they itself, is still active and gives a sense of value wireless): Ho ! move slowly since God moves slowly, and they and dignity to the lives of country people. know that they cannot hasten the seasons by Harold (holding up the copper pot) : Yes—it’s Such a life must seem very remote to those this. I’m beating it out of copper—like they their activity. In this sense the players are who live and work in towns, but in reality it is showed us to at the Poly. ! closely related to the life they would represent. not so very far away ; cities as w'e know them (Harold begins to hammer loudly at the pot. The leading shepherd walks twelve to fifteen are modem inventions, and a few generations Father springs up in fury and creeps towards miles a day across fields, where the young wheat ago the ancestors of those who live and work in his unconscious son. Snatching the copper pot is already springing, delivering letters to farm them were dwellers in' the country and engaged from Harold's hands, he crams it over the places along the coast; the ravens, who have in the same kind of life as the people of St. boy's head and, leaving him gasping and their home on Cudden Point, the gulls and the Hilary. Thus the play may quite possibly struggling, returns contentedly to listen to the rooks in the fields have heard him as he goes by evoke some inherited memory in listeners programme.) shouting his part: 4 Come on, then, boys, let whose lives and occupations are far removed us go forth across the moor.* His voice and CURTAIN. from such scenes. gestures have the.fierce sincerity of those who Another factor in the play is the little Home spend their lives in the open. near the church for London children who, for To countrymen, moors and fields are not some reason or other, have no homes of their WHAT I LIKED BEST empty spaces : every field has a name which own. These children are a great link with often goes back to unknown ages. In Cornwall St. Hilary and listeners to the play ; many of IN 1929. where Menheirs, or unhewn pillar stones, stand, them have visited the Home and become friends Listeners themselves are contributing out on the moors, stone circles and strange of the children ; a great many more have most a specially interesting feature to next underground places are found in the fields, kindly sent us donations, without which it would week’s cross-roads and field paths are marked by ancient have been impossible to carry on the work. crosses, and where the names upon the gates But this is not all : on Christmas night the CHRISTMAS NUMBER leading to farm places are older than the players will be at the midnight Mass, the bells Conquest, the people have a greater sense of will ting while the Gloria in Excclsis is sung, in the form of extracts from letters giving continuity than those who live in a country where and when the Mass is ended they will all come their idea of the pick of the year’s most of the records of the past have been trouping up and kneel round the crib and say programmes. obliterated. their prayers just as they do in the play. This Do not miss the Christmas Number / The youth who speaks the Prologue works on is the secret of the play. The players are a farm called Trevarthian, of which there are actors playing a part, but their audience is Next. Friday—price 6d. records of how in the twelfth century the Lord the Holy Child and His Mother and all tlie of the Manor of Trevarthian gave the Church company of Heaven. I IIIIIIWI UJ ■

December 13, 1929. RADIO TIMES 779

A WOBBLELESS EVENING. THE MUSIC HALL CHAIRMAN. * TO ALL. TO EACH, A FAIR GOOD-NIGH'l. Thank you so much forgiving prominence by George Morrow’s Probably many listeners who were lucky enough to hear out inimitable pencil to the excellent letter of Mr. John Pcrcival. Your correspondent, Mr. James Edge, of Heme Hill, is beloved announcer ' ring down the curtain ' on November 18 who suggests an evening once a week for vocalists guaranteed undoubtedly right in his assertion as to the Chairman of the Old South London Music Hall in London Road, Southwark, with the above quotation, would be interested in the entire to sing without ‘ the ghastly, disturbing, unnerving vibrato couplet from Scott's * Marmion * (L’envoi). which runs as habit affected by nine-tenths of the singers employed by the S.E. I well remember him presiding, and I believe he figured in the nrogramme as * Baron Courtenay,’ but everybody called follows:— B.B.C.’ Complaints about the programmes arc mostly carping * To all, to each, a fair good-niglu and quite unreasonable, and I have so much respect for the him * Old Bob,' and, as Mr. Edge states, he duly announced ideas of, and gratitude for the music from, the B.B.C. that I feel every turn by rising and emphasizing his announcement by And pleasing dreams to slumbers light i with Mr. Pcrcival very loth to complain. It would be easier Our announcers arc certainly to be congratulated upon the to leave it alone and be content like others to cut out all vocal variety of ways they have discovered of bidding us good­ items (apart from speech, of course), but it seems such a pity night. Personally, I think it is a particularly happy idea on the that this wide field of beautiful music, including concerted part of our friends, to coin their own individual expression, and pieces, should be spoilt and therefore shunned because of the for their colleagues to recognize so conscientiously the law of disease that is in it.—Philip T. Gilchrist, Sunderland Point, copyright 1 Well, no matter whether it be * To all, to each . . near Lancaster. the earnest ‘ Good Rest ’ ; the merry * Sleep Well ’: or tho dear old ‘ Goodnight Everybody, Goodnight,’ it is always a FORGOTTEN SO SOON. perfect ending to our day. And so. Mr. Announcer, with Your correspondent, Mr. Vickery, writes in The Radio Shakespeare, I would say : * Goodnight, goodnight I parting Times that Journey's End leaves in one’s mind no animosity is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say goodnight till it bo * nothing but regrets of past action.’ Regret for what ?—for morrow'.’—One Who Always Stays Awake. our country's response to the call of duty ? ; for the unparalleled heroism and endurance of our men through those four ghastly years ?; for our standing by Belgium ?—or, for fighting lor our FROM THE ANNOUNCER ABOLISHER. very existence ? O ye gods 1 how soon, how very soon, we have With reference to F. A. Seale’s letter in today’s issue of forgotten (at the time the men all said we would have forgotten The Radio Times. She states :— in ten years). For myself, both seeing and hearing Journey’s ‘ The Announcers arc part of the programme and some­ End just brings it all back—what they were ahd what they did, several rap3 with his hammer on the table bclorc him. Indeed, times the very best part. Since the war one seldom sees or and I am filled afresh with wonder and grief and pride.— lie was only one of many that I can recall in the early nineties. hears a gentleman, so it is a great treat to hear them. Besides Scottish Listener. One genial Chairman that comes to my mind was Mr. Sam their, tedious job keeps them occupied all day.’ Sutton, at Deacon’s Music Hall, Ctcrkcnwcll, then almost You may remember my suggestion was that one of your start NEGLECTED COMPOSERS. adjoining Sadler’s Well Theatre, but swept away in the sub- could do what little announcing there was (in turns, of course.) As a lover of music (medium brow) I have to thank the B.B.C. sequent development of .Rosebery Avenue and one of the Therefore, F. A. Scale’s insinuation is that your staff arc not for the extent and variety of the music they dispense, but most orderly halls of its kind.—A. Anderson, 107, 1F«1 Street, gentlemen. If she wishes to hear one, the people who give the although composers of all periods arc included in their pro­ Harrow. interminable talks arc practically all gentlemen. Finally, on grammes, there is still one period they seem to ignore, viz. what grounds does she base her assertion that their jobs keep the middle of the nineteenth century, and the composers em­ the Announcers occupied all day ? For instance, what do they brace, roughly, Rossini, Donizetti, Meyerbeer, Auber, and our THE OLD TIME ARTISTS. do when they have spoken their little piece at the commence­ own Balfc and Wallace, etc. In particular, might I recommend ment of a two-hours' concert ?—M. IF., Winchester. Meyerbeer's ‘ Dinorah ’ and Herald's ' Zampa^ as worth doing l I 9UITE agree with Mr. Hal Vickc (in your issue of November —I r. E. Walker, 40, Grange Road, Chistvick. 8) with reference to Mr. Ridgeway's conception of ‘ Old Time Vaudeville.’ It was nothingling less thanth a libel on such artists THOUGHTS ON YORKSHIRE PUDDING AND A LISTENER’S THANKS. as Jenny Hill, Bessie Bonchill, Katie Lawrence, Bessie Bell- HADDOCKS. I am nearly eighty-two years of age, and very deaf, but . wood, Polly Randall, Jolly John Nash, Arthur Lloyd, Fred Personally, I could dispense with many of the household should like to say that I spent a very' pleasant and profitable Albert, ~Pat “Feeny, Billy Randall," “Fred 1 Foster.Foster, Arthur Roberts.Roberts, talks. It seems a pity you should follow the newspapers and time on a recent Sunday evening, listening to the service from George Lcybournc, Charles Godfrey, Tommy Barrett, Harry encourage housekeeping tyros—at least, it seems so to many. the London Studio when Dr. Sharp gave the address and the Randall, James Fawn, and all the old time performers. In your What Southerner, let alone a Yorkshire woman, would put choir sang so well. I was able to follow the service better than issue of November 22 Mr. James Edge states that Mr. Vickc baking-powder into a real Yorkshire pudding ? Even Mr. I have done since we have had the wireless. Dr. Sharp should should say the chairman was imaginary, that is not true, accord­ Priestley knows better, judging by that delightful book,' The be a model for all engaged in the good work.—Henry E. Cooper, ing to the way I read his letter he (the Chairman) would have Good Companions 1 ’ Wliat sort of glue-like substance would a ‘ Mona,' Ettymorc Road, Sedgley, Staffs. been dismissed for being so illiterate ; the remarks about the pudding made of four tablcspoonfuls of arrowroot to a pint of Old South London Music Hall and a man called ‘ Old Bob ’— milk be like ? The use of milk in cakes, etc., instead of water, is HINDEMITH. I presume he means Bob Courtney (better known as Baron to be deprecated. Our Christmas puddings were kept a year, The Hindemith Concerto broadcast from the Queen’s Hall Courtney), who was an able and respected Chai rman. It has but neither suet, milk, or eggs were cooked previous to in- was most realistic. One could almost see the blackbcctlcs been my pleasure to know nearly all the old-time Chairmen comoration with the other ingredients—nor were the puddings scudding across the kitchen floor, with the cat after them.— from the time of Gus Leach and John Reed, and I have always boiled on the following day again. Why boil smoked haddock ? D. Crusher. found them men of intellect, not the portrayal of Mr. Ridgeway. It makes it hard.—A Convert to Wireless. . —Dick Leicis, 106, Harcourt Ave., Manor Park, E.iz. FOREIGN LANGUAGES. WRIT SARCASTIC. May I say how thoroughly I agree with the letter of ‘ R.G.G.’ as to the mcagrcncss of the foreign language lessons or readings ? I acree with Mr. Free. We arc unlikely to be educated by I should like to expand that a little. There arc two subjects ODE TO GROUSERS. listening to other people’s opinions, and certainly learn nothing from reading his.—E. G. A. S. N., Newport, I. of IF. which arc pre-eminently suitable tp wireless in that they require What’s the good of grousing when the programme doesn’t the living sound for proper appreciation—music and foreign suit ? languages ; music must be heard to be appreciated and a foreign Switch your set off! THE LOUD GUFFAW AND THE QUIET CRY. language can only be properly learned from the living voice. You Grousers bore us stiff with your letters for this page. Bravo Major Grierson and your wavelength for rubbish 1 We have an ample supply of excellent music, but, alas! this The B.B.C. gives items to please folk with numerous tastes ; But the B.B.C. has tlirec powerful stations that can be heard cannot be said of foreign languages. A perusal of World-Radio So if you find one doleful or intolerable high-brow— throughout the land. Let the first give us the jazz and the loud shows that many foreign stations have quite good courses in Switch it off! guffaw, and the noise and the good time and cheerio and hurrah 1 foreign languages. In one week I note, for example—Berlin, Let the second give us the Old Familiar Tunc, and the per­ five lessons ; Brussels, eight lessons ; Milan or Turin, two ; This page should be fectly safe and Love’s Young Dream and a Good Quiet Cry Stockholm, three ; Copenhagen, two. But to outdo all come a page and the Light Orchestral Concert and the ‘ Songs Mother Hilversum or Iluizcn with nine between them ; the Dutchman Of Praise— used to sing.’ Let the third give us the architectural, the severe, can have three English lessons, two of Esperanto and one each Not Grousers by the score. the constructed music of the great classics and let U3 hear, in French, German, Spanish, Italian in a week.—Chas. E. For every Grouse there ought to be too, the music that may become the classics of our grandsons, Fdlkner, 173, Tulse Hill, S.W.2. A Fine— Then almost everyone would have something to suit them, Ten Pounds or more 1 except the very, very disgruntled.—Still Hoping. Whitley. THE TIRED WORKING MAN. Surrey. TltE ‘ poor, tired, working man ’ wants kicking very hard Now, my Expert Grouser, don’t listen in tonight— until lie wakes up. He can hardly expect us to have all the Switch your set off! excrescences of negroid pathology unloaded upon us on his There’s a talk bv Walford Davies, and a play from 5GB, A WAVE LENGTH FOR TRASH. account.—* A Working Alan Who Is Not Tired.' A topping Symphony Concert, and Vaudeville as well. As a lover of light music, dance music, Johann Strauss, There’s nothing to suit you so the best thing you can do is etc., which I presume come under Major Grierson’s heading of DO VEGETARIANS EAT SHRIMPS ? Switch your set off! * trash,’ I would like to protest against his selfish and intolerant A. Ron Smith. attitude. His suggestion for another wavelength is, of course, Tins morning at 10.4s listening to some recipes for vege­ absurd. The fairest thing is to give us fifty-fifty programmes— tarian dishes being broadcast, 1 discovered that * shrimps ’ half * real music ’ so oeoole like Major G person can enjoy their were one of the ingredients 1 It is a pitv this was not censored BACH’S FRENCH SUITES. I am neither highbrow nor lowbrow, but Mr. Victor Hely Hutchinson deserves a well-earned vote of thanks for his —lendid interpretation of Bach’s French Suites.—Kenneth £rper, 43, Courthill Ave., Cathcart, Glasgow.

SWITCH OFF THE WINDBAGS. Is it not time that someone possessing authority should be in the Studio to see that those privileged to broadcast do not abuse their opportunity by infringing on the time allotted for the next item ? Last evening we hau to listen to a boring rigmarole of a semi-preaching style from 9.30 to Q.44 (radio time) which we could not switch off because at 9.35 something in time, as such a discovery must have been a great shock to really worth listening to was due to commence. The best great heritage’ and halt trash for the human section oi the thousands of non-flesh-eaters now living 'in "England. ‘ ’ If contributors to talks on subjects of interest do keep time listeners which the B.B.C. docs, and l don 1 think we can ask « only the careless and indifferent would simply remember that something tbcald be done to switch off the windbags who for anything better. If Major Gnerson wants more than this, vegetarians abjure the three F's, * fish,’ * flesh ’ and ‘ fowl ’ it apparently once slatted cannot stop. I am sure I am voicing he should buy a gramophone and then he could listen to the would save a great deal of musinderstanding.—E. R., Goldcrs the feelings of thousands. The B.B.C. must insist upon time great masters all day. until somebody smashed the thing!— Green. being kept.—H. Maidment, The Crown Inn. Amersham G. E. Allen (Miss), 1S0. Holland Road. II est Kenssngtotu —^

, iSO RADIO TIMES December 13, 1020.

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED

"I ^ ROB ABLY there are few of us who do the ribs) ; ' Uncle ’ and a ‘ Shoppers’ Guide ’ may be. This outbreak is the more regrettable not occasionally feci disposed to turn keeps things going until 10.0, at which juncture from the fact that, as it occurs on a Saturday up our nose at the fare provided by there starts a * Happy Hour.’ night, the godless patrons of this station were Savoy Hill. In most cases the trouble is not Doesn’t all this early morning blurb about ‘hap­ dancing, gloom-chasing, and testing coffee serious. I have usually found that a little piness ’ mark one of the basic differences between until 2.0 on the blessed Sawbath. attention to diet, a brisk walk, or a change in the England and America ? I can imagine Savoy Health is not overlooked. Daily there are weather, will make the programmes first rate. Hill sending out musical accompaniments to ‘ Health Talks,’ sometimes vaguely announced, If these simple remedies fail, I study a batch of early morning exercises—indeed, I think it at other times referring frankly to skin, teeth, New York Radio programmes. would be a popular and useful move ; but we and hair. I thought I had even come across a I have just been looking through the radio may be sure there would be no revolting talk special class for the higher development of the section of a recent issue of a New York journal about Eye-Opening, or Rising and Shining, gums. I may be right, of course, but on second and trying to put myself in the place of the and, least of all are we likely to find any refer­ thoughts I am inclined to put it down to the Ordinary Listener in the U.S.A. ence to Gloom - Chasing. As stations stir printer. Probably the reference ought to be, First, I am struck by the example New York folk up in the morning, so do some of them not * Gum Class,’ but ‘ Gym Class,’ especially sets us in the matter of getting a move on soothe their patrons later. Thus, it is natural as it takes place at 6.45 a.m. betimes. Our English broadcasting doesn’t that the afternoon should find Mrs. Babbitt The reader may wonder what happens on begin until 10.15. Sluggards! Sunday. Again New York shows Long before that well-aired hour, London the way. Many of the the rarer ether of the Land of stations make a start at 8.0 or 8.30, Freedom is humming with activity. with or without some sort of religious At 6.45 several of the New York (?(?(?(?&= service. On the whole, however, • stations send out physical exercises HE COuaHS ROUSH A5 the programmes are pretty much for fifteen minutes, following with a HE PLOUGHS THROUSH THE OOUSH =rO like those of the rest of the week. second dose from 7.20 to 7.45. WBBC and WCGU even open This means that at an hour when Vo*. at 9.0 a.m. with an hour’s Dancing most of us are barely awake. Mr. School, followed by half an hour of and Mrs. George F. Babbitt and the * Radio Boys,’ then switching all the little Babbitts have breathed over to a Baptist Temple. Many of deeply, touched their toes, con­ Silly the stations take no notice of Sun­ tracted their abdominal muscles, day ; others take a little bit too rotated their dorsal fins, and done A much. Thus WQAO (New York) the rest of the daily dozens of con­ starts at midday with an hour and tortions that ensure a Sense of mi a half of services, then shuts down Well-being and Poise. until 3.0, when occurs what is Nor are the spiritual and psy- called ' Inspiration Hour.’ There chological sides overlooked. At 7.45 is then nothing doing again until the Babbitt family, having finished 7.30 to 9.30, when there are more their second relay of exercises, arc jT~y| < services. Another New York station, allowed fifteen minutes to dress (or ^ WPCH, makes the best of both recover). At S.o the young Babbitts 7m worlds by starting at 9.0 with are ready for ‘ Children’s Program.* Inf ‘ Finkcnbcrg G1 o o m-C h a s e rs ’; At 8.15 come ‘ Morning Devotions : 9.30, 4 Woman’s Program ’ ; 9.45, Cheerio ’ ; and thereafter until mid­ (S' 4 Finkenberg Entertainers ’ ; 10.0, night there’s something for every­ * Household Talks : Gloom-Chasers’; body. (But not very much for me.) 1 11.0, Christian Science Services ; The note of brightness so aggres­ and carries on with this kind of sively struck by these exercises and sandwich until it ends the day with by the devotional Cheerio ! is com­ Negro Spirituals. mon to most of the stations. WMBA, I It is pleasant to lay these medleys for example, opens up at 8.0 with aside and turn to our own B.B.C. pro­ * Musical Clock : Happiness Road ’; grammes, with their mixture, mainly WJZ and several others start regu­ of good stuff of all kinds, The larly at 7.30 with * Rise and Shine ’; nauseating mixture of uplift,’ WABC begins at S.o with ‘ Reveille ’; cheap sentiment, and even cheaper WBMS, at the same hour, turns jocosity that marks the wireless fare on what it calls an * Eye-Opener ’ ; of America reads like a kind of and (such is the determination that 1 nightmare. Even my hasty survey we shall be bright) WPCH at 9.0 of those columns of programmes releases ‘ Finkcnbcrg Gloom- B.B.C. OFFICIALS AS OUR ARTIST SEES THEM. has left me so obsessed with certain Chasers/ followed three-quarters * The Director of Education.* of their worst and most frequently of an hour later by the * Finkenberg recurring features that if during the Entertainers.’ Is there still a touch next twenty-four hours you should of depression left ? To be on the safe side, and spent after her strenuous cheerfulness of ask me if I will have one, I shall probably in case the Finkenbergian efforts have not been the morning. So, at 4.30, certain stations reply : ‘ Thanks, I don’t mind if I do. Mine’s conclusive, at 10.10 we have ‘ Gloom-Chasers : send a half-hour'of ‘ Restful Afternoon Music.’ a Gloom-Chaser ! ’ Grocers* Program.’ The connection is obscure. From 11.15 till midnight WJZ soothes the Is this feature (which lasts for sixty-five minutes) Babbitts with ‘ Slumber Music ’ ; other stations a bright show put up for advertising purposes prefer to call this part of the programme Ui-h-hC by some firm of grocers ? Or is it just a special ‘ Moonbeams,’ the natural sequel to the 4 Sun­ attempt to chase the gloom from grocers in rise ’ with which they began. WABC, however, r general ? If the latter, it should have come full of ‘ uplift ’ to the bitter end, sends out at earlier, for at 10.10 a grocer should be far too midnight the correct time, and then insists on busy gracing to be gloomy. ‘ Midnight Reveries.* THREE ‘BEST-SELLERS.’ ‘ Gloom-chasing * seems to be one of the One lamentable exception to this easing up at J. B. Priestley wrote c Good Companions,’ national industries. WABC, for example, in its the close of a perfect day is shown by WMRJ Richard Hughes wrote f A High Wind in Monday programme had a special brand from Here, it appears, folk arc still full of beans, Jamaica,’ Compton Mackenzie wrote 10.0 to 10.30. ‘ Monday Gloom-Chasers.’ (What perhaps because this station sends out no ‘Gallipoli Memories.’ a name for a cocktail of special potency !) WAAM call to Rise and Shine at 7.0 a.m. Anyway, is among the most sickeningly cheerful of stations at midnight a solid hour is given to ‘ Gloom- All these have written for our Christmas From 7.0 to 8.0 is * Sunrise Hour ’; at 8.0 comes Chasers * ; at 1.0 dance music begins ; and at Number. * Uncle Zcke ’ (whose very name is like a dig in 2.0 there are ‘ Coffee-Testers ’—whatever they December 13,-1929. RADIO TIMES 781

Germany is of her storied past. Here, in England, much as we may try to cheat ourselves CHRISTMAS-LAND about it, the spirit of Christmas lives more in our hooks than in our lives ; but in Germany ROBIN HEY where, despite all the inroads of sophistication, on Germany, the country of fairy - tales, the people are still not afraid of being senti­ carved houses, and singing wood - cutters in the forests. mental, there is no need to turn to literature to recapture the spirit of this best festival of E speak of Germany as if it were a single back into days far removed from the hurry and all the year. country, in the sense that England glitter of to-day. The best time to see them, The ritual of Christmas, in Germany, begins W is a single country, or Spain, or even of course, is on the occasion of some festival— on Christmas Eve. Then you will see the market, France. Whereas, of course, it is many countries as when, on May morning, the villagers file clustering under the church, busier even than unified by a common spirit. In the north, the out of the church, following the priest as he goes usual, its booths filled with dainties, its stalls grey Baltic colours it; in the south, the forth to bless the coming crops. Then, in this heaped with great piles of Christmas trees— blue-green slopes of the pines. West, the Freiburg of which I have written, early in the the tops of Tannenbaume cut in the forest beyond predominating colour is the smoky skies of the morning you may see the town flocking with the town—and leisurely hordes of chattering Ruhrgebict; east, the country merges into folk in from the hills; women who have people everywhere. Darkness comes and the the silver-birch landscape of Poland. cycled for miles, bright streamers flying from throng disperses ; but many, before they go One bond, however, serves to unite these their tiny straw hats, their gay stomachers home, will enter the church to pray or diversities : a zealous adoration of dcr Vatcrland. shining in the sun, while they smooth down to sit awhile under the shadowy nave—the Few nations have as passionate a love for their their embroidered aprons as they pedal along ; spirit of the festival already alight in their country' (by which I mean the landscape itself, and men swinging through the streets to the simple hearts. as well as the history that is bound up with it) cathedral, their twinkling eyes hidden under Then let us look into one of the homes. In as the Germans. Homeland—die Schone the wide brim of their black hats, and their a room where no one may enter until permission Heimat—is a word that springs to a German’s short coats flapping open to show the flower- is given, stands the Christbaum. The master lips on the slightest provocation. It reveals a sewn waistcoats beneath, of the house is busy lighting it; the candles deep consciousness of the beauty of the land Or perhaps it is a wedding. By Ripoldsau, reveal the tinsel and the gauds ; and on the very wherein the German lot has fallen. in the mid-forest, I _The Frenchman prefers the sophistication of have followed a wed- his towns to all the beauty of his poplar- ding procession five threaded countryside. The Englishman in- kilometres through the dulges his love of the country to the extent of a hills to the church, week-end cottage. And the Spaniard takes his The band ; the bride countryside more or less for granted. But the and the bridesmaids, German pours into the country on every possible with headgear of shining occasion, admiring it, singing about it, learning beads (like nothing so every inch of it. I have stayed in towns where, much as fantastic wed- to sleep in a room overlooking the road to the ding-cakes); the soberly railway station, is to be awakened on a Sunday clad bridegroom and his

