1927
Friday 7 January 1927 2LO
London 9.30-11
'Prunella' or 'Love in a
Dutch Garden' (Laurence Housman and Granville Barker)
(no cast)
Sunday 9 January 1927 2LO
London 5.30-6
'Sister Clare' (Laurence
Housman)
University College, London,
Dramatic Society
pr. W.A.G. Doyle-Davidson
[photo]
[cast listed]
Monday 10 January 1927 2LO
London 8.15-8.45
'Rouget de l'Isle' A legend of the 'Marseillaise' (Freeman Wills and Frederick Langbridge)
Rouget de l'Isle - Sir John
Martin Harvey
Ravachol (a Landlord) -
Leonard Daniels
Angel (daughter) - Nina de
Silva
Sara Rossetti (a Prima
Donna) - Mary Grey
Scene – A Garret
It was in May, 1900, at the
Prince of Wales’s Theatre, that Sir John Martin Harvey (as he is now) first
played the title-role in ‘Rouget de l’Isle’. The play is written round the
figure of the author and composer of the most famous song of modern times – the
‘Marseillaise’, the marching song and war chant of the French Revolution.
Thursday 13 January 1927
London 10-10.30
‘The Seven Ages of Mechanical
Music’ (L. de G. Sieveking)
A Quaint Fantasy
Written by L. de G.
Sieveking
Music reproduced
mechanically, without needing the intervention of a skiled musician, is far
older than most of us probably think. It is mentioned in Greek literature as
early as the third century B.C., and the pianola and gramophone of to-day are
really only the culmination of a long series of experiments. Some of these old
forms of reproduction have a considerable charm – the tinkling clarity of last
century’s musical box has a definite, even if a somewhat meretricious appeal to
ears accustomed to Caruso records and Paderewski rolls. In this programme will
be heard the Musical Snuff-Box, the Polyphon, the Hurdy-Gurdy, and the earliest
Phonograph, and a Calliope (the music-maker of the roundabout) will be relayed
from Olympia. The whole will be given unity by a dialogue in the form of a
little play.
[no cast]
Monday 17 January 1927
London 7.45-8
Voice and Personality – I
A Special Test conducted by
Professor T.H. Pear.
S.B. from Manchester
Monday 17 January 1927
London 9.40-10 [From Newcastle?]
‘Admiral Peters’ (W.W.
Jacobs and Horace Mills)
A Comedy in One Act
Presented by Eric Barber
Played by the Station
Repertory Company
George Burton – Norman
Firmin
Joe Stiles – Eric Barber
Mrs. Dutton – Sal Sturgeon
Monday 17 January 1927
Daventry 5XX 10.15-11
Music and a Play
S.B. from Liverpool
[‘The Forge’ (Edwin Lewis)]
Monday 17 January 1927
Bournemouth 8-8.22
‘The Blue Penguin’ (Harold
Simpson and Geoffrey Tempest)
Played by the London Radio
Repertory Players
Mary Fletcher – Margaret
Gaskin
Jasper Fletcher – Henry
Oscar
David Fletcher – Harcourt
Williams
Jacob – Fred Grove
On a stormy winter’s
evening, in the kitchen of a little country inn, ‘The Blue Penguin’, Jacob, an
old potman, is seated on a settle muttering to himself and gazing into the fire
which is burning on a large open fireplace. Through a long, low lattice window
at the back of the room the corner of a porch can be seen.
[London Radio Repertory
Players on tour to Bournemouth?]
Tuesday 18 January 1927
London 7.45-8.20
R.A. Roberts in ‘Dick
Turpin’
Jacob Sly (a Bow Street
runner)
Soft Sally (the Innkeeper)
Jerry binks (a Yorkshire
Farmer)
Lady Maud Romander
Dick Turpin
Every character in this
sketch will be acted by the Author, R.A. Roberts.
Mr. Roberts owes his
reputation as a protean actor not merely to his abilities as a quick-change
artist, but to his power of changing his whole personality, including of course
his voice, with each new part that he assumes. This sketch, in which he takes
all five parts, is a particularly good illustration of his art.
Friday 21 January 1927 London 10.20-10.45
‘Taking the Liberty’ (W.P. Lipscomb)
Burton – Gilbert Ritchie
Bill – Tristan Rawson
Hardrada – Harold Kimberley
Ethel – Dorothy Tetley
Scene: Any sort of room that a bachelor with taste,
any amount of leisure, and not a little money might reasonably be supposed to
cooupy. One could spend a most comfortable night in any of the great arm-chairs
or the chesterfield; and, anyway, one couldn’t wish for a better companion at
any time than Bill, who is genial, suave, and deliberate throughout.
Saturday 22 January 1927 London 7.45-8.45
Past and Present
The Past
‘An Hour in a Mid-Victorian Drawing-Room’ (Tyrone
Guthrie)
Mrs. Podbury Pauncefote – Dora Gregory
Alberta (daughter) – Vivien Lambelet
Clara Twigg – Olive Groves
Col. Tupman Tozer – Edward Foster
Frederick Blenkinsop – Rupert Bruce
Albert Pantin – George Howe
Dinner is over, and the Colonel and the two young
men are still in the dining-room. The women are alone in the drawing-room –
comfortable Mrs. Podbury-Pauncefote, Alberta, her pretty daughter, and Clara
Twigg.
9.30-10.30
Past and Present
The Present
‘A Year In An Hour’ [Revue]
A Revuesical Review,
written, composed and Produced by Ernest Longstaffe
The London Radio Dance Band
directed by Sidney Firman
Tommy Handley
Alma Vane
Donald Mather
Florence Oldham
Philip Wade
Lilian Harrison
Monday 24 January 1927 London 7.45-8.45
‘The Beggar’s Opera’ (Gay) [Opera]
(First produced in 1727)
The original music arranged, together with
additional original numbers, by Frederic Austin
[cast listed]
Conducted by Stanford Robinson
9.15-9.30
Famous Writers of To-day
By Cecil Lewis
1. George Bernard Shaw
This is the first of a series of personal sketches
of famous writers of the day that Mr. Cecil Lewis - who has been responsible
for many original and stimulating programmes – is to give from the London
Station.
10-11
‘Julius Caesar’ (Shakespeare)
A Selection of Scenes arranged for Broadcasting
[no cast listed]
Friday 4 February 1927
London 7.30-9
‘The Chinese Puzzle’ (Marian Bower and Leon M. Lion)
An Original Play in four acts
Arranged for broadcasting
Supervised by Leon M. Lion
The Marquis Chi Lung (a Chinese Diplomat) – Leon M.
Lion
Naomi Melsham – Ethel Irving
Mrs. Melsham – Annie Esmond
Victoria Cresswell – Lynda Perkins
Aimee de Villeseptier – Mercia Cameron
Lady de la Haye – Lilian Braithwaite
Paul Marketel (an international financier) – Felix
Aylmer
Sir Roger de la Haye – John Howell
Armand de le Rochecorbon – George De Warfaz
Hon. William Hirst – Terence De Marney
Sir Aylmer Brent of the Foreign Office – Percy
Rhodes
Littleport (butler) – Davied Spenser
[what does ‘original play’ mean?]
Saturday 12 February 1927
London 9.15-9.30
Mr. L. Du Garde Peach (L. du
G. of Punch)
Mr. L. Du Garde Peach,
to-night’s representative on the ‘Modern Humorists’ series, is known to readers
of Punch as L. du G. Some of his pleasant sketches have also been published in
book form under the title of ‘Angela and I’, and many listeners will have
enjoyed his radio revue, ‘Heterodyned History’.
Friday 18 February 1927
'Lord Jim' (Cecil Lewis)
(Conrad)
first attempt at film
technique, with narration
(Memo 'Dramatic Broadcasts'
1 January 1934 p 1)
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‘Trilby’
Wednesday 23 February 1927 London 9.45-11
Adaptation of George Du
Maurier’s ‘Trilby’
first play with new studios
layout and control panel (script of 1947 - some & notes)
1947 adaptation by Theodore
Bensor and Oriel Ross
A Play Taken from George Du
Maurier’s Novel.
Arranged for Broadcasting.
Svengali – Ernest Milton
Talbot Wynne (‘Taffy’) –
Ernest G. Cove
Alexander McAlister (The
Laird) – Douglas Jefferies
William Bagot (‘Little
Billy’) – James Raglan
Geeko – Cyril Nash
Rev. Thomas Bagot – Vincent
Sternroyd
Dodor – George Howe
Zouzou – Dino Galvani
Antony – Arthur Blanch
Lorimer – Roger Maxwell
Manager Kaw – B.A. Pittar
Mrs. Bagot – Yvette Pienne
Madame Vinard – Eileen Munro
Trilby O’Ferrall – Phyllis
Neilson-Terry
Act I. A Studio in Paris.
The walls are covered with plaster-casts, studies in oils, foils, masks and
boxing-gloves. Three easels are in different parts of the room and a model
throne occupies the centre. Through a large bay-wondow at the back of the
studio a church can be seen with a glimpse of the River Seine in the distance.
Act II. The same room, decorated with holly and
greenery and well-lighted, at nine o’clock on Christmas Eve. A dinner-party is
in progress in an adjoining room. The church across the way is illuminated.
Act III. The Foyer of the
Cirque de Bashibazouks. It is a handsome room, draped and decorated. In the
theatre itself an opera is in progress.
Mr. Ernest Milton (photo)
Has played with conspicuous
success in parts ranging from Shylock to Romeo, but it this performance he will
portray one of the most tremendous and pathetic villains who ever walked the
boards.
Monday 28 February 1927
London 9.45-111.15 (mixed)
‘The Death of Tintagiles’
(Maeterlinck)
In Five Short Acts
Produced by Lewis Casson
Tintagiles – Brian Glennie
Ygraine – Beatrice Wilson
Bellangere – Iris Baker
Aglovale – H. Hesslegrave
First Servant – Leonard
Shepherd
Second Servant – Andrew
Churchman
Third Servant – Frank Adair
Monday 28 February 1927
Cardiff 10-10.25
* 'By Virtue of a Broadcast' (Frank H. Shaw)
A Play specially written for
Broadcasting
Played by the London Radio
Repertory Players
The Rev. Hilary Standish –
Dodd Mehan
First Elder - Herbert Lugg
Second Elder - Frank Denton
Capt. Standish - Henry Oscar
Menzies (First Mate) -
Reginald Dance
Fyfe (Chief Engineer) -
Ernest Cove
Third Mate - Dino Galvani
Wireless Operator - Lawrence
Gowdy
Helmsman - Fred Vigay
Sailor - Roger Maxwell
Tuesday 1 March 1927 London
8.15-8.40
St. David’s Day
‘Birds of a Feather’ (John
Oswald Francis)
A Welsh Wayside Comedy
Twm Tinker – Rhys Arthur
Dicky Bach Dwl – L.W. Mills
Jenkins, the Keeper – Luther
Evans
The Bishop of Mid Wales –
J.S. Davies
Friday 4 March 1927 London
7.45-9 (mixed)
R.A. Roberts in ‘Dick
Turpin’
Jacob Sly (a Bow Street
runner)
Soft Sally (the Innkeeper)
Jerry binks (a Yorkshire
Farmer)
Lady Maud Romander
Dick Turpin
Every character in this
sketch will be acted by the Author, R.A. Roberts.
