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Performance TitleCall for Production No.3 'Here We Are Again' (A Carnival Ball) - Gaumont British Picture Corporation Ball
Performance Date11 March 1938
Performance DayFriday
Performance Time20:30
Main PerformersJ Forsyth,
M Murray,
W Murton,
J Reardon,
D Shipwright,
J Swinburne,
Eve Becke and Gerry Fitzgerald,
Will Hay,
Jessie Matthews,
Sonnie Hale,
Lupino Lane,
The Crazy Gang,
W J Gell,
Ian Cremieu-Javal,
L L Cook,
P Corbishley,
E Black,
Robertson Hare,
Alfred Drayton,
Frank Cellier,
Wally Patch,
Glennis Lorimer,
Will Fyffe,
James Carney,
Wilfred Walter,
John Davis Lodge,
Francesca Braggiotti,
Maurice Ostrer,
Margaret Lockwood,
Michael Redgrave,
Graham Moffatt,
Moore Marriott,
F Launder,
Mel Templeton,
Jean Gillie,
Hazel Terry,
Edna Davies,
Syd Walker,
W S M Russell,
Mark Daly,
A Stevenson,
A Zeitlin,
F Lyon,
Tom Morahan,
Bernard Browne,
Victor Peers,
J Brook Wilkinson,
S F Ditcham,
John Woolf,
Hon. Richard Norton,
H Clayton,
Noel Madison,
Elsie Randolph,
Leslie Henson,
Jack Hulbert,
Cecily Courtneidge,
Air Marshal H W Walsh,
Dr E P Scott,
Henry Horne,
Edward Wagg,
Sir Donald Banks,
Lady Banks (Dorothea Webster),
Joseph Coyne,
Hartley Power,
Sir Joseph Ball,
Lady Mary C Ball,
Bobby Harris,
H A Micklem,
W Gilliatt,
Sidney Bernstein,
Mr Hartley,
Mrs Hartley,
Sam Eckman,
Felix Goetz,
Bobby Howes,
Alfred Hitchcock,
Alma Reville,
E W P Peall,
E H Lundy,
F J Chart,
H A Lingard,
Veronica Rose,
Mick Hyams,
S Pollitzer,
Alan Messer,
E W Deeley,
H E Alexander,
Marriott Edgar,
S Hart,
S Templeman,
Bagot Stack Health School,
Arnaud, Peggy and Ready,
The Four Spallas,
Draper and Shires,
The Six Carlton Sisters,
W F G Allardice,
The Misses Allardice,
R Attwool,
Mrs Barnett,
Mrs Bax,
H T Beasley (Evening Standard),
Morris R Bonnor,
H W Bowles,
Miss M Broad,
J John Broad,
A Brown,
Miss Cassels,
F J Chart,
Miss Clark,
Roy Clark (The Star),
J Chalmers,
H L Cherry,
H Clayton,
G Cohen,
Mrs Collard,
J P Collins,
Miss P Cosgrave,
D H Cunningham,
E F Curzon,
G Darnley-Smith,
Miss G Dowling,
C Evans,
Miss Fairlie,
Colonel Fox-Pitt,
F French,
W J Gell,
A Godfrey-Lewis,
P Guidobaldi,
K B Hann,
S Hart,
G Hill,
J Hitchcock, [John or Joseph - uncle or cousin of Alfred Hitchcock]
W Hitchcock, [William - brother or father of Alfred Hitchcock]
A W Jarratt,
A E Jay,
A R Jones,
Miss S Kerridge,
P Kelly,
Miss Kidby,
K Lancaster,
G Lang,
F Launder,
T A Law,
S Lazarus,
Louis Levy,
H A Linguard,
E H Lundy,
G H Luxton,
Quinten M Maclean,
Miss K McDermott,
J McWilliam,
Miss B Manning,
J B L Martin,
J A Mercer,
Allan Messer,
A Miller,
Miss K Montgomery,
G B Nye,
Mark Ostrer,
Mrs Payne,
G Picton,
A J Pincombe,
L E Pinder,
F S Platt,
P S Presbury H Randell,
R Redway,
Miss Reed,
A Richmond,
Miss H Roper,
E C Rowland,
L Rowland,
Veronica Rose,
Mrs Ruck,
W Salter,
Miss Peggy St Lo,
J D Saunders,
E Scott,
K Selby,
J Sharp,
F Sloggett,
C Smith,
H Symonds,
J Temple,
S C Templeman,
L Tomkins,
A C Tomlin,
Ulric B Walmsley,
A Watts,
T H Williamson,
R Wilson,
W.Woodward,
E W Yates

Ian Maclean - speaker,
Terence Casey - organ
Orchestra or BandLouis Levy and His Band,
Royal Military School of Music Trumpeters,
1st Battalion Grenadier Guards,
1st Battalion Coldstream Guards,
2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards,
2nd Battalion Scots Guards,
1st Battalion Welsh Guards,
Guards Depot,
HM Welsh Guards Band,
Queen Victoria's Rifles,
Princess Louise's Kensington Regiment,
RAF Contingent,
Royal Marines Band
ConductorsLieutenant T S Chandler,
Lieutenant Francis,
G C Williams
Set List'This England' (Richard II), Shakespeare (Ian Maclean)
Performance NotesIn attendance at this ball was the controversial figure, Sir Joseph Ball, who is often regarded as Britain's first spin doctor.