‘Germany’—the next National Programme—will be broadcast on Thursday next at 9.35 p.m. morning (even before the dawn) by the cease­ relatives, all in their less tramp of an army of feet beneath the shiningest best—shawls window—men and women all making for the and streamers and country. waistcoats that have Now' for me there is one part of Germany often been handed down where, above all others, this fine spirit most through generations; easily show's itself. I mean the Black Forest. and, in front of all, two There, in the people and in the place, I somehow tiny pine-tree-tops, de­ find it more possible to grasp what Germany corated with the spun- SOUTHERN GERMANY AT CHRISTMAS-TIME. means and what the German stands for in this white of eggs jind intensely variegated world. prinked with red berries A gaily-carved farm-house under the shadow of the snow-covered Alps. That Germany is dotted all over with castles and borne by two boys. and cathedrals of rare architectural dignity is Sec how it is, too, with one of the few' facts that every Englishman the houses. The Schzcarzzualdhaus, with its tip stands a silver-dusted angel, the Star of Peace knows of that country. Well, there arc grander glinting roofs of grey pine-tiles, its carved in her hands. The signal is given and the cathedrals than that of Freiburg, whose laced, verandahs, its gardens, its bunches of golden family enters. Vater reads from the Bible the red-stone spire pricks the green hills of the maize hung under the eaves to dry, and its bright story that never stales. ’There are carols; and Black Forest; and I know of far finer castles red eiderdowns hung from the windows to air— afterwards, the giving of presents from the than the sad ruin w'hich looks dow»n upon the like the petals of some giant geranium—has heap under the lighted tree. And then, as gay Miinslerplatz there; but I know' of no been made familiar to us ail in our illustrated the candles burn low, comes the most dramatic city—not even old Niirnberg itself—that en­ nursery editions of Grimm’s fairy-tales. In moment of all. One by one the flames have shrines so completely its rich German ancestry them wfe see how’ the mediaeval German farmer guttered out, singeing the scented pine- nor any that show's the visitor so splendidly (craftsman as wrell as farmer) built with a nice needles as they die. In the hush everyone how' the bright heritage of the past, in Germany, eye on the beauty of true utility. watches. Now’ there arc only a few’ candles has never been trampled on and scorned. And out in the woods and fields it is the burning ; now there is only one ; and deeper 4' For Germany is constantly reminding one, same tale of continuing centuries, the same tale the shadows grow’ and lovelier, from the particularly in the country, of its past—and of a rich past living vividly on into the present. pine-branches below, the wavering spears thrust especially of its mediaeval past. The remotest On the hill-slopes the herds sit within sound pf fantastically out far over the walls/ In that farms, perched on the highest ledges of the the protecting tinkle of the cow'-bclls. The moment, a Pagan and a Christian adoration hills, are fitted with electric light, and con­ ripe ears of the corn are still laid under the mingle in those German hearts. nected w'ith the towns by telephone; and ancient sickle. The fields themselves, more Yes, Germany is the most sentimental of all twentieth-century amenities abound in the most often than not, are still worked in the old three- countries that f know'. Perhaps it is because, unlikely places ; but for all that, wherever you field system. And out in the forests w'here, at heart, its people are the simplest. For true turn, something will serve to remind you that betw’een the tall boles of the pine trees, the sentiment is a proper obedience to our most the present is only a link in a long chain stretch­ sunlight falls in warm yellow shafts, still the native feelings. Such an abandonment is rarely ing back into the past. See howT it is, for instance, w'ood-cutter plies his craft in the same im­ met with today, because, more and more, men in the matter of clothes. A day and half’s memorial fashion, barking the logs with the old grow afraid to trust their emotions. Yet it is journey from London will take you into the cunning, sliding the trimmed trunks dow’n the just this trust that makes Germany what she heart of the Schzuarzzvald, but the costumes steep clearings as in days far back. is, a country still mightily true to its ancient you will find w'orn there—worn, too, with a Perhaps it is the season of Christmas, how- heritage, a country where poetry still lives in quite unselfconscious case—will carry you ever, that reveals most gloriously how' tenacious everyday life. W' 782 RADIO TIMES December 13, 1929.

SAMUEL PEPYS, LISTENER By R. M. Freeman f. • Nov, 19.—This night at the Club a great Herein, from sad rccollectiouns of Pall when she clings round my neck for a moment most des­ argument concerning Wireless, whether it have learnt musick, did confess full sympathy with perately. Which I bore contentably enough, been, in good truth, a fnend and not rather an the Coln. Went on, moreover, to answer Wix being still personable for her yearcs and the feel enemy to the advancement of musick among us. that the mass of old-time piano-practiscrs, of her beating heart against me not ill-pleasing. Brought on by Mr. Wix, who, while he allows especially she-practiscrs, were mere slaves to the But Lord ! How I wisht it had been Hannah ! it some merits for fetching to our earcs much piano, with noc musick in them, and did but Playing round, Squillinger do still keep good musick that sh'1 otherwise never reach practise it because they were made to. So if wire­ Hannah, leaving Madam to me ; which is, I sup­ them, do maintain these to be overbalanced by less have choakcd them off it, this is the greatest pose, the modish thing, not to partner husbands the demerits—to wit its having changed us all possible kindness both to them and to us. Where­ with wives. Nevertheless, cannot but think his W- into mere listeners of musick, instead of prac­ as, in respect of the true musickal practiscrs, marked mashings of Hannah be very base dealing tises of it; in particular, the rising gcncratioun Wireless, so far from choaking them off prac­ in a married man, and pray from my heart that that • have, for the most part, now given up tising, do but inspire and aid them to practise no mischief come of it. learning musick alltogcthcr, and placing sole yet more knowledgeably. Hence may be likened * Nov. 21.—My wife a-bed this day of a snuffley dependence on gramophones and wireless, to lawn-sand, that do kill the dandylions and the rheum. So carried the portable sett up to her that unable themselves to spell out eeven the simplest plaintains, but encourages the grass. Which, for she may divert herself therewith. This shall, pieces on the piano. Whereby, says he, do miss all myself having made it, methinks a good image. I believe, make her better diversioun than my that inner understanding of the art, which comes Nov. 20.—A fair sunny day after the late rains- company; moreover cannot give the portable of practice onelic. Hereupon Col11 Mapperley Foaning Squillinger, he bids me golphing to sett her snuffles as she might do me. to make us all laugh by most vehemently praising Selsdon, having, says he, Hannah with them, Nov. 22.—Comes Mr". Pyc the gray lady to God for this—meaning piano-practising’s being and she and Madam wJ fain join us in mixt tapp me for mine annual donatioun (5s.) to snuffed out; he having 4 daughters that, upp to 4somc. Whereto I agreeing, presently we away Sunday-school prize-giving. Lacking silver, a few years since, were all most persistent piano- in the Bentley, Hannah in front with Squillinger, I handed her 10s., meaning to ask change, but is practiscrs and (using his own words) neare drove Madam behind with me. A most narrow squcke quick to jump in first with grateful thanks for him dotty by their eternal! practisings of exer­ we had, just this side Sanderstedd Hill, by a little mine encrcascd generosity. So, allbcit seeing cises, scales, arpeggios and other maddening fool of a Scalyham that runs out of a gate; clearly enough through her purposcfull mistake, tiddlety-tumtcty devilries; but now, thanks to whereby Squillinger, swerving to cleare it, has sooner than the unpleasantness of withstanding gramophones and broadcasting, hath a most our neare wheels on to the footway and onclie madam herein, I did let her goe. But to resolve blessed peace from these, by comparison with to miss the wall, a most forbidding flint wall, by I will have a warier eye in future to gray ladies which even 4 Sonnie Boy * or 4 Ole Man River ’ about 1 inch. As it is, all but oversets us, throw­ and all other such notoriously unconscionable be very balm in Gilead to his tortured earcs. ing Madam upon me, and in her suddein panick tapsters.

CHRISTMAS PROGRAMMES AND CHRISTMAS READING

The following Authors and Broadcasters contribute to the Christmas Number of : ‘The Radio Times,’ on Sale next Friday, December 20, price 6d. ! J. B. PRIESTLEY A. J. ALAN DENIS MACKAIL I The author of 4 The Good Companions,’4 best It is almost literally easier to draw blood from In 4 Not Once a Year,’ Denis Mackail gives j j seller * of 1929, tells the story of a Yorkshire a stone than to persuade 4 A. J. A.’ to write us a story of humorous charm, such as we j j Christmas in the neighbourhood of Brudders- down a story. But we have done it! His expect from the author of 4 Hugo the Sleuth ’ ! Gord, the town made famous in his novel. story is entitled 4 The Tale of Four Cocktails.’ and 4 The Flower Show*.’ I i REBECCA WEST G. G- COULTON COMPTON MACKENZIE! j Rebecca West enjoys one of the most remark- One of the year’s most popular series of talks Compton Mackenzie, in his studies of London, j \ able literary reputations of the day. Her was given by Dr. Coulton. He knows all has been compared with Charles Dickens, j j Christmas article is as witty and provocative about the Middle Ages—and here writes His Christmas Story, 4 The Fairy God- j as are all her too occasional writings. delightfully about Christmas in merrie daughter,’ has the true 4 Dickensian ’ touch. \ ■ England. ! ; : : 1 HAROLD NICOLSON R. M* FREEMAN HARRY GRAHAM Wc know Mr. Nicolson as novelist, bio­ Those who follow the adventures of the now Listeners tell us how much they enjoy j grapher and author of 4 Some People.’ His famous 4 Samuel Pepys, Listener,’ will rejoice Captain Graham’s light verses in The Radio j essay in the Christmas Number is one of to learn that a page-length Christmas excerpt Times. This time he has written an authorita- : I the best things he has yet given us. from the Diary appears in next week’s issue. tive article on 4 How to Pick Mistletoe.’ i ! : PETER WARLOCK HUMBERT WOLFE RICHARD HUGHES ! : A Christmas Number would not be complete Last Christmas we had the pleasure of With ‘A High Wind in Jamaica,’ Richard j s without a Carol. Our Carol has been com­ publishing 4 Christmas Trees,’ a poem by Hughes rivals J. B. Priestley as the year’s most j ! posed by Peter Warlock, one of the most Humbert Wolfe. Mr. Wolfe has again con­ successful writer. ITis fairy tale in the Christ- j brilliant of our younger musicians. tributed to our Christmas Number. mas Number will enchant young and old. • i : : ! L. C. CROCOMBE FRANK KENDON TOMMY HANDLEY j : I We venerate Mr. Crocombe as the very first Frank Kendon has contributed in 1929 Author as well as comedian. Tommy Handley \ editor of The Radio Times. He contributes several outstanding articles to our columns. writes all the material which he broadcasts. ! \ He also writes for The Radio Times. (See his : i characteristic reminiscences of the 4 Orange The Christmas Number sees him in another i Box Age * of broadcasting. capacity as a poet of distinction. amusing article in next week’s issue.) \ i i i EIQHT - PAQE SUPPLEMENT OF PICTURES OF BROADCASTINQ i 1 A special feature of the Christmas Number is an eight-page photogravure supplement of Etchings of Broadcasting Subjects by artists of the younger j school, including Randolph Schwabe, Ian Strang, Bayliss Allen, Michael Ross, Sybil Andrews, Rosa Hope and J. B. Saotcr. : : The Christmas Number (on sale Friday, December 20, price 6d.) is illustrated throughout by Hagedom, Arthur Watts, Eric Fraser, Rex j Whistler, John Austen, Patrick Bellew, Fouet, F. W. Purvis, Illingworth, George Morrow, Bert Thomas, Oldham, Althea Willoughby, etc., etc. 0

December 13, 1929. RADIO TIMES 783

TWO EVENINGS ON ENCHANTED GROUND W. R- Anderson tells the stoiy of the Fairy Opera Konigskinder (Royal Children) by Humperdinck, which is to be broadcast on Monday (5 GB) and Wednesday evenings.

F Humperdinck could come back to us he shall hear the strain more than once again]. She are insulted, and drive the presumptuous upstarts would, without doubt, be a beloved asks what is a king, and if he is one. They like each away. Only the child is left weeping, because she I Children’s Hour Uncle, one who would other, and she starts to run off with him, but to her knows, with the second-sight of childhood, that the tell the youngsters glorious fairy tales about dismay the witch’s spell holds her fast. The lad people have indeed thrust out their king and queen. thinks her heart has ifailcd her; he i-ushes away, witches and lovely enchanted princesses, and leaving her weeping for her lost chance of happiness. ACT in. who could, on occasion, play uncle to the The witch comes back and hears that her cap­ grown-ups, too, yarning of the grand days at tive has seen a man. She is in the midst of storming The prelude gives us The Fiddler’s Last Song,’ Bayreuth, half a century ago now, when he was with rage when a new voice is heard—that of a preceded by some impassioned, sad music in Wagner’s adjutant, and helped the great man to fiddler (baritone) playing and singing a gay nonsense- which we may picture the wintry scene about the forest hut, where the fiddler has established himelf. stage Parsifal; tales, too, of his travels in song [‘ Three fools went out ’]. He is leading a wood­ cutter (bass) and a broom-maker (tenor) in search of It seems that the townspeople, in their spite, tor­ Italy, France, and Spain, as prizeman of the tured him and burnt the witch. In wintry solitude German academies. We should find him a genial, a king for the people of Hellabrunn. Of these am­ bassadors, two are inclined to fear and kow-tow to he awaits the outcast kingly children: but they ever-young uncle, and a clever fellow, too, for the witch, but the fiddler is a better fellow, and faces do not come, and he grows old. did he not achieve the fine feat of learning all her boldly, with the demand that she tell them We hear him playing his fiddle. The broom-maker = that Wagner had to teach, and yet writing music where they shall find a king. She answers cryptically arrives, with his daughter, and the woodcutter, with of his own that was not Wagner-and-water ?—a that they will know tomorrow, at the feast-day, for some of his children. The fiddler warmly welcomes whoever is the first to enter the town, whatever he the little girl who trusted the king [‘Only thou feat that very few men of his time could equal. wilt be welcome ’]. The visitors have come to We all know and hold in affection Hansel and may look like, will be the king. The tim d pair clear off, but the fiddler stays. He has determined tell him that he is forgiven, and the children Gretel, and, like plead with him to the children after to set free the goose-girl. He calls to her to help him find the king’s son. But the witch tries to put a spoke return to the town a good story, have in his wheel [‘ The king’s own son ’]. The fiddler [‘ O dearest fiddler’]. wanted more. sticks to it: he assures the maiden that her father But he is bitter Now we have the and mother were royal—he knew them well. She is against his native chance to spend breathless with delight at the news My shame place and is not n affected by the another evening now is over ’]. Her faith frees her from the evil power, and she flees followed by the witch’s curses. b r o o m-m a k e r ’ s in Humperdinck’s appeal [‘ Think well, friendly company fiddler ’] ; but the —a chance too ACT II. little child’s plead­ good to miss. The prelude, in youthful freshness, suggests the ing [‘ We’re cer­

I feast-day at Hellabrunn, and the dancing joy of the tain ’] moves him m ACT I. children. We arc in the public square. A stable- and he promises a We find at once maid (contralto) and an innkeeper’s daughter that if they will how much better (mezzo - soprano) arc chattering and quarrelling. wait until May he it is sometimes to The king’s son appears, and tells the innkeeper’s will go wih them to listen by wireless daughter that he is sad. She knows no cure better seek the outcast and use our im­ than good food—-or else a little love, a little kiss. king and queen It] agination, foi Hum­ He dreams only of his lovely mountain maid. V o thou dear perdinck asks not The town puss shows her claws, before leav­ innocent ’]. 1 mi only for the easily- ing him in disgust. He muses alone f‘ O it is The king’s son provided woodland hard to beg ’], and his courage flags, to be roused enters, amid the / glade and witch’s again as he finds the torn fragments of the wreath falling snow, carry­ % hut, but for a live the goose-girl wore—fragments which he had ing the goose-girl, tom-cat, a raven, treasured but almost forgotten. (Here are the droop­ who is ill (plaintive P twelve wild geese, ing and rising thirds—compare, by the way, Wag- wood-wind music and a turtle-dove to , ner’s love-thirds—which we heard in Act 1, when heralds them). They fly cooing out of its nest. This is worse than Wagner’s the wreath of flowers, their love-token, was men­ recognize the hut and her dear linden-tree, now beasts. Pity the poor stage-manager ! Another tioned.) bare and lonely. He asks at the hut for food, but benefit of fireside opera-going lies here : the goose- The lad cheers up, and determines to work for the wood-cutter, poking his head out for an instant, girl on the stage, being a prima donna, would his living.. refuses it. They go and sit on the hillside, and the probably look like one. Tonight we can picture her Now a crowd gathers. Two gate-keepers (bari­ king’s son recalls their hopes and disappointments for ourselves, from the singer’s vocal suggestions. tones) marshal the crowd, lads and maidens sing, (‘ The frost had bitten ’j. The goose-girl reminds The prelude to the first act is entitled The King's bagpipes strike up a dance. As it is going on the him of their happy meeting, and their love, still Son, so we get a good idea of the hero straight away. inn-keeper (bass) is accosted by the king’s son, who warm, animates them again. She sings to cheer Note the opening phrase : we shall hear it the asks for a job, and is offered that of swine-herd. him [‘ Far from his kingdom ’], and falls exhausted. moment the youth appears. Lowly as it is, he accepts, musing on this odd turn To get aid for her he takes the crown from his We are to know that the witch (contralto) has in his fortunes [‘ It is hard, but I’ll hold to my word. bundle, to pay for food ; she begs him not to baiter cast a spell upon a maiden (soprano), whom she has Swine I’ll herd ! ’]. it, but he breaks it in pieces and runs to the hut made to work for her, tending her geese. The There is an interlude by the thirteen children with the fragments. poor girl is often beaten, and lives in unhappy of the broom-maker, one of whom (soprano) The two in the hut have found a loaf, which they loneliness in the witch’s darksome hut in the woods. teaches the king’s son to play ‘ Ring-a-ring-a-roses.’ barter for part of the kingly crown. The wanderers We hear the witch finding fault with her, and The crowd hails the city councillors, in all their share the food. Alas, it is the poisoned loaf that the grumbling because she prefers the sun and air to the glory. The senior councillor (baritone) starts to tell witch had prepared, and hidden away ! dank depths of the forest and the stark peaks where about sending the deputation to consult the witch, Now they muse on the happy days when they first , evil is plotted. Yet the goose-girl must seek a little but the people soon tire of his prosiness, and call met, and the hopes they once had, and still hold. happiness among her flowers, if she cannot go into on the wood-cutter, who gives them her prediction— They fall asleep. The snow descends and covers them. the world. She asks the witch about herself (she that when the noonday bells ring, the king shall The fiddler and the child enter, and the pair 1 one day saw hex face in the well, and knew it was appear. The king’s son wonders if this is his hour. in the hut show their gold. The fiddler horrified, fceaut'ful). The witch only scolds, and sets her to Shall he declare himself royal ? But will they believe sees that it is a piece of the crown. He calls: ’ kneading bread, into which a spell is to be worked. him, ragged as he is ? No, they show that they expect ‘ Kinglv chi’dren ! Kingly children ! ’ but there is She won’t get away, the old harridan tells her. an obedient puppet, and he shows them that he only a faint echo from the hill. The dove leads The maiden opens her heart to the lime-tree in scorns their petty ideas. Excitement works up, the them towards the linden-tree, and a sad sight is wistfulness [' O lovely linden ’—note the sad little whole crowd going at it with jibes and laughter revealed : the lovers’ sleep has passed into death. chromatic droop, which recurs at ‘Ah, now I’m when—the first bell of noon rings, and all The fiddler laments the outcasts’ fate while the Ioane ’]. She admires herself in the water. are still, awaiting the promised coming of their children, awed, creep around, and we hear the music You can almost guess what happens now— ruler. The king’s son has a vision of what may which the prelude first sounded. The bodies are the king’s son (tenor) appears, the music giving us a be about to happen, and as the twelfth stroke laid on a bier of pine branches and the fidd'er covers hint beforehand of his adventurous horn-theme. rings out his vision is realized, for the lovely them with the king’s cloak, placing the broken crown He has ‘ big, burning eyes.’ In the notes of the maiden enters the city, attended by her flock of upon it. He sings their e!egv—‘ A kmgly grave,’ introduction, he bids her * Goodday,’ and they have geese and by the fiddler My own dear youth,’ she and tells them that when he has sung their last song, a talk together. He muses on her beauty [‘ Arc you sings]. The king’s son hails her as' his queen, but on the rock whereon they shall rest, he will cast as lovely as you seem ? ’—this and ‘ A boy like me/ the folk find in her only a tattered goose-girl—all awav his fiddle, that it may he with them for ever; with ‘ Wilt thou go Maying ? ’ contain some of his but two of them, the fiddler, who sees further than and'all shall spread the story of their death, so that most characteristic music. Note the theme at her other people, and the child who played with the thev will live in the hearts of loving children. The wind ! It has blown my wreath away. We king’s son, and who trusts him. The councilors \V. R. Anderson. <1 784 RADIO TIMES December 13, 1920. 9 5GB Calling !