This is the sketch which has
made Mr. R.A. Roberts famous as a protean actor all over the world.
There is no doubt that
listeners tonight will be equally impressed for Mr. Roberts is no mere
quick-change artist; his voice and his whole personality change with each part
he assumes and it will be hard to believe that he is really playing all the six
characters who appear in this piece.
Saturday 5 March 1927 London
and Daventry 7.45-8.45
The Saturday Night Revue
(Second Instalment)
Books and Lyrics and the
Revue produced by Graham John
Geoffrey Gwyther
Florence Oldham
Henry Caine
Lilian Harrison
Tommy Handley
Nadine March
George Ide
Blanche Tomlin
Orchestra under the
direction of Ernest Longstaffe
Thursday 24 March 1927
Daventry 5XX 7.45-9
500 Years Hence
What will the World Think of
Twentieth Century Music?
The views of a Professor of
Ancient Music will be given in the form of a lecture to his students. The
address will be headed: ‘The Songs and Dances of Civilised Savages’ No 3:
1850-1950
The Wireless Octet
The London Radio Drance Band
The Programme arranged by
Cecil Lewis
Monday 4 April 1927 London
8.10-8.40
‘The Long Arm of Coincidence’
a sketch in one scene (Dion Titheradge)
Produced by Oscar M.
Sheridan
The Man – Malcolm Keen
The Girl – Jeanne de Casalis
The man comes into his
sitting-room carrying the girl in his arms. He puts her unconscious form on the
settee and mechanically fans her with her own hat. Suddenly he throw this
impatiently on the table, takes off his own hat and coat and, putting them down
on a chair, brings down a glass of water from the sideboard. He flicks water
into the girl’s face and she rouses a little. Seeing this, he puts the glass
back, grabs up a newspaper and seats himself in the chair with his back to her.
9.45-10.10 ‘Mr. Sampson’ a
play in one act (Charles Lee)
Caroline Stevens – Elsie
colson
Catherine Stevens – Joyce
Raby
Mr. Sampson (Their Tenant
from next door) – Ernest Selley
This is the actual production that was awarded the prize – by Miss
Cathleen Nesbitt, Mr. John Drinkwater, and Mr. W.A. Darlington – in the finals
of the British Drama League’s National Competition, held in the New Theatre,
London, in February this year. This competition was planned in response to an
invitation from America for a British team to take part in the New York Little
Theatre Tournament which takes place every year, and in which, last year, the
Huddersfield Thespians won a prize. This year’s competition was very highly
organized, and the Welwyn Garden City Theatre Societym who are to broadcast
tonight, won the right to represent Great Britain in a final contest in which
the six teams, who had won their regional championships took part. This
production may, therefore, fairly be taken as representing the best work now
being done on the British amateur stage.
(Pictures on page 11)
10.20-10.50
‘Evening Dress
Indespensable’ An Utterly Nonsensical Playlet in one act (Roland Pertwee)
Alice Waybury (aged
thirty-eight) – Lilian Braithwaite
Sheila Waybury (aged
twenty-one) – Natalie Moya
George Connaught (aged
forty) – Aubrey Mallalieu
Geoffrey Chandler (aged
twenty-five) – Philip Cunningham
Nellie (a Maid, age
misrepresented at last census) – Doris Buckley
Scene: The drawing-room of
Mrs. Waybury’s house at Hampstead at 5.30 on a spring afternoon.
Wednesday 6 April 1927
Birmingham 8-8.25
* 'By Virtue of a Broadcast' (Frank H. Shaw)
A Play specially written for
Broadcasting
Play by the London Radio
Repertory Players
The Rev. Hilary Standish -
Dodd Mehan
First Elder - Herbert Lugg
Second Elder - Frank Denton
Capt. Standish - Henry Oscar
Menzies (First Mate) -
Reginald Dance
Fyfe (Chief Engineer) -
Ernest Cove
Third Mate - Dino Galvani
Wireless Operator - Lawrence
Gowdy
Helmsman - Fred Vigay
Sailor – Fred [Roger]
Maxwell
The essential action of this
play takes place in Frank Shaw’s favourite setting - the sea – but in an
interesting manner he shows how the medium of wireless may provide incidents
which in another age would have been almost supernatural.
The scene opens in the
Albert Hall at the close of a religious gathering, but in a flash the listener
is transported to the deck of a vessel battling with storm off the Ushant
Light. In the fight for life which follows, the ship’s company have the audible
encouragement of prayer and well-wishing from their fellow-men on land, and
that which in other days might have been a vision, becomes by modern science an
actual fact.
Friday 8 April 1927 London
and other Stations 10.2-10.36
An Excerpt from ‘The Blue
Mazurka’
A Musical Play in Two Acts
(Leo Stein and Bela Jenbach)
Relayed from Daly’s Theatre
Gladys Moncrieff and Wilfred
Temple
Monday 11 April 1927 London
9.20-11
‘Cyrano de Bergerac’ An
Heroic Comedy in Five Acts (Edmond Rostand)
Arranged for Broadcasting
and Produced under the Supervision of Robert Loraine
Cyrano de Bergerac – Robert
Loraine
Christian de Neuvillette –
Henry Oscar
Comte de Guiche – Ben
Webster
Ragueneau – Ben Field
Le Bret – Gordon Bailey
Carbon de Castle-Jaloux –
Andrew Churchman
Ligniere – Percy Rhodes
Vicomte de Valvert – Vincent
Sternroyd
Montfleury – Edward Foster
Cuigy – Henry Le Grand
Brissaille – George Howe
Roxanne – Stella Patrick
Campbell
Her Duenna – Ada King
Lise – Juliet Mansell
Mother Marguerite de Jesus –
Viola Compton
Sister Marthe – Gladys
Gayner
Sister Claire – Netta
Westcott
Citizens, Musketeers,
Thieves, Pastry-cooks, Poets, Cadets of Gascoyne, Actors, Spanish Soldiers,
Spectators, Academicians, Nuns and Others.
The plays begin at a sort of
Tennis court arranged with a stage in the Hall of the Hotel de Bourgogne in
1640.
This fine romantic play,
founded on the adventures of Rostan’s large-nosed, but high-souled, hero, was
produced at the Garrick Theatre, London, in Marchm 1919, when Mr. Robert
Loraine created the part that he will play tonight. One of the very finest of
our romantic actors, he is also very versatile, and amongst his most notable
successes have been such diverse parts as John Tanner in ‘Man and Superman’,
Rudolf in ‘The Prisoner of Zenda’, and quite recently, Mirabell in Mr.
Playfair’s production of ‘The Way of the World’. Amongst his most notable
broadcast performances was his impressive reading of the Biblical passages that
linked up the parts of Honegger’s ‘King David’, when it was given in the tenth
of the BBC’s National Concerts.
Saturday 16 April 1927
London 7.45-8.45
A Broadcast Revue for
Motorists
(‘L. du G.’ of Punch)
Cast includes:
John Charlton, Andrew
Churchman, Jean Allistone, Phyllis Panting, E. Statham Staples, Mortlake Wren
Episode I – Petrol
Episode II – The Blue-eyed
Babe
Episode III – In the Strand
Episode IV – In the Local
Garage
Episode V – The Poor
Pedestrian
Musical numbers include:
Nursery Rhymes Concerted
A Lyric of Spring
Summer is i-cumen in
Speed!
The Bus Conductor Man
Honk! Honk We’re on the Road
on Sunday
A ‘Petrol’ Opera
Wednesday 20 April 1927
London 8.25-9
A Comedy in One Act
(Bernard Duffy)
Incidental Music by John F.
Larchet
John Heraty (an
Umbrella-Mender) – Adrian Byrne
The Lepracaun – Ben Field
The Bean Sidhe – Dorothy
McClure
Far Darrig – Charles
Maunsell
The Lenaun Sidhe – Mary
O’Farrell
Fairy Musicians and Dancers
The Lepracaun is the fairy
shoemaker who knows where crocks of gold are buried.
The Bean Sidhe is the fairy
who sings lamentations foretelling death in certain Irish families.
Far Darrig (‘The Red Man’)
is a mischievous scoffing fairy.
The Lenaun Sidhe or fairy
sweetheart, is the Native Muse who inspires the poets, and those who love her
pine under her influence.
It is dusk in the Dublin
Mountains. On the green sward, which is fringed with trees, stands a big stone.
In front of this, shaded from the breeze, is a small glowing gypsy fire. Heraty
is reclining near the embers, trying to read a tattered book by the dim light,
Mrs. Heraghty, on the other side of the stone is sitting up stiffly, preening
the drooping feathers of her bonnet and eyeing her husband disapprovingly.
Friday 22 April 1927 London
9.35-11
‘The Merchant of Venice’
(Shakespeare)
With incidental music
composed by Frederick Rosse
The Duke of Venice – Ivor
Barnard
The Duke of Morocco – W.E.
Holloway
Antonio – Austin Trevor
Bassanio – George Relph
Salarino – Derek Williams
Gratiano – Douglas Burbridge
Lorenzo – Philip Cunningham
Shylock – Raymond Trafford
Tubal – Hector Abbas
Launcelot – Ben Field
Old Gobbo – John MacLean
Leonardo – Laurence Gowdy
Balthazar – Jon Reeve
Stephano – Arthur Vezin
Clerk of the Court – Edmund
Kennedy
Jessica – Jane Bacon
Nerissa – Hilda Bruce Porter
Portia – Phyllis
Neilson-Terry
Thursday 28 April 1927
London 9.47-10.15
‘The Last Straw and the
Next’ two episodes in the life of Reggie and Delia (L. du G.)
Reggie – John Charlton
Delia – Phyllis Panting
Episode 1. In a Departmental
Store
Episode 2. In a Flat in
complete darkness
Saturday 30 April 1927
London 7.45-8.45A New Radio Revue
The following sketch items
will be produced:
‘The Reformers’ or ‘Getting
an Appetite (A.P. Herbert)
‘Three Ways of Saying It’
(Mabel Constanduros)
‘Cross Words’ (R. Guy-Reeve)
‘Making the Pudding’ (J.
