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Performance TitleThe Sphere and Tatler Ball - The Happy New Year' Ball, in aid of The Middlesex Hospital and The British Empire Service League
Performance Date31 December 1925-1 January 1926
Performance DayThursday
Performance Time22:00
Main PerformersPrinciples and Chorus from 'Mercenary Mary,
Principles and Chorus from 'No No Nanette'

Miss Eileen Redcott,
Miss Betty Balfour,
Miss Olive Sloane,
Miss Heather Thatcher,
Miss Winnie Melville,
Miss Nora Swinburne,
Miss Palmer,
Mr Derek Oldham,
Miss Lilian Davies,
Miss Ivy Tresmand,
Miss Dorothy Dickson and Mr Quentin Todd,
Miss Evelyn Lane and Mr Gregort Stroud,
'Miss Sketch'
Orchestra or BandClabon-West Orchestra,
Jack Hylton and His Band
ConductorsMr Clabon Glover
Set List24:00 Carillion New Year Entertainment

Dances:
One-Step: 'Kongo Kate', 'Marry Me Do',
Fox-Trot: 'Save Your Sorrows', 'Every Sunday Afternoon',
Fox-Trot: 'Ukulele Lady', 'Indian Love Call',
Waltz: 'Memory's Melody', 'Where Are You T-Night?',
Fox-Trot: 'Normandy', 'Charleston',
Fox-Trot: 'If You Knew Susie', 'The Hylton Melody',
Fox-Trot: 'Poor Little Rich Girl', 'Steppin' In Society',
Waltz: 'Wondering', 'Poem',
Fox-Trot: 'Seminola', 'Pango Pango Maid',
Fox-Trot: 'Miami', 'I Love You',
Fox-Trot: 'Mercenary Mary','Oriental Moon',
One-Step: 'No, No, Nanette','I Miss My Swiss',
Fox-Trot: 'Sunny Havana', 'One Stolen Kiss',
Fox-Trot: 'Tie A String', 'Nobody But Fanny',
Waltz: 'Sometime','Every Step Towards Killarney',
Fox-Trot: 'Cutie', 'I Know That Someone Loves Me'
Fox-Trot: 'Oh! Boy, What A Girl', 'Hotsy-Totsy',
Fox-Trot: 'Tell Me More', 'Why Do Short Men Like Tall Girls?'
Waltz: 'Babette', 'Rose Marie',
Tango: 'La Mantilla', 'Tango Town',
Fox-Trot: 'Chick, Chick, Chicken', 'My Sugar',
One Step: 'Alabamy Bound', 'El Capeo',
Fox-Trot: 'Paddlin' Madelin Home', 'Everybody Loves My Baby',
Fox-Trot: 'Yes, Sir, That's My Baby', 'High Street, Africa',
Fox-Trot: 'Panama', 'Collegiate',
Waltz: 'Remember', 'When You And I Were Seventeen',
Fox-Trot: 'Araby', 'The Caretaker's Daughter',
Fox-Trot: 'As The Days Go By', 'Bouquet',
Waltz: 'Love's Dream', 'All My Dreams Are Of You',
Fox-Trot: 'Just Round The Corner', 'Ah-Ha!',
Fox-Trot: 'Too Many Kisses', 'Big Bad Bill',
One-Step:'The Toy Drum Major'

'God Save the King' (The National Anthem)
Royal PresenceHRH Prince Arthur of Connaught,
HRH Princess Arthur of Connaught
Performance NotesThe event was attended by Harry Gordon Selfridge who was accompanied by Fred Astaire's mother ('Shopping, Seduction and Mr Selfridge', Lindy Woodhead, 2012).

Prizes were donated by:
Morgan Furze and Co Ltd, Trower and Sons and Pommery and Greno - wine,
Fry and Sons Ltd - chocolates,
Abdulla and Co Ltd - cigarettes

Food was served in boxes and in the gallery
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1925/54),
Handbill (RAHE/6/1925/12),
Illustration (RAHE/9/1926/1/OS), (RAHE/9/1925/1-2)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1925/54'The Happy New Year' Ball, in aid of the Middlesex Hospital31 December 1925
RAHE/6/1925/12The Happy New Year Ball, in aid of The Middlesex Hospital and The British Empire Service League31 December 1925
RAHE/9/1926/1/OSIllustration of the Happy New Year BallDecember 31 1925
RAHE/9/1925/1Illustration of the Albert Hall Dance Floor for the Happy New Year Ball31 December 1925
RAHE/9/1925/2Illustration of the Organisation behind the Happy New Year Ball31 December 1925
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Iomomokoopip_MThe Sphere and Tatler Ball - The Happy New Year' Ball, in aid of The Middlesex Hospital and The British Empire Service League1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/2286Clabon-West Dance Orchestra; fl 1920s; British dance orchestra
DS/UK/4315Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia/Duchess of Connaught and Strathearn; Louise Margaret Alexandra Victoria Agnes (1860-1917); Duchess of Connaught and Strathearn; German princess, British royal family member, wife of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
DS/UK/1123Prince Arthur William Patrick Albert (1850-1942); British Duke of Connaught and Strathearn; British Royal Family - seventh child and third son of Queen Victoria
DS/UK/3225The Jack Hylton Band; 1923-1940; British band
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