HANDEL’S c MESSIAH ’ FROM BIRMINGHAM. Festival Choral Society Performance at Town Hall—Studio Concerts for Christmas Day—Come to the Cabaret— Carols at the Central Hall—An Appeal for the Wounded—A Neapolitan Hour. The Christmas Oratorio. The Sunday Before Christmas. * Napoli, Napoli ! * HE safest prediction regarding the A SERVICE framed to accord with the N such an evening as has occurred more season’s programme of any of the AA spirit of the Sunday next before Christ- than once recently, with a south­ T leading English choral societies, in any ^ mas will be heard from the Central O west gale rattling your roof-tiles and year, is that they will perform Handel’s oratorio Hall, Birmingham, on the evening of December flinging pailfuls of rain at your window-panes, Messiah during Christmastide. Indeed it is 22. The service, which includes carols and you may particularly appreciate an opportunity probable that more than one of the older- other music proper to the season, will be con­ of ensconcing your physical body snugly in the established among the societies were founded ducted by the Rev. E. Benson Perkins, Superin­ chimney corner and allowing the more mobile expressly for that purpose. It is remarkable tendent of the Wesleyan Methodist’s Birming­ rest of you to project itself, via ether, to the sun­ that the musical work which has continued to ham Mission, one of- the best-known Free bathed shores of the Mediterranean. There, draw crowded audiences in this country for Church ministers in the Midlands. The music by the Bay of Naples, you may spend an hour, something like a hundred and seventy-five will be under the direction of Mr. M. L. Wolsten- basking and dreaming within sight of Capri, years—which must easily be a record—should holm, Organist and Choir Master at the Central of Sorrento, or of Vesuvius, or indeed, if your have taken, I believe, less than a month to Hall. taste so incline you, taming the elusive spaghetti compose. Even then Handel to the rhythm of a taran­ seems to have turned his tella in a cabaret, This attention to composing oratorios pleasure trip starts at 8 p.m. on only after the reception accorded Christmas Eve, and will be per­ to his operatic works had proved sonally conducted by Signor disappointing. Messiah will be Giuseppe Luigi, with Signor . given by the Birmingham Festi­ Francesco Cantelli as leader. val Choral Society on the even­ At least, that is the form in ing of Thursday, December 26, which they will appear to your and the performance will be Southward-soaring spirit. The relayed from the Town Hall, programme page of The Radio beginning at 7 o’clock. Dr. Times, on the other hand, will Adrian Boult is conducting, call them respectively Joseph and the soloists are Stiles-Alien Lewis and Frank Cantell, and (soprano), Daisy Neal (con­ will offer you the somewhat tralto), Charles Hedges (tenor), bald announcement that the and Keith Falkner (baritone). Birmingham Studio Augmented During the interval Fred Dun- Orchestra—no, I’m not giving nill will give a short recital on you the Italian for that—is the organ of Sr. Phillip’s Cathe­ broadcasting ‘ A Neapolitan dral at Birmingham. Hour,’ with Herbert Thorpe (tenor) and Foster Richardson On Christmas Day. (bass) as singers. CONCERT of Light With the Almonds and Raisins. Music will be broadcast HEERFUL music, dis­ A by the Birmingham coursed by a good band, Studio Orchestra, under Joseph C should accord excellently Lewis, in the early evening of E.y.A. with the sense of comfortable Christmas Day. The programme ‘SEE NAPLES AND DIE!* repletion and universal good-will contains such favourites as a The old proverb seems hardly an exaggeration when one sees the Bay of Naples proper to the afternoon of selection from Lilac Time, the in all its beauty3 with Vesuvius beyond. Listeners to 5GB will be able (if they Christmas Day. Think of listen­ greatest of Viennese waltzes— have imagination enough) to spend an hour in Naples on Christmas Eve. ing to your favourite tunes from Beautifid Bine Danube, and The Mikado, for example, while some of W Ii. Squire’s well- you ply the nut-crackers and make known songs. In addition to the orchestral Wounded Soldiers. your fingers sticky with yet another crystallized music, there will be songs by Parry Jones (tenor), greengage, while the aroma of pine-logs and and Henry Bentley will play the violoncello. N the days, not so many years since, when tangerines fills the cozy room. Then, too, the Later the same evening the Studio almost every district in Britain contained mood Qf Simon the Cellarer, sung in a rolling Orchestra, augmented, will give another concert, I at least one large school or country house bass, will surely harmonize with your own mood, in which Parry Jones again appears. doing temporary duty as a military hospital, the whether you arc watching the firelight, making daily sight of bright blue uniforms with red ties rubies in a decanter of port, or whether ‘ yours 4’ Au Lapin Qui Saute. afforded a constant reminder, if any were needed, js a ginger-wine, guaranteed non-excisable. HEN all is said and done, the chief to the friendly public of the obligation, which The band which will play to you is one which amusement for English and American was often a pleasure, of cheering up and enter- js well-known to listeners, the Metropolitan W visitors to Continental cities usually taining these lads who had suffered in 4 doing Works Band from Saltley. The bass singer is takes the form of a visit to a music-hall or their bit.’ Artists gave their services freely, George Guy, also of Birmingham. Add the cabaret, one of those exotic haunts where the dramatic and concert parties were formed music and humour inseparable from Ronald performing talent is a veritable League of everywhere, and of gifts in cash and in kind Gourley and, I think, you will look forward Nations. It is only in such a spot that one can there was no lack. How long ago all that seems to Christmas afternoon with confidence, get the real Bohemian atmosphere (in both now ! Something like a shock, therefore, senses !) and that reckless abandon in which is induced by the reminder that there are still, Other Concerts. normally staid Britons make a point of revelling as 1929 closes, wounded soldiers needing the A CONCERT by the Birmingham Police —an abandon the evidence of which they glory comfort, cheer, and entertainment which their Band appears among [the arrangements in flaunting before their fellow-villagers when fellow-citizens so readily gave them eleven L A. for Monday evening, December 23. they return home, their wallets empty, years and more ago. Indeed, though their In the course of this programme listeners will wearing things like berets. That such risque number is less, the need of those who remain be entertained by Ben Lawes. atmosphere should be attempted in the austere ‘ wounded soldiers ’ is even greater today than On Saturday evening, December 28, listeners purlieus of Broad Street may shock some of our it was when their heroism was fresh in the will hear a Symphony Concert trom the Bir- more genteel listeners, but this is nevertheless public mind. How real the requirement still mingham Studio. The artists are the Birming- to be so, for on Christmas Eve Birmingham is is will be brought home to listeners on Sunday ham Studio Augmented Orchestra and L* taking its audience to Le Cabaret au Lapin Qui evening, December 22, by the Right Honourable Shepherd Munn (pianist). Joseph Lewis Saute, where a varied bill of artistic fare will be the Lord Leigh, J.P., Lord-Leiutennnt of will conduct the performance. presented, the menu beingprepared by John Watt. Warwickshire. 4 MERCIAN.’ 1. j December 13, 1929. RADIO TIMES 785

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A. C. Cossor, Ltd., Highbury Grove, London. N.5 ©ssorm 2515 786 RADIO TIMES December 13, 1929. 345 SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15 9-5 THE WIRELESS A CONCERT 2LO LONDON & 5XX DAVENTRY MILITARY FROM 842 kc/s. (356.3 m.) BAND 193 kc/s (1,554-4 m.) HASTINGS Hubert Eisdell 10.30 a.m. (Daventry only) Time Signal, Green­ Cradlo Song ...... -----Bax appearance in London I10 adds to his already wich ; Weather Forecast enviable reputation. Go, lovely Roso ...... \Quilter (For 3.0 to 3.30 Programme sec opposite page) Fill a gloss with golden wino ) Overture, ‘ Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna * Suppi 3.45-5.15 A MILITARY BAND CONCERT Band Barcorollo, * A Night in Lisbon . .Saint-Saens Four Pieces for Strings from tho Suite in D Bach Olive Kavann (Contralto) Czardas (Hungarian Dance) from * Ritter Pasman ’ Gavotte ; Bourroo ; Air ; Giguo Hubert Eisdell (Tenor) Johann Strauss George Baker (Baritone) Sccna, * Hiawatha’s Vision ’ (* Hiawatha’s Depar­ The Wireless Military Band (For 5.15 to 8.45 Programmes see opposite page) ture ’) Col cridge - 2 'ay lor Conducted by B. Walton O’Donnell 8.45 The Week’s Good Cause Coleridge-Taylor's trilogy The Song oj Hiawatha Festival March, ' Tannlitiuser ’ Wagner iie ational ospital Appeal on behalf of T N H comes to an end on a note of sadness which has Olive Kavann for Nervous Diseases, Queen Square (for yet something of bright hope mingled with it. Morning Hymn ...... Hcnschcl the Relief and Cure of Diseases of the Nervous The third part is called ‘ Hiawatha’s Departure,* The Star...... ,. Itogcrs System, including Paralysis and Epilepsy), by Sir and before he goes, ho tells his peoplo that one I hear a Thrush at Eve...... Cadman Johnston Forbes-Robertson day tho Palefaco will take their country from them. Besides the main Hospital in Queen Square, with The prophecy is first mado by Eigoo. Listeners Band its 195 beds, there are a Convalescent Home at will remember that ho is the great boaster; at Fairy Suite, ’ The Pixies *...... Dunliill East Finchley, with 36 beds, and a Hospital for tho Wedding Feast, tho first part of tho story, The Procession ; Moonbeam Fairy ; Gnomes’ Discharged Soldiers and Sailors, of about tlio ho ontertains tho guests by ‘ his immeasurable Dance; In the Heart of the Forest; Galopade same size, at Claphara Park. The Hospital is the falsehoods.’ Now, when he tells his people that Dunhill, a distinguished former pupil of the Roya* oldest and largest hospital of its kind and re- in his wanderings ho has seen a great canoo with a College of Music in Lon­ hundred warriors, all with don, where lie held a white faces, they listen as Composition Scholarship, though it were only one earned the gratitudo of more of his wild iraagin- many of his fellow coun­ ings, and laugh at his story. trymen by a series of But Hiawatha warns them chamber music concerts not to scoff. Ho knows that which he ran for several all Eigoo tells them is years. Their special object true; he himself has seen' was to bring forward music it in a vision. of young native composers Orchestra ; which, although already Suite, * Neapolitan Scenes * performed, was in danger Massenet of being forgotten. His The Dance; tho Pro-’ own most important cession; tho Extempori­ works, apart from some zer ; tho Fete distinguished chamber Andante cantabile (String music and many beautiful Quartet in D) songs, are a set of varia­ Tchaikovsky tions on an original theme, Jutish Medley (based on dedicated to tho memory Danish Folk Songs) of Sir Hubert Parry, and Percy Grainger a Symphony. The former Massenet, more than one of was played in 1922 at tho whoso operas have already Gloucester Festival, and been broadcast, was par­ the latter a year later ticularly successful in U. Seymiur Cousciu. at Bournemouth. It ba9 THE WHITE ROCK PAVILION, HASTINGS, catching and embodying in also been heard abroad. from which a concert will be relayed by London and Daventry tonight at 9.5. his music something of tho Dunhill gained a Carnegie character of tho scones Award in 1925 for his which inspired it. He one-act Opera, The Enchanted Garden, although quires £100 per day for maintenance. Tho was one of tlio illustrious French musicians tho opera lias not so far been adequately diseases treated include brain and spinal tumours, who won the Prix do Rome, the highest award presented. neuralgia, neurasthenia, neuritis, sciatica, and which the Paris Conservatoire gives its students, He has done notable work in teaching at Eton St. Vitus’s Dance. Ninety pensions are awarded and one which entails a period of study in Italy. and elsewhere; lie has been an examiner at tho to incurable sufferers. It was no doubt some recollection of his stay there Royal College of Music and is enthusiastic in tlio Donations, etc., should bo sent to tho Treasurer, which gave him tho. idea for this bright and Music Competition Festival movement. Many National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Queen spariding Suite. Tho names of its four move­ of his Cantatas, operettas, and smaller pieces for Square, London, W.C. ments can very well speak for themselves, but as young people are valuable from the educational listeners can hear, the music does indeed bring point of view, and he is the author of an important 8.50 ‘The News’ with it something of the gay and sunny South. book on chamber music. Weather Forecast, General News Bulletin ; Enthusiast though lie is for the folk music of tlio This Fairy Suite is not the kind of music which Local News (Daventry only), Shipping Forecast Mother Country, Percy Grainger is anything but needs any explanation for its enjoyment; the A CONCERT narrow-minded in his choice of subjects. He has names of the several movements are all the 9-5 often shown how wido his interests aro and how guidance which listeners need. By the Hastings Municipal Orchestra readily ho can adapt his methods to the idiom and Conducted by Basil Cameron Hubert Eisdell tradition , of other lands. This orchestral piece, Ces airs joyeux (These joyous airs) (‘L’Enfant Relayed from White Rock Pavilion, Hastings based on Danish folk tunes, should havo as much chanco of becoming popular as his settings of Prodigue.’) (‘ The Prodigal Son ’). Debussy Orchestral music in quite a number of the English Nell . .Faurc holiday resorts is steadily assuming a greater English folk music have already proved them­ selves to bo. Band importance. Not only are tlio performances improving out of all recognition, but the pro­ Denmark is a country of whose native music Scherzo (Symphony, ‘ From the New World ’) grammes show a rapidly rising standard of quality, wo know but little in Britain, rich though it Dvorak and big works aro constantly given, as well as is in folk tunes of a simple and melodious Olive Kavann new music which has not yet had a chance of ordor. Big Lady Moon .., Coleridge-Taylor becoming popular, with a regularity which augurs George Baker Ships of Arcady ...... Head well for English music as a whole. This state Song,4 The Devout Lover *. • Maud Valerio White When Love is kind ...... arr. A. L. of matters is very largely duo to tho enthusiasm and ability of the conductors, among whom Basil Orchestra Band Cameron is one of tho most onterprising. And Praeludium ...... Jdrnefelt Suite from tho Ballet, ‘ Les Erinnyes * (‘ Tho whenever opportunity offers, I10 makes it clear Tone Poem, ‘Finlandia Sibelius Furies ’) .. Massenet : • 1 .•;! •' to the much wider audience which broadcasting Epilogue Danse Grecque (Greek Dance); La Troyenne affords, that he has a real command of his job, IO.30 regrettant sa Patrio (Tho Trojan Woman and is one of those under whoso guidance an ‘ Lord, What is'Man mourning for her Country); Finale orchestra gives of its very best. With ovory ‘Chivalry* 9Rc$U in iWWHBUiiJ.

December 13, 1929. RADIO TIMES 787 3.° THE DAY OF REST 5-15 THIS WEEK’S A SERVICE Sunday’s Special Programmes BACH From 2LO London and 5XX Daventry. FOR CANTATA CHILDREN

3.0-3.30 CHURCH CANTATA (No. IV.—Du ft (Tenor, Hass) : No. 125)—BACH An everlasting light tho Lord unto the world * hath given. ‘ Mix Fried1 und Freud1 icn faur1 And, hcark'ning, mankind ail hath heard dahin 1 On earth below IIis blessed Word— (‘In Peace and Joy shall I depart1) ' Ye faithful shall sec Heaven.' V.—Recitative (Alto): Relayed from The Guildhall A boundless store of grace rcccivcth School of Music That man who trustclh Him alone; Ills way shall be, where cruel thorns of splto Doris Owens (Contralto) abounded. Tom Purvis {Tenor) By love surrounded, and crown'd with peaceful Stanley Riley {Bass) victory; Yea, ev'ry sinner that beiieveth. The Wireless Chorus Into His grace the Lord recelvcth. Frank Almgill {Flute) John Field {Oboe d'Amorc) VI. —Chorale, Leslie Woodgate {Organ) O’er all mankind He sheds His light, None may lice Him ; Tns Wireless Orchestra Ev'n those that walk'd in darkest night. They shall sec Him. {Flute, Oboe d'Amor?, Trumpet and He is Lord of Israel, Strings) And all the cartli shall praise Illm. Conducted by Stanford Robinson (English Text by D. Miliar Craig. Copyright B.B.C., 1920.) 0 This is one of a cycle of Cantatas for the Feasts of the Virgin Mary, The Cantata for next Sunday Is:— all of which have come down to No. 1—Wic schon Ieuchtct dec Morgcnstera us. It is based on a simple old (How brightly shims the morning star). chorale whoso melody is given, as {For 3.45 to 5.15 Programme see so often, to the soprano voices in tho i opposite page) opening chorus, while the otliors and tho orchestra illustrate tho imago which mn F, Taylor 5.15 CHILDREN’S SERVICE tho text suggested to Bach. Tho motive Broadcast Churches—XXXIX. Conducted by Tho Rev. Canon C. S. ho uses is one of hesitation, almost of Woodward stumbling, depicting the weary stops Relayed from St. John’s, Smith of tho pilgrim who makos his way Square, Westminster heavenward. Along with that there is ST. ALBANS ABBEY, woven a triplot figure eloquent of tho Hymn, ‘ Hark, the glad sound * joy with which tho spirit leaves tho from which a service will be relayed early in the New Year. (Ancient and Modem, 53; Eng^ world, a motive whoso gladness is un­ lish Hymnal, C) mistakable. Tho end of the chorus, By the Very Rev. E. L. Henderson, Dean of St. Albans. Prayers to the words ‘ My death is nought but Tho Magnificat sleeping,1 is a specially beautiful and HE Cathedral and Abbey Church of St. Albans stands upon the Lesson—Isaiah xl, 1-5, 9-11 » tendor moment. The Creed In tho long and fine alto aria, ‘ Mino piece of ground on which the blood of the first British martyr was T shed in 303. Alban was a soldier stationed at Verulamium and gave Prayers eyes, altho1 by sorrow darkened,1 thoro his life in saving his friend Amphibalus, who had baptized him during the is still a suggestion of stopping forward, Hymn, * Blest aro the pure in although now more joyously; tho Diocletian persecution. A small British church in memory of this martyr heart 1 (Ancient and Modem, 261 ; and a Saxon Abbey founded by Offa, King of Mercia, in 791, stood succes­ English Hymnal, 370) music recalls that of tho duot from sively upon this sacred ground, but on the coming of the Normans, Paul Cantata No. Ill, which was sung on de Caen built his magnificent church in the Romanesque style. He began Address by Canon Woodward November 17. Hymn, ‘ Onco in Royal David’s Tho bass recitative which comes noxt in 1077 and completed it in 108S, though it was not consecrated till 1115. The material used was the old Roman bricks from Verulamium, which had City 1 (Ancient and Modern, 329 ; is ono of the most splendid in all tho been collected by his predecessors, the Anglo-Saxon abbots. It is the work English Hymnal, 604) Cantatas, and in it Bach combinos tho of this great builder which gives this church its distinctive character. The Blessing cliorale with the recitative in a very The tower and transepts, the choir and part of the nave all belong to him, 5.45-6.0 BIBLE READING splendid way. It comes to an end with and their massive grandeur and rugged strength make an impression of Paul’s Letters a finely molodious passage. After that, real greatness, which even ih^ later beautiful work of succeeding builders tenor and bass have a duot in more failed to surpass. In the thirteenth century it was planned to rebuild the ‘ Paul's Letters 1—I. Romans i, animated stylo, Bach’s music describ­ Abbey in the Early English style. The Norman west front was pulled down 1-25 and 28-32 and Romans ii, ing the idea of tho wondrous light in and the work of rebuilding the nave, working from west to east, was begun. 1-16 a most oxpressivo way, and the con­ Funds, however, were not forthcoming and only the west front and the cluding chorale 1 is simply, but nobly,, 8.0 A RELIGIOUS SERVICE western part of the nave were completed in the new style and the plan of {From the Studio) harmonized, vaulting the nave had to be abandoned. Invocation and Preparation 1.—Chorus. In the fourteenth century a disaster overtook the Abbey. The Norman la peace and Joy shall I depart, work of Paul de Caen on the south side of the nave collapsed and had to Psalm 150 (from the Douai Version) For God hath will’d it; be rebuilt. This disaster, which cost the Abbey dear, has enriched it with Gospel., Mathew vi, 5-13 TS'o doubling fears assail my heart, Peace hath till’d it; four most beautiful piers in the Decorated style, the work of Hugh de Hymn, * Soul of my Saviour * So my God vouchsafed hath, Eversdcn, who also completed the Lady Chapel. (Westminster Hymnal, 74) My death Is nought but sleeping. One of the most beautiful features in the whole church is the wonderful Address by tho Reverend Father 31.—Aria (Alto). Wallingford screen at the back of the High Altar, perhaps the finest screen John Baptist Reeves, O.P., of Mine eyes, altho’ by sorrow darken'd, of its kind in the country—it dates from 14S4. The Saints’ Chapel contains St. Dominic’s Priory, Haverstock To Thee, beloved Saviour, look ; a most beautiful loft of oak and a fourteenth-century iron grille beneath Hill: ‘ When thou pravest ’ Yea, though ray frame asunder break, Yet hope, my heart shall not forsake. the tomb of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester. Hymn, 4 My God, how wonderful Ho lookctli down upon my passing. At the Reformation it became the Parish Church and the Lady Chapel thou art ’ (Westminster Hymnal, • Who ne’er in death Ilis own forsook. was used as the Grammar School. Owing to its vastness, the townspeople 212. Ancient and Modern, 169) found it extremely hard to keep it in repair, but St. Albans' love for its Abbey HI.—Recitative (Bass): Prayers O wondrous loving heart that ev'n the graves of has never failed, and the work of maintenance and repair never ceased till man abhorr'd— it culminated in the extensive work carried out by the late Lord Grimthorpe, Blessing Death's cruel sting and smart—hath not at the end of last century. People are apt to remember only the harm Hymn, ‘Sweet Saviour, bless us affrighted 1 oro wo go ’ (Westminster Hymnal, Thou Lord Jesus, God’s only Son. he did, which was very real, and to forget how much we owe him for the Thou art our Saviour, who all mankind to Thee good he did, which was also very real. 215; Ancient and Modern, 21) hast won: The Abbey was raised to the dignity of a Cathedral in 1S77, and is the {For S.45 to 10.30 Programmes ses With hcav’nly blis3 our dark'ning eyes hast lighted. mother church for the diocese which comprises the counties of Hertford opposite page) Be near mo. Lord, in that last hour, and Bedford, with* their 310 parishes. The great church is not only And with tho eyes of Faith let mo behold a monument of wonderful art and standing record of English history, Epilogue Thy coming, long awaited: 10.30 So intercede for mo befoie my God but it is still today a living centre of spiritual life and gathers within * Lord, What is Man 1 Who all things hath ertatod, its ancient walls for worship not only the people of St. Albans, whose chief * Chivalry * That I may be giv’n in His grace a blest abiding place, pride it is, but representatives of every kind of church work from all over the diocese. It stands, as it has always stood, for a living beliefin the power and (Fcr details of this week'* Epilogue Thou conqueror of sin and death o’er the grave see page 797.) victorious. love of God for the souls of men. vss RADIO TIMES, December 13, 1029.

Christmas SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15 8.0 5GB DAVENTRY EXPERIMENTAL A SERVICE Candles 626 kc/s. (479.2 m.) FROM * All yc who Christians be, Transmissions from London except where otherwise stated. Oh,'light ray tiny candle here for me, THE STUDIO It has gone out, I am not very old, And as I travelled in the cold A bitter wind with all his might 3.45-5.15 Chamber Music Order of Service: Blew, and put out my little light. Yves Tinayre (Tenor) ' All yc who Christians be, Hymn, * All pcoplo that 011 earth do dwell * The Catterall String Quartet: Will ye not list to me, (English Hymnal, No. 305) Who have so often prayed Arthur Catterall (Violin) : Lawrence Magnificat I might not be afraid ? Turner (Violin); Bernard Shore (Viola); I am a little frightened—can't you see ? Johann Hock (Violoncello) Reading Oh, light my little candle here for me,’ Edna Norman (By permission). Quartet in B Flat (Op. 18, No. 6) .. Beethoven Anthem, * A now Heaven and a now Earth * (.4. R. Gaul) THE BITTER WINDS OF ADVERSITY HAVE LEFT Allegro con brio; Adagio ma non troppo; MANY LITTLE ONES IN DARKNESS. DURING THE Scherzo : Allegro ; La Molinconia : Adagio; Prayers YEAR 762 SUCH CHILDREN HAVE BEEN RECEIVED Allegretto quasi allegro INTO THE CHILDREN’S HOME AND THERE IS Hymn, ‘ Hark the glad sound, the Saviour STILL A This is ono of tlio famous early sot of Quartets, comes 1 (English Hymnal, No. 0) six in number, in which Beethoven at the ago 1 WAITING LIST OF 120 MORE of thirty gave such emphatic and unmistakable Address FOR WHOM WE MEAN TO FIND assurance to the musical world of his day, that Hymn, ‘ Jesu, my Lord, my God, my All*. A HOME BEFORE CHRISTMAS ho was destined to surpass all that had previously (English Hymnal, No. 117) been accomplished in Prayer WILL YOU LIGHT A CANDLE chamber music. For BY SENDING FIVE GUINEAS TO SECURE IMMEDI­ though they aro all, Boncdiction ATE ADMISSION FOR 'ONE OF THESE LITTLE ONES’? naturally, in the style The Music by The of his first period, re­ Choir of The Bermxng • 'To the Her. W. HODSON SMITH. Principal. flecting the influence NATIONAL CHILDREN’S ham Royal Institu­ HOKE AND ORPHANAGE of his models, Haydn tion for the Blind (Founded by Dr. Stephenson). and Mozart, it is pos­ Directed by Mr’. R. 30 BRANCHES. 4.000 CHILDREN. sible to point in each Chief Offices: Platt (Music Directpr Highbury Park, London, N.5. ono to passages, not of the Institute) Please LIGHT A CANDLE for mo by to say whole move­ takiiigC a child Into the Homo from the Waiting List. I cncloso Five ments, which neither Guinea*, and should bo glad to baTe of those great masters S.45 The Week’s Good some particulars of tho child received. could conceivably Cause ' have written, and Name —---- (See London) which proclaim tho Address -----....--- opening of a new Central Treasurer*: chapter in the history Sir Charles C. Wakefield. Bart C.B.E : Sir Thomas 8.50 4 The News * . Bar.ovr, Bart., M.D., l-.R.a. of the String Quartet. Weather Forecast, R.T. Yves Tinayre General News Bul­ AmariUi GiulioCaccini letin Nina Pergolcsi Bist du hei mir.. Bach 9.0 A MILITARY Feldeinsamkoit Brahma BAND Quartet PROGRAMME Allegro,4 Les Vendredis* (From Birmingham) (‘Fridays’) R i msky-Korsakov The Birmingham Military Band Yves Tinayre Conducted by W. A. Recueillcment Clarke Debussy La luno blanche luit Overture, ‘ The Flying dan les bois.. Faure Dutchman’ Wagner Panis Angelicus...... Cesar Franck Osmond Davis (Tenor) Symbol© des ApOtres ...... Caplet Stars all dotted over tho Sky .... Evelyn Sharpe THE FIRST SPECIAL HOSPITAL IN LONDON Keel Quartet and Viola Bonnio Georgo Campbell FOR CANCER. Nocturne...... Vincent Thomas Quintet in F (Op. 88)...... Brahms ...... Ireland R0 LETTERS. NO PAYMENTS. Allegro non troppo, ma con brio; Grave cd Sea Fever...... Fully equipped and specially staffed for the better appassionato ; Finale: Allegro en ergico Band treatment and research into the causes of cancer. Rich and sonorous throughout, this Quintet for Sursum Corda Elgar A certain number of beds are provided for advanced strings is terse and compact as compared with , Ballot Music, ‘ Robert tho Devil ’ .. Meyerbeer cares, who arc kept comfortable and free from pain. some of Brahms’ earlier chamber music. Tho An Urgent Appeal is made for shapeliness and simplicity of the opening melody 9.35 Minnie Hamblett (Pianoforte) in tho first movement is one of the easiest of all Bourr6o and Gigue Richard Jones—1680 £150,000 Brahms’ themes to follow in its subsequent Study ...... Chopin For BuUuinc Extensions, the first part of which will appearances. be Wards for " Middle-income ” Patients who can Band contribute towardi their cost, The noxt movement is quite unusual, combining Sousa a somewhat tragic slow section with what might Suite, * At tho King’s Court ’ AND ALSO FOR RADIUM. have been tho Scherzo. Tho two are interchanged Osmond Davis Please send cheques crossed “Courts &. Co.” to lh’ in a most interesting way. Tho first solemn theme Tho English Rose...... German Secretary. occurred to Brahms originally many years The Conti© Maiden...... arr. Somervell THE before as a pianoforte piece which he called A Sea Burthen...... Eaigh Sarabande. In contrast to the smooth mood of much of tho 10.5 Band second movement, tho third is in the highest Invitation to tho Dance ... Weber CANCER spirits throughout; it, too, is terso and concise, like the first. Minnie Hamblett Consolations (2 and 3)...... • • • Liszt HOSPITAL 8.0 A RELIGIOUS SERVICE Daneoot the Geisha (‘Japan Cycle) Walter Niemann From the Birmingham Studio (FREE) Band Under tho auspices of The Birmingham Royal Tchaikovsky Fulham Road, London. Institution fob the Blind Slav March £anlert: Coutti A Co., 440, Strand, W.C. J. Courtney Buchanan, Sec. Conducted by tho Rov. F. C. Spubb (of Harastcad Epilogue Road Baptist Church) 10.30 UBKUL- .iJUUUJMH

