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Radio Times, June 25th, 1 926. This week, Gertrude Elliott, Louise E d v i n a , Margaret Bannerman, and S i r Harry L a u d e r . —-> o" BS > SoeFay CALA (aa alana fovaumen” HL 3 A (ALLAy! WEWACADto LEP SS aa are Ao Ween. omCPLare ee YTmLe Saat ore SotoEL Oo [bt ate aOT TINGHae (RELAY! a GAGaks even Tay lebiewH - ere | a Swvaysea ye a4a AEak PDT eet LONDON oe BOLA Aan, ali ee he nd af ATTMT com Cm, OOere 23S a TEOFFICIAL ORGANOFTHE BB.C SSS 143. eterred at the _Nol. 12. ‘No. a Sewap apr 7 _EVERY FRIDAY. Two Pence, I'm Tellin’ Ye! ae oe By Sir HARRY LAUDER. _ ee T is newmore than six months siroe, as SEP I cams acress a shepherd in a lonely part world. It had been a struggle tor him to i artist, Lmade myfirst acquaint ance with of the hills of Scotland. ‘He was there all save sufficient money to buy a receiving set, iss broadcasting. Since then. | have C but he knew what a fine companion never ceased to marvel at the won- it wduld be to him while he kept el | dertul Shane radio has brought: to his tireless vigil. the lives of all ot 125. The man had set up his aerial il coi Hardly a day passes but in some pole by a dyke and i was getting very ag way or other I-am made to realize good results, He told me how he Lika that it i one of the Freatest ancl heard a programme every night, a he most Valuable of the unscen torces and said that he heard me when of the wortd. ea was singing in London in March. Se Whenever I think about broad- That was amoment whenI realizect = a . c asting, my mind goes away to the what wireless means to people who _—_o us. folk in: secluded places, where life are otherwise ‘cut off from their = (oes not move ¢o quickly as in the friends, and | experienced a thrill great cities. To them, wireless ‘eo of joy to knowthat 1 was able to brings: the spoken word of progress. brighten the lite of one of many To-day, the world cannot do with- people who are far removed from out radio, just as it cannot do theatres and music-halls and picture without electricity and the motor- houses, and are doimg their work car. Few things to-day brighten dutifully, as it behoves us all te do. the home more than does wireless, That is one reason why | am even or cheer the sick so much in the more enthusiastic about broad- hospitals and nursing homes all casting to-day than I was when I over the country, You turn a knob started Jast December. I feel sure r get somebody else ta do it) and that I shall get a yet bigger you are listening to a band playing audience to listen to me on July 3ard or somebedy telling a funny story than J have ‘ever bad in all my or singing to you, or listening to Career, something bright and breezy, or, i + i # maybe, you are harking to an old- Broadcasting will enable my fashioned melody and crooning to hearers and myself to get better yourself a ditty your mother. used acquainted with one ‘another, to sig. because, whatever people may say = a = & to the contrary, when I visit Savoy Yes, wireless is freshening. the As Sir Harry Lauder sees himself. Specially Hill and five my entertainment, worl Lt has given humanity new drawn for “The Radio Times,” I can. see my audience. Isaw them thoughts and something in. which in December and again in March, fo interest itself with pleasure and profit. alone watching the ewes at the lambing, sitting round their hresides wearing their _ Since I fast appeared at the London living the whileiInatiny tent. But wireless headphones, or listening to their loud >ttdio [ have been awayfishing: One day was keeping him in touch with the outside (Continued overieat in colamn 3.) ss y 4 — weabet? TIMES — [JURE 25TH, 1626 ae i] I'm Tellin’ Ye! Harry Lauder:Sewsatet. (Continued from the previous page.) _ SS speakers in cottage and in c a s t l e . I shall se aa j fe An Appreciation by a London Scot. them next Saturday week i n - hundreds of a i HE theatre was crammed. Every scat woes characters, all of them simple and cheerful people. homes at the same time and someof them, Hf sa} ecoupiel ; people stood in rows. Everyone They are not gad or pathetic or frostrated. They the weather is good, on tennis courts a f t e r waa there; there was nothing cliquy or clannish ite content with ther ineties, with ther wee hnishing their play, m the dusk o f the i. abootit. A-spectal show ata mueic-holl