Programmes and Adverts (1949 – 1950)

1949 was not a very happy year for the Booths. Anne had to be admitted to hospital early in the year and Webster’s good friend, Tommy Handley died suddenly in January of that year. The great Wagnerian tenor, Walter Widdop died in September. In October, Edwin Booth, Webster’s father was taken ill at a Birmingham concert where Anne and Webster were singing and died there, only a few days after his eighty-third birthday. The family managed to keep the news from Webster and Anne until after the concert although they were worried because they had noticed that the family seats had been vacated.

13 January 1949 Funeral of Tommy Handley.

Webster and Leslie Bridgmont at Tommy Handley’s Funeral, Golders Green Crematorium.

Memorial Service at St Paul’s – 9 February 1949. Tommy Handley Memorial Choir record The Long Day Closes and God be in My Head

21 April 1949

8 July 1949 Jersey Concert

Singing at a broadcast (1949)

7 September 1949 Funeral of Walter Widdop

17 October 1949 Death of Edwin Booth, Webster’s father.

Edwin Booth’s will. Irene Constance Louise Booth was Edwin Booth’s second wife.

2 December 1949 Anne.

5 January 1950

12 January 1950 Town Hall, Cheltenham.

22 March 1950 Central Hall, Derby.

Concert with Charles Forwood at the piano.

Concert with Charles Forwood at the piano.

9 April 1950

There was a great protest about this Sunday evening concert in Kirkcaldy. Even when the concert went ahead, the criticism of it was very bad! I wonder whether the bad crit was because the concert had taken place on a Sunday.

May 1950

9 July 1950

23 September 1950 Cheltenham.

24 October 1950

14 November 1950. Hull concert at Tivoli.

Anne and Webster