sentences:  Playing plush London venues such as the Cafe Anglais and the Café de Paris, he watched, from the bandstand, the London nobility of the inter-war years – including the Prince of Wales – enjoying the high life.But the contrasts in wealth and poverty that he saw reinforced his socialist convictions.From that time and through most of the rest of his career he was active in union activities and in efforts to promote the welfare of other musicians.