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Back to School.
Genrerevue
Country of originAustralia
Language(s)English
Home station2BL
Written byEdmund Barclay
Alf J Lawrence
Produced byHumphrey Bishop
Original releaseSeptember 15, 1933 (1933-09-15)[1]

Back to School is a 1933 Australian radio revue by Edmund Barclay. It was one of several revues Barclay wrote.[2]

The revue was broadcast in September and repeated in October.[3]

According to press material:

In this original Musical Burlesque the A.B.C. Revue Company turns back the pages of the years gone by until the clamorous school-bell calls them back once again to desk and cane. They take the modem spirit back with them, however, with somewhat amusing results, the old-fashioned, simple school songs and the syncopation of to-day being combined with laughable effect. Harmonised choruses, bright songs, schoolboy jokes and jests combine to build a show of highly diverting entertainment.[4]

The Wireless Weekly said "the dialogue was quite good, some of the jokes were new, and the songs and music were in places brilliant. I can remember times when it was something of an effort to listen to radio revues; you felt that it was your duty to Australian industry to listen; but now it becomes increasingly (I hope) possible to combine duty with pleasure. "[5]

Cast

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  • Yvonne Banvard
  • Zcna Moller
  • Rene Dixon
  • Arthur Hemsley
  • Dan Agar
  • Walter Kingsley
  • Nell Crane
  • Alfred Wllmore

References

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  1. ^ "Listen-in To-day For--". The Sun. No. 7398. New South Wales, Australia. 15 September 1933. p. 17 (FINAL EXTRA). Retrieved 21 September 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ "FROM The LIGHTER - SIDE LAYER". The Sun. No. 7413. New South Wales, Australia. 3 October 1933. p. 9 (FINAL EXTRA). Retrieved 21 September 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ Australasian Radio Relay League. (October 6, 1933), "MONDAY .. OCTOBER 9", The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal, 22 (14), Sydney: Wireless Press, nla.obj-720813861, retrieved 21 September 2023 – via Trove
  4. ^ Australasian Radio Relay League. (September 15, 1933), "FRIDAY. .SEPTEMBER 15", The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal, 22 (11), Sydney: Wireless Press, nla.obj-720777910, retrieved 21 September 2023 – via Trove
  5. ^ Australasian Radio Relay League. (October 20, 1933), "RADIO PLAYS", The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal, 22 (16), Sydney: Wireless Press, nla.obj-719933557, retrieved 21 September 2023 – via Trove
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