... 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 ...

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

... in Edinburgh in 1936 and gained conskierabte lepenury experience bafuia sarving in the RNVR for five years during the Second World War. Ha joined the Old Vic Company for the 1946-47 season and had his first success in the cummer ual theatre as the nieiiem ...

... June 24 aged 67. He began as a singer with Ambrose and his Orchestra in 1832 and later worked in variety, but after the Second World War took up acting and had rftany parts in British films before moving to the other side of the camera as a production manager ...

... Whistle and later appeared in The Dancing Years at Drury Lane before serving with the 167th Field Ambulance Corps in the Second World War. On release he toured in Peek-a-Boo and in The Wizard of Oz, playing the Scarecrow for a time in the West End production ...

... stage at Wyndham's for a performance of Little Lies. He was 64 and did not start his stage career until the end of the Second World War, during which he was taken prisoner. This was at the Piccadilly in Antony and Cleopatra, which marked him out for classical ...

... which he quite liked, oratorio, which he loved, and concert party and cabaret, which he adored. At the beginning of the Second World War, and a very active member of the Concert Artistes Association, he was persuaded by Lai Carter to take up the profession ...

... The Infernal Machine, and a particular popular success she directed was Gilbert WakefiekJ's Room for Two. During the Second World War she organised communal theatre at the St Martin's, the productions including Thunder Rock, directed by Herbert Marshall ...