SOPPLEMENT TO RADIO TIMES FEBRUARY 19, 1937 I RADIO TIMES I VISION SUPPLEMENT

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HELPING HENRY HALL The Three Sisters, Molly, Marie, and Mary, help Henry Hall to choose the music for the television recital he is to give on Friday this week. 2 RADIO TIMES TELEVISION SUPPLEMENT, FEBRUARY 19, I937 TELEVISION A WEEKLY PAYMENT OF

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MARCONI— THE REAL THING RADIO TIMES TELEVISION SUPPLEMENT, FEBRUARY 19, I937 3 WITHIN SIGHT OF THE POLAR SEA

1 n the summer of 1934 Ian Oxford University EDWARD SHACKLETON I Expedition, under the leadership of Dr. Noel tells the story of the Oxford University Humphreys and organ• ised by myself, sailed Expedition to Ellesmere Land, which i I from England for the will be the subject of his television unknown ice caps and mountains of the inte• lecture on Monday this week. 'MM rior of Ellesmere Land. Photographs by Edward Shackleton Violent storms in the from his book, 'Arctic Journeys" "^ Atlantic delayed the .;;.** ~~] \ outward passage, but finally we reached Disko Island, off the western coast of Greenland, where we called to pick up sledge dogs. Eskimos in kyaks come out to greet the ship After a short stop there, we headed north once again hoping to force our way through began to weaken under the strain, but the ice to North latitude 81, where we not before a range of new mountains intended to establish our winter quarters 10,000 feet high had been discovered; in Northern Ellesmere Land. But being Moore himself climbed to a height of met by a huge jam of floe ice more than 9,000 feet, where he planted the twenty feet thick, interspersed by ice Union Jack presented by His Majesty blocks, which blocked the whole of Smith King George VI—then the Duke Sound, we were compelled to winter at of York—in a latitude 82.30 North, Etah, Northern Greenland. Before land• within sight of the Polar Sea. ing we were able to hunt a large number The other parties also carried out of walrus, and scenes both of this hunt And ice, high, successful journeys and brought back and of the voyage out—including came floating by, maps of new mountain ranges and some the ship's encounters with As green as valuable geological collections. In the the floes—were filmed. It emerald !' course of these journeys the members of is proposed to televise the Expedition drove their own sledges. them in my broadcast on The technique necessary for travelling February 22. During the over rough polar pack ice is an extremely autumn we built our hut complicated one. Yet in spite of our initial and prepared for the winter, lack of experience and thanks very which was to be spent in one largely to the Eskimos, we were able to of the windiest places in the reach our objectives and return to the world. In spite of the loss of base without hurt to life or limb. some of our dogs, we were able During the summer further scientific to set out when the sun returned, collections were made at the base, and after its four months' dis David Haig-Thomas in his kyak practising the expedition was finally picked up on appearance, in the harpooning narwhal, the swim• August 24, 1935. spring of ming commodity store of the Arctic. After a very eventful return journey, 1935 These small whales supply many needs of the Eskimos, and the skins cover their kyaks. during which our relief ship lost a propeller about 700 miles off the coast of Some of the seventy sledge dogs on board the expedition's ship, Signa/horn, wonder when Scotland, we landed in the Outer Hebrides they will see land again fit and well, on October 11, 1935.