Melluish)
‘Wedding Quartet’ (Herbert
C. Sargent)
Cast includes:
Harold Clemence
Alma Vane
Harold Kinberley
Florence Bayfield
Philip Wade
Mabel Constanduros
The Radio Chorus
The London Radio Dance
Orchaestra directed by Sidney Firman
Tuesday 3 May 1927
9.40-11.15
A Trivial Comedy for Serious
People
Produced by Howard Rose
John Worthing – Dougla
Burbridge
Algernon Moncrieff – Eric
Cowley
Rev. Canon Chausible –
Stanley Cooke
Merriman – Frank McCrae
Lane – Herbert Lugg
Lady Bracknell – Annie
Esmond
Hon. Gwendolen Fairfax –
Joan Rogers
Cecily Cardew – Peggie
Robb-Smith
Miss Prism – Gladys Young
Wednesday 4 May 1927
Daventry 5XX and Manchester 7.45-9
‘Midsummer Madness’
(Clifford Bax)
A Play
Set to music by Armstrong
Gibbs
Pantaloon – Frank Ranalow
(baritone)
(in his original part)
Harlequin – Sydney Northcote
(tenor)
Mrs. Pascall (a Widow aged
32) – Margaret Cochran (soprano)
Columbine (Maidservant at
the Blithe Heart) – Marjorie Dixon (contralto)
(in her original part)
The Augmented Station
Orchestra
Conducted by T.H. Morrison
The play is written by
Clifford Bax, one of our younger playwrights, who has written, in addition to
several small plays, more than one libretto, including the modern version of
‘The Beggar’s Opera’.
S.B. from Manchester
Friday 6 May 1927 London
8.45-9
Ethel Irving in a Short
Sketch
‘The Priest’s Room’ (Herbert
Swears)
Tuesday 17 May 1927 Daventry
9.40-10.30
‘The Fisherman and His Soul’
(Oscar Wilde)
Read by Cecil Lewis
Thursday 19 May 1927 London
7.45-9 (with songs)
A condensed version of Sir
Walter Scott’s great poem, adapted for Broadcasting, introducing the following
characters:
The Speaker – J. Hubert
Leslie
James FitzJames – Lawrence
Anderson
Ellen Douglas – Barbara
Couper
Allan-bane – Frank McCrae
Lady Margaret – Helen Leeman
James, Earl of Douglas –
Herbert Ross
Roderick Dhu – Clarke Smith
Malcolm-Graeme – Reginald Tate
Priest – J. Nelson Ramsay
Blanche of Devon – Peggie
Robb-Smith
John de Brent – Lindsell
Stuart
Captain – Frank Snell
The Songs in this
arrangement are taken from G. A. Macfarren’s Cantata, ‘The Lady of the Lake’
(1877)
The Wireless Chorus and
Orchestra Conducted by John Answell
Friday 27 May 1927 London
9.35-11
‘R.U.R.’
(Rossum’s Universal Robots)
(Karel Capek)
Translated from the Czech by
Paul Selver
Arranged for Broadcasting
and produced by Cecil Lewis
Incidental Music by Victor
Hely-Hutchinson
Harry Domain (General
Manager for Rossum’s Universal Robots) – Robert Loraine
Dr. Gall (Head of the
Physiological Department, R.U.R.) – Ernest G. Cove
Jacob Berman (Managing
Director, R.U.R.) – Frank Cochrane
Alquist (Clerk of the Works,
R.U.R.) – Brember Wills
Helena Glory (Daughter of
Professor Glory, of Oxbridge University) – Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
Emma (her Maid) – Ada King
Marius (a Robot) – James
Whale
Sulla (a Robotess) – Olga
Benois
Radius (a Robot) – Ernest
Milton
Primus (a Robot) – Robert
Harris
Helena (a Robotess) –
Grizelda Hervey
A Robot Servant and numerous
Robots
The action takes place on a
remote island in 1950-60.
Monday 30 May 1927 London
Variety
A Sketch
(Merrick)
Wide – Dolores
Husband – Cyril Nash
Tuesday 31 May 1927 London 9.40-10.40
A series of Reminiscences
inspired by Chelsea Hospital
Arranged by Amyas Young
Played by the Radio Players
Lilian Harrison
Julian D’Albie
Dereck de Marney
Ralph de Rohan
Edward Foster
Edmund Kennedy
Herbert Lugg
Herbert Ross
James Whale
Lilian Mason
The Wireless Chorus
Chorus-Master Stanford
Robinson
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Tuesday 31 May 1927
Manchester 9.40-11
A Topical Musical Play
Book by Roger de Wesselow
Lyrics by Roger de Wesselow
and John Piper
Music by Cecil Hooker
Arranged for Broadcasting by
Victor Smythe
(no cast listed)
Wenesday 1 June 1927 London
9.40-10
George Romney – Ben Webster
Mary – Lilian Mason
Lucy – Cora Wilcock
This is a short one-act play
depicting an incident in the life of George Romney, the artist.
The scene takes place in the
living-room of Mary Romney’s cottage in a village in the North of England, in
the year 1799. Through the old oak door of the room, which opens on to a wild
stretch of moorland scenery, the light of late afternoon shines on Mary Romney
as she sits at her spinning wheel. She is no longer young, but age has touched
her lightly; her figure is still straight, though her hair is snow-white. There
is about her an air of gentle strength, and in her eyes the look of a spirit
that is never done hoping.
She wears a dress of
dove-grey homespun, with a white linen kerchief crossed on her breast.
Tuesday 7 June 1927 London
9.15-11
A Play in Four Phases
The author of ‘The Wandering
Jew’, the famous play which is being broadcast to-night, Mr. Temple Thurston,
has written many other successful books and plays. Amongst the best known of
his novels are ‘The City of Beautiful Nonsense’, ‘The Greatest Wish in the
World’, ‘Enchantment’ and ‘Charmeuse’, and he has also published two volumes of
verse.
‘To each his destiny – to
each his fate. We all are wanderers in a foreign land between the furrow and
the stars’.
Phase 1
The room of a house in
Jerusalem. The First Good Friday
Judith – Hutin Britton
Rachel (Matathias’ Sister) –
Winifred Izard
Matathias, the Jew –
Matheson Lang
Phase II
The lists near Antioch. The
First Crusade
Boemond – Arnold Rooke
Godfrey – R.
Campbell-Fletcher
Raymond of Toulouse – George
Butler
Issachar, an old Jew –
Ernest Bodkin
Joanne de Beaudricourt –
Winifred Izard
The Unknown Knight –
Matheson Lang
Phase III
A room in the house of the
Wandering Jew in the city of Palermo. 1290 A.D.
Mario, a Servant – Hector
Abbas
Andrea Michelotti, a
Merchant of Messina – Ernest Bodkin
Matteos, the Jew – Matheson
Lang
Gianella Battadios, his Wife
– Hutin Britton
Pietro Morelli – R.
Campbell-Fletcher
Phase IV
A room in the house of the
Wandering Jew in Seville. 1560 A.D.
Lazzaro Zapportas – Hector
Abbas
Maria Zapportas, his Wife –
Nona Wynne
Arnaldo, their Son – Brian
Glennie
Matteos Battados – Matheson
Lang
Olalla Quintana – Dorothy
Holmes-Gore
Juan de Texeda – George
Butler
Alonzo Castro – Ernest
Bodkin
Gonzalez Ferera – Arnold
rooke
Incidental Music composed by
Philip Cathie and played by the Wireless Orchestra, under the direction of John
Ansell
Narrator – George Relph
The play produced by Howard
Rose and R.E. Jeffrey and supervised by Matheson Lang.
Wednesday 8 June 1927 London
8-9
‘A Little More ‘Bubbly’’
[Revue]
A bright breezy hour,
introducing, by special permission of Andre Charlot, several of Philip Braham’s
numbers from this popular revue, with sketches by C.R. Wade, Marion Fawcett and
William Rowe, featuring:
Florence McHugh
Lilian Harrison
Eva Sternroyd
Paul England
Cyril Nash
Philip Wade
Harold Clemence
The Wireless Chorus and
Orchestra
Conducted by John Ansell
Tuesday 14 June 1927 London
9.40-10.30 (mixed)
Variety
‘The Brisk Young Man’
(Florence Kilpatrick)
A Sketch
The Maid – Ena Grossmith
The Mistress – Mabel
Constanduros
The Brisk Young Man – Cyril
Nash
Monday 20 June 1927 London
10.5-10.30
* ‘An Old-Fashioned Girl’
(Arthur Temple)
A Short Play written for
Broadcasting
Frank Selky (Cracksman) –
Wolferstan Beck
John Mackert (Cracksman) –
Henry Oscar
Ambrose Pellam, a Farmer –
Henry Scatchard
Anne Pellam, his Daughter –
Monica Stracey
Selkey and Mackert are
driving along a country road at night. Their motor car breaks down.
Tuesday 21 June 1927 London
8-9 9.40-10.40
‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’
(Shakespeare)
With incidental music by
Mendelssohn
Theseus – Eric Shakespeare
Egeus – Ivor Barnard
Lysander – Douglas Burbridge
Demetrius – Alfred Gray
Philostrate – E.H. Brooke
Quince – Wallace Evennett
Snug – Alec Johnstone
Bottom – Robert Atkins
Flute - Horace Sequeira
Snout – Leonard Calvert
Starveling – John MacLean
Hippolyta – Dorothy
Freshwater
Hermia – Lilian Harrison
Helena – Dorothy Holmes-Gore
Oberon – Keith Pyott
Titania – Natalie Moya
Puck – Andrew Leigh
Pease-Blossom – Nona Benet
First Fairy – Lorna Hubbard
The Wireless Chorus
(Chorusmaster, Stanford Robinson)
The Wireless Symphony
Orchestra (Leader, S. Kneale Kelley)
Conducted by Percy Pitt
The play produced by R.E.
Jeffrey and Howard Rose
Friday 24 June 1927 London
9.5-9.50
Act II
Relayed from the Royal Opera
House, Covent Garden
(Last Night of the Grand
Opera Season)
[RELAY]
Friday 24 June 1927 London
10.10-11
‘Pixie led’ ([L. du Garde
Peach])
A Fantasy with Music for a
Midsummer Night
By L. du G.
Pixie Songs specially
composed by Kenneth A. Wright
First Fairy – Jean Shepherd
The Leprecaun – Charles
Maunsell
Second Fairy – Ann Clark
First Gnome – Ivor Barnard
Will ‘o the Wisp – Lorna
Hubbard
Reggie – John Charlton
Delia – Phyllis Panting
Jack ‘o Lantern – Brian
Glennie
Jan ‘o Widdecombe – Wallace
Evennett
Susan – Florence McHugh
Fairies, Gnomes and Pixies
Reggie and Delia, while
motoring over Dartmoor, find themselves in Fairyland.
