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| 0.00' p.m.—Indian Programme.

|6.45 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-

tions.

| -0.47 p.m.---A Military, Band Concert and

Dennis Noble' (Baritone).

Zampa-Overture (Herold, arr. God-

THE. CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 5, 1941.

FOOTLIGHTS SHINE

ON IN BRITAIN

frey)....The Band of H.M. Cold- “WE'VE COME BACK to London at absolutely

stream Guards..

The Empire Is Marching. (Cufford the first possible moment.”

Grey & Dudley Glass) .... Dennis Noble & Male Chorus with The Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards, Le Reve Passe (Krier & Helmer):

Officer of the Day (HAL)... Massed

Bands of the Northern :Command. Son O' Mine; The Rebel (both from

"Freebooter Songs-W. Wallace) The Grenadiers Waltz: Acclamations Waltz (Waldteufel)... Regimental

....Dennly Noble with Plano.

Band of H.M, Grenadier Guards, 7.18 p.m.Some Walsh Songs.

Dear Wales; The Village Spring (Arf,

T Osborne Roberts.... Lella

Megane (Contralto) with Plano.

March of the Men of Harlech (Welsh Air: All Through The Night.... Royal Mountain Ash Male Choir.

7.30 p.m.-Portuguese Programme. 8.00 p.m.-London-The News. 8.15 p.m.-London-War Commentary.

Post 8.25 p.m.-London-"Listening

Examination of Points in Daily Ger- man Propaganda.

8.30 p.m.Programme Summary. 8.32 p.m.-A' Light Classical Pro.

gramme.

Evensong (Easthope

Martin..

It was Leslie Henson, perhaps the greatest of English comedians, who was speaking, after the re- turn to the West End of his revue, “Up and Doing.” This entertainment had been one of the most popu- lar shows of 1940 when the September night attacks on London closed down the theatres. It then went on tour in the provinces for about six months, and re-opened at the Saville in the early sunimer of this year.

"We came back," said Mr. Hen-Bombs Closed Theatres son, "as soon as the bombs were

out of the theatre, and the road The collapse of France reduced was put down in front of it." The considerably the volume of enter- Saville was hit in one of the first tainment business both in cinemas big raids, and it is, I believe, the land theatres. But August, 1940,

of the most Arst important London theatre to saw one

promising get repaired and start again. theatrical booms known since the World War. Then in September, Happily, large numbers of Lon-1940, came the bombs. For a few don theatres are still intact. The nights the theatres and cinemas After the play The Shaftesbury, the Queens, and the tried to carry on.

Palace may present a gaunt and of the evening had finished the hollow and scorched appearance actors and actresses wotud reap- to the gray eyes of England, but, pear on the sage, and give a fur- in the main, the destruction of ther and impromptu performance, Valsc Triste (Sibelius)....Chicago Rouses of entertainment has not lasting sometimes till 5 o'clock in provided the theatrical profession the morning, when the All Clear Symphony Orchestra. Wine, Women And Song (Strauss)...

with any

insuperable problems. signal would enable the audience Mavis Bennett (Soprano) with Orch. Nevertheless, it is a fact that the to return home. But it soon became Serenade (Moszkowski) ... Carroll public entertainers of to-day find evident that this sort of thing

Gibbons and the Savoy Hotej

their activities far more restricted could not last. The theatres closed Orpheans,

in the present war than they were in the struggle of 25 years ago.

New Symphony Orchestra Sea Fever (Ireland) Stuart Robert

son (Bass) with Piano, Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12 (Liazi)

....Mischa Levitzki (Piano).

9.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal and An-

nouncements.

9.02 p.m.-Studio-Accital

by Gaston

D'Aquino (Tenor) with E. O'Noll Theatre Front Unstable

Shaw at the Piano.

9.30 p.m.-Liszt—Les Preludes-Sym-

down again. Once more Mr. Far- Jeon led the way to re-opening by presenting his revue, "Diversion,” at matinees only.

The institution of double sum- One of the main difficulties ismer time for some months in 1941 phonic Poem. The London Symphony that conditions on the theatre front has, however, made it possible for Orchestra cond, by Albert Coates,

are as hard to stabilise as in the theatres nov. to give early evening 9.45-10.00 p.m.-News in French (on

sphere of military affairs. As soon performances. Short Wave only).

9.45 p.m.-Violin Soles.

The Violin Song (from "Tina"-Paul Rubens); L'Heure Exquise (Hahn) ....Albert Sandier with Plano and

'Cello. Scherzo Tarantelle (Wieniawski): Malaguena. (Sarasate)....Temianka with Plano,-

10.00 p.m.-London-The News & News

Commentary. 10.16 p.m.-An Hour of Variety and

Dance Music. Piano-Imagination: They Call Me A Dreamer....""Hutch" (L. A. Hul-

was

as the war began the Government One effect of these vicissitudes

that, immediately ordered all theatres is

generally speaking, the to shut down because of the pos- public entertainer is much poorer sibility of large-scale bombing. than he or she

before the This at once threw out of work war. Until the eve of hostilities many hundreds of people. After a there were many players in Lon- week or so, places of entertainment don earning more than $80 a started cautiously to reopen. Her-week. But ft.soon became the com- bert Farjeon started at the Little mon custom even for stars to ac- Theatre with a non-stop revue cept £4 a week and a share in beginning about lunch-time. A the profits. One or two players little later, the Westminster led even to-day, like Rax Harrison, the way backward to evening per-manage to keep a valet, but they Fox-Trot-Begin The Beguine; Quick-formances with J. B. Priestley's are few in number. And those who Step-I've Got My Eyes On You "Music Night." Thereafter still live in, expensive hotels now (from "Broadway Melody").... theatres and cinemas resumed engage one.room instead of a suite, Billy Cotton and his Band,

their activities on a rapidly in- even though war-time rents in the Vocal-Make Believe Island: Meet

creasing scale, and the first win- West End are considerably re- The Sun Half-Way (from Aim "If I Had My Way")....Beryl Davis with ter of the war passed with enter- duced..

