"Piccadilly On Parade" Has A True English Flavour

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 35, 10 February 1939, Page 5

"Piccadilly On Parade" Has A True English Flavour

intriguing New Feature For NCBS

ANSWER to the persistent ery that New Zealand commercial radio uses too many American features is ‘‘Piccadilly on Parade,’? new NCBS programme, which commences this Thursday, February 9, from the ZB stations. The type of light entertainment which is regularly heard in England from Radio Luxembourg and Radio Normandie. "Piccadilly on Parade" has a distinctly English flavour, though the artists are in-. ternationally known. Production is the work of the International Broadcasting Com-

pany of London, through their programme organisation, Universal Programmes Corporation, and each programme incorporates at least one item taken direct from a wellknown theatre or cinema. Thirty-three top-line London artists will be heard in the first 13 programmes, including Louis Levy and his Symphony, Stanelli (and his WHornchestra), Bobby Howell’s Band, Norman Long, Arthur Young, Reginald Forsythe, Leslie Sarony, Leslie Holmes, Billy Bennett, Les Allen, Brian Lawrence, the Gandy Brothers, Fred Hartley’s Quintet, fvor Morton = and

Dave Kaye, Turner Layton, Frank Titterton, Sam Brown, Ronald Frankau, Marie Burke and Rudy Starita. First programme iniroduces Alfred Van Dam and his Orchestra, the Gandy Brothers, Browning and Starr, Eve Becke and Louis Levy’s Orchestra. Alfred Van Dam is one of the best known figures in stage presentation in the London cinema world. He directs the musical side of two great cinemas, the State at Kilburn and the Trocadero, Hlephant and Castle. The Gandy Brothers have been responsible for bringing a new type of comedy entertainment to England variety houses, and the producer of "Piccadilly on Parade" made a special arrangement with them to broadcast their famous "cod" commentary from the theatre. Browning and Starr are des cribed as the American succes. sors to Layton and Johnson After appearances at the Cotton Club, New York, the Bal Tabarin, Paris, and other ieading Continental cabarets, they had a very successful season in Lon: don, and were recorded just before leaving on another Continental tour. Glamorous Eve Beck, who has had siage, film and radio experience, is featured with Lonis Levy, who is already well known to New Zealand radio audiences.