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OBITUARIES: OLGA YELDING

... who had a tenting circus and also ran per manent seasons at Scarborough. A talented bareback rider and animal trainer, she married into one of Britain's largest and most talented circus families, the Yeldings. Her husband Freddy Yelding was the son of John ...

Published: Thursday 26 August 1999
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 334 | Page: 29 | Tags: notices 

OBITUARIES: LOU LEVY

... music publish ers, has died in New York at the age of 84. He was for a time manager of the Andrews Sisters and was also once married to Maxine of that act. who died in October. He published an enormous number of songs and among other projects found songs ...

Published: Thursday 16 November 1995
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 161 | Page: 31 | Tags: notices 

OBITUARIES: HARRY LEWIS

... big band musician Harry Lewis, who has died at he age of 83, was the actual sweet heart of Dame Vera Lynn. They had been married for 57 years. iney mamea in y*n wnen he was serving in the RAF and she was beginning to make her name on BBC Radio. She has ...

Published: Thursday 04 June 1998
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 364 | Page: 33 | Tags: notices 

OBITUARIES: GWENDOLEN MARY PEARSON

... met and married Lewis, original ly from the Croydon Davis Theatre, an engineer and fire fighter with the Guernsey Fire Brigade. Lew was to become well known as a Croydon and London West End stage lighting man after the war. They were married at the parish ...

Published: Thursday 25 June 1998
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 388 | Page: 34 | Tags: notices 

OBITUARIES: Beverley Cross

... He also wrote two novels. Cross married three times, first in 1955 to Elizabeth Clunies- Ross with whom he had two daughters. In 1965 he married Gayden Collins, with he whom he had a son. Finally, in 1975 he married Maggie Smith, to whom he had been ...

Published: Thursday 09 April 1998
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 406 | Page: 29 | Tags: notices 

OBITUARIES: MONA ANDERSON

... of Brinsworth House, where she spent her last years in great happiness. The widow of Victor Anderson, to whom she had been married for around 50 years, her children Miriam and Brian also became circus performers. Mona and Victor, along with Miriam, enjoyed ...

Published: Thursday 09 September 1999
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 222 | Page: 28 | Tags: notices 

OBITUARIES: DOROTHEA BROOKING

... years before. She married the actor John Franklin at the beginning of the war and they had a son. They divorced in 1951, and she afterwards lived with Wilfred Synge until he died in 1971, only a few days before they were to be married. Peter Hepple Obituaries ...

Published: Thursday 06 May 1999
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 263 | Page: 27 | Tags: notices 

OBITUARIES: JENNY HOWARD

... Soon afterwards she met entertainer and entrepreneur Percy King. They formed a double vaudeville act, Howard and King, and married in 1929. Their best man was George Formby. The same year, after appearing at the London Palladium, they made their Aussie ...

Published: Thursday 15 February 1996
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 278 | Page: 22 | Tags: notices 

OBITUARIES: ROSEMARY SAY

... ed by Kingsley Martin to join the staff of the New Statesman. In 1951 she married the leading left wing journalist Ian Mackay, but he died the following year. In 1955 she married another noted journalist, Julian Holland, and had two daughters, though they ...

Published: Thursday 28 March 1996
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 315 | Page: 33 | Tags: notices 

OBITUARIES: Patricia Hayes

... ranged from Nicholas Nickleby in 1947, to Little Dorrit and A Fish Called Wanda in the late eighties. Her married life was unhappy. She married Valentine Rooke in 1937, but he left her after the war to return to the German girl to whom he was previously ...

Published: Thursday 24 September 1998
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 555 | Page: 29 | Tags: notices 

OBITUARIES: MARIE CARSON

... Parlophone and soon became a regular feature on the company's lists. In 1938, she married film executive Eric Greenspan, brother of Leslie Greenspan, who her sis ter had married a year earlier. They remained a devoted couple until his death in 1980. In 1974 ...

Published: Thursday 10 April 1997
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 329 | Page: 42 | Tags: notices