Programmes and Adverts (1949 – 1950)
1949 was not a very happy year for the Booths. Anne had to be admitted to hospital early in the year and Webster’s good friend, Tommy Handley died suddenly in January of that year. The great Wagnerian tenor, Walter Widdop died in September. In October, Edwin Booth, Webster’s father was taken ill at a Birmingham concert where Anne and Webster were singing and died there, only a few days after his eighty-third birthday. The family managed to keep the news from Webster and Anne until after the concert although they were worried because they had noticed that the family seats had been vacated.
[image error]13 January 1949 Funeral of Tommy Handley.
[image error]Webster and Leslie Bridgmont at Tommy Handley’s Funeral, Golders Green Crematorium.
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[image error]Memorial Service at St Paul’s – 9 February 1949. Tommy Handley Memorial Choir record The Long Day Closes and God be in My Head
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[image error]8 July 1949 Jersey Concert
[image error]Singing at a broadcast (1949)
[image error]7 September 1949 Funeral of Walter Widdop
[image error]17 October 1949 Death of Edwin Booth, Webster’s father.
[image error]Edwin Booth’s will. Irene Constance Louise Booth was Edwin Booth’s second wife.
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2 December 1949 Anne.
5 January 1950[image error]12 January 1950 Town Hall, Cheltenham.
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[image error]22 March 1950 Central Hall, Derby.
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[image error]9 April 1950
There was a great protest about this Sunday evening concert in Kirkcaldy. Even when the concert went ahead, the criticism of it was very bad! I wonder whether the bad crit was because the concert had taken place on a Sunday.
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[image error]May 1950
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[image error]23 September 1950 Cheltenham.
[image error]24 October 1950
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[image error]14 November 1950. Hull concert at Tivoli.
[image error]Anne and Webster
