Title: Song Mumming/Arts and Hearts
Date: Wednesday 9th July 1924, Matinee
Type: Recital
Location: Kingsway Theatre, London, England
Director: Muriel Terry
Collection Folder: Folder 12

Cast

Song Mumming

Life’s Rhythm

Music: Nelly Tollerton
Performers-
Life: Byam Yates
Life’s Accompanist: Gwen Knight

Birth

Prelude

Music: Landon Ronald
Lyrics: Muriel Terry
Performers-
Life: Byam Yates
Love: Celia Dering
Two Wanderers: Carol Hamer, Irene Moore

Cradle Song

Music: Kate Lee
Lyrics: W.B. Yeats
Performer-
Mother: Winifred Self

Call of the Sun

Music: Sigard Lie
Lyrics: Elizabeth Lockwood
Performer-
Child: Marie Rondeau

Jeannette

Music and Lyrics: A.A. Needham
Performer-
Child: Grace Edwards

If No One Ever Marries Me

Music: Lisa Lehmann
Lyrics: L.A. Tadema
Performer-
Child: Sylvia Purezzi

Christ in His Garden

Music: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Lyrics: Penelope Foster
Performer-
Child: Lesley Duff

Walter Melyun

Music and Lyrics: Jessie Pease
Performer-
Child: Eirane Naismith

The Fairy Story

Music: O. Marikanto
Lyrics: A.C. McInnes
Performers-
Children: Elsie Hay, Celia Dering

Prayer

Music: Keith Duff
Lyrics: Anonymous
Performers-
Children: Elsie Hay, Celia Dering

Love

Love Went Ariding

Music: F. Bridges
Lyrics: Mary Coleridge
Performers: Phyllis Clayton, Celia Dering

The Years at the Spring

Music: M.A. Halley
Lyrics: R. Browning
Performer: Lesley Duff

Mistress Mine

Music: Roger Quilter
Lyrics: William Shakespeare
Performer: Stanley Vilven

A Birthday

Music: F.H. Cohen
Lyrics: Christina Rossetti
Performer: Maria Rondeau

Wedding Day

Music: W.G. James
Lyrics: Muriel Terry
Performers-
Singer: Aimee Germaine
Two Bridesmaids: Carol Hamer, Irene Moore
Page: Ian

Fulfilment

Music: Gerald Allen
Lyrics: Muriel Terry
Performer: Winifred Self

Miscellaneous Emotions

Selection (Recitation & The Little Damozel)

Recitation Lyrics: Muriel Terry
Music, The Little Damozel: Ivor Novello
Lyrics, The Little Damozel: Fred Weatherby
Performer: Sylvia Purezzi

The Mirror

Music: Gwen Ringh
Lyrics: Muriel Terry
Performers: Elsie Hay, Eirane Naismith

Second Minuet

Music and Lyrics: Maurice Besley
Performer: Barbara Boddy

The Tryst

Music: J. Sibden
Lyrics: J.L. Reneburg
Performer: Phyllis Clayton

Magdalen at Michael’s Gate

Music: Ellen Coleman
Lyrics: Kingsley
Performer: Byam Yates

Lady’s Garter

Music: Herbert Oliver
Lyrics: J. Lightfoot
Performer: Maria Rondeau

Raggle Taggle Gypsies

Music: Traditional
Lyrics: Traditional
Performer: Maria Rondeau

Death

Indian Squaw Song

Music: R.O. Morgan
Lyrics: John E. Logan
Performer: Winifred Self

The Witch of Binore

Music and Lyrics: A.F.O. Manning
Performer: Irene Moore

Lament

Music and Lyrics: L. Pagan
Performer: Aimee Germaine

The Song’s ‘Swan Song’

Music and Lyrics: Muriel Terry
Performer: Carol Hamer

Arts & Hearts

Conductor: Stanley Chapple
Violin: Alice Lees
Cellist: Muriel Hart
Drummer: Nelly Tollerton
Pianist: Nelle Swinford

Queen of Hearts: Joyce Horton
Cinderella: Gwen Onihht
Page: Eiraine Naismith
King of Hearts: Stanley Vilven
Knave: Aimee Germaine
Cleopatra: Phyllis Clayton
Pompadour: Celia Dering
Rosamond: Barbara Boddy
Dubarri: Edna Wyatt
Helen of Troy: Irene Moore
Nell Gwynne: Carol Hamer

Crew

For Song Mumming/Arts & Hearts

Book & Lyrics, Arts & Hearts: Muriel Terry, C. McDona
Music, Arts & Hearts: Gwen Knight
Dresses: André Sar, Mrs L.E. Hecker, Winifred Thomas
Press Manager: Harper Edwwrds
Stage: Mr Hambling

For the Kingsway Theatre

Licensee: F.R. Littler

Programme Printed By: E.T. Heron & Co Ltd.

Notes

Credits for A Birthday are the wrong way round, with C. Rossitti (a misspelling of Rossetti being credited for music, and F.H. Cohen being credited for the lyrics). In actuality Rossetti wrote the poem that’s used for the lyrics.