In March 1935, Isador Ostrer of Gaumont British agreed to help the National Publicity Bureau organise itself for propaganda, along with other film and media production companies. Ball reported to Chamberlain in June 1938 that he had 'cultivated some close personal contacts with the leaders of the British film industry' and was 'satisfied that I can count upon most of them for their full support to any reason­able degree.'

With the outbreak of World War II (a year after this ball), Joseph Ball was hired into the Ministry of Information as the director of the Films Division. Previous to this position he was in charge of publicity at the Conservative Central Office. There followed a period of censorship and 'bland treatment of Nazi Germnay in pre-war newsreels.'

Ball left this position as the Films Division came under criticism for lack of effective propaganda during the Phoney War period. Despite Ball's claims to have excellent relations with heads of production studios, distributors and newsreel companies, he was replaced by rank amateur Sir Kenneth Clarke.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1938/19)

Footage is available at: https://www.britishpathe.com/video/VLVA6GGI04MQZ8JAZQMBDL0VEQCU4-GAUMONT-BRITISH-FILM-CARNIVAL-BALL-AT-THE-ALBERT-HALL/query/Gaumont+%22carnival+ball%22
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RAHE/1/1938/19Gaumont-British Picture Corporation - 'Here we go Again'11 March 1938
Work
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OoxovaxiegifitCall for Production No.3 'Here We Are Again' (A Carnival Ball) - Gaumont British Picture Corporation Ball1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/3590Matthews; Jessie (11 March 1907-19 August 1981); OBE; English actress, dancer, singer
DS/UK/3591The Crazy Gang (1930)
DS/UK/3525Redgrave; Sir; Michael Scudamore (1908-1985); CBE; English actor, director, manager, author.
DS/UK/3016Hitchcock; Sir; Alfred (13 August 1899-29 April 1980); KBE; English film director and producer
DS/UK/3592Lockwood; Margaret (15 September 1916-15 July 1990); CBE; English actress
DS/UK/3593Patch; Wally (26 September 1888-27 October 1970); British actor
DS/UK/553British Army; Band of the Welsh Guards; 1915-; Welsh military band
DS/UK/23004Becke; Eve (15 December 1906-19 February 2001); British singer
DS/UK/23005Fitzgerald; Gerry; British actor
DS/UK/23006Hay; Will (6 December 1888-18 April 1949); FRAS; English comedian, actor, author, film director and amateur astronomer
DS/UK/23007Hale; Sonnie (1 May 1902-9 June 1959); English theatre and cinema actor and director
DS/UK/6364Lane; Lupino (16 June 1892-10 November 1959); English actor and theatre manager
DS/UK/23008Gell; William J (c.1920-2006); British film producer
DS/UK/23009Cremieu-Javal; Ian (27 May 1900-1981); commercial director of film
DS/UK/23010Hare; Robertson (17 December 1891-25 January 1979); OBE; English actor
DS/UK/23011Drayton; Alfred (1 November 1881-26 April 1949); British stage and film actor
DS/UK/23012Cellier; Frank (23 February 1884-27 September 1948); English actor
DS/UK/23013Lorimer; Glennis (27 April 1913-17 November 1968); British actress
DS/UK/23014Fyffe; Will (16 February 1885-14 December 1947); CBE; Scottish music hall artist
DS/UK/23015Walter; Wilfred (2 March 1882-9 July 1958); English film and theatre actor
DS/UK/23016Braggiotti; Francesca (17 October 1902-25 February 1998); Italian dancer, actress, dubber, and first lady of Connecticut
DS/UK/23017Lodge; John Davis (20 October 1903-29 October 1985); American lawyer, actor, politician, and diplomat
DS/UK/23018Ostrer; Maurice (9 May 1896-3 December 1975); British film executive
DS/UK/23019Moffatt; Graham (6 December 1919-2 July 1965); English character actor and comedian
DS/UK/23020Marriott; Moore (14 September 1885-11 December 1949); English character actor
DS/UK/23021Terry; Hazel (23 January 1918-12 October 1974); English actress
DS/UK/23022Gillie; Jean (14 October 1915-19 February 1949); English film actress
DS/UK/23023Davies; Edna (13 July 1904–31 August 1949); Welsh stage and film actress