{talemant haldine its own, if not] Yet actors and actress keep Instrumental accomp.

them cheerful. Some of actually flourishing.

Americans 'and' could, if they wished, have left England sev- eral months ago. But they did not.

chinson).

For Trot-I Was Watching A Man Paint A Fenoe: Slow Fox-Trot-I Love You Too Much....Ambrose & his Orchestra. Vocal-The Army, The Navy and The Air Force; When The Sergeant Major's On Parade....Cyril Nor- man with Herman Darewski & his Band. Fox-Trot-The Gaucho Serenade: Waltz-As 'Round and 'Round We Go (from "Haw-Haw'')... Swing & Sway with Sammy Kaye. Vocal-The Nearness of You: Much

More Lovely... Elisabeth

with Orchestra.

at

There were few spectacular productions. Most of the shows that were put on employed only comparatively small numbers of people, and unemployment con- sequently remained an import- ant factor in the entertainment situation.

At the beginning of the war most of the best-known actors and

Responsibilities Shouldered

are

All classes of players have fully actresses in Britain offered their taken their share of the responsi- Welch services for the amusement of the bilities that war has thrust on the troops, both in Britain and in civilian population of this country. Fox-Trots---Faithful Forever (from France. Players like Leslie Hen- Ralph Richardson, who is Alm Gulliver's Travels): Down son.. Binnie Hale, and Evelyn Lave equally well-known both on the The Trail of Dreams...The Organ, crossed over the Channel, and The Dance Band and Me. Vocal Missouri Waltz Bing Crosby

with Orchestra.

Fox-Trot-Moonlight Avenue:

Step-Let The People Sing

film "Lights Un"!)....Geraldo The Savoy Hotel Orchestra. 11.15 p.m.-Close down.

INDIA'S

Telephone 28171. PRINCES

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QUALITY

BEER

THE JAM SAHIB

&

stage and the screen, joined the

appeared in numerous military Naval air arm as soon as the war

concerts. These were organised by

Quick-E., N. S. A., the Entertainments started. When he made a forced (from National Service Association, But landing in Hampshire on one oc- casion the local inhabitants gradually one by one these players thought he was a German invader. drifted back into commercial en- Machael Shepley became a police- tertainment, though there are

man, and patrolled Trafalgar some eminent people, like Miss Lillian Braithwaite, who are still Committee of the Refugees of Square, Miss Dickson joined the actively concerned with E.N.S.A. England, an Anglo-American or- Its activities are for the most part ganisation devoted to the welfare carried on by actors of less re- of Continental refugees in Eng-

|nown.

land. She was one of the first people to take oil stoves down to the East Side of London when an Indian States and his efforts to-air raid deprived. It of gas for wards the organisation of the cooking. The list could be indefi- Chamber of Princes which was nitely extended, for although the OE to-day the most representative war has in many ways disrupted tribune of the united States of the lives and activities of the pub- lic entertainers of Britain, it cer-

HYDERABAD, CHANCELLOR India.

CES, SPEAKING AT. THE LUN-

OF THE CHAMBER OF PRIN-The Jam Sahib endorsed Sirtainly has not knocked them off their form, nor lessened their CHEON IN HONOUR OF SIR Akbar. Hydari's view that all readiness to put up a good show. AKBAR HYDARI, WHO IS RE- possible precautions should be LINQUISHING THE PREMIER taken to make survival of Indian SHIP OF HYDERABAD STATE India reasonably certain in the IN ORDER TO TAKE UP A proposed scheme of greater India. VICEROY'S EXECUTIVE COUN He reiterated that the Indian CILLORSHIP, EXPRESSED THE States should play an honourable HOPE THAT THE EXPANDED and glorious part as a separate COUNCIL, THE VICEROY AND' entity in cultural evolution in In- | NATIONAL DEFENCE COUN= dia.

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Frincely Order

THREE ROBBERIES

THE REPRESENTATIVES FROM

Mr. T. Nakata, of No. 20, Içe THE PROVINCES AND STATES,

Houso Street, has - informed the WILL STRENGTHEN INDIA'S Sir Akbar Hydari, replying, ex- Police that a servant stole a DEFENCES AND WAR pressed the hope that when the quantity of cloth and other arti EFFORTS AGAINST THE time comes for constitutional dis- cles, to the total value of $2,000, GODLESS NAZI AGGRESSION, cussions of the future, the princely be weer April and August 1. The FOSTER A SPIRIT OF MUTUAL order will be found equal to the theft was discovered yesterday.. ACCOMMODATION AND task of contributing to the evolu. Mr. D. R. Stevenson, realding GOODWILL ON WHICH ALONE tion of India along the path of at Dina House, has reported the THE FOUNDATION OF GOR- | progress. OR BREMEN theft of a cigarette case, Versio DERED PROGRESS IN INDIA | Many of the Indian Princes Clothing and jewellery, valued COULD ENDURE.

State ministers attended the at $253, was stolen trom No.11 He paid a tribute to Sir Akbar | luncheon which was: laid out in | Shing. Wong/Streat, early; this. Hydarl's services towards the a "V" shape, Router.

morning.