Three parties took the field, each having its specific objective. We had with us twelve Eskimos and more than a hundred and twenty dogs. Perhaps the most important discoveries were made by Sergeant Stallworthy and Moore in Grant Land, the exploration of which was the main object of the expedition. After a 300-mile journey, they successfully reached Lake Hazen in Northern Ellesmere Land, and from there a way was found through lofty mountain ranges into the heart of unknown Grant Land. The dogs soon Edward Shackleton in the television studio describing life at the expedition's base-camp RADIO TIMES TELEVISION SUPPLEMENT, FEBRUARY 19, 1937 OLD VAUXHALL NEWS for TELEVIEWERS Ralph Hill introduces an interesting eighteenth-century masque to be Dewi Sant Forms of Address televised on Tuesday Saint Patrick of Ireland was a Welshman, Here is more information for those worried and some authorities say that Saint David of about titles. Leslie Mitchell is officially O mention Vauxhall makes one think of Wales repaid the compliment by being an Chief Announcer, Harry Pringle is Studio narrow streets with mean houses, a Irishman. It needs a clearer head than ours Manager, and Peter Bax is now Productions Tfamous junction, a thick web of railway to add anything to this. One fact is evident, Manager. lines with all the accompanying noises off. however; the two Celtic nations, Ireland and Peter Bax has been responsible for nearly Such is the advance of civilisation ! Almost Wales, revere their saints more deeply than all the original scenic effects at Alexandra within living memory the scene was of an do other countries. Very soon, on March 1, Palace. He models and he paints. For his entirely different world. In 1859, after it will be Saint David's day, and a special pro• work as an artist we will control our enthusi• 199 years of brilliant and crowded existence, gramme will be transmitted from Alexandra asm and merely repeat what a member of the Vauxhall Gardens was handed over to the Palace—a recital by the Royal Welsh Ladies studio staff told us : ' Mr. Bax is very good builder. Choir. indeed. He is one of those painters who don't Once upon a time—in the middle of the Madame Clara Novello-Davies founded try very much. You know what I mean— seventeenth century—the Hall and gardens this choir many years ago. A list of her a stroke here and a stroke there and the thing's belonged to a widow named Jane Vaux, and achievements would be finished'. His more forming a part of the Manor of Kennington, as long as the choir's striking successes include were opened as a place of public entertain• repertory. She is in her the Armistice Day pro- ment, known as the Spring Garden, according seventies, she is the jjF - gramme, Burnt Sepia, to Evelyn, the diarist, ' a pretty contrived mother of Ivor Novello, Murder in the Cathedral, plantation'. It was not until 1786 that it she has written books and and Cosmopolitan Cafe. became known as Vauxhall Gardens. composed music. But His unit set is now so Spring Gardens soon developed into the viewers will see for them• interchangeable and most fashionable and popular of all enter• selves what a remarkably complete that it is an tainment resorts. Pepys tells us that ' to hear vital person this grand exceptional show indeed the nightingale and other birds, and here old lady is. She will con• that needs much addi• fiddles and there a harp, and here a Jew's duct the choir herself, and tional material. trump (Jew's harp), and here laughing, and all the singers will be He is, he tells us, a there fine people walking is mighty dressed in Welsh national remote kinsman of diverting '. costume. Arnold and Clifford Bax. During summer afternoons and evenings the Thames—then as charming as the upper Nimb/e-Fingered Royal and Ancient reaches are today—was crowded with barges Gentleman and pleasure boats of all descriptions filled While we are not golfers, with merrymakers, all bound for the Gardens At the end of last month we like to read about it, with its twinkling coloured lights and gay the Three Musketeers of particularly when the music. musical comedy came writer is Bernard Darwin. before the television At the risk of irrelevance, In 1736 a large covered orchestra was camera—Stanley Lupino, we must add that he is introduced. Along the sides of the open Laddie Cliff, and Billy the author of biographies auditorium tiers of theatre-like boxes were Mayerl. They have been of Dickens, W. G. Grace, erected in which the guests could listen to responsible for many and John Gully, and that the music while taking supper or light successful shows—Over he is the grandson of refreshments. Many distinguished English She Goes, now running in Charles Darwin. For musicians were in turn engaged to direct those who want further the musical policy. the West End is an example. On March 5 Alex Moore and Pat Kilpatrick will give evidence of Bernard In 1749 the rehearsal for Handel's music Billy Mayerl, pianist, a further dancing lesson on March 5, Darwin's worth, we men• to accompany the display of fireworks in the composer, and conductor, tion also that he has Green Park, to celebrate the peace of Aix-la- with the help of a chart marked on the will be featured in ' The studio floor played golf for England Chapelle, was given in Spring Garden ' by Composer at the Piano ' eight times. On March 1 a band of 100 musicians to an audience of he will be seen in company with a pro• 12,000 persons (tickets 9s. 6d.). So great a series. He wrote, among others, ' Just Keep on Dancing', ' I Loved, I Lost', ' Southern fessional on the approach course at Alexandra resort occasioned such a stoppage on London Palace. Bridge that no carriage could pass for three Rose ', 'All-of-a-Twist', ' Eskimo Shivers ', hours. The footmen were so numerous as 'Jazz Master, Jazz Mistress', 'Marigold', to obstruct the passage, so that a scuffle and ' White Heather '. And here is a point Railway Exhibition about him which may surprise you. Before happen'd in which some gentlemen were Had we space and time enough we would wounded.' joining the old Savoy Havana Band, to establish himself as a brilliant syncopated describe in detail the many wonders of the By the turn of the nineteenth century pianist, he went to Trinity College of part of not occupied by the there appear to have been few forms of Music, and for some time gave concert-hall BBC. Suffice to say that there are stuffed amusement that were not featured in what recitals. lions and statues; a skating rink, concert hall, was now Vauxhall Gardens: firework dis• and dance floor; and a large variety of slot plays, balloon ascents, operas, ballets, and machines, from those that warn you of the concerts. More Light Fantastic dark girl to those that show you what a game If only television cameras could be mounted Four days after being televised, the English of football looked like fifty years ago. But on H. G. Wells's time-machine and viewers amateur dancing team went to Copenhagen the feature that appeals most to 'us is the could have a glimpse of Vauxhall in its most and beat the Danish team. While we are railway station which is actually inside the spectacular days ! I am afraid science will not claiming that the preliminary canter building. never be able to accomplish that. But on on the studio floor had anything to do with During the fortnight following March 1, Tuesday the camera will attempt to catch the result, we would point out that an outside schoolchildren will be flocking to the station some of the atmosphere in a mimed pro• broadcast of the M.C.C. playing on the to see a demonstration of rolling stock. They gramme of seventeenth- and eighteenth- Alexandra Palace slopes could be arranged will see the latest types of locomotives, century songs, with accompani• before the next series of Tests. sleeping, restaurant, and Pullman cars, Post ment, typical of the kind of thing heard at More dancing on March 5—the reappear• Office mail vans, signalling vans, and so on. Vauxhall. The background will suggest one ance of Alex Moore and Pat Kilpatrick, who It is anticipated that altogether eight thousand of the many charming alleys for which the will once again demonstrate steps with a children will attend. An outside broadcast Gardens were famous. The harpsichord to chart chalked out on the floor. The romantic• of all this has been arranged for the afternoon be seen and heard is an original eighteenth- ally-inclined will be interested to know that of March 6; in the evening, when it will be century instrument from the Benton Alex Moore and Pat Kilpatrick are to be too dark to leave the studio, there will be an Fletcher Collection. married early in April. exhibition of models. RADIO TIMES TELEVISION SUPPLEMENT, FEBRUARY 19, 1937 TELEVISION PROGRAMMES MONDAY FEB. 22 AND TUESDAY FEB. 23 VISION 45 Mc/s SOUND 41.5 Mc/s

