Main Performers | Florence Desmond, Gracie Fields, Isadore Ostrer
Ian McLean - vocal, Terence Casey - organ |
Secondary Performers | Box 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 Band | HM 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 |
Conductors | Major G J Miller, Lieutenant S Rhodes, Lieutenant T S Chandler, Louis Levy, Clifford Greenwood
Jack Swinburne - cabaret director |
Set List | The 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 Material | Programme (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 |