PROGRAMMES AND ADVERTS – 1953 – AUGUST 1956

18 February 1953 Ash Wednesday.

Elected Joint presidents of Concert Artistes’ Association.

Webster Booth was the guest of Roy Plomley on Desert Island Discs on the BBC Home Service on 3 April 1953.

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Opening of Desert Island Discs script. Sadly the recording is not available on the BBC webpage.

11 April 1953 – hardly something to commend him!

Anne as Mistress Knight and Webster as King Charles II in And So to Bed.

24 April 1953 – a poor crit for And so to Bed
in Coventry.

Diamond Wedding anniversary of Anne’s parents April 1953.

Anne and Webster went on an extensive tour of And So to Bed in the midst of many other commitments, particularly Merrie England in the Coronation Year.

Booths sing in concert version of Merrie England in Calgary on May 9 1953.

Merrie England at Luton Hoo with Douglas Fairbanks Junior

Merrie England at Luton Hoo.

CAA dinner 1953 Anne and Webster as presidents.

Advert – 1954

8 April 1954

15 April 1954

30 April 1954

16 May 1954

May 1954

Hiawatha concert had been cancelled for lack of interest. It was replaced by an extract from Aida.

21 September 1954 – Attack of Shingles. Far from “staying indoors for four or five days,” the pain troubled him periodically for many years to come.

28 October 1954

24 November 1954 – Victoria Congregational Church, Derby from Webster’s score.

15 December 1954

Webster’s score 10 December 1954

31 December 1954

I do not know whether Webster and Anne had any singing pupils in the UK.

27 May 1955 Gilbert and Sullivan concert.

29 April 1955 – Sir Malcolm Sargent’s birthday concert.

24 June 1955 – St Andrew’s Hall, Glasgow.

27 July 1955. Anne and Webster were presented to Princess Alexandra.

13 August 1955 Promenade Concert.

13 October 1955 Lady Audley’s Secret.

25 October 1955

November 1955 0n the way to South Africa for tour of Cape Province.

12 December 1955 – Arriving back in the UK again.

15 December 1955 Messiah, Huddersfield.

Huddersfield Town Hall

Return to South Africa for a further tour.

2 February 1956 Crit by Dora L. Sowden in Rand Daily Mail.

On “platteland tour”. Having tea in Bethal with accompanist, Arthur Tatler.

27 June 1956

Passenger List, Pretoria Castle – 12 July 1956.

On board the Pretoria Castle, 12 July 1956.

Signing the menu on board ship.

15 August 1956

PROGRAMMES AND ADVERTS – 1951 -1952

30 March 1952 – Merely Players at Drury Lane

23 March 1951

April 1951

May 1951 from a talk on the BBC.

HIAWATHA – Croydon – 31 May 1951

11 July 1951

12 July 1951

3 August 1951, Webster and Anne with accompanist, Geoffrey Parsons. Unfortunately the photo is very poor but the only one I could find of them together. Geoffrey Parsons went on to be the natural successor to Gerald Moore.

15 September 1951 – Blackburn

From Webster’s score – 20 October 1951

Duet – first published on `15 September 1951 by Stanley Paul.

The Booth’s joint autobiography was published in 1951 and is now long out of print. I digitised the book several years ago and John Marwood was kind enough to proofread it for me. It is now available in paperback and as an epub at: https://www.lulu.com/duettists

16 October 1951.

Webster’s voice was heard twice – dubbed in a scene from Yeomen of the Guard and at the end, singing an echoey version of A Wand’ring Minstrel. He was not very pleased with his billing in the film.

22 January 1952

Creation 29 April 1952 – Sir Malcolm’s birthday.

May 1952 – Anne and Webster featured in an article in the magazine.

Photo in the John Bull article. Anne and Webster with Smokey.

22 June 1952

Anne in Merrie England at Chichester.

21 August 1952

27 October 1952

26 December 1952 – Warwick Castle. Webster’s second cousin, Trevor Luckcuck and a friend cycled to the event from their home in Solihull.