Learning on ScreenUnder Your Hat [scenes]
- Summary
- BBC presentation of scenes from the first act of the musical comedy Under Your Hat, from the Palace Theatre, London, on its first night performance.
- Theatre play
- Under Your Hat by Arthur Macrae and Jack [John Norman] Hulbert (1892-1978) and Archie Menzies [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Thursday 24 November 1938
- Time
- 7.45-8.20pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Book by
- Jack [John Norman] Hulbert (1892-1978)
- Book by
- Arthur Macrae
- Book by
- Archie Menzies
- Music
- Vivian Ellis
- Lyrics
- Vivian Ellis
- Cast
Cicely Courtneidge Jack [John Norman] Hulbert (1892-1978)
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from theatre
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Notes
- 'The mobile unit prepares for another date with boiled shirts on Thursday - this time to televise the scenes at the first night of Under Your Hat, the new Cicely Courtneidge-Jack Hulbert musical comedy at the Palace Theatre. Three cameras will be used - one to show celebrities as they pass through the brilliantly lit foyer to the auditorium; another will be installed in Cicely Courtneidge’s dressing-room [...]; and the third camera will have a box to itself in the auditorium to televise part of the first act’ ('The Scanner’, ‘Television Goes High Hat’, Radio Times, 18 November 1938, p. 26).
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- comedy; musical
Print sources
- Title
- Broadcasting: Music, Variety and Plays (Newspaper listing)
- Reference
- The Times, 24 November 1938, p. 20
- Title
- Radio Times, 18 November 1938 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- article by ‘The Scanner’ entitled ‘Television Goes High Hat’, p. 26; listing, p. 27
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