{"product_id":"adele-dixon-14833","title":"Adele Dixon - 14833","description":"British singer and actress.\n\nDixon was one of the greatest stars of British musical comedy in the 1930s, appearing with luminaries such as Jack Buchanan, Evelyn Laye, Stanley Holloway and John Gielgud.\n\nShe is, however, remembered now as the lady who sang the first song on the first television show in the first official broadcast of high definition TV in the world in 1936.\n\nAfter the official opening ceremony of BBC Television on November 2, the show which followed, called “Variety”, featured a song called “Television”, with lyrics by James Dyrenforth and music by Kenneth Leslie-Smith. It was sung by Dixon, accompanied by the BBC Television Orchestra\n\nTelevision\n\nA mighty maze of mystic, magic rays\n\nIs all about us in the blue,\n\nAnd in sight and sound they trace\n\nLiving pictures out of space\n\nTo bring our new wonder to you\n\nThe busy world before you is unfurled –\n\nIts songs, its tears and laughter, too.\n\nOne by one they play their parts\n\nIn this latest of the Arts\n\nTo bring new enchantment to you.\n\nAs by your fireside you sit,\n\nThe news will flit,\n\nAs on the silver screen.\n\nAnd just for entertaining you\n\nWith something new\n\nThe stars will there be seen. So…\n\nThere's joy in store\n\nThe world is at your door –\n\nIt's here for everyone to view\n\nConjured up in sound and sight\n\nBy the magic rays of light\n\nThat bring Television to you.\n\nDixon had a very fine figure and became a star of pantomime (as Principal Boy) in the post-war period. This is a very fine vintage black and white photograph (5.25\" x 3.25\"), flashing her legs as Robin Hood in Babes in the Wood at the London Palladium in 1950. In very good condition.","brand":"Clickautographs","offers":[{"title":"1colour \/ 1size \/ Authentic","offer_id":57853612130636,"sku":"223","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1067\/9222\/3052\/files\/adele_dixon_robin_hood.jpg?v=1785520194","url":"https:\/\/midsussexcollectibles.com\/en-gb\/products\/adele-dixon-14833","provider":"Mid Sussex Collectibles","version":"1.0","type":"link"}