1927
‘Trilby’ [cast of 14]
Wednesday 23 February 1927
London 9.45-11
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 [cast of 17]
Friday 22 April 1927 London
9.35-11
‘The Merchant
of Venice’ (Shakespeare) [cast of 18]
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 [cast of 11+]
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
[cast of 11]
Tuesday 21 June 1927 London
8-9 9.40-10.40
‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ (Shakespeare)
[cast of 19]
Monday 4 July 1927 London
9.35-11
‘Abraham
Lincoln’ (John Drinkwater)
[cast of 23 for stage]
Wednesday 3 August 1927
London 9.35-11
‘A Butterfly
on the Wheel’ (Edward G. Hemmerde and Francis Neilson)
A play in four acts
[cast of 10 plus]
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
[cast of 13]
Tuesday 4 October 1927
Daventry Experimental 10.20-11.30
‘The Taming
of the Shrew’ (Shakespeare)
Abridged, Arranged and
Produced by Howard Rose
[cast of 14]
Thursday 6 October 1927
London and Daventry 5XX 7.45-9
‘The Taming of the Shrew’
(Shakespeare)
Abridged, Arranged and
Produced by Howard Rose
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
[cast of15]
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
[cast of 13]
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)
[cast of 15]
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
[cast of 21]
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
[16 actors]
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Friday 7 January 1927 2LO
London 9.30-11
'Prunella' or 'Love in a
Dutch Garden' (Laurence Housman and Granville Barker)
(no cast)
Friday 4 November 1927
London and Daventry 3.50-4.45
Transmission to Schools
[cast of 15]
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]
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?]
Friday 18 February 1927
'Lord Jim' (Cecil Lewis)
(Conrad)
first attempt at film
technique, with narration
(Memo 'Dramatic Broadcasts'
1 January 1934 p 1)
‘Trilby’ [cast of 14]
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.
(cast of 14)
Monday 28 February 1927
London 9.45-11.15 (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 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 [cast of 17]
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.
(cast of 17)
Friday 22 April 1927 London
9.35-11
‘The Merchant
of Venice’ (Shakespeare) [cast of
18]
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
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
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
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 [cast of 11+]
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.
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.
REAL CAST
Judith – Hutin Britton
Rachel (Matathias’ Sister) –
Winifred Izard
Matathias, the Jew –
Matheson Lang
Boemond – Arnold Rooke
Godfrey – R.
Campbell-Fletcher
Raymond of Toulouse – George
Butler
Issachar, an old Jew –
Ernest Bodkin
Mario, a Servant – Hector
Abbas
Maria Zapportas, his Wife –
Nona Wynne
Arnaldo, their Son – Brian
Glennie
Olalla Quintana – Dorothy
Holmes-Gore
Narrator – George Relph
[cast of 12]
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 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
[cast of 19]
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.
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.
[Wearing 27.81
Regent 2 April 1927 to 13
April 1927 20 performances
Cast of 23
Abraham Lincoln – W.E.
Holloway]
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
[cast of 10 plus]
(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.
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
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.
[cast of 13]
Monday 26 September 1927
Daventry 5GB 8-9 (mixed)
A Charles Dickens
Concert [from Birmingham]
‘’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
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 – Carleton Hobbs
Petruchio – Ian 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.
[cast of 14]
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 – Carleton 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.
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
I.
‘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
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.
[cast of 15]
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- Carleton 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
[cast of 13]
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
[cast of 15]
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
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
[cast of 21]
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.
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.
[cast of 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.
[16 actors]
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
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.
Monday 26 December 1927
London and Daventry 9.35-11
‘Pantomimicry’
Written and produced by
Gordon McConnel
Wireless Chorus and Wireless
Orchestra Conducted by Stanford Robinson
The Author – Cyril Nash
The Dame – Malcolm Scott
The Principal Boy – Miriam
Ferris
The Demon King – Foster
Richardson
The Pricnipal Girl – Alma
Vane
The Good Fairy – Joan
Brierley
The Oldest Inhabitant – J.
Hubert Leslie
A Villager – George Ide
The Young Squire – Norman
Griffin
More Villagers, Sailors,
Mermaids, South Sea islanders, Brigands and their Families, etc.