Several broadcasters have
famialiarized the radio audience with two characters who owe their origin to
the lively imagination of Mr. L. du Garde Peach, Reggie and Delia. Previously
their surroundings have been essentially modern, but this is Midsummer’s Day,
and even in 1927 one is apt to meet the fairies on this one night of all the
year.
Sunday 26 June 1927 London
5.15-5.30
Miss Cathleen Nesbitt
reading a Selection of Poems
Miss Cathleen Nesbitt has
played many varying parts, with conspicuous success, since she went to America
with that famous company, the Irish Players, in 1911. There and at the Abbey
Theatre, Dublin, she acquired that technique which is so rare on the stage
today. At present she is enhancing her reputation by her acting as Florence in
‘The Constant Nymph’.
Friday 1 July 1927 London
10-10.25
An Excerpt from ‘The
Tempest’ ([Shakespeare])
Played by the members of the
Oxford Dramatic Society [O.U.D.S.]
(no actors given)
RT 16 / 196
Monday 4 July 1927 London
9.35-11
‘Abraham Lincoln’ (John
Drinkwater)
Arranged in five scenes
Abridged and adapted
specially for broadcasting
Produced by Howard Rose
William J. Rea as ‘Abraham
Lincoln’
(his original part)
(no characters or cast
given)
‘Abraham Lincoln’ was first produced at the Birmingham
Repertory Theatre on October 12, 1918. The production was remarkble in several
ways – the author himself directed it, and the settings were designed by Sir
Barry Jackson. Mr. William J. Rea then played the title-role, which he has
since played in many parts of the world.
I
The parlour of Abraham
Lincoln’s house at Springfield, Illinois, early in 1860. Mr. Stone, as farmer,
and Mr. Cuffney, a storekeeper, both men of between fifty and sixty, are
sitting before an early spring fire. It is dusk but the curtains are not drawn.
The men are smoking quietly.
II
A year later. Seward’s room
at Washington. William Seward, Secretary of State, is seated at his table with
Johnson White and Caleb jennings, representing the Commissioners of the
Confederate States.
III
Nearly two years later. A
small reception room at the White House. Mrs. Lincoln, dressed in a fashion
perhaps a little too considered, despairing, as she now does, of any sartorial
grace in her husband, and acutely conscious that she must meet the necessity of
office alone, is writing. She rings the bell, and Susan, her maidservant, comes
in.
IV
An April evening in 1865. A
farmhouse near Appomatox. General Grant, Commander-in-Chief, under Lincoln, of
the Northern armies, is seated at a table with Captain Malins, an aide-de-camp.
He is smoking a cigar, and at intervals, he replenishes his glass of whisky.
Dennis, an orderly, sits at a table in the corner, writing.
V
The evening of April 14,
1865. The small lounge of a theatre. On the far side the doors of three private
boxes.There is silence for a few moments. Then the sound of applause comes from
the auditorium beyond. The box doors are opened. In the centre can be seen Lincoln
and Stanton, Mrs. Lincoln, another lady, and an officer talking together. The
occupants come out from the other boxes into the lounge, where small knots of
people have gathered from different directions, and stand or sit, talking
busily.
Wednesday 13 July 1927
London 9.55-10.55
‘The Mists of Morning’ (P.
Bilton)
A Short One-Act Play with
Music
Mr. Pemberton (an Organist)
– Gilbert Heron
Mrs. Pemberton – (his Wife)
– Viola Compton
Julie (their Eldest
Daughter) – Joyce Bland
David Gardiner (Pupil) – Andre
Van Gysenghem
Barry Lawson (Pupil) –
Wallace Evennett
It is an autumn evening. In
the drawing-room of the Pembertons, a middle-class, comfortably-off family, the
lights are on. A grand piano is very much in evidence, while on a side table
are some glasses, plates, sandwiches, and other refreshments.
Mrs. Pemberton and Julie are
arranging these.
Friday 22 July 1927 London 8.11-8.27
‘The Old Flame’ or ‘In the Lift’ (A.P. Herbert)
Mrs. Heather – Phyllis Panting
Mr. Moon – A. Carlaw Grand
Mr. Heather – Wolferstan Beck
Miss Trout – Edith Lester Jones
The Commissionaire – Alec Johnson
At the back of a small hall are the gates of a lift.
Standing by the gates are a commissionaire and a man and a woman in evening
dress. They are Mr. Heater, the husband of Mrs. Heather, and Miss lettice
Trout, her sister. Somewhere up above is the lift, and in it are Mrs. Heather
and Mr. Moon. Mrs. Heather is pretty, Miss Trout is plain. The lift is small,
with a seat at the back with room for two. It has apparently just stopped.
Friday 22 July 1927 London
9.55-10.30
An excerpt from ‘Lido Lady’
[Musical]
Relayed from the Gaiety
Theatre
Phyllis Dare
David FitzGibbon
Jack Hulbert
Cicely Courtneidge
Friday 29 July 1927 London
9.45-10.10
‘High Tea’ (H.E. Holme)
A one-act play
James Carter (Master-at-Arms
on board H.M.S. Ambitious) – H. St. Barbe West
Henry Brown (Petty Officer,
First Class, of H.M.S. Ambitious) – Mel Sydney
Fred Wilson (Carter’s
Nephew, and a Trooper, Royal Horse Guards) – Hugh Dempster
Florence Carter (Carter’s
Daughter) – Phyllis Panting
The Master-at-Arms Mess on
H.M.S. Ambitious is a plain interior, entered by two curtained doors. In the
centre is a fairly large table, covered with a white cloth and partially laid
for tea. At the side of the table is a long stool, at the end is a chair. There
is a small locked cupboard on the wall, with shelves above containing crockery
and other articles. Against the wall is a small writing-desk with a chair in
front of it.
It is about 4.30 on a
winter’s afternoon. James Carter is standing by the table and throws a bit of
broken crockery through one of the doors, narrowling missing Henry Brown who is
just coming in and manages to dodge the missile.
Friday 29 July 1927 London
10.25-10.45
* ‘Fire’ (A.J. Alan)
A Short Play specially
written for Broadcasting
Albert Buckle (a Caretaker)
– Frank Denton
Jane Buckle (his Wife) –
Florence Hill
Mrs. Buckle (Albert’s
Mother) – Dora Barton
Mabel Henderson – Phyllis
Panting
Ruth Henderson – Margaret
Gaskin
(Two smart modern sisters,
who are house-hunting)
Policeman – David Spencer
A Fireman – Fred Vigay
On the front door-steps of
an empty house, 88, Landsdowne Crescent, Albert Buckle is standing. He and his
wife, the caretakers-in-charge, are just starting out to get a few things from
the neighbouring shops before they close.
Saturday 30 July 1927 London
9.35-10.35
A Radio Revue by John Henry
and R Guy Reeve
Cast:
John Henry
Marova
Robert Keppel
Alma Vane
Jack Hagan
Blossom
Philip Wade
Henry Scatchard
Scene: A ward in a hospital
where a party of ‘Never Forgottens’ – invalid ex-Service men – are listening to
a wireless programme
Wednesday 3 August 1927
London 9.35-11
‘A Butterfly on the Wheel’
(Edward G. Hemmerde and Francis Neilson)
A play in four acts
Arranged for broadcasting by
R.E. Jeffrey
The Right Hon. George
Admaston – George Relph
Roderick Collingwood – Henry
Oscar
Lord Ellerdine – Harold
Meade
Sir John Burroughs
(President of the Divorce Court) – Herbert Ross
Sir Robert Fyffe, K.C., M.P.
– Allan Jeaves
Gervaise McArthur, K.C. –
Louis Goodrich
Footman – Lawrence Ireland
Lady Attwill – May Saker
Pauline – Alice Gachet
Peggy Admaston – Dorothy
Stephen
Associate and Ushers of the
Divorce Court, Judge’s Clerk, Solicitors and their Clerks, Barristers and their
Clerks, Shorthand Writers and Reporters, Footmen, Jurymen
(more)
Wednesday 10 August 1927
London 10-10.20
‘A Fool and His Money’
(Laurence Housman)
A Wayside Comedy
Tim – Frank Denton
Tony – Eric Lugg
The Fool – Matthew Boulton
Not the sort of road where
one wants to be alone after dark. Above its high bank tangled with brushwood,
the forest trees stand think, and their garlanded and twisted roots have made
queer burrows in the soil, where something bigger than a fox could find hiding.
The light is already fading, and one does not notice at first the elderly
ragamuffin who sits hunched in the bank with his legs slung over a fallen
tree-trunk, smoking meditatively and rather miserably, for indeed he has an
unprosperous look. A whistle of queer cadence brings him in furtive haste to
his feet. He. Tim, stands listening, and to him enters in shuffling haste,
limp-footed, his pal Tony, younger and less of a weakling, but almost as much
of a ragamuffin as himself. In spite of their difference, they make an obvious pair,
already in character, and you would do well to avoid them.
10.30-11
‘The Lost Silk Hat’ (Lord
Dunsany)
The Caller – Richard Bird
The Labourer – Sidney Bland
The Clerk – Walter Tobas
The Poet – George Hayes
The Policeman – John Reeve
The scene is a fashionable
London street. The Caller stands on a doorstep, ‘faultlessly dressed’, but
without a hat. At first he shows despair, then a new thought engrosses him.
Enter the Labourer.
Thursday 18 August 1927
London 7.45-8.20
‘Cinderella Married’ (Rachel
Lyman Field)
a hitherto untold story
(no producer listed)
Characters:
Lady Caroline
Lady Arabella
Cinderella
Nanni
Prince Charming
Robin
(No actors listed)
The time was the day before yesterday in
Cinderella’s little morning-room, a charming place with an open fire burning
and the sun streaming in at long French windows. Two Ladies-In-Waiting, Lady
Arabella and the Lady Caroline, both haughty beauties, were seated before the
fire, their heads bent over an elaborate piece of embroidery which facilitates
gossip.
8.30-8.42
‘A Minuet’ (Louis N. Parker)
A Little Play in Verse
Characters:
The Marquis
The Marchioness
The Gaoler
(no actors listed)
During ‘The Terror’ in the
living-room in the Gaoler’s quarters in the prison of the conciergerie. There
is only one door, and that is at the back. In an angle is a window, heavily
barred inside and out. Through this the upper storeys of houses can be seen.
These are lighted up now and then with a wavering glare as of passing torches.
