| Main Performers | Tommy Trinder,
Cicely Courtneidge,
George Robey,
Violet Loraine,
Bennett and Williams,
Jose Fearon and Charles Gillespie,
Elsie and Doris Waters,
Rob Wilton,
Vera Lynn - vocal |
| Orchestra or Band | Louis Levy and His band of Fifty |
| Choirs | Monia Liter and a Chorus of Thirty |
| Set List | Message from Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander
'If You Were The Only Girl In The World' (George Robey, Violet Loraine)
Recording - HM The King
Comedy skits and songs (Tommy Trinder)
'Lily of Lagoona' (Leslie Mitchell, Audience) |
| Performance Notes | The event took place after an earlier stand-down parade of 7,000 representative members of the Home Guard in Hyde Park, London. The citizen army paraded past HM The King, Queen Elizabeth, Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret.
"Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander signalled a message to the Home Guard gathering at the Albert Hall last night, organised by the Daily Mail, Sunday Dispatch, and the London Evening News. After giving greetings from Italy and the Mediterranean, it read: - "I can assure you that everybody in this theatre is working and fighting to the limit to ensure that his last parade in London shall not be long delayed."
(The Times, 4 December 1944)
Associated Press Archive holds B&W British Movietone footage of the event (Story No. BM45325). |