9.0 The Oxford University ELLESMERE LAND Tuesday EXPEDITION 3.0 OLIVER WAKEFIELD Described by Edward Shackleton The Voice of Inexperience and illustrated by his own photographs and films 3.10 THE WORLD OF See article on page 3 WOMEN Houses or Homes ? 9.20 GAUMONT BRITISH A talk by ELIZABETH DENBY, consultant on low-rental NEWS housing schemes Illustrated by a model of a block of 9.30 CABARET new flats, with clubs and a nursery school included as part of the estate; GEORGE JACKLEY also a model of a flat, to an inch scale, Comedian equipped and furnished EDNA SQUIRE BROWN Dancer 3.25 GAUMONT BRITISH NEWS FRED BREZIN Conjuror 3.35 'VAUXHALL' DOLORES RAY A Masque arranged in Songs by BRANSBY WILLIAMS, DOLORES RAY will sing in THE MUSIC-HALL BOYS Stephen Thomas and Quentin Tod the famous character , in Burlesque with the cabaret programme on will be televised on Monday Monday evening Presentation by Harry Pringle Linda Gray A special point of interest about this Quentin Tod Transmission by evening's cabaret is the appearance and 9.0 THE WORLD OF of Edna Squire Brown, who has just WOMEN the Marconi-EMI system Vivien Lambelet returned from South Africa, where Houses or Homes ? she was the ' Miss Britain' in the Harpsichord from the Benton Fletcher A talk by ELIZABETH DENBY, World Exhibition at Johannesburg. Collection, played by Irvin Hinchliffe Monday She has made a big name for herself consultant on low-rental as a dancer in productions at the Produced by Stephen Thomas housing schemes 3.0 The Oxford University Coliseum, Alhambra, and other West- See article on page 4 Illustrated by a model of a block of End theatres. ELLESMERE LAND new flats, with clubs and a nursery 4.0 CLOSE school included as part of the estate; EXPEDITION also a model of a flat, to an inch scale, Described by Edward Shackleton 10.0 CLOSE equipped and furnished and illustrated by his own photographs and films 9.15 CARD-SHARPERS The Oxford University Expedition, AT SEA organised by Edward Shackleton and Commander A. B. Campbell led by Dr. Noel Humphreys, sailed On Commander Campbell's last to Ellesmere Land in 1934. As a appearance general disappointment background to his talk today, Edward was felt when his time was up just Shackleton will show a film of the before he could tell of the methods voyage out, including shots of a of card-sharpers at sea. In today's walrus hunt and the ship's battle with talk he will be surrounded with the ice floes. appropriate atmosphere: there will See article on page 3 be a film background of a liner at sea, passengers playing games on 3.20 BRITISH MOVIETONEWS deck, dancing, a view of the smoke- room, and Commander Campbell 3.30 VARIETY himself will be seen chatting from a BRANSBY WILLIAMS cabin. in ' How it's done ' 9.25 'VAUXHALL * FREDDIE, PHYLLIS, and ANNE Tap Dancers A Masque arranged by SAVONA Foot Balancing Stephen Thomas and Quentin Tod with GEORGE JACKLEY Linda Gray Comedian Quentin Tod ALDA and DORET and Knife Jugglers Vivien Lambelet Presentation by Harry Pringle Harpsichord from the Benton Fletcher Collection, played by Irvin Hinchliffe 4.0 CLOSE Produced by Stephen Thomas See article on page 4 All programme timings shown on these pages 9.50 BRITISH MOVIETONEWS are approximate 10.0 CLOSE (Programmes continued on page 8) RADIO TIMES TELEVISION SOTP1 Looking i

