YPRES LEAGUE APPEAL COMMITTEE.
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Chairman
H.R.H. PRINCESS BEATRICE.
Vice-Chairman
Kathleen, Viscountess Falmouth.
The Earl of Ypres.
The Marchioness of Headfort.
The Countess of Albemarle.
Lady Somerleyton.
Lady Buchanan Jardine.
Hon. Mrs. Esmond Harmsworth.
Hon. Alice Douglas-Pennant.
Et.-General Sir William Pulteney, K.C.B.,
K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O. (Chairman, Ypres League
Executive Committee).
Lady Pulteney.
Lady Alexander.
Miss Irene Ashmead-Bartlett.
LT.-Col. Branson, D.S.O., M.C. (Chairman,
Ypres League, Sheffield Branch).
Mrs. Lionel Bulteel.
Mrs. Seymour Chalk.
LT.-COL. H. Y. COMBS, D.S.O., M.C.
Mr. F. H. Cooper (Chairman, Eastern Counties
Branch, The Cinematograph Exhibitors' Asso
ciation)
Mr. A. Cunningham (Chairman, Leeds Branch,
The Cinematograph Exhibitors' Association).
Major J R. Ainsworth-Dayis.
Captain F. H. Davies.
Major C. J. Edwards, M.B.E.
Mrs. C. J. Edwards.
Mr. E. Y. Glenister (Chairman, Sussex Branch,
The Cinematograph Exhibitors' Association).
Mr. H. P. Hansell.
Brig.-General C. Cunliffe Owen, C.B., C.M.G.
(Chairman, Ypres League General Committee).
Mrs. Fox Pitt.
Mr. T. Yezey Strong.
Mr. T. Wright (Chairman, Notts and Derby
Branch, The Cinematograph Exhibitors' Asso
ciation).
Hon. TreasurerCaptain F. H. Davies.
Hon. Organiser Mrs. Charles Edwards.
YPRES DAY - OCTOBER 31st.
H.R.H. Princess Beatrice again graciously consented to be Chairman of the Ypres
League Appeal Committee. The Committee undertook the organisation of the sale of
the new march song Wipers in the Cinemas throughout London and the Provinces.
The lyric Wipers was selected, from hundreds of lyrics submitted/by the judges,
Kathleen, Viscountess Falmouth, General Sir William Pulteney, and the Editor of Popular
Music Weekly. They are to be congratulated on having secured such an excellent and
popular song. The music is by the famous composer, Mr. Max Darewski. The Appeal
Committee have been selling the song with great success in a number of Cinemas and are
continuing to do so in connection with the film Wipers."
The organisation is generally finished by October 31st, but this year, owing to the
fact that the film Wipers is being shown throughout England, we are having a very
extended appeal, as the Cinemas are only too pleased to sell our song during the time the
film is being displayed.
Therefore we think it advisable that- instead of writing an article on the Appeal
Committee's efforts in the Cinemas for the January issue of The Ypres Times, to publish
an account in the spring in a special supplement which will afterwards be included in
Ihe Ypres League.
We would like to point out to those interested in the League that the song has been
broadcast and it is recorded on five gramophone companies, and is proving a popular
number.
Every song sold in the shops carries a royalty for the League and we receive handsome
royalties on the gramophone records.