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Sunday’s Programmes continued (December 15)

068 kc/s. 10.0 S.B. from London 5WA CARDIFF. (309.9 m.) Er.src Boardmax (Contralto) My Heart is weary...... IO.30 Epilogue Goring Thomas 3.0-3.30 S.B. from London Homeward to you ...... Eric Coates 10.40-11.0 The Silent Fellowship Tho Asra ...... •.. Rubinstein 3.45-6.0 S.B. from London Orchestra 6.30 SERVICE FOR THE PEOPLE Pracludium ...... Jdmcfclt 5SX SWANSEA. 1.040 kc/s. Barcarolle (‘ Tales of Hoffmann ’) • • ..Offenbach (42nd Season) <288.5 m.) Valso Tristo ...... Sibelius Relayed from Introduction, Act HI, ‘ Lohengrin ’ . . Wagner The Colston Hall, Bristol 3.0-3.30 S.B. from London Elsie Boardmax TlIE ‘ VOCALIANS ’ QUARTET 3.45-G.O S.B. from London The dreary Steppe .... . Grechaninov May Middleton, Marion Elles, Stanley Pearls ...... Herbert Oliver Budd, J. E. Passmore G.30 S.B. from Cardiff A Woman's Last Word ...... Bantock Organist, Frank A. Tayler, F.R.C.O. 8.0 S.B. from London Orchestra Chairman, Mr. F. A. WiLsniRE Overture, Nocturne, Scherzo and Wedding •* Organ, Choral Song and Fugue . Wesley 9.0 West Regional News. S.B. from Cardiff March (‘ A Midsummer Night’s Dream ’) Hymn, ‘ Jesus shall reign ’ Mendelssohn 9.5 S.B. from London 5.15-G.O S.B. from London May Middleton Posthumous Song by F. E. Weatherly. ‘In­ IO.30 Epilogue 7.50 A RELIGIOUS SERVICE vocation ’ ...... M. G. Crispin From tho Studio Organ, ‘ Evening Song ’ ...... Bairstow 10.40-11.0 The Silent Fellowship The Northern Wireless Quartet Hymn, ‘ Ring tho bells of Heaven * Tiie Northern Wireless Cnom Bennett Quartet, * God is a Spirit ’...... Soloist, Herbert Ruddock (Baritone) Prayers and Apostles’ Creed Hymn, ‘ When I Survey ’ Sacred music by Reading TnE Northern Wireless Quartet Organ, ‘ Toccata ’ ...... Dubois 8.45 S.B. from London Quartet, ‘ O come, ovorvono that thirstoth ’ 9.0 North Regionol Now3 (‘ Elijah ’) ...... *...... Mendelssohn .4fcalB Address by the Very Reverend tho Dean of 9.5 A Chamber Music Programme Bristol The Ethel Midcley Trio Marion Ellks MwoEa Louis Cohen (Violin) Air, 1 O Rest in tho Lord ’ .... Mendelssohn & Quartet, * Ho that shall endure Walter Hatton (Violoncello) % Sy Hymn, ‘ Sun of my Soul ’ Ethel Midgley (Pianoforte) Benediction m •4 Trio in B Flat, Op. 99...... Schubert Closing Voluntary, Fantasy and Fuguo in C Minor •• - • Allegro moderato ; Andante un poco mosso; Bach r y Scherzo—Allegro ; Rondo—Allegro vivace 8.0 S.B. from London ;; m III Archie Camdf.n (Bassoon) 0.0 West Rogional News Gavotte in D ...... Bach Tempo di Monuetto...... Mozart A CONCERT 9*5 [!xm ■Hf Trio Relayed from The Park Hall, Cardiff mt Trio in E ...... Mozart National Orchestra of Wales 'Wm Allegro ; Andante grazioso ; Allegro (Cerddorfa Genodlaethol Cymru) pi Archie Camden (Leador, Louis Levitus) Danse Rustique (Rustic Dance)... .TF. H. Squire Conducted by Warwick Braithwaite ii. Wmm Chanson ViUogeoiso (Village Song) . Popper Stratton Strings THE DEAN OF BRISTOL, Tarantello ...... Moto Perpetuo Rics the Very Rev. H. L. C. V. De Condole, Trio Arensky Orchestra gives the address at this evening’s ser­ Trio in D Minor, Op. 32 Scherzo ; Elegia ; Allegro non troppo Andante and Rondo (‘ Haffnor ’ Serenado) Mozarl vice at the Colston Hall which is being relayed and broadcast from Cardiff. (Solo Violin, Louis Levitus) 10.30 Epilogue Two daughters of tho house of Haffnor in Salzburg were privileged to have music by Mozart as part Other Stations. of their wedding festivities. In 1776, Mozart’s 752 kc/s. twentieth year, Fraulein Eliso was married to tho 6BM BOURNEMOUTH. 5SC GLASGOW. (398.9 m.) good citizen Herr F. X. Spfitli, and tho autograph 3.0- 330S.B. from London. 343S.B. from London. 6 0-6.30:—‘David of Israel.' Robert Donat. The Station 's score of this Serenado sets forth in Italian that 3.0-3.30 S.B. from London Singers. The Octet. 8 0 :—A Reliidous Service from the Studio. it was composed for tho wedding. It is one of S.B. from Alx-rdeen. 8-45 :—S.B. from London. 9.0:—Scottish tho comparatively few works on which Mozart 3.45-G.O app. S.B. from London News Bulletiu. 9 5:—S.B. from London. 10.30:—Epilogue. uses his title of Cavaliori, bestowed on him by 8.0 S.B. from London (9.0 Local News) 995 tho Pope when he was tho merest child. Tho 2BD ABERDEEN. <301.5 a.) Seronado is scored for quite a small band, and IO.30 Epilogue 3.0- 3.30S.B. from London. 3 45S.B. from London. was probably performed in tho open air ; tho 6.0-6.30:—' David of Israel.' S.B. from Glasgow. 8.0:— A Religious Sen ice from the Studio. Conducted by the Rev. J. wedding was in tho last days of July, a time of S. Stewart, of Bcechcrove Church, Aberdeen, assisted by tho year when, in that kindly part of tho world, 1i040 kc/s. (he Clmrcli Choir. 8 45 The Week’s Good Cause. An Appeal open-air music has a reasonable chance of being 5PY PLYMOUTH. (288.5 m.) oa behalf of the Association for the Improvement of the U*cal Poor, bv Mr. W. 11. Graham (Chairman of the Association). appropriate. 8 50 :—S.B. from London. 9 0:—Scottish News Bulletin. The Andante Is a somewhat long movoment 3.0-3.30 S.B. from London S.B. from Glasgow. 9.5:—S.B. from London. 1030:— Epilogue. elaborately worked out, whoso chiof melody is 3.45-6.0 app. S.B. from London played at the outsot in octaves by two violins. 1.238 kc/s. But tho whole Suite is full of Mozart’s inimitable 8.0 S.B. from London (9.0 Local News) 2BE BELFAST. (242.3 o.) grace and, as bofits the happy occasion which 3 0-3 30:—S.B. from London. 3.45-6-0:—S.B. from London. IO.3O Epilogue 6 30 — \u Organ Recital. Relayed from the Fisherwick Pres­ inspired it, full of tho brightest good spirits. byterian Church. Belfast. Organist,' Thomas II. Crowe- Enid Cruickshank (Contralto) and Orchestra March Cortege (‘ Irene ') (Gounod); Nocturne in D Flat (Bair­ 797 kc/S. stow) ; Pastoral Symphony and Aria, * Come unto Him '' (' Mes­ * O love, from thy power ’ (‘ Samson and Delilah ’) 2ZY MANCHESTER. (376.4 m.) siah •) (llandcl). Soloist, Kathleen Daunt (Soprano); Allegretto Saint Sacns C Lobgesang Symphony ') (Mendelssohn). L0-8.0A Religious Service Relived from the Fishcrwlek Presbytcnon Church. 1 Far greater in his lowly state ’ (‘ Irene ’) Gounod 3.0-3.30 S.B. from London Order of Service: Scripture Sentences. Doxolegy,.: Glory bo to Grey Spring...... Anthony Collins God the Father' (No 7, R.C.U., Versos l and 2). Invocation. pSU ‘ si r a new song to Jehovah ' (Met. Ps. 9S. 2nd Version). Sleeping *.,...... Thitnan 3*45 A Light Orchestral Concert Pcadhi- KvcV. Praise,' Praise the Lord ' (No. 16, R.C.H.). Molly O ...... Alex. Rowley Offerin'* Anthem. * Lo 1 God, our God, has come' (B. Haynes). The Northern Wireless Orchestra • Pnwer?md Lord * Pravcr. Praise. ‘ Approach my Soul' (No. 451. Orchestra Conducted by T. H. Morrison •lt C lI Sud Tuue). ‘Address by the lit. Rev. J. L. Morrow, li'n Moderator of the General Assembly. Prayer. Praise, 'All Capriccio Espagnolo (Spanish Caprice) Overture, ‘ Obcron ’ ... • defter • liaise lo Tlieo' (No. 291, R.C.H., 1st Tunc). Benediction. Rimsky-Korsakov First Suite,- ‘ Pocr Gynt. .. Grieg 8.45:—S.B. from London. 10:30:—Epilogue. 700 RADIO TIMES * December 13, 1929.

9-20 MONDAY, DECEMBER 16 9-35 Ian Hay Jelly d’Aranyi ON 2LO LONDON & 5XX DAVENTRY (herewith) ‘The Last 842 kc/s. (356.3 ra.), 193 kc/s (1,554-4 m-) AND Thousand * Myra Hess 4.15 Light Music Alphonse du Clos and his Orchestra 10.0-10.25 a.m. COMMEMORATION SERVICE 9.20 Ian Hay ; ‘ The Last Thousand ’ From The Hotel Cecil Relayed from King’s College Future generations will remember Ian Hay ns London ono who, with his 4 The First Hundred Thousand,’ Hymn. ‘ All people that on earth do dwell,’ 5-15 The Children’s Hour 4 Spanish Gold ’ ami other Songs sung by helped to savo England in 1915 from sinking English Hymnal. 3G5 int o the slough of despond. With Bruco Bairns- Arthur Wynn Lesson : The Rook of Ecclesiasticus, Chapter falher he discovered the humorous traits in tho xliv, Verses 1-15 Tho Story of 4 Tho Girl who kissed tho Pcach-Trco ’ (Eleanor Farjcon) British soldier of the earlier days of tho War, and The Lord's Prayer set thorn down in happy print. He has now Prayers Piano Solos, played by Beatrice Snell just returned from a special visit to the German Hymn, ‘ Now thank wo all our God,’ English Further Hints on Association Football by occupied territory to describe ‘ The Last George F. Allison Hymnal, 533 Thousand ’—thoso remaining British soldiers who 10.30 Time Signal, Greenwich; Weather 6.0 Mrs. Marion Cran : 4 Painting tho Earth aro returning homo at last—the final 4 carry* Forecast with Flowers ’ over ’ from tho War ? A RECITAL 10.45 Miss Barabara Cartland : ‘ Making the 6.15 * The First News * 9-35 Best of Oneself—V, How to Relax ’ Jelly d’Aranyi (Violin) Time Signal, Greenwich ; Weather Forecast, Myra Hess (Pianoforte) It was the late Edward Carpenter, author of First General News Bulletin ' Towards Democracy,’ who said that until a Sonata (K 304) . Mozarl man could achieve rest in himself in the middlo 6.30 Musical Interlude Sonata in D Minor Brahma 6.45 The Foundations of Music Handel Suites Played by James Chino (Pianoforte) 7.0 Mr. Desmond MacCartiiy : Literary Criti­ cism 7.15 Musical Interlude 7.25 A Reading from English Lettors 745 Light Music Olive Sturc-ess (Soprano) Robert Easton (Bass) The Gershom Parkington Quintet Suite of Serbian Miniatures Miloyevich Olive Sturgess Connais tu lo pays ? (‘ Knowcst thou the land ? ’) THE NEWS ROOM (‘ Mignon’)...... Ambroisc Thomas IN THE FOUNDRY of a newspaper office at night. Song of tho Litt-lo Folk .... Eric Coates of a newspaper office at night. Robert Easton of, let us say, Trafalgar Square, ho did not know Money, O! ...... Michael Head 10 15 c A NEWSPAPER OFFICE what rest was. And how few peoplo today do , Martin Shaw know what rest is! Futile speed and purposo- A Stave of Roving Tim...... AT NIGHT * less * busyness ’ are responsible for no small Quintet relayed from measure of our modem mental and spiritual Selection of Rubinstein’s Songs ' THE DAILY EXPRESS * OFFICES unrest: wo do not know how to be still. Miss Olive Sturgess Cartland, in her talk this morning, will tell how The Creed Room ' Nightingales of Lincoln’s Lin.. * * ^Herbert Oliver Simultaneous production in provincial towns is important it is in everyone to secure for them­ Down Vauxhall Way ...... selves at least a few minutes’ complete relaxation ensured by means of apparatus which is capable and quiet during the day. Robert Easton of sending out 160 words a'ininute por machino 11.0 (Davcntry only) Gramophone Records The Gay Highway...... Drummond The News Room .The Old Bold Mate...... Esmond Bristol One wall is lined with telephone booths, where 11.0-11.30 (London only) Quintet messages from outside reporters aro received Experimental Television Transmission Reverie d’Amour (Dream of Love) York Bowen and subsequently discussed with tho News by the Baird Process Allegretto Wolstenholmc Editor. Sub-editors check the stories and get Minuet . .... Mozart thorn into their allotted spaces on the various 22.0 A Ballad Concert Waltz ...... Chopin pages Ethel Lewis (Soprano) The Editor-in-Chief’s Office 9.0 * The Second News * Harry Costigan (Baritone) Weather Forecast, Second General News The Linotype Machines X2.30 Organ Music . Bulletin : Local News; (Davcntry only) Ship­ By operating a keyboard like that of a typewriter, Played by Edward O’Henry ping Forecast and Fat Stock Prices molten metal is forced into dies, to form a 4 lino Relayed from Tcssaud’s Cinema of typo ’ 1.0 (Lotulon only) The Foundry Light Music Semi-cylindrical metal plates are cast from papier- Leonardo Kemp and his Piccadilly" Orchestra mache moulds of tho typo-set page, cooled, and From The Piccadilly Hotel trimmed to an exact length Starting up The Press 1.0 (Davcntry only)* Tho plates from tho foundry aro placed on tho Pianoforte Interlude printing cylinders of tho presses, which by a 1.16-2.0 (Davcntry only) series of push-button controls aro slowly started A Concert up till they attain full speed, when the night’s by work begins -in earnest The National Orchestra of Wales Envoi S.B.from Cardiff (From tho Studio)^ •s 3-0 A Concert (See special article by Tl. N. Brails]ord on Kathleen Hartley (Soprano) page 775.) William Busch (Pianoforte) 3-30. Dance Music IO.45-I2.O DANCE MUSIC Jack Payne and his B.B.C. D\nce FOLDING AND CUTTING The Cafe de Paris Blue Lyres Band, Orchestra a newspaper last thing at night. From The Cafe de Paris MBBasaK *

December 13, 1929. RADIO TIMES 791 6.30 MONDAY, DECEMBER 16 BIRMINGHAM 5GB DAVENTRY EXPERIMENTAL 626 kc/s. (479.2 m.) STUDIO Transmissions from London except where otherwise stated. ORCHESTRA 3.0 The Grange Super Cinema Orchestra m£m Conducted by Haydn Heard BooTn Unwin (Bass) and Orchestra Relayed from The Grange Super Cinema, Aria, 4 Largo al factotum’ (‘Mako way for the Small Heath, Birmingham Factotum’) (‘The Barber of Seville ’). .Rossini Overture to a Comedy...... Linckc Selection, ‘ Rose Mario ’ ...... ,. Friml 7.0 Orchestra I Divertissement, ‘ A Daj' in Naples ’ • Bijnrj Selection, 4 Tho Brandenburgs in Bohemia ’ m LHHf® Waltz, * The Joys of Summer ’ ... Linckc Smetana 0* II Pot-Pourri, ‘ Martini Moments ’ ,.. Winter Winifred Flavell (Violin) Suite, 4 Decameron Nights ’ Finch Hojro, Kati (Hello, Katie) ...... Hubny *ts Waltz, 4 Underneath the Russian Moon ’ Kendish Serenade...... Drdla Elfin Dance...... Haydn Wood 4.0 A Ballad Concert Why not a decorative scheme like More literally than is often tho case, Hubay has ]y this for Christinas ? Mako your (From Birmingham) 1- ' followed in his father’s footsteps. It was from ; ^ home express the old-time festive William Frith (Baritone) welcome, “ Morry Christmas." All ' liia father, Professor at tho Conservatoire in ”2“*^you need is Dennison’s Freo Plans « Tho Luto Player ...... Allitscn Pesth, that ho had his first lessons, and after a on how to decorate your home— Oh ! didn’t it rain (Negro Spiritual) arr. Burleigh brilliant career, as virtuoso, and after holding the hall, doorway and party h, j fl table. Write to-day for a freo Down hero...... Brahe for a time the post of J copy and also get Dennison’s Tho Bo’sun’s Lament [- Professor of the Brus­ < i ..f'i yl Jn Christmas Magazine, Parties," Squire sels Conservatoire, he j price 1/-, from your Stationer or returned to his native A from address below, Pill In coupon > Geoffrey Wamsley j to-day. Ask your Stationer for e town to fill tho post m (Pianoforte) made vacant by his Two Preludes (1 and 2) Humperdinck’s Opera father’s death. He has Delius won a fine roputation m Second Rhapsody in G as a chamber music CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS A Minor, Op. 79 Brahms ‘KONIGSKINDER’ player as well as soloist , Please fill in this Coupon. >| Winifred Morland and has added a good deal of picturesque and DENNISON MANUFACTURING CO., LTD. ? (Mezzo-Soprano) (Dept. C.V.), Kingsway, London, W.0.3. 1 Love Eternal,. Brahms will be broadcast from $GB effective music to tho repertoire of his own I Please send mu ycur FREE Vises ter Cbi.:>.u. Noonday Hayo Hubert Brown instrument. D.corations. Name...... I heard you singing i Tonight, Starting at 8.15, Orchestra l § Eric Coates Waltz Idyl Address,...... -...... Razigadc, arr. Schmid (Use Block Letters)...... 4.50 Dance Music and from London and Daventry on A Summer Morn Haines \ Jack Payne and his Wednesday night. B.B.C. Dance 7.35 Booth Unwin Orchestra Tho Great Advcnturo The full programme will be found Fletcher 5.30 The Children’s on page 800, and an article on the Time to go . .Sanderson Hour On tho March opera, by W. R. Anderson, on INVALID FURNITURE (From Birmingham) Herbert Oliver Orchestra ‘ A Story for Tears,’ by page 783. Mildred Forster Selection, 4 A Waltz Dream ’ SELF- Songs by Horace Act II will start tonight at 9.25, and Straus, arr. Godfrey Priestley (Tenor) Act III at 10.15. Winifred Flavell PROPELLING John Hay (Xylophone) D * What is your Name ? ’ Berceuse (CradleSong) by Margaret M. * Jocelyn ’.... Godard CHAIRS Kennedy Liebcsfrcud (Lovo’b Joy)...... Krcislcr Appoint: lent. jpOR those debarred from 6.15 * The First News ’ Tho Swan ...... Saint-Sacns life’s ordinary vocations a Time Signal, Greenwich ; Weather Forecast, 8.5 Orchestra Carter Self-Propelling Chair First General News Bulletin Suite,4 The Pagoda of Flowers ’ yields more than its quota of Woodfordc-Findcn luxurious ease. 6.30 Light Music 8.15 c Konigskinder5 ■y How delightful to experience (From Birmingham) (* Royal Children ’) jl freedom of movement, the The Birmingham Studio Orchestra (See centre of page) contentment bom of perfect Conducted by Frank Cantell 9.15 Interval comfort and the happy Overture, 4 Tho Forco of Destiny * , Verdi 9.25 independence to be acquired Three English Dances...... Quiltcr c Konigskinder * Act II with a Carter Chair! CoMrosED for tho Imporial Theatre at St. Peters­ Writs for hanusome illustrated burg, La Forza del Dcslino (Tho . Forco of 10.0 * The Second News ’ Catalogue tj containing full par­ Destiny) was produced there in 1802. It quickly Weather Forecast, Second General News ticulari of Carters' Self-Propelling H'ArcA Stair and Carrying Chairs. made its way to popularity in othor countries Bulletin Or mention any other bind of and, although it 1ms disappeared except for its l neat id Furniture in which stirring Ovorturo and ono or two soparato num­ IO.15-II.IO c Konigskinder* •iou man 6- interested bers, it enjoyed a real success in its own day. Act III Tho story is ono of such complete and sanguinary (Monday's Progratnmcs continued on page 792.) t ragedy that, by tho end, only tho chorus remains alive. Ono after tho other, all tho chief person­ ages meet violent and untimely deaths. Rates of Subscription to * The Radio Ono of the best-known airs, as it was ono of tho most popular when tho opora appeared, is the Times’ (including postage): Twelve heroino’s song, 4 O holy Virgin.’ On tho stago months (Foreign), 17s.; twelve months sho sings it at night, knooling outsido tho convent (British), 15s. Subscriptions should be to which sho 1ms fled, while the chanting of sent to the Publisher of * The Radio priests is hoard near by. Tho samo melody is a Times,’ 8’11, Southampton Street, Strand, prominent feature of tho Overture, and will 125, mt i29, GI. PORTLAND ST„ LONDON, W.L easily bo recognized by its solemn tone, even by W.C.2. Telephone: tjingham 1010. Telegrams: liathchair, Wesd\ Lofton thoso who havo not heard it sung. 792 RADIO TIMES December 13, 1929.