The room is but sparsely furnished. There is a rickety table with a
straw-bottomed chair beside it. There are two or three other similar chairs. In
one corner is a small iron stove, with a chimney through which meanders
deviously, and finally goes out through one of the top panes of the window. It
is night. The room is lighted by a hanging lamp with a green shade, suspended
from the ceiling. On the walls are caricatures of the king, revolutionary
placards, and a pleasing picture of the guillotine.
Tuesday 23 August 1927
London 9.35-10.30
‘Mary Stuart’ (John
Drinkwater)
Arranged specially for
broadcasting
Adapted by Dulcima Glasby
Produced by Howard Rose
Mary Stuart – Dorothy
Freshwater
Mary Beaton – Nell Carter
David Rizzio – John
Armstrong
Darnley – Ivan Sanson
Thomas Randolph – Tristan Rawson
Bothwell – Gordon McLeod
In the twilight of a summer
evening in Edinburgh in the present day, an old man is endeavouring with the
quiet wisdom of his seventy years, to ease the desperate trouble of a younger
man, whose wife has admitted of love for someone else. She has told him
herself, unflinchingly facing the truth, and turning to her husband for help
and understanding with a trust as big as her splendid nature.
But it is only with hurt
pride, blinding him to everything but his own grief and anger, that he listens
to his old friend when he tries to show that love can be a greaterm a more
lasting thing, than the little lives we lead. And the old Scotsman draws a
parallel between the modern wife and the tragic Queen who once lived and love
in Edinburgh, Mary Stuart, who knew that her great capacity for love would
outlive her down the ages – ‘who could tell of courage which was greater than
pride or fear’.
It was on a March evening,
over three hundred years ago, that Mary Stuart awoke from a troubled dream of
the future. She had been resting upon a couch in her chamber in the Palace of
Holyrood, where heavy curtains hung by the window overlooking a moonlit
courtyard below. The pearls that studded the delicate fabric of her
close-fitting coif gleamed in the faint glow of the candles which lit the
shadowed room and the rich folds of her gown, as the Queen rose and spoke of
her faithful serving-woman, Mary Beaton.
Thursday 25 August 1927
London 2LO and Daventry 5XX 7.58-8.30
‘Trifles' (Susan Glaspell)
A Play in One Act
George Henderson (a Country
Attorney) – Harold Young
Henry Peters (a Sherriff) –
H. St. Barbe West
Lewis Hale (a neighbouring
farmer) – George Courteney
Mrs. Peters – May Saker
Mrs. Hale – Florence Wood
Scene: The kitchen in the
now-abandoned farmhouse of John Wright, a gloomy room, and left without having
been put in order – unwashed pans under the sink, a loaf of bread outside the
bread-box, a dish-towel on the table, and other signs of uncompleted work. The
outer door opens and the Sheriff comes in, followed by the County Attorney and
Hale. The Sheriff and Hale are men in middle life, the County Attorney is a
young man; all are much bundled up and go at once to the stove. They are
followed by the two women – the Sheriff’s wife first. She is a slight wiry
woman with a thin, nervous face. Mrs. Hale is larger and would ordinarily be
called more comfortable looking; but she is disturbed now, and looks fearfully
about as she enters. The women have come in slowly and stand close together
near the door.
The Little Theatre movement
in America has produced many noticeable playwrights, and Mrs. Susan Glaspell is
one of them. Her plays were brought to notice by the Provincetown Players, one
of the most famous of the ‘Art’ Theatre companies, and she is now a dramatist
and novelist with an assured reputation in England and the United States. Two
of her plays were acted in London – ‘The Verge’ and ‘Suppressed Desires’ – and
her recent book, ‘The Road to the Temple’, created much interest.
Monday 29 August 1927 London
and Daventry 5XX 9.35-11 (mixed)
‘Pariah’ (August Strindberg)
Characters:
Mr. X, an Archaeologist
Mr. Y, an American traveller
(no actors given)
Scene: A simply-furnished
room in a farmhouse. The door and the windows open on a landscape. In the middle
of the room stands a big dining-table, covered at one end by books, writing
materials, and antiquities; at the other end by a microscope, insect cases and
specimen jars full of alcohol.
On the left side hangs a
bookshelf. Otherwise, the furiture is that of a well-to-do farmer.
The landscape outside and
the room itself are steeped in sunlight. The ringing of church bells indicates
that the morning services are just over. Now and then the cackling of hens is
heard from the outside.
Mr. Y comes in in his
shirt-sleeves, carrying a butter-fly net and a botany-can. He does straight up
to the bookshelf and takes down a book, which he begins to read on the spot.
Mr X comes in, also in his
shirt-sleeves.
Mr Y starts violently, puts
the book back on the shelf upside down, and pretends to be looking for another
volume.
Mr X speaks.
The work of August
Strindberg, the Swedish writer, who died in 1912, is still little known in
England outside the circle of those who study the drama; but fifty years ago
his plays and novels convulsed the intellectual world by their attacks on
modern society, and particularly on the feminist movement to which the other
great Scandanavian playwright, ibsen, had given such support.
Tuesday 30 August 1927
London 8.30-9
Relayed from the Carlton
Theatre, Leeds
(Musical)
Leslie Henson
Phyllis Monkman
Laddi Cliff
[RELAY]
Monday 5 September 1927
London 9.35-11
‘The New Morality’ (Harold
Chapin)
A Comedy in Three Acts
Played by the Cardiff
Station Radio Players
S.B. from Cardiff
Colonel Ivor Jones – Louis
Goodrich
Betty Jones, his wife –
Auriol Lee
Geoffrey Belasis, K.C., her
brother – Richard Barron
Alice Meyne, her friend –
Flore McDowell
E. Wallace Wister – J.H.
Roberts
Wooton, Manservant – T.G.
Bailey
Lesceline, Maid – Susie Stevens
In her room on her husband’s
houseboat, the ‘Hyacinth’, Betty Jones has retired to bed, one afternoon, with
the full intention of staying there – a silent, injured heroine in a most
becoming boudoir cap.
This is the outcome of a
battle of words with a certain Mrs. Wister (who lives on the houseboat next
door), which had startled the neighbourhood that morning.
According to her very
‘modern’ views, Betty has been fully justified, but a slight pricking of
conscience, coupled with the excitement left from the fray, makes her pour out,
together with a dish of tea, the whole shocking story to her friend Alice
Meyne!
Later, her husband comes in,
and presently the inevitable result of her outburst brings Betty up on deck on
one of the hottest evenings of a record summer.
Photos: Miss Auriol Lee and
Mr. J.H. Roberts
Wednesday 7 September 1927
Daventry Experimental 5GB 8-10 (mixed)
‘The Bridge’ (Seton Malcolm)
A Dramatic Episode in One
Act
Adapted from a short story
by Philip O’Farrell
Olga – Elizabeth Young
Ivan – Stuart Vinden
Max, the Postman – W.W.
Allen
The scene is laid at Olga
Werther’s cottage in a forest near Petersdorf, the capital of Valesia, a
country in South-Eastern Europe. Her room is barely furnished, a table with
some electrical apparatus on it being in the centre, while a writing table is
under the window. The room is lit by means of two table lamps, one on each
table, while a fire burns brightly in the open fireplace. Outide, a gale is
blowing. Ivan is discovered fixing wires to large batteries on the floor, and
while he is thus engaged, Olga enters, carrying a cloak and dressing bag.
‘Catherine Parr’ (Maurice
Baring)
A Short Historical Dialogue
Henry VIII – Stuart Vinden
Catherine – Maud Gill
The scene is the breakfast
chamber at the Palace. King Henry and Catherine Parr are sitting opposite to
each other at the table. The King has just cracked a boiled egg.
Thursday 8 September 1927
London 7.45-8
Travel Talk: Mr. Val
Gielgud, ‘Capitals of Europe: Warsaw’
Friday 9 September 1927
London and Daventry 8-9 (mixed)
‘Spoiling the Broth’ (Bertha
N. Graham)
A Short One-Act Comedy
Mrs. Chance (a widow about
thirty-eight) – Mabel Constanduros
Joey Chance (her son, a
youth about seventeen) – Hugh Dempster
David Wells (the lodger,
about the same age as Mrs. Chance) – H.St. Barbe West
Melia Hammond (a factory
girl) – Molly Lumley
The scene is Mrs. Chance’s
kitchen. Joey Chance, a loutish-looking youth, is sitting in a chair; he holds
a small bottle with the cork out.
‘Taffy’s Wife’ (Bertha N.
Graham)
Rosalind Evans (a private
detective) – Barbara Couper
David Evans (Member of the
Mercury Socialists) – Wilfred Fletcher
Robert Cressall (Member of
the Mercury Socialists) – Edward Foster
The scene is the Evans’ flat
in Battersea. The room is dark but for a faint glimmer of firelight. The door
is open, showing the corridor and a hat rack.
Taffy Evans, young, fair,
boyish and excitable, comes in, switches on the light and hangs up his hat and
overcoat, talking as he does so to Robert Cressall, a much older man.
Wednesday 14 September 1927
London and Daventry 7.30-8
‘All Alive-O!’ (Hon. A.E.
Eliot)
A Sketch
Cast including:
Dora Barton
Cora Wilcock
Doris Butley
Michael Hogan
Frank Denton
Thursday 15 September 1927
London and Daventry 9.35-10.30 (mixed)
‘Early Birds’ (Roland
Pertwee)
A Sketch in One Act
Auntie – Mabel Constanduros
Maud – Lilian Harrison
Sue – Florence Bayfield
Nell – Mary Allen
Milly – Hermione Baddeley
Programme Girl – Sibyl Wise
The scene represents the
gallery, or cheap part, of a small provincial theatre or hall. It has a centre
aisle.
In front are a couple of
benches covered with red upholstery – denoting a higher-priced seat.
We hear a small party of
people taking their tickets outside, and shortly afterwards they come in and
hurry, breathlessly, down the centre aisle. They are led by Maud, who holds
Milly by the hand. Maud is a young woman of twenty-six years of age. Being the
wife of a Londoner, and dwelling in that city, she takes command of her younger
sisters, who live in less intellectual surroundings.
Milly, the youngest of the
party, is only ten. It is her first visit to a place of entertainment, and she
is a trifle bewildered.
Bringing up the rear are
Nell and Sue – two flappers in gay-coloured cotton dresses.
Auntie is a woman of uncertain
age. She is inclined to stoutness, breathlessness, and perspiration.
