Bing Crosby And Tommy Handley Broadcast In 'Variety Band Box' -- Famous stars from both sides of the Atlantic broadcast at the Queensberry club, London, on August 27th, 1944, in 'Variety Band Box', the BBC's big show for serving men and women, which is given before a vast forces audience, and is heard in the BBC General Forces Programme. A recording is also transmitted in the BBC's A.E.F. Programme for the troops on the Western Front. August 27, 1944.