Alexandra Palace, home of television, does not run itself.

of the house staff that is there to keep -1

the larger tables. These tables withdrew into the tower. An were too wide to get into unusual and uneasy spectacle. the offices in the normal Now to return to more serious matters. way. Doors were taken off, Whom does the department look after ? I table tops unscrewed and In its way it looks after everybody at still the rule ot 'two into one won't go' held. Alexandra Palace. Take its daily work, E. F. Ambler, supervisor of house staff at Digressing for a moment, I have found for instance. Alexandra Palace that in a body of five men or so of the First, it cleans. Daily the department sweeps, dusts, and sets to N previous issues of this Supplement •" ; Jft-'"' rights twenty-six offices. T you have been entertained by the Daily it washes and cleans description of the work done by the some 35,000 square feet Production staff at Alexandra Palace. of passages, and 300 stairs; The department whose activities I shall daily it polishes brasswork attempt to describe is more fortunate in on doors, radiators, the that no new technique was required for doors themselves, and ban• it. Its headquarters are at Broadcasting isters. Weekly, carpets are House under the House Superintendent. vacuum - cleaned. There When Alexandra Palace came into being, are 2,000 square feet of the department merely added another window panes to be cleaned building to its list and supplied a team every fortnight, three times fully versed in its duties of cleaning, of that amount every month. dusting producers' desks (tidy them it can not, and dare not if it could), and of opening the doors in the morning, guarding them during the day, and Number One dres$ing-r< locking them up at night. Grosv:nor House cabare My personal opinion is that you will find the relation of these essentially department there is usually prosaic facts dull in the extreme. And this one ingenious sailor or I mentioned to the person who asked marine. And so it was in me to do the job. I don't think he saw this case. Despair had begun my point, and he dodged the issue by to creep in, when someone saying ' Strike the human note—that's pointed to the tackle that what we want', and out he went. was being used for hoisting Well, back in the summer, just when the material for the con• the builders had finished, the human note struction of the mast. He was particularly predominant. I remember said ' You go to lunch, sir, very well the furniture being moved in. I'll have those tables through It is necessary perhaps to explain that the the windows before you office portion of the building—all the come back '. offices are in the tower—was drastically When I returned he had re-built. Originally it had two floors; one been nearly as good as his used as a store-room and the other, which word. But not quite. He had been vacant for years, had been used had rigged up five tackles, as a club. but had not disposed his Out of this have been built twenty-six forces to deal promptly with offices and five floors, with the result that the result. As I came round the stairs, the passages, and the doors are the corner, my scalp lifted narrow, for naturally the greatest space slightly. I saw what seemed possible has been devoted to the offices to be a family of tables themselves. being executed. Tables The day arrived in July of last year were hanging in festoons when tables, chairs, bookcases, and filing down the face of the tower. cabinets arrived in what seemed to be And as I looked, the in• thousands. Undaunted but panting men genious one saved the situa• seized them and bore them up the stairs tion — bodiless hands (there was no lift then), and put them in stretched forth from win• their appointed places. At least, they bore dows at all heights, and everything to its appointed place except slowly, slowly, slowly the 'PLEMENT, FEBRUARY 19, I937 after them f. In this article E. F. Ambler tells you about the work the wheels running in office and' studio.