Monday’s Programmes continued (December 16)

SWA CARDIFF. 968 Kc/8. Vocal Quartet and Orchestra (309.9 m.) Welsh Airs : Cwcw Fach 1.15- 2.0 An Orchestral Concert Ar Hy dy Nos Relayed from Ui Megan Thomas The National Museum of Wales Popular Welsh Songs : (Relayed to Davontry 5XX) Two Songs of the Welsh Mountains lii National Orchestra of Wales My Littlo Welsh Homo ; I hear a Shepherd’s <1 ^ (Corddorfa Genedlaethol Cymru) Pibgorn (Leader, Louis Levitus) Bessie Davies Conducted by Warwick Braithwaite School Song, ‘ Y Sipsi ’ \v Overture, ‘ The Master- Walter Glynn and Or­ singers ’ ...... Wagner chestra Evening in the Mountains Modern Welsh Song, fPiKS Grieg ‘ Telyn Fud * ^ Dream Pantomimo; Wit­ ches’ Ride (* Hansel and Meirion Morris Gretcl’) Humperdinck Two Folk-Songs: w mESi Suite, ‘Tho Three-cornered Hireth 1v. You’ll find Just that Hat ’...... dc Falla Can y Mclinydd 7 “added brilliance” in ! 3.0 London Programme Megan Thomas and PARLOPHONE relayed from Davontry Bessie Davies Two Part Songs : f ELECTRICAL RECORDS 4.45 Tho Rev. Gordon Nant Y Mynydd .•v„5y Hear these new issues at your VE-v Hamlin : ‘ Old Churches Can y Crud Dealers—you’ll want them all te’ of tho West—Clevedon Old The Orchestra Church * LESLIE 1 Orchestral Miniatures HUTCHINSON 5.0 Light Music Three Cymric Cameos There’s nf personal appealf in m John Stean’s Carlton The Singing Bard ; Tho m "Hutch’s ” records that "gets”you. Celebrity Orchestra £• Villago Dancers; The R 469. S'posin' Relayed from The Ain't Misbehavin' Exile’s Lament. R. 466. I want to be bad Carlton Restaurant Button up your Overcoat Welsh Shepherd’s Danco 5.15- The Children’s Hour 9.0 S.B. from London DORIS 6 m 6.0 London Programme 9.15 West Regional Nows ELSIE WATERS relayed from Davontry -Vi Exclusive Records of the great 9.20-10.45 S.B. from Lon­ Wireless Favourites. C.15 S.B. from London R. 507. In the Parlour don Park yourself close to me • I04U KC/8. 7.45 A Programme (288.5 m.) RAIE DA

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8.0:—*A Border Programme.’ The Octet. William Elliot (Continued from page 792.) (Bnritonc)A Jean Proven (Reciter). Clydebank Male Voice Choir, conducted by A. M. Allen. 9.0:—S.U. from London. 6BM BOURNEMOUTH. ISSa.s'm!) 9.15:—Scottish Nows Bulletin. 9.20-10.45London. *95 ROSA. 2BD ABERDEEN. (301.5 m.) 2.40:—For the Schools. S.B. from Edinburgh. 3.0:— 3.0 London Frograramo relayed from Davcntry S.B. from Glasgow. 6.0:—London Programme relayed from Davcntry. 6.15:—S.B. from London. 6.30:—Talk for Young 6.15 S.B. from London People—Dr. W. Douglas Simpson, ' Christmas In Other Lands.’ 6.40:—Bulletin of Juvenile Organizations. 6.45:—S.B. from 9.15 Local Nows Loudon. 7-45:—Ilelolsc Russoll-Fcrgusson (Songs with Celtic Free! Harp). S.B. from Glasgow. 8.0:—’ A Border Programme.’ This Family 9.20-10.45 S.B. from London Jean Proven (Reciter). William Elliot (Baritone). The Clyde­ bank Male Voire Choir. The Octet. S.B. from Glasgow. 9.0:— Loudon. 9.15:—Glasgow. 9.20-10.45:—London. GIFT BOX 5PY 1.040 kc/r. 1.238 tel*. PLYMOUTH. <388.8 m 2BE BELFAST (242.3 m.i in 12-0-1.0 :—Light Music. The Radio Quartet. Alex W. Rogers \h (Baritone). 3-30:—Banco Music: Jan Ralflni's Regal Band' 3.0 London Programme relayed from Davcntry relayed from The Plaza, Belfast. 4.30:—Light Music. The exchange P.ndio Quartet. 5.15 :—The Children's Dour. 6.0 :—London The Children’s Hour Programme relayed from Davcntry. 615:—S.B. from London. for 24 5.15 7-45:—A Light Operatic Programme. Hugo Thompson (Bari­ The Studio Zoo tone). The Orchestra. 9.0:—S.B. from London. 9.35-10-45:— Full description of all animals will bo given, ’ The Brass Bottle,’ a Farcical Play by F. Anstcy. Adapted Coupons including * The Griffin who was Green ’ (Margaret for broadcasting by John Watt. Gibbs) ; Musical Interludes will bo given by The (Continued from page 774.) [ Plymouth Ladies’ Trio All roots require paring, and some fruits require C.O London Programme relayed from Davcntry peeling, before they can be dried, therefore remove the rind or skin, cut out cores and defective portions C.15-10.45 S.B. from London (9.15 Local Nows) then slice thinly and neatly whatever is good, and after drying these portions you will be surprised 797 kc/s. ,to find how much stock you have added to your 2ZY MANCHESTER. <376.4 m.) store. You will want to know how you can tell when anything is sufficiently dried. The answer to that 3-0 An Afternoon Concert is that it should feel like a bit of tough but soft The Northern Wireless Orchestra leather ; it should never be crisp or brittle, as then ! William Sumner (Baritone) it would not re-absorb water. And as to methods of storing, I advise brown paper or muslin bags 4.0 London Programme) relayed from Davcntry lightly filled and tied round with string, then hung The Children’s Hour up on a nail where air can reach them. Do not 5.15 enclose dried fruits or vegetables in tins, or they will ; C.O London Programme relayed from Davcntry soon smell fusty. .Wooden boxes lined with papei G.15 S.B. from London are good receptacles, similar to those used by whole­ sale producers. Keep dried herbs in packets, This Family Gift Box 7.45 Scenes from the Life of Ludwig van rather than in airtight bottles, if you want them to of world-famous Beethoven retain their flavour.—From a talk by Miss Lucy H. Yates chocolates is free to (Born this day 1770) all regular users of The Northern Wireless Orchestra Fry’s Cocoa. All you have to do is to Conducted by T. H. Morrison collect 24 of the coupons which you will Overture, ‘ Leonora,’ No. 3 The Christmas Number of find in the top of every tin—ONE in. Cameo I every fib., TWO in every Mb., and FOUR By W. E. Rice THE LISTENER Characters in every lib. tin, and then write on a Ludwig van Beethoven (Composer) will contain a supplement piece of paper the words “GIFT BOX,” Carl (his Brother) sign your name and address, fasten the Steffan von Brouning on Count Guicciardi coupons to the paper and post to “ Fry’s Countess Giulia (his Daughter) Gift Department, Bristol.” Be careful 1 Dr. Voting The Supernatural to write clearly, so that the “Gift” Had: Anclrd (a Publisher) can send off your gift without difficulty Orchestra Sj’tnphony, No. 5, in C Minor, Op. G7 in Life or delay. Post your coupons early to Cameo II ensure receiving your gift before Christ­ By W. E. Rice and Literature mas. Fry’s Cocoa is highly concentrated, Characters as in Cameo I. extremely soluble and therefore quickly Stephen Wearing (Pianoforte) to which Miss Margaret Murray, prepared. Its full smooth chocolate ‘ Moonlight ’ Sonata, Op. 27, No. 2 Mr. E. F, Benson & Dr. C. D. flavour makes it a favourite with old Orchestra Broad will contribute. and young. Overture, * Egmont ’ At breakfast, mid-day and bed-time 9.0 S.B. from London drink Fry’s Cocoa• > ■ 9.15 North Regional News 9^20-10.45 S.B. from London Please note the date: Dec. 18

Other Stations. 752 kc/s. 5SC GLASGOW. (398.9 m.1 The listener 2.40 For the Schools. S.B. from Edinburgh. 3.0:—A Fry’s Concert. The Octet, lsobcl Fraser (Soprano). Ella Voysey Christmas Number (Reciter). 4 0:—' Milestones of Musical Comedy—IV. Tho Viennese Comedies/ Reginald Talbot. (Baritone). Tho Octet. 4.45:—Dance Music; by Charles Watson’s Orchestra relayed price 2d. from tho Playhouse Ballroom. 5.15:—Tho Children's Hour. Cocoa Issued by the House of Fry, established 1-2$ = 5.57 :—Weather Forecast- for Farmers. 6.0:—London Pro* gramme relayed from Davcntry. 6.15:—S.B. from London. Order your copy today. FFG 6-376 6.30:—Talk for Young People: Dr. W. Douglas Simpson, ‘Christmas In Other Lands.' S.B. from Aberdeen. 6.40:— Bulletin of Juvenile Organizations. 6.45:—S.B. from 1/melon. 7.45:—Ilelolsc Russcll-Fcrgusson, Songs with Celtic Harp. , 796 RADIO TIMES December 13, 1929.

■ 7*° TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17 9.20 EXCAVATING SIR WALFORD 2LO LONDON & 5XX DAVENTRY A DAVIES 842 kc/s. (356-3 m.) 193 kc/s (1,554.4 m.) BIBLICAL CITY SAYS CAU REVOIR ’ Interest in excavations increases every year. Few 10.15 a.m. THE DAILY SERVICE events of scholarly import have assumed tho Josephine Wray, Arthur Fear, and Orchestra degree of topical interest accorded by tho general 10.30 Time Signal, Greenwich ; Weather Press to, for instance, the unearthing of tho tomb Duct, Act IT, ‘ Tho Flying Dutchman * Forecast of King Tutankahmcn. By 'the aid of these Before the mysterious Dutchman camo on tho excavations, not only has our view of history scene, tho Norwegian lass, Senta, had had a. 10.43 Mrs. E. M. Stephenson: ‘Moro about been enlarged, but it lias been rendered im­ youthful sweetheart, Erik the huntsman. But in Folding Tabic Linen * mensely more real, and wo have learned that her heart she lias always cherished visions of tho A recent facetious comment by tho ‘ Broad­ * progress * after all is a relative term. In Egypt, mysterious scafaror whoso portrait hung in hor casters ’ on the folding of table napkins to look most profitable field of research for tho oxcavator, father’s house, and his dread story has always like water-lilies brought those embarrassed tho long extension of our viewt before written appealed to her. When he actually appears,, gentlemen scores of letters explaining how tho history, has largely been the work of tho British all thoughts of the boyish Erik aro overshadowed thing was done—and even some water-lily School of Archaeology in Egypt under tho direction by his striking personality; it is as though sho napkins themselves neatly folded in cardboard of Sir Flinders Petrie. Recently, however, Sir had suddonly grown up from her own girlhood. boxes. Tho interest in this piece of old table Flinders and his party havo moved their centre I11 this finely melodious duet, with its moments etiquette is therefore obvious. This of real dramatic fervour, she pro­ week, Mrs. Stephenson will explain mises her hand to tho Dutchman* tho diamond fold and tho fan fold. so redeeming him from his dread destiny. 11.0 (Davcntry only) Gramophone Records > 9.40 - VAUDEVILLE -10.45 Orchestra Siegfried’s Journey to tho Rhino VVVVVW (‘ The Dusk of tho Gods ’) 11.0-11.30 (London only) Josephine Wray, Walter Widdop Experimental Television Trans­ > 1 > A and Orchestra mission by the Baird Process CHARLES NORMAN Duet, Act I, 1 The Valkyrie ’ > 4 Siegmtjnd and Sieglinde, alono in the 12.0 Organ Music > HAYES LONG great hall where they first saw each Played by Edgar T. Cook > other, whTlo her lord Hundingslceps, Relayed from Southwark > The New A Joke, and while the moonlight streams Cathedral > ariety tem through tho open door, tell each Prelude and Fugue in C Minor Bach Comedian A V I a Song, ( other in words of rapture how they know that they were destined for Miss Ricard (Contralto) a Story t Slumber, Beloved (' Christmas ’ Ora­ relayed from ono another, when they first looked torio) ...... Bach on each other’s faces. As Sicgmuncl sings of his joy, something in his Edgar T. Cook 9 voice recalls hor father to Sieglinde, Sonata No. 3 in D Minor.... 7 THE ALHAMBRA and she asks him if tho name he Fuguo in G Minor (the > Bach > gavo Hunding is really his own. He •Short’)...... J > the famous music-hall tells her that whatever name she Miss Ricard gives him ho will bear, and sho calls Tho Praise of God----- Beethoven Songs him Sicgmund, as indeed ho is. The in Leicester Square Edcar T. Cook AND whole duet is one of those ecstatic Fantasia and Fugue in G Parry < pieces of passionate music which Piano Solos < cannot possibly bo reduced to terms 1.0-2.0 Light Music of cold prose ; nor does it need any V SS^CADOLBAN’S K such translation. Alphonse du Clos and his 1 Orchestra > JEAN From The Hotel Cecil ✓ TZIGANE 9.0 ‘ The Second News ’ ( > Weather Forecast, Second A Ballad Concert MELVILLE ORCHESTRA K 3.0 5> General News Bulletin ; Local Beatrice Alexander (Soprano) A <5 News; (Davenlry only) Shipping -w, S6 ClcrkemvclJ Road, London, E.C.z . in the ceremonies 7.15 S.B. from London that surround it, on Australian soil, no one 9.15 Local News could claim to be a 9.20-12.0 S.B. from really fervid Scot. London You can Play the Piano Percy Grainger is a striking instance of 5PY 1,040 kc/S> TO-DAY by that interest in the (288.5 m.) NAUNT ON'S NATIONAL MUSIC SYSTEM. homeland. Born in PLYMOUTH. 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Programmes for Tuesday. (Manchester Programme continued from page 798.) Frederick M. Stevenson (Baritone) (From Newcastle) ■ Maurice Jones (Character Sketches) 5-15 The Children’s Hour 0.0 Mies Dorotiiy Morton : The Approach of I Christmas—V, Some Characteristic Christmas Dishes 6.15 S B. from London 7.0 Professor Abercrombie : ‘ Architecture and Town Planning in the Industrial North—V, Town Planning Developments—II.’ S.B. from Liver­ pool 7.15 S.B. from London 7.45 An Orchestral Concert and A Play The Northern Wireless Orchestra Overture, * Si j’etais Roi ’ (* Tf I were king') Adam Egyptian Ballet Luigini ‘ The Cure * A .Lancashire Comedy in One Act by W. Armitaoe Owen Characters John Smithies (a middle-aged mill worker) Mary Smithies (his wife) Tho Doctor It is evening in John Smithies’ cottage. John has just finished tea, and Mary is clearing tho tca-tablo Orchestra Selection, ‘ Gypsy Lovo ’...... Lehar March, * Entry of the Boyards ’ Halvorscn 9.0 S.B. from London 9.15 North Regional News 9.20 S.B. from London 10.45-12.0 DANCE MUSIC Bektini’s Dance Band, relayed from The Empress Ballroom, The Winter Gardens, Blackpool

Other Stations. 752 ko/9. 5SC GLASGOW. (398.0 rn.) 10.45 :—Mrs. Stuart Sanderson : ‘ Preparations for Christmas 111- 11.0-12.0:—A Recital of Gramophone Records. 2.40 For the Schools. M. Jean-Jacques Obcrlin, assisted by Madame Oberlin: * Elementary French—XII, Children’s Games.’ 3.5 :—Musical Interlude. 3.10 :—Mr. P. TI. B. Lyon : * The Discovery of Poetry—XII, The End and the Beginning.’ S.B. from Edinburgh. 3.30 :—A Ballad Concert. British Composers. The Octet. Eveline Stevenson (Soprano), 4.30 :—An Entertain- ment presented by The Arts League of Service. Interludes by the Octet. 5.15:—The Children's Hour. 5.57:—Weather Forecast for Farmers. 6.0 :—Mr. Thomas Henderson : * Some Gaps in Scottish History.’ 6.15:—S.B. from London. 7.0 ;— (sC You’ve only one Shcriif MacMaslcr Campbell: * Tho Highlands and the Revival of Gaelic.’ 7.15:—S.B. from London. 7.45:—Songs by Kenuedy McKenna (Tenor). 8.0:—The Choral and Orchestral Union of Glasgow. Couccrl, relayed from the St. Andrew's Hall. The Scottish Orchestra, conducted by Albert Van Raalte. packet-one packet? My good 8 35 app.:—Jean Taylor Smith (Reciter). 8.45 npp.:—Concert relayed from the St. Andrew's Hall (Continued). 10-0:— Second General News Bulletin. 10-15:—Scottish News Bulletin. 10 20-12.0 :—S.B. from London. woman, what on earth shall I do? This 995 kc/s. 2BD ABERDEEN. (301.5 m.) 11.0-12.0:—Relayed from Daventry. 2.40:—S.B. from Glas­ gow. 3.10 :—Mr. 1*. II. II. Lyon : * The Discovery of Poetry— is for my niece, you see. She has to have XIT, Tho End and the Beginning.* S.B. from Edinburgh. 3.30:—S.B. from Glasgow. 6.15:—S.B. from T.oudon. 7.0:— Sheriff MncMaster Campbell: ‘The Highlands and the Revival of Gaelic.’ S.B. from Glasgow, 7.15:—S.B. from London. 7.45:—Songs by Kennedy McKenna (Tenor). S.B. from a lot ofmilk.And what am I to do with­ Glasgow. 8.0:—The Choral and Orchestral Union of Glasgow. Concert relayed from the St. Andrew’s Hall. S.B. from Glasgow. 8.35 app.:—Jean Taylor Smith (Reciter). S.B. from Glasgow. 8.45 app. .-—Concert relayed from the St. Andrew’s Hall (Con­ out my Nestles ? Tell me that! 55 > tinued). S.B. from Glasgow. 10.0:—Second General News Bulletin. 10.15:—Scottish News Bullctiu. S.B. from Glasgow. 10.20-12.0:—S.B. from London. 1,238 kefs. 2BE . BELFAST. (242.3 m.) Have you ever tasted Nesil&s “Fruit Queen”—it's chocolate3 r§. 3.30:—Concert Music. The Orchestra. Beatrice McComb (Contralto). Frederick R. Amor (Viola). 5.15 :—The Children’s almonds and rich ripe fruit — packed in sixpenny cartons. Hour. 6.0:—London Programme relayed from Daventry. 6.15 :—S.B. from London. 7.45:—A Light Orchestral Concert The Orchestra. Doris Bates (Violin). Frederick Taylor (Bari­ tone). Carrodns Taylor (Violoncello). Clifton Hellhvcll (Piano­ forte). 9.0-12.0S.B. from London. $00 RADIO TIMES December 13, 1929. 1

9.20 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER iS 9.20 At. Andre —Biography of Maurois 2LO LONDON & 5XX DAVENTRY Lady Gists a— S42 kc/s. (356.3 »•) 193 kc/s (1.554-4 m.) Caroline Lamb - -

10.15 a.m. THE DAILY 6.15 * The First News * SERVICE Time Signal, C!reenwicit; 10.30 Time Signal, Greenwich -. Weather Forecast, First Weather Forecast General News Bulletin 6.30 Musical Interlude 10.45 Mrs. Oliver Stractiey : l m 4 A Woman's Comment ary’ 6.45 The Foundations of Music A 11.0 (Davcntry only) Gramophone Handel Suites Records Played by fa*tr James Chinc. (Pianoforte) 7.0 Major Walter Elliot. M.P.: 11.0-11.30 (London only) XL * Central Africa—the Newest Experimental Television Export Market ’ (under the aus« Transmission picos of the Department of by the Baird Process Overseas Trade) 7.15 Musical Interlude \ & 12.0 A Ballad Concert 7.25 Mr. J. S. Batnbridge : * Waste Products * Adelaide Turnbull (Contralto) A 7. Frederick Stegee (Tenor) i 7.45 Vaudeville Turn 12.30 A Recital of Gramophone 8.0 c Konigskinder ’ y Records 7^2 ('Royal Children’) 1.0-2.0 Light Music A Fairy Opera in Three Acts from Frascati's Orchestra the story by Ernst Rosmer Directed by Georges Haeck I Music by Humperdinck From The Restaurant Frasc ati English translation by C. H. Melt- 1 zer 3.0 Miss Marjorie Barber: £ „ Act I \ ‘ Stories and Story-telling iri Tnii . (See centre of page and special Prose and Verse—XII. Ballads’ P article on page 7S3.) 3.25 Jack Payne ’ll 9.0 ' The Second News * i and his B.B.G Dance I L- *--- Weather Forecast, Second Orchestra General News n Bulletin ; «W Local News: (Davcntry only) 3.45 A Light Classical Concert I >VA- c\ / 'illlr ^ rr* Shipping Forecast and Fat Stock Mildred Watson (Soprano) Prices The Stratton String Quartet • 9.20 Miniature Biographies—V •Quartet in P, Op. 76, No. 0 Lady Haydn /— M. Andre Maurois : ‘7 Caroline Lamb1 Allegretto, allegro ; Largo can- ± tabile e maestoso; Minuet M. Andre Maurois, the famous Allegro; Finale Presto To be broadcast Tonight at 8.0 author of 4 Ariel ’ and 4 Disraeli,' • • etc., and one of the most in- ■ 4.10 Mildred Watson dividual biographers of today. • lias chosen a particularly lively Extasc ...... Henri Duparc Au Bord do 1'Fou (At the Water's ‘ KONIGSKINDER ’ figure for his brief sketch-por­ Brink).. FaurC (cRoyal Children5) trait. Lady Caroline Lamb, in La Pavane Bruncau her. time a "notorious figure in Beau Soir (Fair Evening) A Fairy Opera in Three Acts from the story by Ernst Rosmer social circles, and a woman of Debussy MUSIC BY HUMPERDINCK considerable eccentricity, is Air de l'Enfant (Child's Song) • chiefly remembered by us for her Havel [English translation by C. H. Meltzer] association, with Byron. She Le Baehelier de Salamanquc- The Wireless Chorus—Chorus Master, Stanford Robinson called him a * mad, bad man, dangorous to know *; sbe carica­ (The Graduate of Salamanca) The Wireless Symphony Orchestra (Leader, S. Kneale Kelley) Bousscl tured him in her novel, 4 Glen- 4.25 Quartet . Conducted by Percy Pitt arvon *; and, finally, in a Quartet .... Germaine Tailleferre _ (Relayedfrorn the Parhphor.e Studio by the courtesy of the Par/ophonc Cowpanx) passion of rage against something Quartet Salz (Movement) Schubert he had said of her, burnt in a -CAST sort of funeral pile manuscripts 4-45 Organ Music The King's Son ...... Parry Jones of all the letters she had received Played by Aj.ex Taylor The Goose Girl ...... Norah Sabini from him, and liis miniature, Relayed from Davis’ Theatre* The Fiddler ...... 4 Several girls from the neigh­ ...... Dennis Noble bourhood, whom she had dressed x Croydon The Witch ...... * | Enid Cruickshank in white garments, dancing about 5.15 The Children’s Hour The Stablemaid *...... the pile.’ She was n clever 4 Boiling Stones — another Tiie Woodcutter __ .... Foster Richardson woman, whatever her vagaries, Carey Grey story. vain and impulsive, and one well The Broombinder ...... Sydney Russell Song-s at the piano, composed and worth the skill in portraiture that The Child ...... Elsie Otley Ming by M. Maurois will most certainly • A Burgess ...... Helen Alston .... Asiimoor Burch bestow upon her. ‘Mumps and the Magic’—a The Innkeeper ...... Frank Phillips 9.40 c Konigskinder5 perfectly impossible School Story, The Innkeeper’s Daughter Helen Alston ('Royal Children’) written and told by Ralph i>e The Tailor ...... Tom Purvis Acts II and III Rohan Stanley Riley Two Guards...... 11.0-12.0 DANCE MUSIC 6.0 A Short Programme of Carols {Samuel Dyson Sung by The Masked Carol Villagers, Magistrates, their Wives, Citizens, Citizcnesses, Craftsmen, Jack Hylton’s Ambassador Club Singers Band, directed by Ray Starita, Musicians, Girls, Lads, and Children In aid of the Paddington Tuber­ from The Ambassador Club culosis Di*pen;>arv, 20, Talbot Narrator—Filson Younc (Wednesday' 8 Programmes Rond, W.2 continued on page S03.) ■

