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Performance TitleGaumont British Picture Corporation Ltd Carnival Ball 1939 - Great Britain, The Empire and Peace
Performance Date10 March 1939
Performance DayFriday
Main PerformersFlorence Desmond,
Gracie Fields,
Isadore Ostrer

Ian McLean - vocal,
Terence Casey - organ
Secondary PerformersBox holders:
L Audigier,
W F G Allardice,
Edward Black,
C H Banks,
Miss M B Baillie,
Miss P A Beresford,
C W Botham,
E A Barry,
P Corbishley,
H Clayton,
F J Chart,
Roy Clarke,
M R Cahill,
W E Cucksey,
Geoffrey Cohen,
D H Cunningham,
Miss Cassels,
H L Cherry,
T Cowan,
Miss Carlile,
Miss Croxford,
A E Case,
A H Chitty,
S F Ditcham,
Roy Drew,
E A Doman,
Herbert De Leon,
Desmond Dewick,
E V H Emmett,
C F Evans,
J Elsegood,
W H Emby,
R H Etchells,
A Fletcher,
'Gainsborough Stars'
A Godfrey-Lewis,
Miss F M Godsell,
P Guidobaldi,
A Fraser Green,
M A Graham,
Miss M Gillings,
C F Highams,
W Hitchcock,
S Hart,
Miss N P D Huey,
E H Hurst,
A Haworth,
Sidney Jarratt,
I C Javal,
A R Jones,
Major Joyce-Thompson,
D Kraemer,
I Kidd,
Miss E Keays,
Miss S Kerridge,
L M Kentish-Startup
R T Kane,
Louis Levy,
H Ledgard,
H A Lingard,
E H Lundy,
F C Lamb,
Miss M Lloyd,
Peter Lang,
J Letessier,
W S Lowe,
J B L Martin,
Miss B Manning,
J A Mercer,
G G MacNeice,
Miss A Murphy,
Mrs Newman,
P Newcombe,
Mark Ostrer, Maurice Ostrer,
P S Presbury,
Victor Peers,
E W P Peall,
L E Pinder,
A Panell,
J A Pincombe,
H G Payne,
Mrs Pantlin,
C Renton-Coomber,
Miss L M Rivett,
E J Runkel,
A Richmond,
E C Rowland,
R Redway,
Mrs E M Rock,
W Salter,
J D Saunders,
O L Seward,
F Sloggett,
A H Scobie,
W B Seal,
F D Siddall,
C E Smith,
Miss P St Lo,
W Sweetland,
J Swinburne,
Jack Sharp,
J Temple,
L Tomkins,
P Turnbull,
S C Templeman,
Harold Turner,
Randal Terraneau,
G H Voglerm
Marcel Varnel,
A Watts,
F W Wilby,
Miss M Wilkie,
Frank Woolf,
Mrs A Wright,
W S Warne,
L A Wilson,
Mrs Young
Orchestra or BandHM Grenadier Guards Combined Bands,
HM Scots Guards Band,
HM Welsh Guards Band,
Royal Military School of Music Trumpeters,
Royal Military School of Music Drummers,
Dagenham Girl Pipers and Drummers,
Women's League of Health and Beauty (Peggy St.Lo),
Manley and Austin,
Stuart Morgan Dancers,
1st Battalion Grenadier Guards,
2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards,
1st Battalion Coldstream Guards,
1st Battalion Scots Guards,
1st Battalion Irish Guards
ConductorsMajor G J Miller,
Lieutenant S Rhodes,
Lieutenant T S Chandler,
Louis Levy,
Clifford Greenwood

Jack Swinburne - cabaret director
Set ListThe Big Ensemble in Rhythmic Exercises (150 teachers and students of the Women's League of Healthy and Beauty, produced by Peggy St Lo)
Manley and Austin from the London Palladium, Music Hath Charms,
Stuart Morgan Dancers from the London Palladium - Adagio dancers,
Empire Peace Parade - Bridage of Guardsmen appearing by permission of Major General A F A N Thorne CMG DSO, includes music from combined military bands,
Peace Toast: 'Cavalcade', Coward (Ian McLean),
Louis Levy, grand finale
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1939/19)

Footage available at: https://www.britishpathe.com/video/VLVA1SFZ9ZDYH32LGCIZBWVV53R2K-GAUMONT-BRITISH-CARNIVAL-BALL-HELD-AT-THE-ALBERT-HALL/query/Gaumont+%22carnival+ball%22
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1939/19Gaumont - British Picture Corporation - Carnival Ball 10 March 1939
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Oonomeamaivif_DGaumont British Picture Corporation Ltd Carnival Ball 1939 - Great Britain, The Empire and Peace1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/1412Gaumont-British Picture Company; 1898-1941; British film company
DS/UK/392Women's League of Health and Beauty (Fitness League); 1930-; British women's fitness organisation
DS/UK/2818The Dagenham Girl Pipers; 1930-; English female bagpipe band
DS/UK/553British Army; Band of the Welsh Guards; 1915-; Welsh military band
DS/UK/2392British Army; The Band of HM Scots Guards; 1642-; British Army division
DS/UK/1870Band of the HM Grenadier Guards (1685)
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