... the Palladium Cinema in that own. His mother was a cousin of Sir Henry J. Wood and his father as a member of the American Old yme Minstrels, a show which oured Welsh lesorts in the 1880. Obituary ...

... most of the music, including White Christmas for the BING CROSBY and BOB HOPE films RAY SHANNON RAY SHANNON, the well-known American vaudeville and production comedian, who died, at the age of 7b, on January 1, in Cincinnati, U.S.A., was, for three years ...

... America when he failed his examination for Ihe Army. There he appeared with circuses and Western minstrel troupes. By the time he was 27 he drifted into tbe American theatre and played with Maurice Barrymore. He returned to London in 1899 and appeared in The ...

... as one of Britain's leading jazz musi cians, but also a natural comic who became a popular feature of the Black and White Minstrels, George Chisholm died, on December 8 at Milton Keynes after a long battle with Alzheimer's Disease. Bom in Glasgow on March ...

... Europe, as well as the Royal Ballet, the London Festival Balltff and the Black and White Minstrels He leaves a wife, Julie, and a daughter Jill. ELSIE KEENE, the American actress, has died, aged 90, was believed to be the last surviving member of William Gilette ...

... 1895. For the past three years he had been in poor health. Joe Keppel made his profes sional debut with VAN ARN- HEIM s MINSTRELS at Albany. New York, in 1910. He teamed up with JACK WILSON in March 1919, with the pair presenting a comedy acrobatic and ...

... died at the age of 62 on October 16 at his home in Los An geles. He started his career at the age of six as a juvenile in a minstrel show at Providence, Rhode Island. His real break in show business came in 1932 as a male dancer at the Roxy Theatre, New ...

... Guys and Dolls at the Coliseum and Teahouse of the August Moon at Her Majes ty's. all of which were first pro duced on the American stage In 1960 he succeeded in merging Stoll Theatres with Moss Empires, which at that time owned 1 6 London and provincial ...

... home on February 17. The 54-year-old farm worker, a singer of Jolson songs, was returning from a charity engagement in his minstrel-style makeup wnen his car was involved in a collision with another vehicle. He was well known for the impromptu turns he ...

... scriptwriting and a comedian's sense of the ludicrous and the ambiguities of the language. The act, two up market bitchy American ladies, who taken from various heroines, or indeed 'has beens' from Tennessee Williams plays and gradually became a per fect ...

... Parade, An American in Paris and Summer Stock. For other studios he contributed to West Side Story and Oliver, and received numerous Oscar nominations More recently he had concentrated on appearing as guest conductor with many leading American symphony ...

... the Prince in a radio version of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs He was perhaps best known as a soloist in the Kentucky Minstrels and in particular for his recording of The Holy City. His Army service was spent mainly entertaining his fellow servicemen ...