Under the heading of cleaning may reasonably, I think, come disinfecting. Television headquarters has to Regularly you will see a small boy deal with all sorts of animals. vigorously spraying offices, passages, The two borzois, Nijinsky and dressing-rooms, and studios with vapor• Julie, appeared with Dawnya ising disinfectant. Six times is this done and Petrov in television every day. Telephones likewise are Variety ; here they are with regularly disinfected. Mice and rats are Petrov in the dressing-room kept under through the department. after their act. Fortnightly the whole premises are scoured by experts. Secondly, the department admits. That is to say, it opens the doors so that all who should come in, can; and at night it carefully locks up, after seeing that every• body has remembered the time to go home. Thirdly, it receives. Through the medium of the department artists get to their dressing-rooms, and animals to theirs. Lastly, and all the time, it looks after them.

-room : the girls of the ret waiting for their call

The fireman patrols the studio corridors, en• forcing the 'No-Smoking ' rule. His victim in the picture above is V. C. Clinton-Baddeley, well-known broad• caster, who had just finished giving a stir hin: from his rapt pose, in which he television reading from A. A. Milne. was carried by the department to his appointed place. Must he then be The restaurant at Alexandra Palace televised in a comatose condition? Not has stars for its patrons. Above you so. A member of the department (the see Claire Luce and William Walker ingenious one who coped with the tables) ordering their meal. took a grain of cayenne pepper, dropped it on the turtle's nose, and whispered in his ear (and he was the only one who knew where a turtle keeps his ear) these And now for a last human note. memorable words, ' You're in the soup, One day there arrived artists innumer• unless you show a leg '. able, two accordions, one packet of chicken I will not record a departmental failure food, and a live turtle. The turtle had —but I will say that the turtle was not travelled some way on his back, and run in for speeding outside Broadcasting was lost in contemplation. Nothing would House fifteen minutes later. RADIO TIMES TELEVISION SUPPLEMENT, FEBRUARY 19, I937 TELEVISION PROGRAMMES WEDNESDAY FEB. 24 AND THURSDAY FEB. 25 : VISION 45 Mc/s SOUND 41.5 Mc/s

3.30 'PICTURE PAGE* Wednesday (Thirty-First Edition) A Magazine Programme of Topical and General Interest 3.0 JEAN MELVILLE Devised and Edited by CECIL MADDEN Songs at the Piano Produced by G. MORE O'FERRALL For several years Jean Melville was The Switchboard Girl: JOAN MILLER on the staff of the BBC as Variety accompanist. With Herman Darewski and Will Hay she gave one of the 4.0 CLOSE earliest broadcasts from Marconi House; but it was not until 1927 that her songs and piano solos were heard on the air. She was born in Sydney (incident• ally, she is distantly related to the great Arthur Sullivan), and came to 9.0 OLIVE FOX England to study the piano under Comedienne the late Oscar Beringer at the Royal Academy of Music. Dance music enthusiasts will recall several of. her compositions, such as ' Moonshine is 9.5 MODERN ART Better than Sunshine ', ' Just What IN STAGE DESIGN I Want', and ' Smile and whistle a A discussion on modern stage love song'. design between John Piper and Robert Medley 3.5 MODERN ART IN STAGE DESIGN 9.20 GAUMONT BRITISH A discussion on modern stage NEWS ANNE DE NYS facing a battery of television cameras at Alexandra design between John Piper and Palace. Viewers will see her again on Thursday afternoon. Robert Medley In this programme Robert Medley 9.30 'PICTURE PAGE* will bring to the studio several of his (Thirty-Second Edition) 3.55 ANNE DE NYS stage and costume designs, including A Magazine Programme of Thursday Songs at the Piano a model of the set for W. H. Auden's Topical and General Interest Ascent of F6, which was recently Anne de Nys is a very accomplished produced at the Westminster Theatre. Devised and Edited by CECIL MADDEN 3.0 DRESS PARADE artist who sings and. accompanies herself at the piano. This is only The discussion will be further illus• Produced by G. MORE O'FERRALL Forecast of Fashion trated by blackboard drawings and her second visit to Alexandra Palace, masks designed by Robert Medley. The Switchboard Girl: JOAN MILLER A display of dresses for the day-time but-sound listeners know her well: arranged by she was a member of ' That Certain H. E. Plaister and Trio ', for instance, and appeared with great success in the radio version of 3.20 BRITISH MOVIETONEWS 10.0 CLOSE G. R. Kenward-Eggar In today's dress shows—fashions for Spread it Abroad. She is now playing the day-time will be shown in the in Strange Barrier. afternoon and fashions for the evening 4.0 CLOSE JEAN MELVILLE, radio favourite, will be shown in the second pro• sings at the£fapo (^Wednesday*** gramme—Miquette, who has been described as the most photographed 9.0 DRESS PARADE mannequin in the world, will be one of the models. The dresses to be Forecast of Fashion shown have been designed in London, A display of dresses for the evening Paris, and New York. arranged by H. E. Plaister and 3.15 GAUMONT BRITISH NEWS G. R. Kenward-Eggar 3.25 HOME AFFAIRS 9.15 BRITISH MOVIETONEWS