Friday 16 September 1927
Daventry 5GB 8.55-9.15
‘Captain Cook and the Widow’
(Stuart Ready)
A Comedy
Captain Emmanuel Cook (a
retired sailor) – Wortley Allen
Benjamin Spragget (a Grocer)
– Stuart Vinden
John Dutton (a Butcher) –
Tony Calthrop
Emma Dowsett (a Spinster) –
Maud Gill
Matilda Parsons (a Widow) –
Mabel France
The scene is enacted in the
kitchen of Matilda’s cottage at Withingbottom. A large and airy room, with a
door leading to the street, it has a big oval table set ready for tea. A
dresser full of china and cooking utensils stands to the left of the door, with
a saddleback couch standing opposite. The room is clean and tidy and has an air
of homely comfort. The wdiow is busy preparing tea, when Emma Dowsett enters
without being noticed. She coughs, and the widow nearly drops the tea-pot.
Tuesday 20 September 1927
Daventry 8-
Wednesday 21 September 1927
London, Daventry 9.35-
‘The Liars’ an original
comedy in four acts (Henry Arthur Jones)
adapted by Dulcima Glasby
Producer Milton Rosmer
Colonel Sir Christopher
Deering – Milton Rosmer
Edward Falkner – Robert
Speaight
Gilbert Nepean – Reginald
Tate
George Nepean – Michael
Hogan
Freddie Tatton – Ewart Scott
Archibold Coke – H. St.
Barbe West
Waiter – Abraham Sofaer
Lady Jessica Nepean –
Gwendolen Evans
Lady Rosamond Tatton –
Winifred Arthur Jones
Dolly Coke – Dorothy Fane
Beatrice Ebernoe – Lilian
Harrison
Mrs. Crespin – Una Venning
Ferris – Dorice Fordred
Act One – Tent on the lawn
of Freddie Tatton’s House in the Thames Valley, after dinner, on a summer’s
evening.
Act Two – Private
Sitting-room Number Ten, at the ‘Star and Garter’, at Shepperford, on the
following Monday evening.
Act Three – Lady Rosamund’s
Drawing-room at Cadogan Gardens, Chelsea, on the Tuesday morning.
Act Four – Sir Christopher
Deering’s rooms in Victoria Street, on the Tuesday evening.
Monday 26 September 1927
Daventry 5GB 8-9 (mixed)
A Charles Dickens Concert
‘’Bardell’ v. ‘Pickwick’’
(Adapted from the ‘Pickwick
Papers’)
Mr. Justice Stareleigh –
Wortley Allen
Mr. Serjeant Buzfuz – Stuart
Vinden
Mr. Sergeant Snubbins – Tony
Calthrop
Samuel Pickwick, Esq. – Jack Hargreaves
Nathaniel Winkle, Esq. –
W.J. Hughes
Mr. Weller, Senr. – Wortley
Allen
Mr. Weller, Jnr. – Tony
Calthrop
Mrs. Elizabeth Cluppins –
Gladys Joiner
Foreman of the Jury – Jack
Hargreaves
Crier – W.J. Hughes
The Scene is the Court of
Common Pleas. There is the seat for the judge, table and chairs, witness box
and jury box, with foreman and jury assembled, and the usual gathering of
Counsel, reporters, attorneys, etc. Mr. Justice Stareleigh, attended by the
Crier, enters.
9.15-10 (mixed)
‘‘Courtship – Ancient and
Modern’’ (Fanny Morris-Wood)
A Duologue
Henry – Stuart Vinden
Deborah – Ethel malpas
SceneI. The Year 1814
Scene II. The Present Day
Thursday 29 September 1927
London and Daventry 8.15-8.45
‘This Film Business’ (Edwin
Lewis)
A Farce in One Act
Sarah Brown (a miner’s wife,
about fifty) – Mabel Constanduros
Hannah Entwhistle (Sarah’s
life-long friend) – Edith Carter
Mary Entwhistle (age
twenty-two, Hannah’s film-struck daughter) – Hermione Baddeley
Herbert Brown (a practical
young miner, but in love) – Hugh Dempster
Two-Gun Jeb (a filmy friend)
– Michael Hogan
Please picture Mrs.
Entwhistle’ kitchen about that time of night when the hero and the heroine on
the films are kissing in their final ‘close-up’, while the audience are
searching for mislaid gloves, hats, and hankerchiefs, and a certain portion is
releasing hands at the threat of sudden lights.
These two ladies have
witnessed that electric phenomenon, the transfer of attention from late
Victorian melodrama to the modern fiilm super-melodrama, but Sarah remains
unimpressed. She is very practical and knows that the way to make things happen
is not to hope so much as to pull the strings. Just now, like the writer of
film melodrama, she is arranging her scenarios for the entertainment.
Friday 30 September 1927
London and Daventry 3.50-5
Transmisson to Schools
The Drama
The first of a series of
six Plays interpreted by representative
Radio Players
I.
‘Abraham
Lincoln’ (John Drinkwater)
Arranged in five scenes
Tuesday 4 October 1927
Daventry Experimental 10.20-11.30
‘The Taming of the Shrew’
(Shakespeare)
Abridged, Arranged and Produced
by Howard Rose
Baptista – Vincent Sternroyd
Lucentio – Frank McRae
Lucentio – Carlton Hobbs
Petruchio – Iam Fleming
Gremio – Stanley Lathbury
Hortensio – Cyril Nash
Tranio – Reginald Tate
Biondello – Adrian Byrne
Grumio – Wallace Evennett
Curtis – Doris Buckley
A Pedant – Frank Denton
Katherina – Barbara Couper
Bianca – Lilian Harrison
Widow – Margaret Coleman
Tailor, Haberdasher, and
Servants attending on Baptista and Petruchio
Scene: Padua, and
Petruchio’s country house.
Wednesday 5 October 1927 London
and Daventy 5XX 9.35-11
A Dutch Musical Incident
Book by Paul R. Rubens and
Austen Hurgon
Lyrics and Music by Paul A.
Reubens
Cast:
Huntley Wright
George Ide
Jon Armstrong
Topliss Green
Foster Richardson
Mary Allen
Viv. Whitaker
Dorothy Monkman
Dorothy Shale
The Wireless Chorus and the
Wireles Orchestra conducted by Stanford Robinson
Thursday 6 October 1927
London and Daventry 5XX 7.45-9
‘The Taming of the Shrew’
(Shakespeare)
Abridged, Arranged and
Produced by Howard Rose
Baptista – Vincent Sternroyd
Lucentio – Frank McRae
Lucentio – Carlton Hobbs
Petruchio – Iam Fleming
Gremio – Stanley Lathbury
Hortensio – Cyril Nash
Tranio – Reginald Tate
Biondello – Adrian Byrne
Grumio – Wallace Evennett
Curtis – Doris Buckley
A Pedant – Frank Denton
Katherina – Barbara Couper
Bianca – Lilian Harrison
Widow – Margaret Coleman
Tailor, Haberdasher, and
Servants attending on Baptista and Petruchio
Scene: Padua, and
Petruchio’s country house.
Monday 10 October 1927
London and Daventry 9.35-11
A Comedy Opera in Two Acts
Written by G.H. Jessop
Additional lyrics by Percy
Greenbank and C.H. Taylor
Cast
Jamieson Dodds
John Armstrong
Herbert Simmonds
Tommy Handley
Arthur Rees
Judge Romney - Ashton Pearse
Marjorie Dixon
Mildred Watson
Mavis Bennett
Colleen Clifford
The Wireless Chorus and the
Wireless Orchestra Conducted by John Ansell
Monday 10 October 1927
Daventry Experimental 5GB 8.20-8.45
‘The Banns of Marriage’
(Charles Lee)
A Comedy
The Rev. Cyril Bestwick –
Stuart Vinden
Alice (his Maid) – Phyllis
Lones
William Hobb (a Farmer) –
Wortley Allen
Lizzie Charles (his
Housekeeper) – Maud Gill
The scene is the lamp-light
study of the Rev. Cyril Bestwick, the Vicar of a small West Country parish. The
time is 9.30 p.m., and he is found at his desk, writing a sermon. He is
interrupted by a knock on the door.
9.35-9.50
‘A Thames-Side Episode’
(Barbara Couper)
A Drama
From Birmingham
Joe Brown – Wortley Allen
Mary (his wife) – Gladys
Joiner
Ah Sing (a Chinaman) –
Stuart Vinden
Inspector Sims – Stuart
Vinden
Wednesday 12 October 1927
Daventry 5GB 7.15-10.15
‘The Magic Flute’ (Mozart)
Relayed from the King’s
Theatre, Edinburgh
British National Opera
Company
Thursday 13 October 1927
London and Daventry 7.45 – 9
An Evening of Vaudeville
‘Wun-Tu’ or ‘The Seventh
Heaven’
A Chinese Fantasy
(Frank Cochrane and Dion
Titheradge)
Music by Arthur Wood
Wun-Tu – Frank Cochrane
Mee-Wo – Maurice Evans
Lilli Ming – Gwen
Ffrangcon-Davies
Li-Lo – Mel Sydney
To the house of Wun-Tu comes
Mee-Woo, seeking advice. He addresses the servant Li-Lo.
Thursday 13 October 1927
London and Daventry 9.15-9.30
Cecil Lewis ‘Old Rothenburg’
Thursday 13 October 1927
London and Daventry 9.35-10.30 (mixed)
The Marriage Will Not Take
Place’ (Alfred Sutro)
A Play in One Act
Sir Henry Parker, Bart –
Vincent Sternroyd
Simon Free, K.C., M.P. –
Dennis Eadie
Charlotte Bell (Charlie) –
Phyllis Titmuss
It is 1917, and the Great
War progresses. In the study of his handsome West-end house, Sir Henry Parker
paces nervously to and fro, at times looking at his watch and cursing under his
brath. A servant announces the arrival of Mr. Free, and Sir Henry eagerly
welcomes him.
Friday 14 October 1927
London and Daventry 3.50-4.45
Transmission to Schools
The Drama
The second of a series of six
Plays interpreted by representative Radio Players
II.
‘Twelfth
Night’
Douglas Burbridge
Lilian Harrison
Abraham Sofaer
J. Adrian Byrne
Robert Speaight
Alfred Clark
Wilfred Fletcher
Howard Rose
Reginald Tate
Ewart Scott
Dorothy Freshwater
Doris Buckley
Saturday 15 October 1927
Daventry 2-4.45
Relayed from the King’s
Theatre, Edinburgh
British National Opera
Company
Tuesday 18 October 1927
Daventry 9.40-10.15
An Excerpt from Act I
Relayed from the Duke of
York’s Theatre, London
Thursday 20 October 1927
Daventry 10.15-11.15 (mixed)
‘Her Tongue’ (Henry Arthur
Jones)
A New Comedy in One Act
Waiter – Frank Denton
Fred Bracy – Wolferstan Beck
Minnie Bracy(his wife) –
Vivienne Whitaker
Lawrence Scobell (a rich Argentine Planter) – Ivan Firth
Miss Patty Hanslope
(Minnie’s cousin) – Dorothy Monkman
Had it not been for the
eleventh-hour activities of his friends, Minnie and Fred Bracy, Lawrence
Scobell would have sailed away to South America without even bidding Patty
Hanslope good-bye. However, a telegram brings her to Varley’s Hotel,
Southampton, where a waiter is now showing Minnie and Fred into a private
sitting-room.