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(From Birmingham) 8.0 Two Musical Sketches GEMS FROM THIS WEEK'S The City of Birmingham Police Band ‘The Man, the Maid, and ihe Muddlehead’ Conducted by Richard Wassell (From Birmingham) PROGRAMME ON " HIS March, ‘ Lorraine ’ ...... Qanne A Musical Cameo by Cordon McConnel ■ Overture, * The Four Ages of Man ’ The Man .... Herbert Simmonds MASTER'S VOICE"RECORDS ■ Lachner, arr. Retford The Maid ...... Wynne Ajello i QUARTET IN B FLAT-(Op. J8 No. 6.1 (Beethoven) Herbert Simmonds (Baritone) Tiio Muddlehead ...... John Derwent Virtuoso String Quartet D1206 to D1209. 6/6 each. Album The Sceno takes placo in the only quiet room Series No. 37) London and Davcntry. Sunday. 345 I lovo thee...... Grieg FLYING DUTCHMAN OVERTURE Wngnor) State ! Secrecy ...... Wolf in a country house while a liouso-party is in Orchestra. Berlin, conducted by Dr. Leo Blech. 1)1200, 6/6 London and Davcntry, Sunday, 9.0. Christ is risen ...... Rachmaninov progress. Followed by SEA FEVER—Stuart Robertson— B2594,3/-, London and Davcntry. Sunday, 9.20. ■ 3.25 Band ‘Nowand Then’ INVITATION TO THE WALTZ - Philadelphia Syraph- . Comet Solo, * Solveig’s Song ’ Grieg A Musical Argument by ony Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Stokowski—1)1253, . 616. London and Davcntry, Sunday, 10.5. i (P.C. Cook) Jean Harley and. SLAV MARCH (Tchaikovskyl-Philndclphia Symph- Spring Morning (English Pastoral Impressions) ony Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Stokowski—D1045, George Barker 6/6. London and Davcntry, Sunday, IU.20, Farrar, arr. Godfrey with Holst CAY HIGHWAY-Pcter Dawson—B2297, 3/*. London Song of tho Blacksmith ...... Phyllis Scott and George Barker and Davcntry. Monday, 8.20. Will Gardner will Entertain (at tho Pianos) LARGO AL FACTOTUM—"BARBER OF SEVILLE” —Ingbillcri— D169S, 6.6. Davcntry Ex. Monday, 6.50. Band 9.0 A MILITARY BAND CONCERT HEJRE KATI—Isolde Mcnges—D1223, 6/5. Davcntry Spanish Suite, * La Foria * .... Laconic Ex., Monday. 7.5. Sumner Austin (Baritone) SERENADE (DrdlaJ—Marjorie Hayward—B2I49, 3.'-. Davcntry Ex , Monday. 7.10. 3.55 Herbert Simmonds The Wireless Military Band BERCEUSE DE JOCELYN—Pablo Casals-DBI039. 8/G To Daisies ...... Quilter Conducted by B. Walton O’Donnell Davcntry Ex., Monday, 7.50. Tho Skipper of tho ‘ Mary Jane ’ LOHENGRIN - PRELUDE-1 Wagner) — Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, coinducted by Leopold Stokowski— 1 Richards D1463. 6/6. London and .Davcntry. Tuesday. 8.0. ! In Lovo ...... Lohr DUET ACT 1—"THE VALKYRIES’’—Ljungbcrg and Widdop—D1322, G/o. London and Davcntry, Tuesday. 8.10. Will Gardner in farther Entertain­ SIEGFRIED'S JOURNEY TO THE RHINE— ment "Gotterdammcrunff”—Berlin State Opera orchestra, conducted by Karl Muck—OIS75, 6/6. London and Davcn* Band try. Tuesday, 8.20. | ADELAIDE-'Beethoven) — Tudor Davie3-D1273, 6/d Waltz, ‘ Pr&s do Toi ’ (Near Thee) Davcntry Ex, Tuesday. 4.5. Waldtcufel, arr. Winterbottom WHO IS SYLVIA 7- Master E. Lough-B2SSl. 3/-. Tono Poem, ‘ Norwegian Carnival ’ Davcntry Ex.. Tuesday, 4. *5. . ERL KING —Peter Dawson—C1327, 4/6. Davcntry Ex., : Svendsen, arr. Godfrey Tuesday 4.52. j Dance Music MARRIAG ' OF FIGARO OVERTURE—State Opera 4-30 Orchestra. Berlin, conducted by Dr. Leo Blech—D1224, t Jack Payne and his B.B.C. Dance 6/6 Davcntry Ex.. Tuesday, 5.2). i rchestra "BARBER OF SEVILLE" — OVERTURE - State O Opera Orchestra Berlin, conducted byc Dr. Leo Blech— * DI294, 6/6 Daventry Ex , Tuesday. 7.0. The Children’s Hour , 5.30 RONDE DES LUTINS — Alfredo Rode—B2436. 3/-. (From Birmingham) Da* entry Ex. Tuesday, 7 15. TWELVE STUDIES (Chopin)-Backhaus-DBI 132 to * Husky ’—a Puppy Dog Tale, by DBi 3,86 each. Album Scries No. 62. Davcntry Ex.. Margaret Madelcy Tuesday, 8.15. QUARTET SATZ (Schubert) - Budapest String Quartet Songs by Wynne Ajello (Soprano) —01421, 6/6. London and Davcntry, Wednesday. 4.30. Gerald and Phyllis Scott in Old ELEGIS (Massenet) — Rosa Ponselle — DB1C52, 8/3. Timo Favourites Davcntry Ex. Wcdn sday, 6.-10 DON GIOVANNI - OVERTURE — State Orchestra. ‘The Biter Bit’—a School Yarn, by I’crlin. conducted by Dr. Leo Blech — EI63. 4/3, Daventry T. Davy Roberts Ex.. Wednesday. 9.0. SYMPHONY NO. 5- — Gloria Swansoa— B3158. 3/-. Morning Hymn ...... Hcnschcl Sumner Austin Davcntry Ex.. Thursday. 5.20. Elogy ...... Massenet Autumn Melody ...... Korestchcnko PANCE OF THE HOURS —“LA GIOCONDA"— Lovo’s Philosophy ...... Quilter Japaneso Rain Song ...... Marx New Light Symphony Orchestra — C14.3, 4/6. Davcntry ...... Gounod Ex.. Thursday.y. 5.25 Orchestra Exilo (Wandcrschaft) S NATA IN A ^ AJOR—“ KREUTZER1’—(Beeth­ Tho Droll Lover ... Feter Warlock oven) Cortot and Thibaud—OB1328 to l'BI33l. S/6 each. Suite, ‘ Russot and Gold ’...... Sanderson Album Series No. 8". Davcntry Ex.. Thursday, 90 Band ALLELUJA

i.15-2.0 A Symphony Concert 3.0 London Programme relayed from Daventry Relayed, from SOCU&f agbod The National Museum of Wales 6.15 S.B. from London National Orchestra of Walks present fora man Cerddorfa Genedlaothol Cymru 9.15 Local News To really please a man this Christmas Overture, ‘The Two Friends of Salamanca’ 9.20-11.0 S.B. from London give him a few pairs of Two Steeples Schubert No. 83 Socks. Good-looking ribbed Symphony No. 37 in G Mozart ... socks, ideal for comfort and service. 1,040 kc/s. Suite, ‘ Le Cid * ...... Massenet 5PY PLYMOUTH. (288.5 m.) . They arc made from St. Wolstan . W ool, the highest grade pure botany, 3.0 London Programme relayed from Daventry 3.0 London Programme relayed from Daventry and skilful dyeing and blending of 3-45 Mozart Trios, No. VI tT this super wool provides heathers, The Children’s Hour The Station Trio 5-15 ' browns, greys, lovats, etc., full of tone You are invited to hear The Toy Symttiony *•- Frank Thomas (Violin) and character. • of Haydn, played by Miss E. M. Hoofer’s Toy 0 /Z :. Over thirty separate ingrain shades arc Ronald Harding (Violoncello) Symphony Orchestra Hincluded in the ‘83* range—a shade for Hubert Pengelly (Pianoforte) 6.0 London Programme relayed from Daventry Trio in B Flat = V; ever>’ suit* Allegro assai; Adagio ; Rondo . Give Two Steeples No. S3 Socks, 6.15-11.0 S.B. from London (9.15 Mid-week - “* ~ v.; excellent alike for comfort, wear and 4.5 William Davies (Bass) Sports Bulletin ; Local Nows) Cymru ...... If. S. Hughes ...... Aiken Maire, my Girl...... 797 kc s. Glorious Devon...... Qcrman 2ZY MANCHESTER. <376.4 m. Trio

Pieces Nos. 3 and 4 ...... Bruch 3.0 London Prograramo relayed from Daventry ■ 1 ■ 3.25 An Afternoon Concert Xf: ;- ST. WOLSTAN WOOL UNDERWEAR The Northern Wireless Orchestra Margaret Rees (Soprano) TOT iTlltlZZ in n«rmv lllCLSlLtililLL Winifred Astley (Pianoforte)

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’ .-Vvr. December 13, 1929. RADIO TIMES 805 WIRELESS FOR THE BLIND. HRISTMAS is the Generous Season— and brings with it many demands C upon our generosity. There is one cause abroad this Christmas which, by reason of its particular connection with the broadcast programmes in which we all have a share, demands special recognition in these columns. It is the British ‘ Wireless for the Blind * Fund. There arc 60,000 blind persons in Great Britain and Northern Ireland ; from 50,000 of these arc over the age of sixteen. Parliament, as we know, grants free wireless licences to blind listeners ; 15.000 of these licences have now been taken out. Among these 15,000 are those who have been supplied with free sets by the National Institute and the Country Associations for the Blind, St. Dunstan’s, and some local Wireless for the Blind funds, such as exist in Manchester and district, blind people who have b«_en given sets by semi-public and private donation, and those who have bought sets for themselves. After making various allowances, a rough estimate indicates that there are still at least 20.000 blind people in the country without facilities for listening. Ireland says— We, who are fortunate in possessing sight, know what a blessing the wireless can be, to entertain us when we are alone, to cheer us up Top o’tlae : when we feel depressed, to introduce us to a new world of ideas and entertainment. If Broadcasting Moriatng 4 means so much to us, how much more does it mean to those who cannot see ? The answer is too obvious to require emphasis. , We have our daily newspapers, books, pictures, w Now, who’d be worrying ! : and cinemas to amuse us and keep us in touch 'I with current affairs. The blind have necessarily about a little thing like this ? ! V less contact with life, less opportunity for amuse­ ment. The Braille System has, of course, done Like what says you. Why, j : much to enable them to enjoy books, but not 1 every blind person is able to read with his cleaning a grate to be sure •«. fingers, nor is it possible to adapt more than a limited number of books to the Braille type. It’s easy as winking when you J ■ The broadcast programmes, therefore, are both : book and newspaper to the majority of blind do it right. And that means people. It is unthinkable that any effort should I be spared to provide each one of them with a set. Zebo. Zebo in the special This is the object of the British ‘ Wireless for the Blind ’ Fund, the committee of which repre­ sprinkler tin. Zebo that sents all British Societies working for the wel­ fare of the blind population. H.R.H. the Prince gives grates and ranges and of Wales has honoured this cause by becoming its President; the lion. Treasurer is the Rt. stoves a clean, black, happy- Hon. Reginald McKenna. The Chairman of the Committee, whose offices arc at 226, Great looking shine, Zebo that Portland Street, W.i, is Captain Sir Beachcroft Tovje, V.C., with Captain Ian Fraser as Vice- is so quick and clean and Chairman and Mr. W. McG. Eager as Secretary. The Fund has the whole-hearted support of the easy to use. A few drops and B.B C. and will be finally launched at 9.15 p.m. on Christmas Day, when an appeal will be broad­ a little light rubbing—that’s cast from all stations by the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill. all you need. And when you The special type of set which will be supplied by the fund has been designed by the Chief stand back arms akimbo and Engineer of the B.B.C. and members of his staff with a view to its simple operation by the look at that grate—why, it’s blind listener. The standard which will be adopted is that of reception from one station winking back at you.” (i.e., two programmes) at good headphone strength. Already hundreds of these sets have 1 been ordered and will be available for distribu­ tion by the time Brookman’s Park begins to broadcast its alternative programme early in the New Year. No more eloquent champion could be found than Mr. Churchill. His appeal on Christmas Day will no doubt arouse the response Zebo ; which the cause merits. In the meantime, let UQUID GRATE POU$H us anticipate Mr. Churchill by asking those of our readers whose sympathy is awakened by the crying need of the blind for a fresh contact with the life which is largely denied them, to send a RECKITT AND SONS, LTD.. HULL AND LONDON. donation to the Rt. lion. Reginald McKenna, the Hon. Treasurer. British 4 Wireless for the Blind ’ Fund, 226, Great Portland Street, London. W» 1

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7-45 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19 9-35 A MILITARY 2LO LONDON & 5XX DAVENTRY GERMANY BAND 842 kc/s. (35^-3 m.) 193 kc/s (1,554.4 m.) TODAY AND CONCERT YESTERDAY besides some purely orchestral music which is still occasionally played. The Lily of Killamcy 10.15 a.m. THE DAILY SERVICE is a capital story of Irish lifo, based on the play, Trefor Jones 10.30 Time Signal, Greenwich; Weather The Colleen Baton by Boucicault, which many Cordovan Love Song...... York Bowen Forecast listeners must have seen. Diaphenia...... Harold Samuel Hoist thy Sail...... Florence Aylward 10.45 * Parents and Children'—XVI, The Hon. Trefor Jones Mrs. St. Aubyn—* Questions and Answers ’ Nellie Walker A Prayer to Our Lady Donald Ford 11.0 (Davcntry only) Gramophone Records None but the weary Heart Tchaikovsky Dai campi, dai prati (From the fields, from the Sink, Red Sun ...... del Riego groves) (‘ Mofistofele ’) Boito I have twelve Oxen...... -----Ireland 11.0-11.30 (London only) Posterity may possibly remember Boito best as Band t Experimental Television Transmission the author of more than ono of the libretti for Two Dances; ‘ Faust ’...... Bv the Baird Process Colcridgc-Taylor Verdi’s Operas. Ho was none the less a distin­ Danco of tho Witches (Brocken Scone); guished composer himself, and when in 1893 Dance and Chant (Devil’s Kitchen Sceno) 12.0 A Concert Cambridge University decided to honour one Waltz Caprice ...... Rubinstein Essie SrMrsox (Soprano) representative musician from each of the chief Geoffrey Heather (Bass-Baritone) European countries, it was Boito who was made 9.0 * The Second News ’ Olive Cloke (Pianojortc) Doctor of Music as representative of Italy. Weather Forecast, Second General News V Bulletin ; Local News, x.0-2.0 Organ Music cNATION SHALL SPEAK PEACE UNTO NATION.’ (Davcntry only); Shipping Played by Reginald Foort Forecast Relayed from The Regent Cinema, Bournemouth 9.20 Mr. Vernon Bartlett: S.B. from Bournemouth ‘ The Way of the World ’

3.0 EVENSONG From Westminster Abbey 9.35 German

3.45 Mr. J. W. Robertson National Programme Scott: ‘OurGreat-Grandfathers’ Countryside—VI, How tho Querschnitt Women Lived ’ A cross-section of an Empire. 4.0 A Concert Devised by Lance Sieveking Winifred Ransom (Soprano) Edward Nichol (Tenor) and The Bernard Russell Hari* Rolf Gardiner Quintet Assisted by Haley Simpson 5.15 The Children’s Hour conducting * Sir Franklin and the Little The Wireless Male Chorus Mothers ’ and Jack Payne conducting his From ‘ Anne’s Terrible Good B.B.C. Dance Orchestra Nature ’ (E. Y. Lucas) Arranged as a Dialogue St-ory, The German youth of today joins with appropriate music by hands across the centuries with tho Gorman youth who worked The Olof Sextet and sang beforo the Thirty 6.0 Musical Interlude Years War, colonising and reclaiming tho wild and marshy 6.15 ‘The First News’ *• Eastern provinces, bringing to Time Signal, Greenwich ; servile and barbaric forces tho eather orecast irst light of ideals and civilization. W F , F E.N.A. General News Bulletin Tho futile dream of an Empiro A National Programme to be broadcast tonight at 9.35. beyond tho Alps, and incessant 6.30 Market Prices for Farmers civil war, put an ond to this. This picture shows the Leipzigerstrasse in Berlin. As in the sixteenth century Musical Interlude 6.35 English strolling players were a 6.45 The Foundations of Music Oxford University also made him an honorary familiar sight in tho Germany of those days, Doctor of Music afterwards. with their Elizabethan songs, dances and plays, Handel Suites so in 1029 tho youth of Britain is welcomed Played by Nellie Walker when its young men and women visit the summer James Ching (Pianoforte) A Summer Night...... Goring Thomas schools in Eastern Germany. Tho ideals of other A Little Coon’s Prayer Kennedy Russell days are rocallcd, and in their dances, plays and 7.0 Mr. Francis Tote : ‘ Music in the Theatre ’ music a now understanding comes about. Band Great Germans remembered this evening:— 7.15 Musical Interlude Ballet Music (‘Romeo and Juliet ’) .... Gounod Martin Luther 7.25 Dr. J. W. Breadie : * Lord Shaftesbury ’ Fob many generations of French Opera it was Frederick the Great of Prussia essential that there should bo a gonorous innings Bach 745 A MILITARY BAND CONCERT arranged for tho corps dc ballet, and Opera Mozart plots, to be entirely successful, always had to Nellie Walker (Contralto) Goethe give opportunities for tho introduction of a Trefor Jones (Tenor) Schillor full-sized Ballet, In Romeo and Juliet it Schumann The Wireless Military Band takes the form of an open-air fete in tho garden of Hugo Wolf Conducted by B. Walton O’Donnell Capulet’s house at Verona. Tho garden is gaily Bismarck Band thronged with guests, and at first pedlars move Wagner Overture, ‘ The Lily of Killamey ’ . Benedict about among them with jewels for sale. Tho Haydn first danco is, accordingly, a ‘ Jewel Dance.* Beethoven Sir Julius Benedict, though counted ns among Then villagers appear from tho surrounding and many others our English Composers, was really a Gorman who country with garlands and baskets of flowers, made his home with us. He occupied a leading so that tho next number of the ballot is a ‘ Flower (Sec special article on page 781.) , place in the Victorian world of music; for Waltz.’ It is followed by a number for two solo about forty years he was looked up to as one of dancers, a country bride and bridegroom. It is IO.50-12.0 DANCE MUSIC its leaders. * Remembered now almost wholly called ‘Danco of the Fiances, An Invitation.’ Jack Payne and his B.B.C. Dance by liis opera, The Lily of Killamey, he won Another solo danco comos next—‘ Danco of tho Orchestra several successes, not only in tliat direction, but Veiled Damsel’—and tho. Ballot comes to a with sacred oratorios and cantatas. Ho left boisterous end with a ‘Gipsy Dance.’ Doris and Elsie Waters (Entertainers) December 13, 1929. RADIO TIMES 807

IO.I5 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19 FROM THE 5GB DAVENTRY EXPERIMENTAL 626 kc/s. (479.2 m.) MUSICAL Transmissions from London except where otiif.rwise stated. COMEDIES 1.10-1.50 Dinner Hour Service Conducted by Canon Guy Rogers Prelude, Sonata, No. 7, in F Minor..Rheinberger Christmas Carols by St. Martin’s Choristers YOU ARE LOOKING FOR Adcsto Fideles (arranged from a Gregorian Tuno) Organist aiid Master of Choristers, Richard Karg-Elert A wide range of Potter & Moore's de­ Wassell Choral Prelude, * In dulci jubilo1 .... Bach Relayed from St. Martin’s Parish Church, lightful gift coffrets await your choice Andantino in -B...... Franck Birmingham Offertoiro on Christmas Thornes Quilmant from Is. 6d. to a guinea. We illustrate 3.0 Symphony Concert below our two popular 5/- coffrets for Relayed from The Pavilion, Bournemouth 7.0 Dance Music Ladies and Qentlemen. (No. XI of the 35th Winter Series) Jack Payne and his B.B.C. Dance THE LADY’S BOX THE he ournemouth unicipal ymphony T B M S Orchestra (No. 187), contains a GENTLEMAN'S Orchestra bottle of Potter & BOX (No. 185), con- Conductor, Sir Dan Godfrey ! Moore’s Mitcham tains such useful and i Overture, ‘ Tho Corsair ’ Berlioz 8.0 Chamber Music LavenderWater.Com- - practical toilet articles : Symphony (No. 3), ‘ Eroica ’ ...... Beethoven JonN Armstrong (Tenor) pact Powder with Puff as Lavender Hair i Allegro con brio. Funeral March—Adagio assai. Albert Sammons (Violin) \ and Convex Mirror, Cream, Talcum Pow- ! Schorzo—Allegro vivace.' Allegro mol to— Leslie Reward (Pianoforte) Hand-Bag Tube of EAfH der, Shaving Stick, Poco Andanto Presto Albert Sammons and Leslie Reward Face Cream and a Toilet Soap and Bath Violoncello Concerto in A Minor.. Saint-Sacns . Sonata, in A...... Franck dainty Lipstick. Crystals. Allegro non troppo. Allegro con moto. Tempo Allegretto ben modcrato. Allegro. Recitativo primo —Fantasia. Allegretto poco mosso (Soloist, Antoni Sala) Tnis Sonata is probably unique in ono respect. Scherzo, ‘ Les Lut ins s’amusent (Tho Imps’ Frolic) Franck was apparently indifferent whother it cSofter*<$ Mo ofe '$ Emile Dens should bo played by violin or violoncello and (First Performance at these Concerts) pianoforte, marking it simply for ono or other ©1^ <&n$ lisb 1749 MITCHAM I .. LAVENDER, ,: To try our famous 1749 Mitcham Lavender Water is to know how really delight­ ful Lavender Water can be. ' Bottles, 1/6,2/6,4/6, etc. Gift Decanters,24/*,42A, 541*, etc. Obtainable at all Chemists and Stores everywhere.

Played by Reginald New on aro Relayed from The Beaufort Cinema, Wash- more effective on tho violoncello. wood Heath, Birmingham John Armstrong- Sizilietta ----- Von Blon Looking Back...... Dancing Doll , Poldini Sea Fret ...... O sole mio (O my Suii)..Di Capua, arr. Loiter From Afar ...... Cyril Scott Kathleen Gammon (Sopfano) The Huckster...... When Childhor Plays ...... Watford Davies Albert Sammons Lullaby ...... 1. ... Cyril Scott Pieces for Unaccompanied Violin Bach John Armstrong Organ Licbeshymnus (Love’s Hymn)... Selection, 4 Tho Gondoliers’ ...... Sullivan All moino Gedankon (All My Thoughts) Barcarolle, 4 The Talcs of Hoffmann ’ Gefunden (Found) ...... Strauss Offenbach, arr. Schmid Hoimlicho Aufforderung (Secret Invita­ Kathleen Gammon tion) ...... Music, when soft voices dio ...... Besly 9.0 Albert Sammons and Leslie He ward O lovely Night...... London Ronald Sonata in A, Op. 47 ...... Beethoven Organ Adagio Presto. Andanto con variazioni. Sorcnado Toselli Finalo: Presto. (Dedicated to Rudolph Danco of tho Hours (‘ La Gioconda*). .Ponchiclli Krcutzer) 5-30 The Children’s Hour 9.30 Students’ Songs (From Birmingham) (From Birmingham) 4 Father Christmas Calls ’—a Playlet by Mary by Richards The Birmingham Studio Chorus Danco Music by Philip Brown’s Dominoes Conducted by Joseph Lewis Band 10.0 4 The Second News * Tony will Entortain Weather Forecast, Second General News Bulletin 6.15 4 The First News * Time Signal, Greenwich ; Weather Fore­ 10.15-11.15 From the Musical Comedies cast, First General News Bulletin (From Birmingham) The Birmingham Studio CnoRUs and Orchestra 6.30 Organ Music Conducted by JosErn Lewis NATURE’S Played by Gilbert Mills Patricia Rossborough in Syncopated Selections LINGERING LOVELINESS Relayed from The Church of the Messiah, Birmingham (Thursday's Programmes continued on page SOS.) SOS RADIO TIMES December 13, 1929.

