Leicester Chronicle from Leicester, Leicestershire, England • 2

2 ILLU TTTTTTT LEICESTER CHRONICLE. AUGUST 7. 1034 tn ON t6dvion JOAN PURDON Praises The Best New Panel Game "ONE OF THE FAMILY" is the best so far of the new panel games. It is a well tried formula which we know from experience can be trusted. Everybody loves a celebrity and is prepared to welcome a celebrity's relation.

And how much nicer when he is a lord as well. Leslie Mitchell is the only IT seems unkind to criticise the be improved. It would be better chairman, apart from Eamonn telerecordings of the British if a quite separate sound track were made afterwards as is done Andrews. that I have been able to Empire Games but so far, while with newereeta, so that we can endure. Mr.

Mitchell is one of the the pictures have been good be given all relevant information most accomplished men of radio enough the commentaries sup- in a straightforward way and television and I. fir one, plied with them have been a could bear to see a great deal most dreadful muddle. more of him. He is perfectly It is difficult to follow the race friendly without being on the screen whilst simultanewell mannered without being a ously listening to the which unpleasant tator giving the, unofficial, result word perfectly describes some 01 of the previous heat and the pub- 'HEARTS of Oak our ships the over familiarity just verging 11c address system discoursing A a may hare, and likewise on the offensive we have had to about something quite different the inen who sail them, and it is endure. anyway.

a curious convention of British Tne panel were sensible and ft was wonderful to see Ken quick witted and it was nice to Jones running like mad in the life that "hearts of gold" have see Barbara Lyon being a big 100 yards and coming in second all been Northern business men. girl now and able to go out with- in his heat, though Rugby en- If anybody can make anybody out lbe rest of her family, though. thusiaste might have had some believe that it must surely be of course, Molfy Weir was there difficulty in recognising him as Stephen Murray who can make Just to keep an eye on her. nn Kenneth Geoffrey Jones. "an old me believe anything.

He made doubt. man of 33!" Sir John Bickerstaff. one of the founders of modern Blackpool, a mast human figure. Perhaps the 4. Icll whole of the picture was a little too sentimental but, as we all I the "female department" of know, there is no Englishman racing we were impressed by as sentimental as the true that flash of lightning from Northerner They all hide gentle Lithgow, Australia, Marjorie softly beating hearts underneath Jackson their harsh, and sometimes un- But the commentaries ought to couth.

exteriors. ed lAO Members of the Upper imagines to be as a mo But, if screened, it is quite on the would wave Hansards. WHATEVER lay behind it all brass for brass, or give the poor beggars what they was an idea which has paid handsome dividends, and judging by the millions of people who flock there, has also given them what they want. It was perhaps a pity that the crowds were more remarkable for their numbers than for any air of gaiety, but it was a good try, as a programme. and might be applied again to other enterprises.

on television programmes are to be nothing if not uplifting. but so far no representative the ordinary consumer. The chap who has to buy the advertised goods and is presumably the most important man in the country to the I.T.A. has not, as yet. got his place an the board.

There is one other mem- her to be announced. Perhaps that place is for him. VIEWERS who have long admired Alastair Cooke on sound radio will be delighted to see hint "Speaking Personally" on our screens on August 17th. Mr. Cooke is most famous, of course, for his ''Letter rom America' series on sound here.

but in America he is well known Midlanders will be able to visit with the cameras the great house of Chatsworth on August 19. 20 and 22 In the first programme viewers will be able to see the State apartments with comm tator Stanley WilFiamson August 20 there be gramme of music and on Sur In "Out of Doors" we the wonderful gardens. I SS .1 a d( perSOn a tOillt: new ten be New II 1 Ji Il igi 1 I il'' 1 a a. :71. Otz- 11 i.

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