'’Tis a story of a lover and his lass, who, against the rustic background of smiling English meadows and murmuring streams, enact the age-old but ever new story of a wooing that went astray. Sterndale Bennett's music comes as a breath of fresh air, redolent of the days when Love and Adventure strolled hand-in-hand across the smiling English Countryside. An enthralling story, pointed with whimsical phantasy, is the string upon which are threaded pearls of song, both solo and choral, interpreted and sung by a sympathetic cast. For one hour this musical romance will transport you by air to the happy, laughter-loving days when England was “Merrie England" in very sooth.'
Source: [Radio guide], Wireless Weekly, 22 September 1933, p.51.
Based on English composer William Sterndale Bennett's choral pastoral, The May Queen, with additional songs written for the production by Alf J. Lawrance.
Producer: Humphrey Bishop.
Cast: Zena Moller, Alfred Wilmore, and Walter Kingsley (soloists); Yvonne Banvard, Rene Dixon, Dan Agar, Nell Crane, James Pratt, and Arthur Hemsley (dialogue).
Music: Wireless Chorus and Concert Orchestra.
Conductor: Joseph Post.