Unemployment 9.25 HOME AFFAIRS A discussion on unemployment between (Details as at 3.25) Professor JOHN HILTON 9.40 Film and ' NEPTUNE'S MYSTERIES' Sir WILLIAM BEVERIDGB, K.C.B. Sir William Beveridge has been 9.50 MUSIC MAKERS Director of the London School of ARTHUR BENJAMIN Economics and Political Science since Arthur Benjamin, the famous pianist, 1919, and Chairman of the Un• was born in Sydney in 1893. He won employment Insurance Statutory an open scholarship to the Royal Committee since 1934. A great College of Music, London, and first authority on all economic matters, appeared on the concert platform at Sir William has a particular insight Queen's Hall in 1925, under Sir into the many problems of un• Henry Wood. His playing and his employment, about which he has compositions have been broadcast written invaluable books and articles. regularly for more than ten years. 3.45 Film 10.0 CLOSE 'JOLLY OL' LONDON' (Programmes continued on page 10) RADIO TIMES TELEVISION SUPPLEMENT, FEBRUARY 19, I937

s, 10 RADIO TIMES TELEVISION SUPPLEMENT, FEBRUARY 10, I937 TELEVISION PROGRAMMES FRIDAY FEB. 26 AND SATURDAY FEB. 27 : VISION 45 Mc/s SOUND 41.5 Mc/s

