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Performance TitleThe Newsvendors' Benevolent and Provident Institution Centenary Ball and Cabaret
Performance Date20-21 March 1939
Performance DayMonday
Performance Time20:00
Main PerformersMiss Gracie Fields,
Mr Jack Hulbert and Miss Cicely Courtneidge,
Mrs Frances Day,
Darvell and Shires,
The Four Spallas,
Prunella Douglas Hamilton (Prunella Stack),
Ken Davidson,
Hugh Forgie,
Joe Tobin,
Manley and Austin,
The Queen of Song (Gracie Fields?),
''Sabor'' King of Mechanism
Secondary PerformersTerence Casey - organ
Orchestra or BandBilly Cotton and his Band,
Jan Ralfini and his Broadcast Dance Orchestra
Performance NotesJack Swinburne - producer.

A ball to celebrate 100 years of the Newsvendors' Benevolent Institution which included a cabaret and buffet. Stage and film celebrities, authors, artists and well-known hostesses attended.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1939/23)
Ticket Prices£1 1s
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/-r4-R4f-Gdmcd
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1939/23Centenary Ball and Cabaret in aid of The Newsvendors' Benevolent and Provident Association20 March 1939
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Iekogoinowdif_DThe Newsvendors' Benevolent and Provident Institution Centenary Ball and Cabaret1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/1537Newsvendors’ Benevolent & Provident Institution (Old Ben); 1838-; British charity to help people in the newspaper industry
DS/UK/3944Billy Cotton and his London Savannah Band; fl 1925-1929; British dance band
DS/UK/1520Fields; Dame; Gracie (1898-1979); DBE; English actress, singer, comedienne
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