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12.13 p.m.-Short Service of Interces.
sion.
12.30 p.m.--Excerpts from
lo'a
Shows.
Ivar Novai.
Careless Rapture-Selection
do & his Orchestra,
Gerul.
Glamorous Night The Giri 1 Knew
Elisabeth Welch with Orch
The Dancing Years I Can Give You the Starlight Waltz, Waltz of My Heart Waltz New Mayinu Dance
Dearest Dear My Orchestia Mary Ellis & Ivor Novello My Life Dunstan Hart & Bekngs to You Mary Elles with Ivor Novello at 3210
1.00 0 1.
Local Time Signal.
1.01 p.m. New Mayfair
trik.
the
Dance Orches
F-Trul Music Bath Charis
Show $.
Fox Trot Honey Nursie! Cabotard Mom, Quick-Step NUISH
Fox-Trot Somewhere Sea Tango Fox-Trot Where
at the
AT CIVIL
SERVICE
A FIERCE ATTACK on Civil Servants “ignorant of the swaying passions and interests which dom- inate ordinary humanity," was made in the House of Lords by Lord Perry, chairman of the Ford Com- pany, who recently resigned the post of business adviser to the Ministry of Food.
"Are we compelled to muddle through to vic- Fotory?" he asked.
Gleaming. Cafe Lights
the
White Girent Trot Angel Way. Novelly Fox-Trot Speedboal
House, Wanz
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2. The Hauntech Lonely Sweetheart
1..10 p.m.--Reuter AunovnePinents.
&
1
maximum delay."
ser-
of the Crown, " "Ministers added. "are served by a person- nel which has been carefully selected for peacetime pursuits. It Rugby Press and is only those having experience,
as 1 have, of Government vants in other countries who can the British per- appreciate that Taylor.
manent official is in a class by 110111 Otello: "Otello" Suite Dance
He is never failing in Funeral himself. interne LID; Children's
Willow Soug Military courtesy and deportment. March,
New Symphony
1.45 p.m.-Compositions
March
01 Coleridge.
Orch
"He
Thou hast Bewitched Me, Beloved. į This is the Island of Gardens. Un thoughts are better than quick des
mundial Herkless
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Celestro Dawson
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Arthur
believes that second
eision, and that to sleep on a mat- ter is preferable to immediate
the Buses
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"Given a young man content to go through life wait.
for ing year by year
dead men's shoes to 6ccurc pro.
goal is to motion, and whose
who is
Daner
of obstruction and
Lord Perry referred to the "ex- with which traordinary rupidity Ministers have been changed since the outbreak of war," and added. "Why have the executive and ad- ministrative departments been im- mune? It is they who are charged and of arming with the duty equipping our fighting forces
When one finds a succession of all-suited Ministers, it is permis-
ible to ak
the whether it is Minister who is to blame or the staff.
"I know of nothing worth - while and worthy which they have done since the war began."
The Lord Chancelkar, in reply. sairt they should study the post- tion, but he was giving no Clov -
mental asurance
Load Perry withdrew has - ten tot papers
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ayton asith piano
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7.00 p.m.-London Relay-The News.
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7.30 pm.-"Fats" Waller (Organ) and
Hi Rhython.
Fox-Trots
Anta; I Used to Love You "Fals" Waller (OF Deep River Fan). Fox-Trots Something Tells Ines017. Road.
Me. Scruntch. Water Boy
"Fats Waller Kan solo) Fux-Trots Patty Pally Cake: Cont for Nothin Love
(Or- Cake,
"That is the man whe is at- tracted by the Civil Service.
"He buys nothing. He sells nothing. He pays for nothing.
"He never has anything at risk and
that therefore lacks
life the champagne of thrill of hazard.
great
the
"Peace-time methods of Civil Service obviously cannot be expected to meet war-time con- ditions.
LEARNED TO
LEAD BAND BY DIAGRAMS
TEDDY JOYCE, THE DANCE BAND LEADER, WHO COL- LAPSED IN A GLASGOW PERFORMING HOTEL AFTER WITH HIS BAND, DIED IN A LATER. GLASGOW HOSPITAL IT IS STATED THAT HE WAS
FROM SUFFERING
FEVER.
Joyce's real name "Such
a body must be at 1
John Cuthbertson. serious disadvantage when it at-Canadian,
modern grapple with tempts to
8:00 p.m.-Local Time Signal and An- warfare.
muurscenes!
8.02 p.m.--Violin
Sandler.
April
21
May May
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Soloa by Alberl
Pale Moon (ladian Love Song) (Lo Jack By- Kan; Allegio (Fiocent
Estudiantina--
Hek at the Piano.
Dolores Waltz Wallz Waldteufel) (Waldteufe)) .. Sydney Foulkes at the piano.
p.m.-Studio Local
Newsletter.
8.30 p.m. Keith Falkner (Baritone) &
New Mayfair Orchestra.
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New Mayfair Orchestra Diego Betty (film "Mayfair dyna Without the Moon
A Musical Falkner (Baritone).
New Mayfair Comedy Switch ... Orchestra A Song Doesn't Care .Keith lar Mayfair Melody"). Falkner (Baritone). Love Tales- Heart; Here is my Intro Love, Speak to me of Love: A Bachelor Gay: 1 Love Thee; Frasquita Ser- vaade. 1f
Comes.. Winter Mayfair Orchestra.
New
9.00 p.m. London Relay-The News.
Reiny Questions
9.15 p.m.-London
of the Hour",
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9.28 p.m.-Compositions of Beethoven. Somain in E Flat Major, Op 81a (Les Adieux } Adagio-Allegro-Andante espressivo Vivacissimamente.... Arthur Schnabel-Plano sole. Adelaide, Op. 48....Juusi Bjorling
(Tenor) with plano.
Romance in F Op. 50....Paul Kaul
Iviolin solo with plano).
9.45 p.m.-News in French (on Short
Wave only).
10,00 p.m.-London Relay To Talk of
Many Things".
10,15 p.m.--Verdi'a "Aida" Ballet Suita
and Act HI.
Ballet Sulte....Boston Promenade Or. chestra conducted by Arthur Fled- ler.
Aida Act III-Characters and. Sololalp in order of appearance: Amneris, Ca- Pharoah's daughter....Maria -puana (M-Soprano); Ramfis, High Pricat....Trancredi Pasero (Base); Akla....Arangi-Lombardi (Soprano); Amonasro, King of Ethiopa....AN- mando Borgtoli (Baritone); Rho- dames, a young warrior....Arnolda Lindi (Tenor); with Orchestra, 11.00 p.m.-Close down,
SPINAL
was Edmund
He was
be
became a
I
Describing how dance band conductor, he once wrote: "When I was a kid learned the fiddle seriously. Then 1 stiffened two fingers in a car crash and put an end to ideas of a concert career
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"Low Pressure"
"He is not a
mere cog. In the He is the
to New machinery.
power. Eventually Joyce went Without him nothing can move. York and developed eccentric He is the steam in the engine dancing, He went to St. Louis at and the steam is of very low the age of twenty-two and was have to conduct pressure and operates through told he would
complications of many
valves, the band as well. He had no governors, gauges and other idea how to do it. but he managed contraptions designed-deliber- it by drawing diagrams on the ately designed-to afford the music.
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