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New Year's Eve Gala Dinner, 1930
Wednesday 31st December 1930
Smedley's Christmas Dinner, 1931
Friday 25th December 1931
1931 menu cover (above), with a new and very striking logo.
1931 menu centrefold, with programme of music and menu (below).
Inside the back cover was a list of all the people who the dinner had
received Christmas cards from and on the back were
the signatures of the other guests who had sat at the table.
Programme for Christmas and New Year, 1931-32.
Of the performers listed in the 1931-2 programme:
Oswald Rae was both a conjuror and a humorist;
Swales Atkinson, a Yorkshire bass-baritone who originated from Menston near Leeds,
had performed at Blackpool's Tower Ballroom,
alongside the Northern Studio Orchestra during the summer.
Smedley's Christmas Dinner, 1932
Sunday 25th December 1932
Everyone who had been seated at the table had signed the back of the
menu, except for the person whose card this was.
Programme for Christmas and New Year, 1932-33.
Miss Noreena Feist and Mr. Cecil Harrington were well
known entertainers, with
Cecil playing the piano.
The Christmas Day performances were given by Esther
Coleman, a contralto, and
Ashmoor Burch, a baritone. |
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Smedley's Christmas Dinner, 1934
Tuesday 25th December 1934
Programme for Christmas and New Year, 1934-35.
Front
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Performances over the1934-5 Christmas period included:
Arthur Cox (Arthur Carron) was a tenor soloist who, earlier in the
year, had taken part in a number of Promenade Concerts broadcast on
BBC radio;
Miss Millicent Ward was a soprano. A few months earlier she had performed
at the Town Hall, part of a celebrity concert for Carnival Week under
the direction of Harold D. Wildgoose.
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