... theatre under the successive managements of Rich Waldron and Harry McKelvie for 23 consecutive years. During and after the Second World War he toured with James Shirvell's companies, and managed Mr. Shirvell's tour of June Mad. He also toured the Scottish ...

... with composition, achieving considerable success with his Octet (1933), still regarded as his finest work. During the Second World War he helped the celebrated pianist Myra Hess with the organisation of the famous daily chamber con certs at the National ...

... moved to London to train at the Italia Conti School, where she joined the staff in due course. With the advent of the Second World War, she joined ENSA and following hostilities was ballet mistress for Clarkson Rose for a number of years. She then worked ...

... Dance, in which she was the subject of Poor Little Rich Girl. But it was in intimate revue, both before and after the Second World War, that she made her mark, though she returned to straight acting, both in films and the theatre, on numerous occasions ...

... BBC in Edinburgh before joining the Corporation's fledgling tele vision service at Alexandra Palace in 1938. During the Second World War, he served for two years as a marine radio officer in the Merchant Navy, and also played the part of 'Sparks' in the ...

... producers specialising in pre senting female impersonation. Lawrence culled most of his artists from ENSA shows during the Second World War and gave them dates in touring shows dur ing the early fifties. Some of the most famous were names such as Ford and Sheen ...

... Crowborough. His career as a tenor began with the BBC Singers and the chorus at Glyndebourne, but by the beginning of the Second World War he was establishing himself as a soloist His partnership with Britten, like himself a lifelong pacifist and a conscientious ...

... and became an active part of ENSA, providing touring variety shows for the Far East and classical concerts. After the Second World War, he studied music at the Royal Academy in London and on gradu ating became a singer using the name Paul Manning. As his ...

... South Shields, and his studies at the Northern Studio of Dramatic Arts were brought to an end by the outbreak of the Second World War. He served originally with the West Africa Frontier Force, but eventual ly became stage director for ENSA in Bombay for ...

... er for Lilian Baylis and Lena Ashwell He toured with companies in almost every part of the British Isles. During the Second World War he was director of the Byre, St. An drews, and kept the little theatre alive. Until his last illness he regu larly visited ...

... to become a shining light in the Leningrad Ballet, but in 1944 moved over to the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow. After the Second World War, when the company began to tour, she was acclaimed throughout Europe before she made her London debut. Ulanova remained ...

... MADELEINE GORMAN Madeleine Gorman, who died aged 96 on August 8, was one of the great stalwarts of showbusi- ness during the Second World War. As head of artist welfare for ENSA in the Middle East from 1944 until 1949, she was responsible for looking after some ...