The Archive · 1937

This Evening's Programmes

The letters in parenthesis indicate Irom which of the above stations the vroadeast is made, 13.10 Gay pot-pourri (s) 14.60 News m German News (D), (P) 16.8 "From Anese Beginnings Popular music (M) Sport news/notes (m) News in Frencn (M), (P) Royal "eum". (p), "Naughty ads Dancing" (w) "wood ior "'bought" News (M) News (P), (m) News (p) News in Italian (r) Variations: Brahms (n) customer who shows distinct originality in satisfying the importunity of those outstretched hands.

Every evening, as he waits at the bus stop, he searches his pockets for a packet of cigarettes, of one of the best American brands. Then, he plants one in each grimy hand, and, amid grins from the two rogues and from the passers-by, offers each of them a light. The beggar urchin who leads the "blind" man up to each new victim screams with delight, and the dirty piece of cloth which passes for a hat slips down crazily over one eye as she dances up and down with Operetta music (n) "tire!" (n) Concert (P), (x), Balet music (0) Walk: "Dixie" Dean/lvan Sharpe b'pest String Quartet (M)

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