Monday 31 October 1927
London and Daventry 9.35-11
‘Old Heidelberg’ (Wilhelm
Meyer-Forster)
Translated from the German
by Catherine Pochin
Produced by Howard Rose
Von Haugk (Minister of
State) – George Ide
Glanz (Prince’s Servant) –
Reginald Tate
Baron von Metzing
(Gentleman-in-Waiting) – Frank Denton
Baron von Breitenberg
(Gentleman-in-Waiting) – Randolph McLeod
Van Passarge (Master of the
Household) – William Macready
Scholerman (Prince’s
Servant) – Herbert Lugg
Lutz (Valet) – Abraham
Sofaer
Dr. Juttner – Hubert Carter
Karl Heinrich (Hereditary
Prince of Saxon-Karlsburg) – Walter Hudd
Ruder (Innkeeper) – Alfred
Clark
Frau Ruder – Lilian Mason
Kathie – Gwendolen Evans
Kellerman – George Gowoy
Karl Bilz (Corps of Saxony)
– Cyril Nash
Karl Engelbrecht (Corps of
Saxony) – John Reeve
Gentlemen-in-Waiting,
Officers, Students, Musicians, Servants
Act I. – The Antechamber of
the Prince’s room at Karlsburg. A gloomy apartment, hung with tapestry such as
is often found in old castles.
Act II. – The Garden at
Ruder’s Inn in Heidelberg.
Act III. – Karl Heinrich’s
room in Ruder’s House.
Act IV. – (Two years later)
– The Room of Prince Karl in the Castle of Karlsburg.
Act V. – Ruder’s Garden.
Tuesday 1 November 1927
Daventry 5GB 9-9.30
‘Riders to the Sea’ (J.M.
Synge)
Nora – Kathleen Stuart
Cathleen – Mary O’Farrell
Maurya – Clare Harris
Bartley – J. Adrian Byrne
Colum – S. Creagh Henry
In the kitchen on a cottage
on an island off the West Coast of Ireland, Cathleen, a girl of about twenty,
is kneading a cake of bread. She finishes it and puts it down in the pot-oven
by the fire, then begins to spin at the wheel, while her mother, Maurya, is
resting in an inner room. Her younger sister, Nora, puts her head in at the
outer door.
‘Riders to the Sea’ was the
second play written by J.M. Synge, the leading dramatist of the Irish literary
Renaissance, and the greatest influence on the Abbey Theatre, of which he was a
director from 1904 until his death in 1909. Published in 1905, in the same
volume as ‘The Shadow of th eGlen’, it gave immediate occasion for the
expectations which Synge amply fulfilled two years later with ‘The Playboy of
the Western World’. ‘Riders to the Sea’ is a most poignant drama of the coast
people whom Synge, who had lived on the Aean Islands, knew so well, and of
whose speech he had made language as beautiflu as any ever heard on the British
stage.
Wednesday 2 November 1927
Daventry 5GB 8-9.30
‘The Way of an Eagle’ (Ethel
M. Dell)
An Arrangement of the
Popular Play
Produced by Gordon McConnel
General Roscoe – Reginald
Dance
Purdu – Walter Schofield
Nick Ratcliffe – Lawrence
Anderson
Blake Grange- Carlton Hobbs
Muriel Roscoe – Cathleen
Nesbitt
Lady Bassett – Edith Hunter
Mrs. Gybbon – Juliet Mansell
Daisy Musgrave – Sylvia
Willoughby
Olga Ratcliffe (Dr. Jim
Ratcliffe’s daughter aged fourteen) – Peggie Robb Smith
Dr. Jim Ratcliffe – Hubert
Carter
Ellen – Nora Duff
Bobby Fraser – Derrick De
Marney
Abdullah – George Gowoy
Friday 4 November 1927
London and Daventry 3.50-4.45
Transmission to Schools
The Drama
The third in a series of six
plays interpreted by Representative Radio Players
‘Prunella’ (Laurence Housman
and Granville Barker)
The Players:
Lilian Harrison
Dora Barton
Margaret Coleman
Ethel Carrington
Peggie Robb-Smith
Eileen Kelsey
Yvette Pienne
Michael Hogan
James Whigham
Frank Denton
Douglas Burbridge
William Macready
David Stenser
Reginald Tate
Ivan Berlyn
Monday 7 November 1927
London and Daventry 7.45-9 (mixed)
‘The Threshold’ (Harold
Chapin)
A Play in One Act
Jenny, a miner’s daughter. A
pretty simple girl of seventeen. Bright, smiling and cheerful – Lilian Harrison
Charles Raynor, a commercial
traveller. About thirty years of age. Tall, with dark hair and moustache.
Smartly, but not well dressed. The kind of man who would – amongst the poorer
classes – be considered handsome – Edgar Norfolk
Also two Welsh miners
It is early morning in
spring, with a chill grey light shining through the window of an upstairs room
in a miner’s cottage. The apartment is furnished as a bed-sitting-room and is
occupied by Charles Rayner, who, at the moment, is dressing behind a screen.
Jenny brings in his breakfast.
Tuesday 8 November 1927
London and Daventry 9.40-11
‘The Life of Henry the
Fifth’ (Shakespeare)
Abridged for broadcasting
The Cast:
Ivan Berlyn
Winifred Evans
Matthew Forsyth
Henry Le Gr??
Alice De Grey
Erskine Haines
S. Crem? Henry
Carleton Hobbes
A.
Lub?
Herbert Lugg
William Macready
Ed? Maxon
Nancy ?
Herbert Ross
Abraham Sofaer
Harcourt Williams
Saturday 12 November 1927
London and Daventry 7.45-9 (mixed)
Variety
Henry Oscar in a sketch
entitled
‘9 O’clock’ (Cyril Ashurst)
Sir John - Henry Oscar
Grieg – Wolferstan Beck
Parker – Edgar B. Skeet
Monday 14 November 1927
London and Daventry 9.35-11
‘Prunella’ (Laurence Housman
and H. Granville-Barker)
The Music by Joseph S.
Mooray
Abridged and Arranged for
Broadcasting
Produced by Howard Rose
Boy – James Whigham
First Gardener – Frank
Denton
Second Gardener – Douglas
Burbridge
Third Gardiner – William
Macready
Queer (a Servant) – Dora
Barton
Prunella – Lilian Harrison
Prim (Prunella’s Aunt) –
Yvette Pienne
Privacy (Prunella’s Aunt) –
Margaret Coleman
Quaint (a Servant) – Dora
Barton
Prude (Prunella’s Aunt) –
Ethel Carrington
Pierrot – Ivan Samson
Scaramel (his Servant) –
Ivan Berlyn
Callow – Abraham Sofaer
Doll- Mary Allen
Hawk – Frank Denton
Tawdry – Alice De Grey
Mouth – William Macready
Romp – Eileen Kelsey
Kennel – Douglas Burbridge
Coquette – Peggie Robb-Smith
Love (a Statue) – David
Spenser
Act I
Love, in the person of
Pierrot, comes to the maiden, Prunella, in the garden of the prim old house in
which she lives with her aunts. Leading from the house is a porch, and in this
hangs a caged canary, while standing over a fountain is a statue of love with
viol and bow.
The garden is enclosed by
high hedges cut square.
Act II
Night has descended on the
garden. The light of the Moon falls across the top of the hedge and strikes the
head of the fountain-statue.
When all is quiet, Pierrot
and his companions steal in.
Act III
Three years have gone by,
and now the garden is overgrown and neglected. The fountain is moss-grown and
thick with creepers. The house is ‘To Let’ and all is fading in the light of
Sunset.
Tuesday 15 November 1927
Plymouth 6-6.30
The Micrognomes present
‘Hate’ (Arthur Bird)
A Play in One Act
Sir Henry Carfax – Charles
Stapylton
Lady Carfax – Pauline Carr
Bill Carfax – Stephen
Campbell
Joan Allingham – Molly
Seymour
Brandon Carfax – John Evered
Roger Carfax – Charles
Stapylton
Thompson (the butler) –
Derek Lessingham
Here is a play that might be
described as a modern tale of old-fashioned ghosts. You must imagine the
ancestors of Sir Henry Carfax, ‘good haters all’, and the old Georgian tragedy
re-enacted every midnight.
Friday 18 November 1927
London and Daventry 3.45-4.45
Transmission to Schools
The Fourth of a series of
six plays
[no cast given]
Friday 18 November 1927 London
and Daventry 7.40-9.30
‘R.U.R.’ (Karel Capek)
(Rossum’s Universal Robots)
Translated from the Czech by
Paul Selver
Arranged for Broadcasting
and produced by Cecil Lewis
Incidental Music by Victor
Hely-Hutchinson
Harry Domain (General
Manager for Rossum’s Universal Robots) – Nicholas Hannen
Dr. Gall (Head of the
Physiological Department, R.U.R.) – J.H. Roberts
Jacob Berman (Managing
Director, R.U.R.) – Clive Currie
Alquist (Clerk of the Works,
R.U.R.) – Harcourt Williams
Helena Glory (Daughter of
Professor Glory, of Oxbridge University) – Cathleen Nesbitt
Emma (her Maid) – Claire
Harris
Marius (a Robot) – Edgar
Norfolk
Sulla (a Robotess) – Olga
Benois
Radius (a Robot) – Raymond
Massey
Primus (a Robot) – Robert
Harris
Helena (a Robotess) –
Gwendolen Evans
A Robot Servant and numerous
Robots
The action takes place on a
remote island in 1950-60.
Saturday 19 November 1927
London and Daventry 9.35-10.30
‘Community Laughing’ [(L. du
Garde Peach)]
A Charivari
By L. du G.
