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... Royal Navy in 1943, at the second theatre at which she worked, the Little, Bristol in 1937 Before the outbreak of the Second World War, she had successful seasons i at Harrogate and Bristol again. After a spell of war work helping evacuees, she did further ...

Published: Thursday 01 May 1986
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 530 | Page: 30 | Tags: notices 

Obituaries: Christopher Isherwood

... becoming more interested in films, and it was in the capacity of screenwriter that he went to Hollywood just before the Second World War His reputation in America was made, though, as a novelist. HOWARD MORGAN, trumpet player with the Roy Bradley Comedy ...

Published: Thursday 23 January 1986
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 189 | Page: 27 | Tags: notices 

ALLAN QOFORD, who died in March aged 82, was known to many artists through his work with the Services Sound

... appearing in several London shows before joining the repertory com pany at Folkestone. He served with the Indian Army in the Second World War, transferring in 1943 to the Middle East, where he worked with the Army Welfare Service looking after ENSA and, later ...

Published: Thursday 29 May 1986
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 169 | Page: 21 | Tags: notices 

Obituary

... Kaempfert, who had made his home in Switzerland for several years, rose to prominence as a bandleader following the Second World War and became one of the biggest recording artists on the Continent His music was known internationally, particularly his ...

Published: Thursday 26 June 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 189 | Page: 28 | Tags: notices 

McDONALD HOBLEY, the only male BBC television announcer when the service was re inaugurated in 1946, has died ..

... was educated at Brighton College. He became an actor, at Brighton Theatre Royal, when he left school, and before the Second World War worked under the name Val Blanchard, appearing at Bath and Cambridge and on tour. Joining the Royal Artillery at the ...

Published: Thursday 03 September 1987
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 216 | Page: 16 | Tags: notices 

OBITUARIES

... though he presented Liberace for the first time in Britain. One of Britain's most renowned dance teachers before the Second World War and the owner of the Regent Street club which bore his name, SANTOS CASANI has died aged 85. Born in South Africa, he ...

Published: Thursday 24 November 1983
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 614 | Page: 10 | Tags: notices 

HERMIONE BADDELEY

... 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 ...

Published: Thursday 30 October 1986
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 249 | Page: 25 | Tags: notices 

Obituaries: Sir Peter Pears

... 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 ...

Published: Thursday 10 April 1986
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 251 | Page: 11 | Tags: notices 

OBITUARY

... The Brains Trust, died last week. He was 77. Thomas began his career as a journal ist and then in the early part of the Second World War joined the BBC. In the three years with BBC radio he directed and produced some 500 programmes and also introduced Vera ...

Published: Thursday 13 November 1986
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 272 | Page: 20 | Tags: notices 

OBITUARIES

... Oswald Race at Shildon, Coun ty Durham in 1926 and his first experi ence of entertaining was with the army during the Second World War when he specialised in drag, comedy, and mime His most notable gift of clairvoyance first came to light when he was a ...

Published: Thursday 23 February 1984
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 1218 | Page: 8 | Tags: notices 

OBITUARIES: VERA VLASOVA

... November 11. The Loewenguth String Quart- came into being in Pans in 1 929 and gained an international reputation after the Second World War ...

Published: Friday 30 December 1983
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 304 | Page: 17 | Tags: notices 

OBITUARIES: Equity member number two

... Ton- bridge, where the company included Freda Jackson, Richard Wordsworth, Joan Hopkins and John McCallum. During the Second World War he worked for H. M. Tennent Ltd as stage manager, working on many notable productions between 1940 and 1947, and his ...

Published: Thursday 04 April 1985
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 915 | Page: 24 | Tags: notices