Thursday’s Programmes continued (December 19)

5WA CARDIFF. 968 kc'»’ 1,040 k/C8. <309.9 m) 5SX SWANSEA. (288.5 m.) 3.0 London Programme relayed from Davcntry 3.0 London Programme relayed from Davontry 3.45 Miss E. S. Simons : ‘ A Rural Industry for "W clsli Women : Furcraft—IV, The Fur-Farmers, 3.45 S.B. from Cardiff Harvest’ 4.0 London Programme relayed from Davcntry 4.0 London Programme relayed from Davcntry 4-45 Light Music 5.15 S.B. from Cardiff Bobby’s String Orchestra Relayed from Bobby’s Caf£, Clifton, Bristol 6.0 London Programme relayed from Davontry 5.15 The Children’s Hour G. 15 S.B. fro)n London G.O London Programme rolayed from Davontry G.30 S.B. from Cardiff C.15 S.B. from London G.35 S.B. from London THE FAMILY TONIC 0.30 Market Prices for Farmors C.35 S.B. from London 9.15 West Rogional News {S.B. from Cardiff) c Intimate Afternoons ’ 7-45 SINCE THE SIXTIES by John Palmer 9.20-12.0 S.B. from London No. II—‘Breaking it Off* Wilfred and Veronica are taking tea in the 6BM BOURNEMOUTH. Sft drawing-room IXTY years is a long test, but this tonic has survived it 1.0-2.0 Organ Music triumphantly. When you are Playod by s Reginald Foort run down, there’s nothing like From Compound SjTup of. H^jpophosphites The Regent Cinema Bournemouth “ Fellows.” For headaches, irrita­ (Relayed to London end bility and other troubles that assail Davcntry) you when your nerves are overtaxed, 3.0 London Programrao it is a great remedy. It pulls you m relayed from Davontry together. It builds you up. That 3.45 Mrs. Eric Sharpe : \ * Tho Romance of Six­ is why doctors have consistently re­ teenth - century Com- commended cc Fellows ” over this merco (with reference to the Fuggcr news-letters long period. They believe in it. and other contemporary It contains just those mineral f A CHILD THIS DAY IS BORN.’ writings) ’ ingredients that “ tired nerves” need. A Christmas Concert by the Bristol University Madrigal Singers is 4.0 London Programme being relayed from the University Union and broadcast from Cardiff . relayed from Daventry Insist on “ Fellows ”—the name tonight at 8.0. makes all the difference between 6.15 S.B. from London a good recovery and a poor one. 8.0 A Christmas Concert C.30 Market Prices for South of England Farmers By The Bristol University Madrigal 6.35 S.B. from London Singers Under the direction of Arthur S. Wabrell 9.15 Local News Recommended for Relayed from The University Union, 9.20-12.0 S.B. from London - Bristol 1,040 kc/6. The Singers SPY PLYMOUTH. DEBILITY, FATIGUE Carols: (288.5 m.) A Child this Day is born.. The Waits’ Song...... arr. Geoffrey Shaw 12.0-1.0 London .Programme relayed from NERVOUS AILMENTS This Endris Night ...... ' Davcntry Motet: 3.0 London rrogrnmmo relayed from Davontry LOSS OF APPETITE Gloria in oxcolsis Deo .. Wcclkes Madrigal: The Children’s Hour Lullaby, My Sweet Little Baby Byrd 5.15 "RUNDOWN" CONDITIONS A Dress Rehearsal Phyllis C. Brown (Pianoforte) * Dice Whittington at Strutham 1 Noel ...... Balfour Gardiner i ...... {Mabql Constanduros) The Singers Choral Songs :, 6.0 London' Programme relayed from Davontry I Sing of a Maiden...... Heath Grade G.15-J2.G S.B. from London (9.15 Local News) The Song of tho Raven...... • • f • A. &. Warrcll Carols: i arr. Kennedy Scott 797 kc/s. The Coventry Carol...... 2ZY MANCHESTER. (376.4 m.) Here wo como a-wassailing___ arr. Martin Shaw The Corpus Christ i Carol Martin Shaw FELLOWSTEADE MIBS

Phyllis C. Brown I2.0-I.0 A Ballad Concert The Sussex Mummers* Christmas Carol {S.B. from Hull) arr. Grainger Harold Ashton {Tenor) The Singers Evelyn Alexander (Violin) Recommended by Doctors • Carols: - . . Madge Morfitt {Soprano) ; ^“roilyVnd ^ Bougliton 4.30. An Orchestral Concert

for over 60 years W assail Song ...... arr. Vaughan Williams Relayed from Parker’s Restaurant Tho Twelve Days of Christmas Parker’s • Restaurant Orchestra 9.0 S.B. from London Musical Director, Laddie Clarke — 0.15 West Regional Nows. Anne "Gregory, tSoprano) . j B 9.20-12.0 S.B. from London {Manchester Programme 'continued on"'page 811.), December 13, 1929. RADIO TIMES 809 r v :

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Programmes for Thursday. The Very Latest Invention for the l (Manchester Programme continued from page 803.) 5-15 The Children’s Hour G.O London Programme relayed from Daventry DEAF 0.15 S.B.from London 0.30 Market Prices for Northern English Farmers 0.45 S.B.from London 7.25 Musical Interludo 7.30 Excerpts from a Performance of c The Messiah * (Handel) un Dora Labette (Soprano) The marvellous r.e-.o Sonomax Sound Amplifier, i secret of the amazing power of the new " Universal" Dorothy D’Orsay (Contralto) Fortiphone. No bigger than a wrist watch, yet Frank Titterton (Tenor) more powerful than box devices weighing many tbs. Robert Easton (Bass) 1 Leeds Choral Union Evert the Very Deaf Leeds Symphony Orchestra hear everything, everywhere! Conducted by Sir THOMAS BEECHAM Many who had been deaf io, 25, 50 years have found new interest and joy in Ufc through this :' Relayed from TnE Leeds Town Halt, marvellous invention, which is the result of 25 S.B. from Leeds years’ research by three eminent scientists. Easy to use, perfect in tone, the new “ Universal ” 9.0 S.B. from London FORTIPHONE responds equally to every note 9.15 North Regional Nows in the scale, every tone of the voice. You hear voices and music from any angle, at any normal h 9.20-12.0 S.B. from London hearing distance, as clearly as the whisper of the person sitting by you. No buzzing ! No crackling ! : No need to face the speaker, nothing to hold, no headband necessary. Other Stations. The tiny earpiece rests IN the ear and is invisible ; 752 ko/s on a woman, and far less conspicuous than eye­ GLASGOW • 398.9 m.« ; 5SC glasses on a man. The new “ Universal ” 10.45 Mrs. Murray McClymont: * Renovating your last 1 • year’s Danco Frock.’ 11.0-12 0 A Recital of Gramophone FORTIPHONE nevertheless surpasses the most Records. 2 30 For the Schools : Mr. Robert McLeod: * Muslo cumbersome box devices in its power to make the 1 Making (Term IV)—XII. Carols Old and New.' S.B. from Edinburgh. 3.0Dance Music by Charles Watson’s Orchestra, Deaf hear. Undoubtedly one of the greatest scientific ' relayed from the Playhouse Ballroom. 3.15:—Lady Margaret marvels of our time. Sackvlllo : * Old Edinburgh Worthies ’—I, ’ Somo Notable Scot­ i tish Characters’. S.B. from Edinburgh. 3.30 Musical Inter­ lude. 3.40 '.-Mid-Week Service, conducted by the Rev. Gavin Test the new “ Universal ” Kerr-McKay, Johnstone. 4.0 A Concert, The Octet: Sla- I vonlc Rhapsody (Friedmann). Dudley Stuart White (Baritone): Tho Blind Ploughman (Conlngsby-Clark); Homeward to You i (Eric Coates); At Tankerton Inn (H. Foster); Passing by (Purcell); If I were (D. 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10.15 a.m. THE DAILY SERVICE 9.20DO YOU LIKE POSSESSIONS? 10.30 Time Signal, Greenwich ; & & £ ft «t .# ft A Discussion Weather Forecast & between &J'- Mr. Raymond Mortimer 10.43 Recipes for Sauces and sicwr #> Stuffings lor the Christmas Dinner and v. Mr .Francis Birrell 11.0-12.0 (Daventry only) Gramo­ A & phone Records 9.35 Symphony Concert 'Pj \ Point at uimlv Tatiana Makushina (Soprano) 11.0-11.30 (London only) \ 'Kassaidull lowers /T\oom oFthrSix. \ rwnS(lf into the $ The Wireless Symphony Experimental Television Trans­ v X water of Orchestra mission by the Baird Process Cell (Leader, S. Ivneale Kelley) (iat£\ Koy Conducted by NICOLAI MALKO A Sonata Recital Although naturally at homo in a very 12.0 '^DrawbriJfA K special way in the music of his own Amina Lucchesi (Violin) countrymen, and especially the Margery Cunningham (Pianoforte) present-day representatives of Rus­ TUnnZZ I sian Music, Nikolai Malko is no 12.30 Organ Music Kocmv 3&chac& narrow-minded specialist. Listeners Played bv Stanley Curtis, oonO cannot have forgotten the impres­ L.R.A.M. sion he made when he conducted the Organist of St. Paul’s, Portman B.B.C. Orchestra in March of this Squaro CtTS T'E^Fll year—his first visit to London. Relayed from St. Maby-le-Bow Trained in the school of Felix Mottl, St. Anne Fugue...... Bach n he has all those magnetic qualities Choral Prelude on * Rockingham * of command over his forces which a Parry $ '#r & great conductor must possess, and Bourrce . ,. Handel Above is a plan of the Castle and Chateau of Zenda, in and in Vienna and other parts of Europe Elevation Guilmant around which most of the later part of the action takes place. where he has appeared, his forceful Toccata . Ala illy energy and thoughtful insight into ' his music have impressed the critics 1.0—2.0 A Recital of Gramophone profoundly. Records THE PRISONER Suite, * Christmas Eve ’ By Christopher Stone Rimsky-Korsakov 3.0 A Ballad Concert This Suite is taken from a little-known r- opera by Rimsky-Korsakov, Christ­ Constance Asttngton (Soprano) OF ZENDA’ mas Eve, based 011 a story by Percy Thomi’SON (Bass-Baritone) Being the Story of Three Months in the Gogol. There is a slow introduction, 4.0 Dance Music which depicts a frosty Christmas Jack Payne and bis B.B.C. Dance Life of an English Gentleman Eve in the country. Without a Orchestra break we arc led through the various By Anthony Hope scenes, all taken from the third act Light Music 4.30 of the opera. Retold for Broadcasting by Holt Marvell Moschetto and his Orchestra First there is a dance of stars in . From The May Fair Hotel CHARACTERS: the sky, a Mazurka, procession of 5.15 The Children’s Hour comets, and Czardas. Clouds cover The Earl of Burlesdon the sky and tho stars disappear. * Where’s the Lord Chamberlain ? ’ Rose—his wife Wizards and witches appear with Reno Worlov answers this most im­ Rudolph Rassendyll—his younger brother all the traditional symbols of their portant question in another ‘ Boot craft, and there is a wild witches’ Boy ’ story H.M. Rudolph the Fifth, King of Ruritania Colonel Sapt ------dance. Tho smith Wakula flics Various Violin Solos played by |in attendance on the King across the sky on a winged horse, avid ise Count Fritz von Tarlenheim D W and the witches rush after him. * Bumble’s House-Warming ’—more The Duke Michael of Strelsau, the King’s half-brother Through the night mist the lights about the Gnome Family (Mabel Count Rupert Hentzau \ of the town can be seen. A Vo are Marlowe) Captain Lauengramm .. [-Ruritanian followers of the Duke then to imagine a brilliantly lighted 0.0 Miss. Kate R. Lovell : ‘Maca­ Lieut. Kraftstein ----- * hall in the castle of the Czarina ; a roni Dishes ’ Polonaise is danced ; the Devil ap­ Major Bersonin—a Belgian'...... *| pears, and darkness falls. 6.15 * The First News * Captain de Gautet—a Frenchman [-attached to the Duke Time Signal, Greenwich ;Weather Tatiana Makushina with Orchestra Captain Detchard—an Englishman! Forecast, First General News Parassia’s Song, ‘The Fair of Marshal Straxencz—-Marshal of Ruritania Bulletin Sorocliintsi ’ Mussorgsky Josef—the King’s valet 6.30 Talk arranged underthe auspices Orchestra Symphony No. 9...... Miaskowski of the National Playing Fields Johann—the Duke’s huntsman Association H.R.H. the Princess Flavia—betrothed to King Rudolph Tatiana Makushina with Piano­ Countess Helga—wife of von Tarlenheim forte 6-45 .The Foundations of Music Song of Liubaslia (Tliel Rimsh Antoinette de Mauban—the Duke Michael’s mistress Handel Suites Tsar s bride)...... (Korsakov Played by Mother Holf—innkeeper of ‘ The Golden Lion ’ Brighter sings the lark J K°lsaLov James Ching (Pianoforte) Rosa—her daughter Cradle Song j- Mussorgsky Anna—maid at the Inn Gopak' ... 7.0 Mr. Ernest Newman : Tho Orchestra B.B.C. Music Critic Guard, Porter, Customs Official, Herald, Ruritanians, etc. The Story is told by Rudolph Rassendyll Overture Fantasia, Romeo and 7.15 Musical Interlude Juliet ’...... Tschaikovsky rpHE scene of The Prisoner of Zenda is first of all a restaurant ifj 7.25 Talk |; Paris, later a railway carriage on the line which runs through II.O SURPRISE ITEM 7-45 c The Prisoner of Zenda ’ ■*" Germany to Ruritania, finally in the little Central European 11.15-12.0 DANCE MUSIC Kingdom of Ruritania—in Strelsau, the capital, at a hunting lodge in (See centre of jxtge) the forest and around Duke Michael’s Castle at Zenda. The year of Alan Green and his Band, and Art Gregory and his St. Louis Band, 9.0 * The Second News * RassendyU’s adventure is indeterminate, but it obviously took place in the reign of Queen Victoria, between die invention of the railway from The Royal Opera House Weather Forecast, Second Dances, Covent Garden General News Bulletin ; Local and the revolver and that' of the telephone and the motor-car. News; {Daventry only) Shipping Produced by Peter Creswell. (Friday's Programmes continued Forecast and Fat Stock Prices on page 815.)

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20 . 9-o VAUDEVILLE 5GB DAVENTRY EXPERIMENTAL 626 kc/s. (479.2 m.) FROM Transmissions from London except where otherwise stated. BIRMINGHAM 3-0 Organ Music 6.3O BEST RECORDS OF Played by Light Music (From Birmingham) J. Albert Sowerbutts, F.R.C.O. THIS WEEK'S MUSIC TriE Birmingham Studio Orchestra Organist and Director of tho Choir Orchestral and Band. Conducted by Joseph Lewis Guildford Cathedral Sunday : " NEW WORLD " SYMPHONY-Scherzo Overture, ‘ Di Ballo * (‘TheBall') . Sullivan (Sir Hamilton llcrty and Halid Orcbcxtra) (Nos. 9772- Relayed from St. Mary-le-Bow 9773—4*. 6d. each). Dae. Exp. Georce Dawkins (Baritone) FLYING DUTCHMAN—Overture (Bruno Waller Preludo and Fugue in A Flat .... Maepherson Speak ...... Tosti and Royal 1'lnlharmunic Orchestra) (Nos. L1961-L1962 —6s. 6d. each). . Lon. A Dav. Andantino in A Minor, Op. 45, No. 2 If thou wort blind ...... Noel Johnson INVITATION TO THE WALTZ (Wdngartncr and Basil Harwood Friend o’ Mine ...... Basic Symphony Orchestra) (No. 9691—4s. 6d.). .. Sanderson Lon. A- Duo. Joan Vincent (Soprano) Orchestra MARTIAL MOMENTS - Modloy (H.M. Grenadier Guards Band) (No. 0065—4s. 64.). Lon. A Dae. Alleluja ...... Mozar1 Ballet Music, ‘ Lo Roi s’amuso ’ (‘ Tho Kina’s Tuesday : SIEGFRIED'S JOURNEY (Brnno Walter Cast from thy brow (Sosarrao)...... Handel Diversions’)...... Delibes and Royal Phllharmonio Orchestra) (No. L1636— 6s. 6d.). Lon. A Dav. I attempt from lovo’s sickness to fly... .Purcell 7.5 Cora Astle (Pianoforte) TANNHAUSER—Venusborjj Music (Bruno Walter and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra) (Nos. L1982-L1983 J. Albert Sowerbutts Consolation, No. 3 ...... Liszt —6s. 6d. each). Dav. Exp. Lo Bonheur otcint (Vanished Happiness) MARRIAGE OF FIGARO-Overturo (Conservatoire Hymn Tuno Preludes : Orchestra) (No. L1975-6s. 6d.). Dae. Exp. Hanover ...... Robin Milford Smetana BARBER OF SEVILLE—Ovorturo (Percy Pilt and Walsall...... Hilda Mi train Orchestra B.B.O. Orchestra) (No. 9166—4a. 6d.). Dae. Exp. Wednesday: MARCH LORRAINE (H.M. Grenadier Andcrnach Healey Willan Thome and Variations, ‘ Mozart iana ’ Tchaikovsky Guards Band) (No. 5473—3s.). Lon. A Due. Largo SOLVEIG'S SONG (Scbnci-voigt and New Queen's Hall \ Concerto in F, ■ In this, tho fourth of Tchaikovsky’s Suites for Orchestra) (No. 931 2—4s. 6d.). Lon. .1- Dav. Tempo di GavottaJ Sot 2, No. G William Felton orchestra, ho lias used four woll-nigh forgotten TSCHAIKOWSKY'I YMPHONY No. 5 (Mingel- berg and Concertgebouw Orchcstra) (Nos. L2176-L2182 Joan Vincent tunes from tho —6s. 6d. each). Dav. Exp. groat LYRIC SUITE -Dance of the- Dwarfs_ . :j (B.B.C. My Lover, ho Mozart’s Wireless Military Band) (No. 9845—4s. 6d.). Dav. Exp. I comes on tho smaller works, EROICA SYMPHONY (Sir Henry J. Wood and New presenting them Queen's Hall Orchestra) (Nos. L1868-L1874—6s. 6d. Skeo each). Dav. Exp. i • Clough-Leighton with all his ini­ DANCING DOLL (Eastbourne Municipal Band) (No. mitable skill in 5401—3s.). Dae. Exp. Soft-footed snow Thursday : GIOCONDA — Dance of tho Hours : Sigurd Lie orchestration. (Court Symphony Orchestra) (No. 928&-4.1. 6d.). !■ Carolling at In his preface, Dav. Exp. Friday : HUNGARIAN MARCH (Mongolbcrg and i Toon Tchaikovsky o x - Conccrtgcbouw Orchestra) (No. L1810-6s. 6d.). plains that his Lon. A Dav. i Herbert Oliver Saturday : POET AND PEASANT - Overture St. Nicholas’ Day wish was to rescuo (Percy Pilt and B.B.C.. Orchestra) (No. 9760—4s. 6d.). Easlhope these melodious Lon. A: Duo. Martin and gracious tunes Instrumental. from neglect. Sunday: BEETHOVEN'S QUARTET IN B FLAT J. Albert (LOner String Quartet) (Nos. Ll915-L1917i-6s. 6d. each). Lon. A Dav. : Sowerbutts 7.30 George Monday: REVERIE (William Murdoch—Piano) (No. Presto in B 4944—3s.). Lou. A- Dav. i Dawkins BRAHMS' SONATA IN D MINOR (Szlgeti-Vlolin, Minor, No. 3 and Ruhrscita— Piano) (No. L2269—6s. 6d.). of Six Cornet Up from Somer­ set. .Sanderson BERCEUSE DE JOCELYN (W. U. Squi7c-‘'Collo) Pieces (No. L2126—6s. 6d.). Lon. A■ Dav. Charles Burney ■ Becauso LIEBESFREUD (Antoni Sala-'Ccllo) (No. 3875-3*.). d'Hatdclol Lament in A THE SWAN (Lo Cygno) (Caspar Cas-wd^-CcUo) Minor Dawn Skies (No. D1600—4s. 6d.). ton. a Dav. Drummond Tuesday ; GLUCK'S MELODIE (J:l!l d'Aran.vi— J. A. Violin) (No. 5427-3*.). Dav Erp I HARK. HARK. THE LARK (Musical Art Quartet) Sowerbutts Cora Astle (No. 9475—4s. 6d.). Dav. Exp. Celebration CHANSON TRISTE (Bratza-Violin) (No. 4821—3s.). ! Study, Op. 25, . Da o. Exp. Wolstenholme No. 6. .Chopin ON WINGS OF SONG (J. H. Squire Celeste Octet) | (No. 9275—4*. 6d.). Due. Exp. A Ballad Concert Scherzo-Waltz, Op. 40 ...... Moszkovski Wednesday : HAYDN’S QUARTET IN D MAJOR 4-0 (Lener String Quartet) (Nos. L2257-L2259-6*. 6d. (From Birmingham) Orchestra oach). . Lon. A Dav. Couranto ...... Valentine, arr. Adlinglon SCHUBERT'S QUARTET SATZ (London String A Quartet) (No. L1679-6s. 6d.). Lon. A Dav. Alec Shanks (Baritone) Hungarian March (* Faust' ’"\) ...... Berlioz ELEGIE (Albert Sammons—Violin) (No. 9415—4s. 6d.). A Voico by tho Cedar Treo RUBINSTEIN;s VAI.se CAPRICE (J. H.,. - Expo Frank Staff will Entertain Bulletin James Donovan (Saxophone) 10.15-11.15 DANCE MUSjIC Now on Sa'p a* aU Stores and Dealers. Complete Catalooue 0/ Columbia " Xetv Alan Green and his Band and Art Gregory Process " awards—post tree—COL DM HI.-1. 102-103. Ctcrkeiucell Road. London, E.C.l. 6.15 * The First News ’ and his St. Louis Band, from the Royal Opera Time Signal, Greenwich; Weather Fore­ House Dances, Covent Garden cast, First General News Bulletin (Friday's Programmes continued on vage S16.) 816 RADIO TIMES December 13, 1929.

