... artist and bareback rider. She married her childhood friend Douglas Joseph Ashton in 1936, but with the outbreak of the Second World War, most of the Ashtons' trucks were com mandeered, and the show came to a halt. After the war, Phyllis and Douglas joined ...

... the Boulting brothers. After Kristalnacht she man aged to get her mother on the last plane out of Berlin. During the Second World War she played in the West End and directed at Windsor. Later she taught and directed in Ghana. She continued to work in ...

... Boscastle, Cornwall and attended Dartmouth Naval Training College. He later served in the Spanish Civil War and also in the Second World War. Having left the Navy he decided on a career in writing and with the encouragement of his close friend Noel Coward he ...

... vocal trio billed as We Three Fellows, which toured most of the major number one variety dates. With the outbreak of the Second World War the act disbanded and Meadow served with the RAF in the Middle East and Europe. On being demobbed he decided to turn ...

... clog-dancing Dutch girl. Later, he formed a dance act for a time with Marion Gray, and after serving with the Army during the Second World War, appeared in the 1945 Victory Royal Variety Performance at the London Coliseum. Impresario Emile Little launched Stuart's ...

... Roberton, and his brother is the comedian Jack Douglas. It was natural that he should go into showbusiness, and during the Second World War he pro duced many concert parties in the north. In the fifties, he worked closely with Tom Arnold and presented seasons ...

... actors whose careers he launched will be unaware that he died last summer. After training at RADA at the end of the Second World War and early experience in a number of the major rep ertory companies, Richard became what was known in those days before ...

... a boy worked in one of his mother's butcher's shops, and had several other jobs before serving in the Army during the Second World War. With his flair for performing and writing comedy, as well as playing the ukulele, he became a member of the Blue Pencils ...

... first to Gaumont- British, before moving to Alexander Korda's London Rims at Denham as production manager. After the Second World War. during which Dunbar worked for the Ministry of Information and other similar organisations in various countries, he ...

... act Bob and Alf Pearson acted as ushers. World-famous magician Robert Harbin was also in the Ayr company. During the Second World War, Saunders toured with ENSA concert parties in Europe, the Mediterranean, Africa, the near East and the Far East, ft was ...

... and com pletely revolutionised what view ers saw on their screens when the television service surged for ward after the Second World War. Bom in London on Dece mber 31, 1910, he was educated at Clayesmore and Slade School before joining Gaumont British as ...

... voice, which was brought into action when the BBC Variety Depart ment was evacuated to Bristol at the outbreak of the Second World War. The Cavendish Three went with it and for a time contributed the musical interludes to ITMA. Cavendish also had some ...