On tour
Title
On tour
Description
Reports of a tour by the station concert party and a programme for "The Pride of the Regiment".
Date
1942
Language
Type
Format
Three newspaper cutting and one printed sheet on two album pages
Publisher
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Contributor
Identifier
SHowardHF1158144v10049
Transcription
On Tour
The Station concert party which did such good work during the summer will again be “on tour” during the winter. In the next few [missing words]
[break]
The Station concert party is still touring the country. Cpl. Okin and Cpl. Howard hoped to present the show on the Station this month, but owing to booking difficulties ([indecipherable word] the concert hall’s in great demand these days) had to postpone it till January.
When the concert party visited a building site 12 miles beyond Oxford recently there were told after the show that it was the best the men there had seen since the beginning of the war.
[break]
[missing words] weeks it will present an entirely new show, “Spotlight on Variety”, at a R.A.F. hospital: at Chinnor, in aid of the British Legion: and to men of the Eighth Army who are undergoing plastic surgery in England.
A series of shows will be given for the Red Cross Prisoners-of-War Fund, and a second series is under consideration for outlying building sites and factories under the auspices of the Ministry of Labour.
The Station will see “Spotlight on Variety.” which has been devised and produced by Henry Howard and Wally Okin, some time in December. We shall have the advantage of seeing it when it has been, so to speak, highly polished and has outgrown the teething troubles inevitable in a variety show.
New Talent
The producers are themselves doing two new acts, and the cast includes Diana Male, Flt/Lieut. Gottlieb, Jimmy Cummings, Phil Lunn and Wally Spencer, Conrad Vince and Jill Winsome and Frankie Middleton.
When the show reaches camp it is hoped that some new talent may be introduced.
[page break]
ACT I.
The Garden of the General’s House in Berkeley Square
– Autumn, 1854.
Interval of 10 minutes.
ACT II.
The Garden of the General’s Country House
– Spring, 1856.
Station Orchestra under the direction of Sgt. G. C. Carter
Leader . . . Cpl. F. Cooper
Accompanist at Rehearsals . . . W/Cdr. V. H. Weeks
Costumes by . . . B. & H. Drury, Brighton
Scenery by . . . Cape of Chiswick
Producer . . . F/Lt. W. A. Steiner
[page break]
CHARACTERS.
Miss Adelaide . . . A.S.O. V. L. Tilley
Miss Agatha . . . Sister E. M. Church
Millicent Blazes . . . L.A.C.W. F. J. Middleton
General Sir Joshua Blazes . . . Sgt. H. F. Sieverdink
The Prime Minister . . . S/Ldr. G. T. W. Cashell
Captain Rudolph de Vavasour . . . L.A.C. C. Vince
Launcelot Brown . . . F/Lt. J. L. Gottlieb
Miss de Lacy . . . Cpl. D. Boys
Ladies of the Chorus –
Mesdames Alexander, Barrie, Blunt-Vyse, Cover, Flynn, Hobbs, Male, Royston, Rose, C. Sinclair, U. Sinclair, Turpin, Willoughby-Hemans, Woodford, Woodland.
Gentlemen of the Chorus –
Messrs. Bridduck, Bradshaw, Cavanagh, Forrester, Gilbert-Johns, Hunter, Hurling, Irvin, Peters, Phillips, Starkey, Waskett, Wilmonton.
The Station concert party which did such good work during the summer will again be “on tour” during the winter. In the next few [missing words]
[break]
The Station concert party is still touring the country. Cpl. Okin and Cpl. Howard hoped to present the show on the Station this month, but owing to booking difficulties ([indecipherable word] the concert hall’s in great demand these days) had to postpone it till January.
When the concert party visited a building site 12 miles beyond Oxford recently there were told after the show that it was the best the men there had seen since the beginning of the war.
[break]
[missing words] weeks it will present an entirely new show, “Spotlight on Variety”, at a R.A.F. hospital: at Chinnor, in aid of the British Legion: and to men of the Eighth Army who are undergoing plastic surgery in England.
A series of shows will be given for the Red Cross Prisoners-of-War Fund, and a second series is under consideration for outlying building sites and factories under the auspices of the Ministry of Labour.
The Station will see “Spotlight on Variety.” which has been devised and produced by Henry Howard and Wally Okin, some time in December. We shall have the advantage of seeing it when it has been, so to speak, highly polished and has outgrown the teething troubles inevitable in a variety show.
New Talent
The producers are themselves doing two new acts, and the cast includes Diana Male, Flt/Lieut. Gottlieb, Jimmy Cummings, Phil Lunn and Wally Spencer, Conrad Vince and Jill Winsome and Frankie Middleton.
When the show reaches camp it is hoped that some new talent may be introduced.
[page break]
ACT I.
The Garden of the General’s House in Berkeley Square
– Autumn, 1854.
Interval of 10 minutes.
ACT II.
The Garden of the General’s Country House
– Spring, 1856.
Station Orchestra under the direction of Sgt. G. C. Carter
Leader . . . Cpl. F. Cooper
Accompanist at Rehearsals . . . W/Cdr. V. H. Weeks
Costumes by . . . B. & H. Drury, Brighton
Scenery by . . . Cape of Chiswick
Producer . . . F/Lt. W. A. Steiner
[page break]
CHARACTERS.
Miss Adelaide . . . A.S.O. V. L. Tilley
Miss Agatha . . . Sister E. M. Church
Millicent Blazes . . . L.A.C.W. F. J. Middleton
General Sir Joshua Blazes . . . Sgt. H. F. Sieverdink
The Prime Minister . . . S/Ldr. G. T. W. Cashell
Captain Rudolph de Vavasour . . . L.A.C. C. Vince
Launcelot Brown . . . F/Lt. J. L. Gottlieb
Miss de Lacy . . . Cpl. D. Boys
Ladies of the Chorus –
Mesdames Alexander, Barrie, Blunt-Vyse, Cover, Flynn, Hobbs, Male, Royston, Rose, C. Sinclair, U. Sinclair, Turpin, Willoughby-Hemans, Woodford, Woodland.
Gentlemen of the Chorus –
Messrs. Bridduck, Bradshaw, Cavanagh, Forrester, Gilbert-Johns, Hunter, Hurling, Irvin, Peters, Phillips, Starkey, Waskett, Wilmonton.
Collection
Citation
“On tour,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed March 8, 2026, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/collections/document/42923.