Broadcast by Happy People
for Happy People
Music composed by Stanford
Robinson
Who will conduct The
Wireless Chorus
And the Wireless Revue
Orchestra
The following Radio Artists
will take part:
Helen Gilliland
Phyllis Panting
Cyril Nash
Ewart Scott
John Thorne
Derrick De Marney
Arthur Chesney
Monday 21 November 1927
8-9.30 Daventry
‘This Programme Business’
An Entertainment, written
and arranged by Cecil Lewis
Tuesday 22 November 1927
Daventry London etc.7.45-10.15
‘Penelope’ a lyric drama
(Herbert Ferrers)
The Wireless
Chorus(Chorus-Master Stanford Robinson)
The Wireless Symphony
Orchestra
Under the direction of the
Composer
Dale Smith
Stuart Robinson
John Armstrong
Rachel Morton
Doris Vane
John Perry
Samuel Dyson
Repeat
Wednesday 23 November London
Friday 25 November 1927
Daventry 8.15-10
From Birmingham
A Musical Comedy in Three
Acts (Fred Thompson)
Adapted from the book of
Herman Haller and Rideamus
Lyrics by Adrian Ross,
Robert C. Tharp and Edward Kunnecke
Helen Gilliland
Dorothy Monkman
Elsie French
Ewart Scott
John Armstrong
Topliss Green
James B. Davis
John Reeve
Pr Gordon McConnell
The Birmingham Studio
Orchaestra
Conducted by John Ansell
Monday 28 November 1927 p
421
From Daventry 5GB, 8-9.35
pm. From London, Daventry and other Stations, Wednesday 9.35-11
Monday 28 November 1927
Daventry 5GB, 8-9.35 pm.
Wednesday 30 November 1927
London and other Stations, 9.35-11
A Comedy in Three Acts by
Ian Hay (Adapted from the Author’s novel, ‘Happy-go-Lucky’)
Arranged and Abridged for
Broadcasting
Pr Gordon McConnel
Lady Marian Mainwaring –
Dorothy Dayus
Sylvia (her daughter) - Esther Coleman
Milroy (butler to the
Mainwarings) – John Reeve
Abel Mainwaring, MP – C.
Leveson Lane
Rev. Adrian Rylands – Frank
Denton
Constance Damer – Phyllis
Panting
Richard (Mainwaring’s son) –
Ivan Samson
Tilly (Welwyn’s daughter) –
Olwen Roose
Percy (Welwyn’s son) –
Philip Wade
Amelia (Welwyn’s younger
daughter) – Joan Brierley
Mr. Mehta Ram (a Law
Student) – Abraham Sofaer
Mrs. Welwyn – Gracie Leigh
Grandma Banks (her mother) –
Mary O’Farrell
Lucius Welwyn – Gilbert
Heron
Mr. Stillbottle (a Sheriff’s
Officer) – George Hayes
Mr. Pumpherston (another Law
Student) – Angus Adams
Act I. The Towers, Shotley
Beauchamp. A Saturday afternoon in November.
Act II. The Welwyn’s
drawing-room, Bloomsbury. Monday afternoon.
Act III. Same as Act II.
Tuesday morning.
The action of the play takes
place at the present time.
Tuesday 5GB 29 November 1927
Daventry 8-9.25
Friday 2 December 1927
London, Daventry and other Stations 9.35-11
‘The Rose of Persia’ or ‘The
Story-Teller and the Slave’
A Musical comedy by Basil
Hood and Arthur Sullivan
Arranged and Abridged for
Broadcasting
Pr Henry Oscar
Hassan – Huntley Wright
Blush-of-Morning – Mildred
Watson
Oasis-in-the-Desert – Peggie
Robb Smith
Dancing Sunbeam – Gladys
Palmer
Abdallah – Stanley Newman
Heart’s Desire – Colleen
Clifford
Honey of Life – Loti Ford
Yussuf – John Armstrong
The Sultana Zubeydeh – Mavis
Bennett
The Grand Vizier – Foster
Richardson
The Royal Executioner –
George Ide
The Sultan Mahmoud of Persia
– Topliss Green
Act I. Court of Hassan’s
house
Act II. Audience Hall of the
Sultan’s Palace
Friday 2 December 1927
London 3.50-4.45
Transmission to Schools
Cast includes:
Douglas Burbridge, Mercia
Cameron, Frank Denton, Lilian Harrison, Ernest Haines, Carleton Hobbs, George
Ide, Herbert Ross, Peggie Robb-Smith, Abraham Sofaer, Horace Sequeira, Joyce
Tremayne
Friday 2 December 1927
London 7.25-7.45
St. John Ervine ‘The Modern
Drama’
This evening Mr. St. John
Erving will continue his course of instruction to aspiring playwrights and
critically-minded play-goers, illustrating his thesis by reference to Sir James
Barrie’s play, ‘The Will’.
Monday 5 December 1927
Daventry 8.25-9 (mixed)
‘Shepherd’s Delight’ A
Pastorale (Edith Reynolds)
Phoebe (a Shepherdess) –
Olive Gorves
Giles (a Shepherd) – Harold
Kimberley
Wednesday 7 December 1927
London and Daventry 9.53-10.40
an excerpt from the New Musical
Comedy
Book by Guy Bolton and P.G.
Woodhouse
Lyrics by Ira Gershwin
Music by George Gershwin
Relayed from His Majesty’s
Theatre
Gertrude Lawrence
Claude Hulbert
Harold French
John Kirby
[RELAY]
Thursday 8 December 1927
Daventry 8-8.45
‘St. Francis D’Assissi’ a
play in five acts ((J. Vaughan Emmett)
A Guide – Henry Oscar
St. Francis – Frank Randall
Pietro Bernadone, his father
– Herbert Ross
Bernadino Quantavalle –
Harold Young
Brother Leo – Leonard
Shepherd
Brother Angelo – Abraham
Sofaer
Brother Masseo – S. Creagh
Henry
Brother Bernado – Victor
Lewisohn
Another Brother – C. Leveson
Lane
You are to hear this play as
being performed by Italian peasants on the hillside close to the town of
Assissi, where a group of British tourists visiting Italy under the guidance of
an Englishman well up in the history and traditions of that country, have, at
his instigations, decided to stay and see it before leaving the neighbourhood.
The guide gives explanations
at the beginning of each act, both of the play itself and of the work and life
of Saint Francis.
The Author which to
acknowledge the debt which he owes to Sabatier’s great work on St. Francis and
to Miss Houghton’s translation.
Saturday 10 December 1927
London and Daventry 9.35-10.30
‘The Show Boat’ A Revue
Written and Produced by
Peter Cheyney
Musical Numbers by various
composers
Arthur Chesney
Ewart Scott
James Whigham
Mary O’Farrell
Alma Vane
Elsie Carlisle
Thursday 15 December 1927
London and Daventry 5XX 9.35-10.30
* ‘Shadows’ (Valerie
Harwood)
a Radio Scene in One Act
This experiment in Radio
Drama is so complete and convincing in itself that to give any preliminary
description of its contents other than that given by the Announcer in setting
the stage would destroy its particular effect if natural spontaneity. It would
help to create the atmosphere essential to the appreciation of this scene if
listeners turned down the lights.
(no characters or actors
listed)
‘Dropped from Heaven’ (Dion
Titheradge)
A Sketch in One Scene
He – Ian Fleming
She – Gwendolen Evans
The Butler – Reginald Dane
He is sitting on a
chesterfield in his study, a well-furnished, particularly masculine room. The
Butler stands behind him pouring out a glass of liqueur. Having filled the
glass, he offers it to him on a small salver.
Friday 16 December 1927
London and Daventry 5XX 3.50 – 4.45
Transmission to Schools
The Drama
VI. ‘Richard II’
[Shakespeare]
Performed by the Radio
Players
This is the sixth and last
of the dramatic broadcasts to schools which have proved a popular feature of
the Autumn Wireless Curriculum.
(no actors listed)
Friday 16 December 1927
London and Daventry 10.20-11
‘The True History of Mr,
Punch and his Family’
Written and presented by
W.S. Meadmore and L. de Giberne Sieveking
Prologue sung by Leyland
White (Baritone)
Music by Victor
Hely-Hutchinson
Mr. Punch of England – W.S.
Meadmore and W.H. Jesson (the oldest Punch and Judy Showman alive)
Judy – Mabel Constanduros
Puccio d’Ariello of Italy
(The Original Punch) – L. de Giberne Sieveking
A Man – Lionel Fielden
A Little Boy – Brian Glennie
A Passer by. A Mother.
Voices
Of all the street shows and
open-air theatre from which the drama as we know it sprang, the Punch-and-Judy
show alone survives. And even if it is fast vanishing; one is lucky now in
London to hear round the next corner the historic screech of Punch and the
whacking of his stick, and to come upon the little knot of errand-boys and
rather shame-faced adults, clustered around the familiar faded proscenium on
the edge of which a bored Toby yawns at the show. As tonight’s programme will
reveal, Punch has a long and distinguished ancestry; that those who think that
he himself is the flower of his race will be glad to hear this programme is not
altogether historical, and that a real, genuine, street Punch-and-Judy show is
to come before the microphone tonight.
RT 17/220
The Radio Times 16 December
1927 p 582
‘Bethlehem in Cornwall’
by Bernard Walke, Vicar of
St. Hilary’s Marazion
Listeners to London and
Daventry will have an opportunity on Tuesday, December 20, of hearing again the
Christmas play, ‘Bethlehem’, which was broadcast last year from St. Hilary. …
You who sit listening by
your fireside must picture to yourselves a lighted church, gay with the
decorations of the coming festival, where actors sing and pray as though they
were about the ordinary business of life, the tilling of the soil and the
tending of cows…
It is to this end that
‘Bethlehem’ is acted again at St. Hilary this Christmas time, that we who take
part and you who listen so far away, may together enter more deeply into the
mystery of Christmas.
Monday 19 December 1927
London and Daventry 9.35-11
‘The Ship’ (St. John Ervine)
A Play in Three Acts
S.B. from Manchester
Old Mrs. Thurlow – Nanon (?)
Price
John Thurlow – E.H.
Bridgstock
Janet – Lucy Rogers
Hester – Hilda Metcalf
Captain Cornelius – W.E.
Dickman
George Norwood – Harold
Cluff
Maid – Amy Eden
Thursday 22 December 1927
London and Daventry 9.50-10.15
‘Pimpus and Caxa’ (Max Mohr)
or ‘The North Pole Fliers’
A Comedy of the Far North
Done into English by Susan
Bean (?) and Cecil Lewis
[no cast listed]
Thursday 22 December 1927
Daventry 5GB 8.7-8.30
‘Phantom Hoofs’ (David
Hawkes)
produced by Stuart Vinden
Kate – Gladys Joiner
Nan – Ethel Malpas
Nan’s Father – Wortley Allen
The scene takes place at a
fisherman’s cottage in a lonely village on the coast. A furious storm is raging
while in the cottage the old fisherman lies dying.
8.40-9
‘Two in a Trap’ (Albert E.
Drinkwater)
A Duologue
Jim – Stuart Vinden
Lit – Ethel Malpas
The scene is a pleasant room
in the flat in Chelsea, between 11 and 12 in the morning. Jim enters and seats
hmself in a large armchair so that he is invisible to anyone entering. Kit
enters later and the duologue explains how a lover’s quarrel is settled.