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SOME PECULIARITIES OF WELSH GHOSTS. c Spooky5 Stories for Christmas Eve—Commerce and Carols—A Revue of Christmas Cards—An Appeal for Cardiff Distress Fund—A Yuletide Playlet—N.O.W. Arrangements. Seasonal Thrills \ The Tall, Thin Man. Christmas Cards. HRISTMAS EVE, at 6 p.m., has been /~\ HOSTS, however, are not limited to A REVUE entitled Christmas Cards wilf reserved as an appropriate time to I "|r transparent versions of dead men, AA be broadcast on Christmas Eve, at C broadcast a few stories about Welsh they may also be giants, and the tale * A 9.35 p.m., the artists being Kenneth ghosts. Ghost after ghost for a quarter of an is told of a tall, dismal object which blocked the Ellis, Mary Cardew, Elsie Eaves, Donald hour, with the biggest thrill for the last—only path of a nervous youth, returning home late Davies, Sidney Evans, and Barry Kendall. In the most hardened sceptic will be able to resist at night. It was the ghost of a thin man whose this revue, the Christmas cards which have them ! There is, however, one important point - head was so high that the unhappy youth, in stood the test of time, and have become estab- to be remembered by those who listen to these trying to meet its eyes nearly fell over back- lished annuals, will be the basis of a number of stories. Welsh ghosts, I am told, are somewhat wards ! When the giant at last disappeared , interesting scenes. They will be both grave different to those of other countries, although the young man saw another strange object near and gay, but, naturally, mostly gay. Among the they possess the common factor of all visitants by, and when this, after cautious investigation, subjects chosen are the following : ‘ The Waits/ from the spirit-world inasmuch as they are proved to be no ghost but a friendly cow, he ‘ A Merry Knave toweth a Yule Log,’ ‘ A Period always picturesque and sometimes amusing. • leant upon her solid and comfortable bulk Card * (early Victorian Crinoline) and * Hands But they have no power of speech until first awhile. Some of the giants, as the giants in Across the Sea.’ A short pantomime sketch, spoken to, and even then their business must be the Mabinogion, arc black, like the giant who entitled Sindbad the Sailor, which pictures the demanded at least three times if necessary. lost an eye in fighting the black serpent of the return of this well-known hero to Tiger Bay, Cam ! After the full measure of ghostly tales will also be included in the evening programme, * Adieu, Adieu, Remember Me ! * is poured forth on Christmas Eve listeners will It will be in traditional pantomime style, with ALTHOUGH it is apparently difficult to be soothed and comforted by songs from the rhymed prologue and a Demon King. - persuade a Welsh ghost to speak, its popular soprano Margaret Wilkinson. A A conversation, once started, The Week's Good Cause. must never be interrupted. Only N appeal on behalf of the when you are assured that it City of Cardiff Distress has finished may you ask ques­ A' Fund will be made on tions and that promptly, or the Sunday, December 22, at 845 ghost will vanish. But the ques­ p.m., by the Lord Mayor of tions must be pertinent—no Cardiff. The objects of this questions must be asked relating • Fund are particularly appropri­ to the ghost’s name, nature, and ate at the festive season, and manner of existence. Its in­ there is no doubt that the Lord junctions given must be obeyed Mayor will be listened to with to the letter. Many of the stories sympathetic attention on the to be told will concern hidden occasion of his first broadcast. treasure, for the popular belief is that if a person dies while I any hoarded money is still i A Visitor for Christmas' hidden secretly the spirit of . MORTON HOWARD is that person will be unable to the author of the Yule- rest. F tide Playlet, A Visitor for Christmas, which is to be A Bag of Gold. included in the programme at NE example of hidden S.30 p.m. on Friday, Decem­ treasure tells of a miser ber 27. This play is as excellent O at St. Donat’s, not far as many others from the pen from the Castle. After his death, of Mr. Morton Howard which his housekeeper became so have been broadcast from Car­ gaunt and strange that children diff. The action takes place in. were terrified of her. At last a cosy home with a comfort­ she confessed that her late able fire. The occupant ex­ master’s ghost troubled her, presses the wish that there whereupon the people of the CAROLS FROM THE CARDIFF EXCHANGE. would come a knock at the door l The Exchange Choir will give a carol-singing broadcast, from the floor of the But to tell more would be to village decided to hold a prayer spoil the story ! meeting in the house. While this Exchange (pictured above), on Monday, December 23, at 3.15. was in progress the good dame suddenly screamed : ‘ There he is/ and she Carols from Cardiff Exchange. Appreciation of the Orchestra. was prompted to ask the ghost what it wanted. AN unusual broadcast will be heard from rpHE weekly relay to Daventry of the The answer was heard only by her, and she A\ the Exchange, Cardiff, on Monday, I concert by the National Orchestra of presently inquired : ‘Where is it ? ’ whereupon, A A. December 23, at 3.15 p.m., when JL Wales from the Museum on Monday, in response to the answer which she alone heard, Carols will be sung by the Cardiff Exchange December 23, between 1.15—2.0 p.m., will be she groped her way to the chimney, thrust her Choir. The chairman will be Mr. H. Kendrick. an orchestral programme in which are excerpts arm up and drew down a bag of money. Then This is the first broadcast and only the second from The Mastersingers. Many Welsh listeners she fled from the house and, by the light of the year of the Carol Singing. Last Christmas the living out of the radius of Cardiff Station have moon, she was seen by some cautious followers choir was rewarded by a crowded Exchange, expressed their delight at hearing the orchestra at a distance, to vault a stile without touching it. attracted by something unique in the history from 5XX, but it is also gratifying to record Thereafter she fled towards the River Ogmorc. of the commercial life of South Wales, and the that a steady flow of appreciation comes from An hour later the old lady returned, being covered promoters were gratified by a satisfactory silver listeners who have no connection with Wales, with mud and much the worse for her outing. collection in aid of their Charity Fund. The There will be no concerts in the City Flail She said that she had thrown the bag of money audience joins in the singing of the more during Christmas week, nor the following week, down the stream whereupon the ghost acknow­ familiar carols. There will be three soloists and the orchestra, therefore, will be free to ledged her work by taking off his hat, making and a recital from Dickens’s Christmas Carol. give more studio performances. At an orches- a low bow and then vanishing, to haunt her no A notable feature of Cardiff is the way in which tral concert on Monday, December 23, at more. A Caernarvonshire ghost reversed the the headquarters of firms arc grouped together 4.30 p.m., Bernard Ross (baritone) will be the rule, for he haunted a man until he promised around the docks and other centres of in­ vocalist, and at a concert on Friday, Decem­ to deposit some money in a particular spot. dustrial activity. And the heart of the life ber 27, at 3 p.m., Linda Seymour (soprano) The harassed man did so, the money disappeared, of the port and commerce of Cardiff' is the will be heard. and so did the ghost. Exchange. ‘STEEP HOLM.' 820 RADIO TIMES December 13, 1929. 7.30 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21 9-35 REGINALD KING AN HOUR 2LO LONDON & 5XX DAVENTRY AND HIS OF > S42 kc/s. (356.3 m.) 193 kc/s (1,554 4 m.) ORCHESTRA VAUDEVILLE From 8.10 to 9.5 and 5 10.15 a.m. THE DAILY SERVICE from 10.50 to 11,15. Mavis Bennett 10.30 Time Signal, Greenwich ; Group of Folk Songs : Weather Forecast Scottish, Up in the morning early Excerp/s fro?n . car. Mackonsio 10.45-11.0 Mr. Arthur J. Bendy: French, Ni jamais, ni toujours . * Odd Jobs about tho House—IH arr. A. L. Some "Useful Recipes for the Homo ; Swedish, Folk Visa.... Merikanto ‘The English, Gathering Daffodils 1.0-2.0 Light Music car. Arthur Somervell Orchestra Moschetto and his Orchestra STUDENT Prelude and Allegro From The May Fair Hotel Pugnani, air. Krci$ler, arr. King Carolina. (Waltz) .. Reginald King 3.30 A Brass Band Concert PRINCE’ Humoreske Tchaikovsky ■ S.B. from Glasgow Mavis Bennett Relayed from the Piccadilly The S.C.W.S. Prize Band The Nightingale Conducted by A. Cotland Theatre. Song without words. . Saint-SaCns Sweet Suffolk Owl Elizabeth Poston March, ‘Wellington’ Zcldc The Bird in the Wood .. Tauberl Overture, ‘ Poet and Peasant ’ Suppe Book and Lyrics by Dorothy Donnelly. Orchestra Frank Gordon {Bass-Baritone) MARIE BURKE Music by Sigmund Romberg. Produced by Edward Scanlcn. Liebesleid (Love’s Grief) .. Kreislcr The Sword of Ferrara-----Bulland Pearl o’ Mine Fletcher Don Juap’s Serenade .. Tchaikovsky Liebesfreud (Love’s Joy) .. Kreislcr Ella Gardner (Soprano) CAST By no moans the least effective pieces The Violet...... ,Mozart which Kreislcr has added to thp Good dav, said the blackbird .. Gcchl In order of their appearance. violinist’s repertoire, earning tho What’s in the air today 1-----Eden First Lackey ...... Reginald Austin sincero thanks of all his colleagues, Second Lackey ...... Adrian Burgon eminent and humble, arc two old Band Third Lackey ...... '...... F. Warren Viennese tunes, one called Selection, 4 Songs of Scotland ’ Fourth Lackey ...... Clifford Kennedy ‘ Love's Grief ’ and the other Pound Fifth Lackey ...... John McDonald ‘ Love’s Joy.’ As befits tho city Frank Gordon Von Mark (Prime Minister)...... Wilfred Essex where, more than anywhere clso j When the kyo comos 1 arr. IF. Doctor Engel {Prince Karl's Tutor) ...... Harry Brindle in Europe, dancing is a tradition, : hnmo...... i- II igham Prince Karl Franz (Heir to the Throne) . ...Donald Mather and indeed more than that, part of Green grow the Rashes O'J Parker Ruder {Innkeeper of Three Golden Apples') .. Frank J. Arlton the very air tho citizens breathe, it : Gretchcn {his daughter)...... Florence Desmond is appropriate that they should Ella Gardner Toni (fVaiter) ...... Fred Terriss both bo in dance measures, with a My hc’rfc is sair. .arr. Wilfred Senior Dctlcf {Student) ...... David Henley very taking and catching melody The Spinning "Wheel Lucas {Student) ...... C. Schaefer in their melodic line. ICrcislor lias arr. Alfred Stella Von Astcrbcrg (Student) ...... Emil De Vellen not only preserved that admirably, Band Nicholas (Flute Player)...... S. Watson but lias fitted both tunes with de­ : La Fourni ...... Greenwood Katbie (Ruder's Niece)...... Stella Browne lightfully effective accompaniments. To hear him play them himsolf is, ; W. C. Crozier (Cornet) Lutz (Prince Karl's Valet) ...... George Hassell Hubert (Lutss' servant)...... Sydney Arnold of course, ideal, but they do not ■ Tone Poem, 4 Victory ’ .. Jenkins depend wholly on the wonderful Appearing in Second excerpt only. verve and rhythm with which ho , 4.45 Orchestral Selection j Princess Margaret (betrothed to Prince KarI)...... Marie Burke can infuse all his music; in tho Conducted by Charles Williams I Grand Duchess Anastasia (her mother) ...... Alice O’Day hands of any good artist they aro Relayed from Davis’ Theatre, I Rudolph Winter (Kathic's Fiance) ...... Ian McCarthy certain of their piquant effect. Croydon Chorus of Flower Girls, Waitresses, Ladies in-Waiting, Guests at die Palace, Students at Heidelberg. 8.10 cThe Student Prince’ 5.15 The Children’s Hour Conductor, Ernest Irving. (See centre of page) Southward Ho !—No. V 8.10-9.5 (a) Prologue : Ante-chamber in the Palace at Karlsbcrg —this time * Grogan’s Adventure,* I * The Second News ’ written specially for broadcasting I (b) Act I.—Garden of the ‘ Three Golden Apples ’ Inn. Heidelberg. 9-5 The Student Prince and heir to by Franklyn Kelsey Weather Forecast, Second the throne of Karlsbcrg, is Prince General News Bulletin ; Local C.O Musical Interlude j Karl Franz (Donald Mather) who, Nows; (Davcnlry only) Shipping going to-Heidelberg with his tutor. Forecast and Fat Stock Prices 6.15 4 The First News ’ j Dr. Engel (Harry Brindle), to com­ plete his education, falls in love with Time Signal, Greenwich ; We a- I 9.25 Mr. Gerald Barry : ‘The ther Forecast, First General j Kathie (Stella Browne), although offi Week in London ’ News Bulletin': Announcements J daily betrothed to Princess Margaret aud Sports Bulletin *0.50-11.15 940 Vaudeville C.40 Musical Interlude (a) Intermezzo: The Serenade. (b) Act IV—Scene as in Act 1. Leonard Henry (Comedian) 6.45 The Foundations of Music Two years have elapsed. Prince The Masks (Vocal Trio) Karl has succeeded to the throne, but Handel Suites Horace Kenney (Comedian) postponed his marriage to Princess Played bj- Margaret (Marie Burke), who now Wish Wynne (In Character Studies) James Ching (Pianoforte) visits Heidelberg in search of Kathie. Jack Payne and his B.B.C. Dance The King arrives shortly after. In Orchestra 7.0 Mr. Basil Maine : 4 Next Week’s I the denouement the King marries Broadcast Music * I Margaret, and Kathie her betrothed, 10.50 cThe Student Prince* Rudolph Winter. 7.15 The Week’s Work in the Garden I (Continued) by the Royal Horticultural Society I STELLA BROWNE as 11.15-12.0 DANCE MUSIC 7-Bo An Orchestral Concert j Kathie Ambrose’s Band from The May Mavis Bennett (Soprano) Fair Hotel and DONALD MATHER , Reginald King and his Orchestra I as Prince KarJ. (Saturday's Programmes continued Romance and Two Dances German I on page 823.) ft

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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21 10.20 A i 5GB DAVENTRY EXPERIMENTAL 626 kc/s. (479.2 m.) BALLAD Transmissions from London except where otherwise stated. CONCERT LCL^y I Dance Music 3-30 Joyce Rollitt and Orchestra bios-Split. (From Birmingham) Pianoforto Concerto in F Minor, Op. 2 Arensky Billy Francis and his Band Allegro Maestoso, allegro vivaco ; Andante con moto ; Scherzo Finale—allegro molto—Presto toe on iy Relayed from The West End Dance Hall More than, other members of tho modem Russian Evelyn Drente (Light Songs) school of composers, wo think of Aronsky as SHAVING BRUSH having carried on Tchaikovsky's tradition, 4.30 A CONCERT though without so rich a share of poetic idca9, this big Mary Crauford (Soprano) and without Tchaikovsky’s gift of dramatic

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DR. JOHNSON * THE FOURTH OF THE 1709-1784 REFUSALS of MARGARET “ Sir; 1 have found you an argument \1 by John Palmer but I am not obliged to find you an i will be broadcast from Cardiff tonight at 7.30’' understanding. ” * * ★ Margaret is sitting alone on a large settee in the small Napoleon Room in the Palais du The above is a specimen of the style Petit Luxembourg. It is eleven o’clock on of Dr. Johnson’s conversation ; rather the morning of an International Conference. brusque and overbearing. In the case | PERCY | MARGARET of Iron Jelloids there is no necessity to On the floor at her feet is a solid block of do more than supply the argument, documents about half as high as a man. Margaret is reading a document with a which is not so involved and recondite wry face. Percy suddenly appears—as though looking for something. as to require interpretation. Anaemia or poorness of blood means or follows a decrease in the red corpuscles in the 0.15 S.B. from London Orchestra blood. A course of Iron Jelloids in­ Overture, ‘Hansel and Grotel’ .. .Humperdinck creases the number of red corpuscles 7.0 Mr. Cyril Jenkins : * Tho Music of Wales— This fairy tale Opera, by Humperdinck, to a in the blood, therefore a course of Iron '1 Music Past and Present ’ story written by his sister, was produced in Jelloids is useful in cases of Anaemia tho first instanco without any thought of public or poorness of blood. 7.15 S.B. from London performance, intended only for tho amusement of young pcoplo in tho Humperdinck’s circle of For AN/EM1A (shown by Breathless­ The Refusals of Margaret acquaintance. But the world at largo was not 7.30 ness on slight exertion, Pallor, Depres­ by to bo denied such attractive music, and tho John Palmer Opera lias long since won a world-wide popu­ sion and Weakness) Doctors have for larity. It makes uso in tho most skilful and many years prescribed the well-known Tho Fourth Refusal fascinating way of actual German folk-tunes, Iron Jelloids No. 2—there is nothing Percy and its melodies throughout are of tho simplest better. (See centre of page) and most immediately pleasing order. Tho Overture begins with the Evening Prayer which tho children sing before lying down to sleep in For DEBILITY. WEAKNESS and A Popular Concert tho woods, the prayer in which they ask for four­ NERVINESS. Men find The Ideal 7-45 teen angels to watch over them till morning:— Relayed from Tonic and Restorative in Iron Jelloids ‘ Two at my head to guard my thoughts, No. 2A containing quinine. The Assembly Room, City Hall, Cardiff Two at my foot to guido my stops, Joun Thorne (Baritone) Two on my loft to watch my heart,’ and so on. National Orchestra of Wales Then there breaks in tho stirring music of tho (Cerddorfa Gencdlacihol- Cymru) witch and her gingerbread house; tho merry­ (Leador, Louis Levirus) making of tho children is heard, too, and tho song of thanksgiving at their deliverance from tho Conducted by Warwick Braithwaite witch’s spoil; but the music of tho Prayer Enrich the Blood—Restore Energy dominates most of the Overture, and it is welded Christmas Overture Colcridge-Taylor with tlio other times in the most cunning way. For WOMEN.. ..IRON JELLOIDS No. 2 A good deal of Coloridgc-Taylor’s music was For CHILDREN. .IRON JELLOIDS No. 1 written originally for tho stago, and lid provided 9.5 S.B. from London For MEN IRON JELLOIDS No. 2A incidental music for more than ono of Sir Herbert Treo’s productions, In 1910 Sir Herbort 9.20 West Regional News Oj all Chemists, 113. Large economical size, 3/- proposed to produce a fairy play by Alfred A Noyes, and commissioned Colcridge-Taylor to 9.25-12.0 S.B. from London eomposo \ tho music. Tho production did not k (Saturday's Programmes continued on page 926.)

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12.0-12.45 S.B. from Cardiff 7.30 Round the Northern Region Tjie Northern Wireless Orchestra. 3.30 Glasgow Programme relayed from Daventry Overture, * Opera Bouffe ’ ..' ...... Finch 4.45 London Programme relayed from Davcntry Waltz, ‘ Tlie Emperor ’ .... Johann Strauss 5.15 S.B. from Cardiff George Hill and his Male Voice Quartet 6.0 Mr. Rowe Harding : ‘ Rugby Football in (S.B. from Liverpool) the West—Christmas Holiday Programme ’ Sea Shanties : G.15 S.B. from London Fire Down Below | arr. Taylor-Harris Stormalong ..... 0.40 S.B. from Cardiff Sally Brown .... ' |arr. I?. I?. Terry 0.45 S.B. from London Shenandoah .... 7.0 S.B. from Cardiff Hullabaloo Balay...... arr. Taylor-Harris 7.15 S.B. from London Tom Clough (Northumberland Pijycr) (S.B. from Newcastle) 7.30 S.B. from Cardiff Felton Lonnon...... 9.20 West Regional News. S.B. from Cardiff New Highland Laddie...... Traditional 9.25-12.0 S.B. from London Bobby Shaftoe...... Orchestra 1.040 kc/s Selection, 4 The Desert Song ’ Romberg 6BM BOURNEMOUTH. <288.5 md Stainless Stephen in Christmas Bleatings 12.0-1.0 A Gramophone Recital (S.B. from Sheffield) 3.30 Glasgow Programme relayed from Daventry Orchestra Scdnc do Ballet ...... Percy Pitt 4.45 London Programme relayed from Daventry George Hill and Quartet G.15 S.B. from London Can’t you dance the Tolka ? ...... arr. Mocran A-ro.ving -----arr. Greaves 0.40 Sports Bulletin Lowlands . . .arr. T. Harris Rio Grande...... | arr. R. B. Terry 0.45 S.B. from London Blow the man down 9.20 Local News Orchestra Shepherd Fennel’s Dance .... Balfour Gardiner 9.25-12.0 S.B.from London 9.5 S.B. from London 1.040 KC/S 9.20 North Regional Nows . . SPY PLYMOUTH. (288.5 m.) 9.25-12.0 S.B. from London 12.0-1.0 A Gramophone Recital From Great Masters Overture,1 Die Flcdermaus.’ (‘ The Bat ’) Strauss Other Stations. Duet, ‘ Nocturne ’ Chopin, arr. Bcslcy Rondo Capriccioso .... Mendelssohn, arr. Mulder 752 kc/s. 5SC GLASGOW. (398.9 m.) A Christmas Dance Frank Bridge 11.0-12.0:—A Recital of Gramophone Records. 3.30:—A Song.4 Tartarus ’ ...... Schubert Band Concert. ThcS.C.W.S. Prize Band conducted by A. Cop- Selection, 4 La Boutique Fantasquo ’ (‘ The 1 *n*i. It ink Gordon (Bass-B’-r. ton«*l. Ella <-ar mr (Soprano). 4.45 .-—Dance Music by Charles Watson’s Orchestra, rclavod Fantastic Toyshop’).... Rossini and Respighi from the Playhouse Ballroom. 5.15 :—The Children’s Hour. Vissid’artc (I have lived for Art), ‘Tosca’ 5 57 :—Weather Forecast for Farmers. 6 0 An Eye-Witness Puccini Account of the Association Football Match—Rangers v. Motherwell. 6.15 :—S.B. from London. 6.40 :—Scottish Sports Return of Peer Gynt (‘ Poor Gynfc ’ Suito, No. 2) Bulletin. 6 45 :—S.B. from London. 7.0 :—Mr. Joe Corrlc : ‘ A Crieg Scotsman in London.’ 7.15 :—Musical Interlude. 7.20 :— Air dc Ballet, 4 Scenes Pittorcsques . Massenet Crunch.’ A Verso Piny by Gordon Bottomlev. Presented by The Scottish National Players. 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Naval Information ; Local Nows) 5.15 :—Tho Children's Hour. 6 0 :—Musical Interlude. 6.15 :— 8.B. from London. 6 40 :—Sports Bulletin. 6.45 :—S.B. from c 7 London. 7.0 :—Mr. E. Godfrey Brown : 4 Next Week's Music.’ 797 kc/s. 7.15The Royal Horticultural Society’s Weekly Bulletin. d a 2ZY MANCHESTER. (376.4 m.) 7.25 :—Musical Interlude. 7.30 ' Elian Vnnnln Through the Ages.’ A Manx Programme, written and presented by Malcolm A. Frost. The Orchestra, conducted by Philip SVhltcway. 12.0 The Northern Wireless Orchestra 9.5-12.0: —S.B. from London. for WILLS s Mona Greenwood (Soprano) 3.30 An Afternoon Concert THE RADIO TIMES. The Northern Wireless Orchestra The Journal of the British Broadcasting Ronald Cliff (Baritone) Corporation. GOLD Zelda Bock (Pianoforte) Publishcdevery Friday—Price Twopence. 5-15 The Children’s Hour Editorial address: Savoy Hill, London, G.O London Programmo relayed from Daventrj*’ W.C.2. 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FIVE HUNDRED PRISONERS IN A CHURCH. Another Interesting Historical Talk for Cardiff Listeners—A Hampshire Dragon—Old Songs for Old Folks—The Demon of Tidworth. TALK on Weston Zoyland Church will Blake), * Are such things done on, Albion’s \ WELSH Old Folks Programme has been be given from Cardiff by the Rev. shore ? ’ Yet, in the green meadows of the arranged for Cardiff listeners on Friday, A Gordon Hamlin on Monday, December Hampshire Avon, at Bistemc, there exist both December 27, at 745 p.m., when 23, at 4.15 p.m. It is one of the scries on * Old a * Dragon Field * and a ‘ Dragon Lane/ and the artists are Harry Lewis (tenor), Dewi Chubb Churches of the West.’ Weston Zoyland is the local legend, which tells how the ravaging (bass) and Winifred Lewis (soprano). This famous in history for the part it played in the monster was, in those very fields, met and fought programme is intended to bring back echoes drama which was fought at Sedgemoor, for it and killed by a mail-clad knight, has the support from long-forgotten concerts to the memories I was there that the Earl of Faversham had his of documentary and sculptural evidence which of old folks by the inclusion of songs which headquarters. After the battle, five hundred dates the combat as having occurred during the were very generally sung forty years ago, but prisoners of the rebel forces were crowded reign of King Henry VI. The legend is inter- are seldom heard today, beneath the roof of the church. Eighty esting in itself, but still more interesting is it to were wounded and five died within the walls, piece together the fragments of corroborative OST country villages have their ghost while the physical and mental suffering of the story, but the fame of the village captives was enhanced by the joyful pealing of M ghost seldom extends beyond its own 1 the bells overhead. The square tower of the Other Notes on forthcoming Programmes borders. Now and again, however, the doings : church rises to a height of 104 feet, and it is of a village spectre have startled a whole nation, considered that once it must have been as by *Mercian ’ and ‘Steep Holm * trill be found on pages 784 and 819. and never was there a ghost more famous magnificent as the great towers of St. Mary than the strange and malicious being known as Magdalene and St. James at Taunton. The ‘ The Demon of Tidworth/ whose behaviour i chancel is decorated in Gothic style, but the mystified all England in the distant days of rest of the building, including the east window, evidence. Interesting also is the speculation King Charles II. Even his merry Majesty sent is perpendicular. as to what manner of beast this dragon really courtiers down to the little village on the i was, and most interesting of all is the psycho- Wiltshire-Hampshire border to investigate the HAT, ‘ in England’s green and pleasant logical connection which our Hampshire legend tale of hauntings. Unfortunately, on that 1 land/ a dragon should ever have has with the world-old, yet perennial, problem occasion the Demon refused to function. But T harried herds and flocks and homes is of the conflict between * good ’ and * evil.* his activities at other times were gruesome and I difficult of belief; but, when the assertion Spectre or speculation as the case may be, surprising enough to satisfy any ghost-hunter, is made that this horror happened in historical those who would know more of the Bisterae and on Tuesday evening, December 24, Mrs. 1 times, the story is apt to be dismissed as quite Dragon should listen to Dr. W. 'Winslow Herbert Richardson will tell from the Bourne- incredible. The hearer shakes a sceptical head Hall’s talk from Bournemouth on Thursday, mouth Studio the remarkable story of ‘ The and murmurs shrewdly (again with William December 26, at 3.45 pan. Demon of Tidworth.*

BROADCAST OPERA SEASON, 1929-30.

The Libretto of Humperdinck’s

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is ready now. Broadcast Dec. 16 and i8, i with Notes on die Composer and the Opera. Price 2d. post free. The following are the remaining Operas of the 1929-1930 series: La Boheme [Puccini] January; Le Roi d’Ys [Lalo] February; The Bartered Bride [Smetana] march; Francesca da Rimini [Zandonai] April; La Basoche [Messager] may; (June not yet arranged); Shamus O’Brien [Stanford] July; Madame Butterfly [Puccini] august.

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.. \ . . . ■ • / culty was found in cutting out the new ^APTAIN P. P. ECKERS- 2LO. Capt. Eckersley writes : LEY, formerly chief The circuit used consists of two tuned engineer to the 23.B.C., in a letter circuits, aerial and high frequency. These circuits are used in continuation with printed below, answers questions second valve and represent a perfectly by Daily Mail readers regarding his straightforward arrangement wnich, if recent experiment in cutting out used with the shorter aerial, give a per­ from Head Brookman’s Park, the powerful new fectly adequate reception of certain an 2LO transmitting station. foreign stations. ima His success m getting five foreign I think your correspondents would do stations in five minutes on a three- well still further to shorten their aerials, S valve set on Hampstead Heath, as well because that is usually the basis of all H* as Brookman's Park and &GB (Daventry selectivity problems. If they like to put in a .0001 scries Experimental) without the slightest condenser in the long aerial, that too difficulty was described in these helps, but ray advice is always to cut columns. down the aerial. This will not militate It was pointed out diat Hampstead against the receiving of worth-while was consiidered part of the " wipe out” foreign stations, and it will give ju6t the area, but, witih a 30ft. aerial no diffi* amount of selectivity required.

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