9.0 THE COMPOSER AT Friday THE PIANO HENRY HALL 3.0 HOW TO PLAY THE DRUMS 9.15 GAUMONT BRITISH and other Percussion NEWS Instruments Demonstrated by Gilbert Webster 9.25 FRIENDS FROM THE Accompanied by Harold Stuteley ZOO Presentation by Leslie Mitchell Introduced by David Seth-Smith Gilbert Webster is the drummer in and their Keepers the BBC Television Orchestra, and the xylophonist in Eric Wild's Tea- 9.40 Film Timers, who have appeared several 'JOLLY OL' LONDON' times in television programmes. For four years he was with Jack Hylton, and he has had the honour of appearing 9.S0 CABARET twice at Command Performances at WALSH and BARKER the Palladium. He is one of seven Duettists brothers, all of whom are musicians. Harold Stuteley, the accompanist, is also a member of the Television 10.0 CLOSE WALSH AND BARKER, American duettists, sing on Friday night Orchestra. 3.15 IN YOUR GARDEN 4.0 CLOSE 3.15 BRITISH MOVIETONEWS Propagating, Grafting, Saturday Cuttings, etc. 3.25 FRIENDS FROM THE C. H. Middleton 9.0 GRAVE AND GAY ZOO 3.0 GRAVE AND GAY The gardener must always look for• LANCE LISTER and NANCY POULTNEY Introduced by David Seth-Smith ward, and plan and act in advance. in and their Keepers LANCE LISTER and NANCY POULTNEY His stock must not only bear flower ' THE UNDERGROUND in or fruit, but reproduce with his help the younger generation to take its MURDER MYSTERY' 3.40 Film ' THE UNDERGROUND place. Plants reproduce their kind A dramatic sketch written for 'NEPTUNE'S MYSTERIES' MURDER MYSTERY ' in different ways. The carnation by television by A dramatic sketch written for layering, the annual and biennial by J. Bissell Thomas seed, the perennial usually by division television by and 3.50 JANE CARR J. Bissell Thomas of the root, the geranium and shrub in by cuttings, the rose by grafting, and ' CATCHING THE MALE ' and so on. It is of these methods that Character Impressions A comedy sketch by ' CATCHING THE MALE ' C. H. Middleton is to talk today. Ronald Jeans 4.0 CLOSE A comedy sketch by Produced by G. More O'Ferrall Ronald Jeans 3.30 GAUMONT BRITISH NEWS Produced by G. More O'Ferrall 9.15 IN YOUR GARDEN 3.40 IVORINE (Details as at 3.15) A Little Show 9.30 BRITISH MOVIETONEWS with LILLI PALMER 9.40 EBONY (by permission of Gaumont-British Picture Corporation, Ltd.) A Little Show with BILLY MILTON and NINA MAE McKINNEY JOHNNY NITT THE MASK THEATRE and Masks by Elise Passavant THE MASK THEATRE The BBC Television Orchestra Masks by Elise Passavant Produced by Dallas Bower The BBC Television Orchestra Billy Milton made his first stage Produced by Dallas Bower appearance in London in The Devil's Disciple in 1926. He has now earned In addition to a second performance a foremost position for himself, having by the Mask Theatre, this programme made a great success in shows like is notable for the inalusion of Nina White Birds, Shake Your Feet, The Mae McKinney, the famous coloured Bozv-Wows, Bitter Sweet, and Bow American actress and singer. She was Bells. In New York he appeared in born in South Carolina in 1912, and This Year of Grace and Fools Rush In. first showed her gifts as a stage artist His films include Young Woodley, when she was a chorus girl in the The Man from Chicago, Three Men original version of Blackbirds of 1928. in a Boat, Call of the Sea, Honours She came to London in 1933 to Easy, and Music Hath Charms, which play with enormous success in featured Henry Hall. Billy Milton Chocolate and Cream at the Leicester has also written several songs, among Square Theatre. Since then she has which may be mentioned ' I've Got established herself as one of the most a Man ', ' My Description of You ', attractive personalities of the theatre and ' No Thrill'. and film world. Her screen successes include Hallelujah, Sanders of the A MAKER OF MASKS. Elrse Passavant with some of the masks In the same programme viewers will see players from the Mask River, Reckless, and In Old Kentucky. she has designed for the Mask Theatre, which gives performances Theatre. All the masks are designed on Saturday afternoon and evening. by Elise Passavant. 10.0 CLOSE RADIO TIMES TELEVISION SUPPLEMENT, FEBRUARY 19. 1937 II

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". . . this imaginative and sympathetic study. Here are all those things his visitors observed and spoke of: the litter on the table, so opposed to the order in his mind; the crude, inadequate ear- trumpets ; the broken piano strings, useless, but just as useless taut

and tuned; the scraps of food, the scattered coins, the broken cup t and gutted candle; the scrap-books, those revealing records of ~T' HIS portrait of Beethoven inspiration disciplined, in which was written all his history; the •*• (slightly reduced in size) is one carpenter's pencils and the conversation book, dumb speech for deaf of a series drawn for the " Radio ears; the scrawled and rescrawled manuscript of one of the last Times" by Batt. The other quartets and the ragged, ill-cut quills he wrote it with; the bare composers represented are Bach, discomfort, the stark disorder; the lovely city beyond the window, Handel, Liszt, and Wagner. the unheeded squalor within the room: these were the things they The portraits have been reproduced spoke of as though they had been the whole of him. What not one in black on good-quality white could have seen was what is here imagined. Solitary, concentrated, paper mounts, plate-sunk, suitable indomitable, Beethoven wrote in those last months unceasingly: for framing and measuring 12| in. No day without a line; he had no other thought. by 9J in. Copies can be obtained Look again and see, framed in the rough coat and the tousled hair, for sixpence each, including postage, something else those visitors may have seen but did not speak of— from BBC PUBLICATIONS the soul reflected in the face. Behind those brooding eyes the true (T3), 35, HIGH STREET, Beethoven lay." MARYLEBONE, W.l.

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