... a( New Cross and was later at Newcastle and Sheffield. He was managing director of Southport Hippodrome and after the second world war joined the Terence Byron organisation, becoming resident manager of Worcester Royal. Later he managed the New, Crewe ...

... aged 77. With his wife. Mabel Evelyn, he nan repertory companies in the North of England for eight years prior to the second world war. During the war and after wards, under the George Black management, he was stage director and company manager at the ...

... be studied at the Royal College of Music, and in 1935 joined the Carl Rosa Opera Com pany as conductor. Following the Second World War he joined the Sadler's Wells Company, where he did distinguished work, particularly as a sensitive interpreter of Verdi ...

... his own particular sphere, and in return theatre people all over the world benefited from his friendship. During the second world war he was able to ensure that those en gaged in forces entertainment were equipped with most of the require ments for reasonable ...

... Cecilia From Sicity. In 1929 he returned to variety, and in the early thirties appeared in several films. During the Second World War the legitimate theatre claimed most of his time, and he took over the lead in Fifty-Fifty at the Strand theatre from ...

... she moved into straight theatre, playing leading parts in a series of seasons at Newcastle and Birmingham. During the Second World War she played leads in a succession of musical revivals Florodora, The Belle of New York and Chu Chin Chow. She was in ...

... Ernest Shackleton, the explorer, Irene Van- brugh, Mrs. Brown Potter and many other well-known personalities After the second World War he took the pantomime Little Red Riding Hood to the Channel Islands, the first professional show after the German ...

... his grandfather, the first literary agency in the world. After leav ing Oxford he joined the family business before the Second World War, adding Robert Graves, W. Somerset Maugham and P. G. Wodehouse to such writers as his firm were already representing ...

... reperlorv. his ver satile characterisations being well known in a score of different com panies. He left the stage after the second world war to take up a legal appointment with Notts County Council and retired in 1949. He was married to MoHv Hackett. a popular ...

... His book, Cassino: Portrait of a Battle, gave a vivid account of one of the most famous military engagements of the second world war. He also wrote books on El Alamein, the building of the Eddystone light houses and the operations against Mau Mau. He ...

... 1934 he became manager of the Southampton Grand and later of the Southampton Hippodrome. Fol lowing the outbreak of the second world war, he returned to the Grand where he remained until the theatre suffered bombing and even tual closure. He retired after ...

... Shrew. In 1929 he became founder and director of the Malvern Summer Festivals, running them lilt 1937. Just after the second world war he became a director of the Strat- ford-upon-Avon Festival Company and of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. He was also ...