generally deoch an doris; they are richly and unashamedly evening sitting i n their gardens, and some «af q , draws tla own particular type of dudienee, but a sentimental, and derive much pleasure from it. them floating down stream in t h e i r boats Harry Lauder audience is not confined to. one type. It is in this sport that we see Harry Lander on the quiet rivers. =ao4 fl He draws people ofall tastes: one all ages. | himself. Occasionally he will cease to be an acter Broadcasting brings a man new friends. noticed one ancient gentleman with bushy side- and give us a song in his own character—a “ Keep My jast wire less pe rlonmance brought me whickers standing throughout the performaner. right on to the end of the road.” It is alwave thot over 5,000 letters. Just think of He must heye been at least eighty. I dg rot kind of philosophy. He is a simple soul who has it! People wrote from renember having seen such an old man, such a suffered as much om it is possible for a man te suffer: a l l ever the country and from places severely reapecta ble ond sedate old man, at ao euch buffets as he cannot laugh away, but he re- over the sea. Jt was like getting theatre before. At that age one has probably out- tuins a cheerful and enduring sourage and exhorts married again ! - grown all entertainments—except Harry Lauder. us, in his serions moments, to do the same. And BroadcazSting has gome to stay + let there we, who are on the whole, in spite of pretences, be no mistake about the fact. vet fe Ww inven “The Waggle o” the Kilt.” “ fi #- Snobs eons nea. pee pore to his art and are tions, affecting so many and ¥ aried interests: He began with “Tobermory.” Many of os had hearted neyhuts — have established themselves so quickly and heard it already: some of ua even knew the patter (a t-- oe ae ee [utr “i> fa] with less difficulty than beforehand, about Mackay, who ja “aa baldy- radio has done during the past few y e a r s . headed-as this stick o mine,” and who ie “no a MY PROGRAIMME. tourist, but a plumber.” Most comedians rely a t INY of my friends have asked ¥ From bei ig a Tere nrovelty, it -has become little on surprise ; most of them have some sort of i M*ne what I am going fo sing and + an ‘Integral part of the entertainment in- come business or tongh-nhd-tumble ag well, tale hous when I vised the London 3% dustry. Theatre managers are accepting it in Harry Lauder has no surprises—-we know hie songs Studio on Saturday, rly ord, i that light with very happy results both to too well, and the best-known ones fire the fievourites. To all of them I have replied: "Ah, 4 the theatres and to the broadcasting He haa no acribaticos either: heoone “stint is Piva atet gong fo fell you tins. fee” EF Authority, and only a litthe more of this to prance slowly round the stage with a“ waggle spHrit of ‘goodwill is necessary for a similar the kilt.” Yet the small kilted figure with the Hut Io ull tell readers of Toe Kapio j widerstanding to be established hetween tartan-clad legs: maker us all rock with laughter, Times thad’it wall be the best bragramnte 4 Stote aml Sassenachs alike, Why t Hie ippeNr- I have ever done, J have never atlempicd : broadcasting and the music-hall and concert ance js comical enough, but lesser men have looked anvihing like at before. iInanagers. finnver. Already 1 have worked on i jer a. 4 Thére is:at the moment, perhaps, a feeling Nor is it mainly beeause of what he sive. The ween i Ao, fought abent ot for of suspicion on the part of some miusic-hall soncs tien wlone art tuneful, with cowl swinging auvher week while [ Aad teen away and concert managers regarding the effect choruses, although they have a certain sameness ; =i fshevng thcneh J shall fell you mo fisher- of broadcasting on artists, particularly on the words themselves are sometinves-as dull as the those who have very specialized turns, with verbatim report of casual conversation would he, wi s stories), and intend to spend still the result that a too rigid attitude is being You have only to hear them sung by someone who another week oi 1, : is mot Harry Lauder to realize that the obvious Dwarlisteners do enjoy every kc¢ adopted by the managers to the de triment he conclusion is the usual one, that it is m question of of Me fall four that I shail be im frant 3 ee ‘iverybody Conte ne Sg inc luding, ott UTSe, personality.