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All the following programmes are from the Summer Season

The early ones are taken from combined programmes

King Folly – 1934

Billy Bennett, Ganjou Brothers and Juanita

Shout for Joy – 1935

Pansy Taylor, Sylvia Cecil, Albert Burdon, Billy De Wolfe

King Fun – 1936

George Formby, Randolph Sutton and Frank Randle

King Cheer – 1937

George Formby, The Harris Twins, Fred Sandborn, Jean Carroll

All the Best – 1938

Betty Driver, Stanley Holloway, Benny Ross, George Lacy

Turned out Nice Again – 1939

George Formby, Beryl Formby, Edna Squire –Brown, Ken Davidson and Hugh Forgie, Frank Paris, Peter Marwoode and Beatrix Richards, The Five Herons, Eric and Eric, The Six Wallabies, Manley and Austin, Ernie Gerrard and ‘The Forty Glamorous Beauties’

Our Own Bank Wagon – 1940

Arthur Askey, Richard Murdoch, Albert Sandler and Norman Evans

Hullaballo – 1941

Bert Wright, Judy Shirley, Teddy Brown, Frank Randle, Nervo and Knox

George Black presented the Summer Shows for the next four years,

1942 – 1945 

Black Vanities – 1942

Douglas Wakefield, Anne Ziegler, Webster Booth, Betty Driver, Gaye & Elmore and Billy Danvers

We’re All In It – 1943

Wilfred Pickles, Jewel & Warriss, Rawicz and Landauer, Elizabeth Welch, Steffani’s Silver Songsters, The Dagenham Girl Pipers, Tommy Jover, Charles Warren, Nena and Raf and Phyllis Hunter

Look Who’s Here – 1944

Sid Field, Jerry Desmonde and Rawicz and Landauer, Charles Warren and Jean, The Australian Air Aces, Jerry Allen, Tom Linden, Tom Kinniburgh, Triss Henderson, Lynn Taylor, Bernard Hunter, Mavis Ray, Morgan and Royal, Bland and Kelly and the Wendy Toye Dancers

Hip, Hip Hooray! – 1945

Tessie O’Shea, Jimmy Jewel & Ben Warriss, The Ganjou Brothers and Juanita, Felix Mendelssohn and his Hawaiian Serenaders, Josie Fearon and Charles Gillespie, Mary Naylor, Zena Dell, Lucille Gaye, Woodrow and the Alex Thomas Quartette