... DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE. He was the very first magician to do a show in the air entertaining troops being flown to North Africa during World War II. Ha alto praaantad for ENSA hit Show BLACK MAGIC. ...

... pantomime, including a season in South Africa. During the war years she became known as a superb principal boy and did four summer seasons for Howard and Wyndham at Edinburgh and Glasgow. In the immediate post-war years she played in a whole series of ...

... assis tant manager with Ballet Rambert, a company which had a considerable influence on his work. Returning to Soutti Africa during the war years, he acquired a taste for the puppet theatre and on his return to London in 1947 set up his own theatre in Hampstead ...

... played in Australia and South Africa. He was for many years with Charles Macdona, for whom he produced several of Shaw's plays. He served in the Boer War and the First World War. retiring about a year before the last war. For the past year he had been ...

... on March 25. Born in this country and brought up in South Africa, she was well known as an actress and producer for the Johannesburg Repertory Society. She had been in England since before the war, among her appearances being in Glamorous Night with Ivor ...

... ENSA during the war, and his wife have died within five days of each other. WALLY NEWCOMBE of Radbourne Street, Derby, died on holiday in Spain His wife ALICE returned home and died shortly after in Derby's City Hospital. During the war Mr Newcombe entertained ...

... sol dier (Britain's youngest bugler) in the Boer War. It was on manoeu vres with the army in South Africa he acquired his famous monicker, Skeets, a derivation of mosquito. He served also in the Gre3t War, and was a member of one of the first ENS A units ...

... his stage career with the Carson Company at Keighley before the 1914-18 war and was on the stage until his re tirement in 1940. He appeared in silent films and toured South Africa twice with the Seymour Hicks Com pany. His last appearance was at the Prince's ...

... OBITUARY Marda Vanne MARDA VANNE, who died on April 27, first appeared on the stage in her native South Africa. On coming to London, she established herself as a prominent character player, among her best early parts being the missionary's wife in Rain ...

... South, Eat and Centra Africa, died recently in Durban, froir injuries resultant from an attack by f wild animal. Formerly in the motor trade, Jimm) Stockley served with JIMMY CHIP PERFIELD in the same RAF squadron ii the last war. On demobilisation h joined ...

... 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 in cabaret ...

... Group, touring Europe, Japan and South America During the war she opened her school at Sydney, which formed the head quarters of her Australian com pany, touring Australia. New Ze.il i fid. South Africa and India. Qpe of hiy last works in Australia was Erriind ...