'The colorful field of legendary romance in the land of the Moguls is artistically exploited in this original Musical Romance, in which Story, Song, and Legend are cleverly blended. Harmonious choruses and melodious solos show Liza Lehman at her musical best, and dramatic intensity is presented in a quickly-moving tale of elemental love and hate. “The Shalimar” presents clear-cut cameos of life in “Mother India,” and depicts some of that fascination possessed by her which acts like a magnet upon the Occidental mind, and which has at tracted the foreign adventurer since the days of Alexander the Great.'
Source: [Radio guide], Wireless Weekly, 25 August 1933, p.57.
Based on 'Golden Threshold' (subtitled 'an Indian song-garland for four solo voices: (soprano, contralto, tenor and baritone), chorus and orchestra'), composed by Liza Lehman in 1907, with additional music by Alf J. Lawrance.
Broadcast on 2FC, 2NC, 3LO, and 2CO on Monday 28 August 1933.
Producer: Humphrey Bishop.
Cast: Alfred Wilmore, Zena Moller, and Walter Kinsgley (soloists); Yvonne Banvard, Nell Crane, Rene Dixon, James Pratt, Dan Agar, and Arthur Hemsley (dialogue).
