Doin' The Lambeth Walk, Oi!

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 23, 18 November 1938, Page 7

Doin' The Lambeth Walk, Oi!

Any Time Youw’re Lambeth Way. Any Evening. Any Day. Youwll Find Us All....

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London, It began in a music hall near Victoria Station, spread its" insidious tentacles along Victoria Street, through Parliament Square, down Whitehall, back to Piccadilly and then ran riot in the West End. | Actually it was quite a pleasant kind of malady and it went under the name of the Lambeth Walk. Today the Lambeth Walk is the eraze of F ARLY this year a plague. struck

a crazy world, L0day in England it’s being played in every restaurant and dance hall, . whether in Park Lane or Whitechapel, Paris has a version of it, America has taken to it as it hasn’t taken to an English dance in 20 years or more, while it has now struck Australia and is sweeping the Commonwealth., The Lambeth Walk is one of the most tuneful numbers in London’s most suecessful musical comedy, "Me and My Pk Oe a

Girl’? Lupino Lane, the comedy hero, plays the part of a Lambeth coster who suddenly discovers that he is heir to an earldom. His efforts to fit into his new surroundings and the ,

bal party where he tries to mix butchers and barrowmen with duchesses and earls is one of the funniest in the show, And it is at this party that the Lambeth Walk is played and danced--watched with amusement at first by the aristocracy, then with interest. Pinally the whole company cavorts about the stage in the fascinating mazes of the Lambeth Walk, . The other evening at the London Colissenm the King and Queen watched the Lambeth Walk given as a huge finale at the annual Royal Varicty Performanee. And so the National Commercial Broadeasting Service, co-operating with

the "‘Record,’’ is out to make the country Lambeth Walk-conscious.

iite Gb stations, always on the look-out to bring new ideas to their listeners, are presenting the Lambeth Walk over the air this Wed- . hesday, November 16, at 945 p.m, For the benefit of those people who have not then been able to buy their copies of the ‘**Record"’ and follow this chart, all the commercial Stations, including 2ZA, Palmerston North, will repeat the Lambeth

Walk for a quarter of an hour on Friday evening, November 18. The music will also be played several times during the dance session from the ZB stations on Saturday evening.