January 1925

 

 

 

LARGE PRODUCTIONS IN LONDON 2LO

 

 

Radio adaptation of ‘Westward Ho!’

Rose produced the radio adaptation of Westward Ho! in April 1925, a few months before he joined the full‑time staff of the B.B.C. (Gielgud)

 

 

 

 

Tuesday 7 April 1925 London SB to all stations 7.30-9.15

'Westward Ho!'

Ten Radioviews from Charles Kingsley's famous novel

Arranged by A. Whitman

pr R.E. Jeffrey

music The Wireless Orchestra

conductor Dan Godfrey jnr.

nautical songs Kenneth Ellis (bass)

The production is an innovation in broadcast drama; it is an attempt to give an outline of the essential narrative of Charles Kingsley's great work. The Radioviews will be linked up by the short announcements giving the details of the scenes as they are reached, and the intervening circumstances with which the Radioviews do not deal.

In addition to sound effects accompanying the transition, a new feature will be introduced, that of having a musical background. The actors will speak through the music; and it is hoped that all our listeners will this have a further aid to the atmosphere which we will try to impart.

1.        Bideford. The birth of an adventure.

2.        Devois welcome to daring voyagers.

3.        Capture of Don Guzman.

4.        What befells at Annery House.

5.        Amyas Leigh undertakes a mission.

6.        Hijuerote, Spanish Main; and how the oath was taken.

7.        On the banks of the Meta.

8.        Homeward Bound; Salvation Yeo's discovery.

9.        The Armada; how Amyas settled with Don Guzman.

10.     Home; Amyas, being blind, sees clearly.

 

 

 

 

Sunday 10 May 1925

‘Manfred’ declaimed by Henry Ainley

 

 

 

 

Sunday 28 June 1925 4.15-5

‘Medea’ (Euripides)

abridged

tr. Gilbert Murray

Sybil Thorndike

Lewis Casson

Times Monday 29 June 1925 p 8:

The short argument spoken by the announcer and the introduction of the characters were well done, but the actual performance of the play was not so good as might have been legitimately hoped. The listener was sometimes conscious of unevenness in transmission, of qualities in the voices of the players that did not carry well, of periods when the movement, really inseparable from the play, disappeared. It was suggested in an article recently published on this page that the voice that is suitable to the theatre is not always also the one that lends itself with success to the transmission by wireless, and that argument one felt to be rather underlined in listening to the ‘Medea’. In any case, all such performances should be followed with a copy of the play before one, and should, in these days of experimentation, be heard without prejudice.

 

 

 

 

Tuesday 14 July 1925  London and all stations  8-9.50

‘Winners’ By Far Too Many People (revue)

pr R.E. Jeffrey

Act 1 - Scene: Same as Act II

Act II - Scene: Same as Act I

Characters include:

the Geisha, San Toy

Country Girl

Dolores of Floradora

The Arcadians

The Merry Widow

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday 21 August 1925 2LO London 8.45-10 (mixed)

Selections from 'Herod' a poetic drama  (Stephen Phillips)

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday 1 October 1925 London 8.20-9.20

'She Stoops to Conquer' (Oliver Goldsmith)

A shortened version

(no director listed)

Mrs. Hardcastle - Joyce Tremayne

Hardcastle - Ambrose Manning

Tony Lumpkin - Miles Malleson

Miss Hardcastle - Irene Rooke

Miss Neville - Rita Page

Diggory  - James Hughes

Jack - Leonard Calvert

Muggins - John Reeve

Stingo - Frank Arlton

Young Marlow - Henry Oscar

Hastings - Carlton Hobbs

Maid - Barbara Horder

 

 

 

 

Friday 30 October 1925 London 8-9

‘An Hour in a Mid-Victorian Drawing-Room’ (Tyrone Power)

Period – 1882

Mrs. Podbury Pauncefoote

Alberta

Capt. Tupman-Tozer

Clara Twigg

Alfred Pantin

Frederick Blenkinsop

(No actors listed)

 

 

 

Sunday 8 November 1925 London 3.30-5.30

‘Hassan’ adaptation (James Elroy Flecker)

A Poetical Play

Incidental music by Frederick Delius

Full Chorus

Conducted by Percy Fletcher

Cast includes

Hassna – Henry ainley

Caliph – Esmi Percy

Ishak – Leon Quartermaine

Pervaneh – Laura Cowie

Yasmin – Cathleen Nesbitt

Presented by Donald Clathrop and R.E. Jeffrey

 

cast of 24 verse and prose with interlude music, static

pr R.E. Jeffrey and David Calthrop

Hassan - Nicholas Hannen

Pervaneh - Gwen Ffrangcon Davies

Caliph - Ernest Milton

 

censorship row (script of 14 Nov 1938) (notes)

 

The London Mercury October 1923 Vol. VIII No. 48, 561-4

Editorial Notes

[Review of ‘Hassan’]

.. There is a tendency in some places to suggest that Flecker’s play gas been swamped in scenery and appurtenances. .. The visual spectacle now to be seen at His Majesty’s would have delighted the author of ‘Hassan’.

… The performance however, is not an ideal performance.

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday 10 November 1925 London 8.30-9.35

By arrangement with the Dickens Fellowship

The B.B.C. present

‘Bardell v. Pickwick’

(The Trial Scene)

A number of well-known figures will take part including Sir Edward Marshall K.C., Sir Henry Dickens K.C. and Mr. Pett Ridge

directed by Donald Calthrop and R.E. Jeffrey

 

Wednesday 11 November 1925 2LO London 8.30-9.30

*  ‘The White Chateau’ (Reginald Berkeley)  (script)

(Armistice Day)

presented by R.E. Jeffrey

characters (in order of speaking)

Chronicler - Henry Oscar

Julie (maid) - Peggie Robb-Smith

Chatelaine - Mary Rorke

Jacques - Reginald Denham

Violet - Phyllis Panting

Van Eysen - Herbert Ross

Diane - Cathleen Nesbitt

General - Edmund Willard

Philip - Donald Calthrop

Spirit - Milton Rosmer

Minister for War - Victor Lewisohn

Badger - Michael Hogan

Braithwaite - Austin Trevor

The Chronicler - Henry Oscar

Private Cossington - Norman Shelley

Chancellor / Braithwaite - Douglas Jeffries

Sergeant Harvey - Eric Lugg

Colonel - Allan Wade

produced by Raymond Massey (who played Tommy Luttrell)

(script missing p 7)

RT 9 October 1925 p 101

The feature of the programme will be a Radio Drama entitled “The White Chateau” specially written for the occasion by Captain Reginald Berkeley. “The White Chateau” will be remembered by all ex-Service listeners who remember Hooge. This Radio Drama promises to provide a powerful interpretation of the transition from war to peace.

(at the Everyman 29 March 1927 to 9 April 1927)

(first full length radio play and anti-war play before Robert Sherriff’s stage play, ‘Journey’s End’ of 1928) (script)

[p 300 Presented by R.E. Jeffrey is last item in listing]

‘The White Chateau’

Specially written for broadcasting by Reginald Berkeley

Incidental music by norman O’Neill

Characters in order of speaking

Scene: A Chateau in Belgium

Wartime

Presented by R.E. Jeffrey

 

Repeats of 'The White Chateau'

Wednesday 4 August 1948 Third 9.30-11

'The White Chateau'

pr Peter Watts

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday 12 December 1925 London  10.30-11

*  'The Mayfair Mystery' (Frank H. Shaw not listed)

Second Part of the Radio Crime Drama

Reward £100

Every listener a detective

(No characters or actors listed)
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Total play nights  =  45

 

Total pieces  =  52

 

 

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