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SUPPLEMENT TO RADIO TIMES, JUNE 25, 1937 I RADIO TIMES TELEVISION SUPPLEMENT PROGRAMMES FROM JUNE 28 TO JULY 3 NEWS FOR TELEVIEWERS Viewing on the Downs blushing Unseen R<Resartus Gerald Cock, Director of Television, hais In ' Coffee-Stall ', showing on Thursday A t the beginning of next month, on July 6, received several extraordinary photographis and Saturday of next week, S. E. Reynolds ttherh e will be a television dress display that of the screen of a television set in action ait will be seen as a customer. ' Coffee-Stall ' hhai s not been organised by H. E. Plaister long distance. The set is owned by W. RI. is the only show in which he has appeared anat d G. R. Kenward-Eggar. Nor is that all; Westhead, who lives near Brighton, abouit on the screen. He is a well-known figure mmor e sensational still, not a single woman 350 feet above sea level and about 57 mile;s behind the scenes, however, for he has wwil l be taking part. The clothes will be for from Alexandra Palace as the ultra-shor:t written several scripts for broadcasting, and mme n only. The programme will be a pre• waves fly. Mr. Westhead has been a viewe•xr he has found many subjects for interviews vviei w of a competition, organised by the ever since the regular programmes started in ' Picture Page'. IVMen' s Dress Reform Party, to be held the and despite the fact that his house is a longe followinfc g day in King George's Hall, way distant from the limits of the normajl Confounded Again TTottenha m Court Road. The fashions will service area, he has never failed to ge;t The paragraph written last week about bb<e unorthodox, therefore. Dr. Jordan, the excellent results on both sound and visioni. Alexandra Palace's Property Master and the foundefc r of the Party, will be present in Recently Sylvia Welling's mother visited giant drum needs revising. As soon as th e studio with some of the judges, who him to watch her daughter perform ait Percy Cornish read that the drum would not wwil l probably include Lewis Casson, the Alexandra Palace, and on Coronation Day be seen in the building again because of its wwell-know n actor and producer; Dr. sixty friends invaded his house to see th.ee size, he spent hours of his spare time in J.. C. Flugel, Assistant Professor of televising of the Procession. meeting what he regarded as a challenge. PPsychologyi , University College, London, and For photography enthusiasts : the camera By cunning manoeuvres known only to authoai r of ' The Psychology of Clothes ' (he was a standard make; the exposure was a himself, he has managed to return the drum gavg; e the commentary last April for the fire- quarter of a second at / 2; the time was thie as far as the scenery dock. Further progress wwalkin g demonstration); James Laver, author afternoon; the curtains of the room were may yet be seen on the television screen. olf ' Nymph Errant ' and books on eighteenth drawn; and there was no lighting other and nineteenth-century costume; H. A. than that on the screen. r- —j Rogers, President of the Association of London Master Tailors; and A. S. The Cat's Whiskers Bridgland, who is a journalist and a celebrity in the world of fashion. There This month the lake in the grounds of TELEVISING will be two categories for the prizes; one Alexandra Palace was the scene of a for the best designs for office wear, the regatta of model yachts. The same THE CENTRE COURT other for the best designs for ceremonial stretch of water will be televised again or evening wear. on July 5 when H. B. Tucker will superintend a review of power-driven The Men's Dress Reform Party has model boats. There will be models of The experiment of televising play on the already helped to bring about revolu• launches, tugs, river steamers, and liners, tionary changes in men's dress, such as most of them made strictly to scale and Centre Court at Wimbledon by means shorts for tennis, slips or trunks for bathing, and the open neck for busmen called by their owners ' prototype ' boats. of the radio link will be continued this One of the exhibits will be a destroyer and postmen. It now proposes, by means just incomplete enough to show the week. Transmissions will take place of this competition, to launch a deter• machinery. Another will be the Belle mined attack on men's ordinary day and Morss, a steam coaster, which is as near every day during the afternoon pro• evening wear. perfect as a model can be, with details like mops and swabs made to scale. grammes or after 4.0 with commentaries