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Issue Details: First known date: 1933... 1933 Back to School
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'In this original Musical Burlesque the A.B.C. Revue Company turns back the pages of the years gone by until the clamorous school-bell calls them back once again to desk and cane. They take the modem spirit back with them, how ever, with somewhat amusing results, the old-fashioned, simple school songs and the syncopation of to-day being combined with laughable effect. Harmonised choruses, bright songs, schoolboy jokes and jests combine to build a show of highly diverting entertainment. The strictures of the schoolmaster are listened to with scant respect, and ‘‘howler" after “howler” reduces this harassed pedagogue to exasperation. Many new songs have been specially written for this show, and an interesting note of topicality introduced.'

Source: [Radio guide], Wireless Weekly, 15 September 1933, p.30.

Production Details

  • Produced by ABC Musical Revue Company and broadcast on 2BL on 15 September 1933, from 8pm.

    Producer: Humphrey Bishop.

    Cast: Yvonne Banvard, Walter Kingsley, Rene Dixon, Zena Moller, Nell Crane, Dan Agar, and Arthur Hemsley.

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