DS/UK/23024Walker; Syd (22 March 1886-13 January 1945); British actor and comedian
DS/UK/23025Daly; Mark (23 August 1887-27 September 1957); British film actor
DS/UK/23026Morahan; Tom (29 June 1906 1969); British film designer
DS/UK/23027Peers; Victor (18 May 1897-18 September 1971); CBE; British film producer
DS/UK/23028Wilkinson; Joseph Brooke (24 May 1870- July 1948); British film censor
DS/UK/23029Ditcham; Sinclair Frank (2 September 1884-11 October 1953); British film company director
DS/UK/23030Woolf; Sir; John (15 March 1913-28 June 1999); British film producer
DS/UK/23031Norton; Richard (2 April 1892-12 July 1954); Hon; British film producer, former banker
DS/UK/23032Madison; Noel (30 April 1897-6 January 1975); American actor of stage and screen
DS/UK/23033Randolph; Elsie (9 December 1904-15 October 1982); English actress, singer and dancer
DS/UK/8026Henson; Leslie (3 August 1891-2 December 1957); English comedian, actor, film and theatre producer and director
DS/UK/23034Hulbert; Jack (24 April 1892-25 March 1978); British actor, director, screenwriter and singer
DS/UK/23035Courtneidge; Cecily (1 April 1893-26 April 1980); DBE; Australian-born British actress, comedian and singer
DS/UK/23036Banks; Sir; Donald (31 March 1891-11 July 1975); Major General KCB DSO MC TD
DS/UK/23037Coyne; Joseph (27 March 1867-17 February 1941); American vaudevillian and musical comedy actor
DS/UK/23038Power; Hartley (14 March 1894-29 January 1966); American film and television actor
DS/UK/23039Ball; Sir; Joseph (1885–1961); KBE; British barrister, intelligence officer, political administrator, political operator, government administrator, and industrialist
DS/UK/23040Harris; Bobby (28 March 1900-18 May 1995); British actor
DS/UK/23041Micklem; Henry Andrew (29 June 1872-March 1963); Colonel, CBE
DS/UK/6865Howes; Bobby (4 August 1895-27 April 1972); British entertainer
DS/UK/23042Reville; Alma (14 August 1899-6 July 1982); English-born American screenwriter and editor
DS/UK/23043Peall; Ernest William Pashley (6 August 1876-23 May 1960); British cinema projectionist
DS/UK/23044Rose; Veronica (8 July 1911-25 January 1968); British stage and film actress
DS/UK/23045Hyams; Mick (fl.1930s); British cinema exhibitor
DS/UK/23046Edgar; Marriott (1880-1951); Scottish poet, scriptwriter and comedian
DS/UK/23047The Four Spallas (fl.1930s)
DS/UK/23048Draper and Shires (fl.1930s)
DS/UK/23049Allardice; W F G (8 September 1903-June 1971); Captain; British royal engineer and territorial reserve officer, and later solicitor
DS/UK/23050Bonnor-Morris; Dick (22 July 1914-20 September 1964); British makeup artist
DS/UK/9934Casey; Terence (fl 1950s); British organist
DS/UK/23051St Lo; Peggy (16 August 1911-2001); British dancer and organising secretary of the Women's League of Health and Beauty
DS/UK/6815Levy; Louis (20 November 1894-18 August 1957); English film composer, music director
DS/UK/23053Banks; Dorothea (30 March 1895-19 January 1947); Lady Banks; British socialite
DS/UK/8010Curzon; Frederic (4 September 1899-6 December 1973); English composer, conductor, musician
DS/UK/23054Ostrer; Mark (4 November 1892-5 November 1958); British film producer and financier
DS/UK/591The Royal Marines School of Music; Massed Corps of Drums of Her Majesty's Royal Marines; British military band
DS/UK/23055Cherry; Henry Leonard (20 March 1914-); cinema architect, carpenter and joiner
DS/UK/23057Eckman; Sam (28 January 1892-March 1976); American-born Russian managing director of MGM British operations
DS/UK/23064Jarratt; A W; British film executive, maker and distributor and Royal Navy Commander
DS/UK/23065Bernstein; Sidney (30 January 1899-5 February 1993); Baron Bernstein; British businessman and media executive
DS/UK/23066Browne; Bernard (1909-1941); cinematographer
DS/UK/23067Carney; James (16 January 1911-25 August 1955); British actor
DS/UK/23068Templeton; Mel (19 September 1892-5 November 1967); American film production executive
DS/UK/1412Gaumont-British Picture Company; 1898-1941; British film company
DS/UK/23078The Carlton Sisters (1912-1950)
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