In Short... This ship was shown at an exhibition at by F. H. Grisewood and John Snagge. Anona Winn in songs on July 5 . the Agricultural Hall. The late King Marie Korchinska, the famous harpist, George V was very interested in it and on July 5 ... A. P. Herbert's Derby made the remark that ' it was marvel• Day on July 6 ... on July 6 ten minutes lously accurate, even to the ship's cat'. of nonchalance with Naunton Wayne And then he peered closer, and modified ... on July 7 a Little Show ... on July 9 his appreciation with : ' but I notice he Shakespeare's' most lamentable comedy' has no whiskers '. That omission has of Pyramus and Thisbe, which Bottom now been remedied by the owner. and Co. play in A Midsummer Night's Dream ... on July 9 Dora Clarke, the True Story sculptress, will explain how a plaster A famous soldier was televised recently cast is made from a portrait in clay . in ' Picture Page' in uniform, complete and on July 10 C. H. Middleton in his with decorations. He left by the main garden in the afternoon and in the copper doors, and was asked by two studio in the evening. girls, walking on the terrace, 'Any roller skating tonight, commissionaire ? ' L 'THE SCANNER* - I RADIO TIMES TELEVISION SUP MONDAY JUNE 28 VISION 45 Mc/s TUESDAY JUNE 29 SOUND 41.5 Mc/s TELEVISION F 9.15 BRIDGE EXPERIMENT 9.0 PANACHE No. 2 A miscellany of songs and mimes The last time that Hubert Phillips, with president of the London and Home Elinor Shan Counties Contract Bridge Associa• tion, and editor of the British Bridge Joyce Ruscoe World, took part in a programme of Victoria Kingsley this kind was on April 24. One of Helga Burgess the players who were televised on this occasion was Mrs. Gordon John Thompson Evers, who is also appearing today. Harry Carter The others are Lady Peacock, well- Archie Harradine known in competitive bridge circles; and M. Harrison Gray and S. J. At the piano : Madge Bradbury Simon, members of the British Bridge Presented by Eric Crozier World team, who played for England against Wales in the first Inter• 9.15 GAUMONT BRITISH national, won the first London and NEWS Home Counties Pairs Championship, and were members of die team 9.25 SPORTS REVIEW, No. 3 successful this year in the Gold Cup. June, 1937 HOWARD MARSHALL returns to the 9.25 BRITISH MOVIETONEWS studio, bringing with him, as at the end of May, a number of personalities from the world of sport, with whom 9.35 BALLETS RUSSES he will discuss outstanding events from the Royal Opera House, that have taken place during the month of June Covent Garden A rehearsal at Alexandra Palace by 9.40 BOULTER'S LOCK the principal dancers in preparation SPORTS REVIEW. The third edition of this review of the month's for the ballet season which opens on (.Details as at 3.40) This revue has as a setting Boulter's sport, with Howard Marshall as editor, will be televised on Tuesday. Thursday, July I Lock, a favourite haunt of boating In this picture Howard Marshall (right) is seen with Robert Sweeney, Commentary by Arnold Haskell enthusiasts on the upper reaches of the Thames. Amateur Golf Champion, whom he introduced in last month's review. 10.0 CLOSE 10.0 CLOSE Transmission by has been particularly interested in the Ballets Russes of Colonel de the Marconi-EMI system Basil ever since their formation in Tuesday 1931. This is their fourth London season at the Royal Opera House, Monday Covent Garden. Their first season in this country was in 1933 at the 3.0 'THE LOVER' Alhambra. Since the company gave 3.0 FASHION FORECAST its first performance in Monte Carlo A Comedy A display of fashions in 1932 many dancers have joined by Gregorio Martinez Sierra arranged by it, but only two or three have left, The Queen Margaretta Scott H. E. Plaister and and the bulk of the company has The Lady-in-Waiting. .Elliot Mason G. R. Kenward-Eggar thus worked together for six years. There are over sixty dancers, and The Lover Morland Graham (fry permission of Sydney Carroll 3.15 NAUNTON WAYNE the rest of the company brings the of the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park) total up to a hundred. Most of the Produced by Moultrie R. Kelsall 3.25 GAUMONT BRITISH dancers are Russian, and all are Russian-trained, but the nationalities NEWS The author of this one-act play is a represented include English, French, well-known Spanish playright. The German, Scandinavian, Japanese, 3.35 Colonel W. de Basil's Lover and two other of his works, The Yugo-Slav, Czech, Hungarian, and Romantic Young Lady and Love Magic, BALLETS RUSSES Cuban.