... together at Blackpool in 1939, and they built up a popular song and dance act following his demob from the Army after the Second World War. After his death nine years ago, she retired from the stage. In addition to her theatrical commitments, Ward was a well- ...

... joiner and a seaside landlady, qualifying as a chartered accountant and setting up in practice in his home town. After the Second World War he moved to London and joined the large accountancy firm of Binder Hamlyn, which carried out many audits in the entertainment ...

... regularly 'cleaned up' at the local drama festivals. Walk- ons with the Court Players and Nottingham Playhouse before the Second World War drew her into the stage as a profession. While serving in the ATS she became a member of Stars in Battledress and (as ...

... the problems being encountered in the rebuilding of the city of Plymouth following the devastation suffered during the Second World War. Craigie was subsequently widely acclaimed for Blue Scar (1948), a drama set in a South Wales mining village, but there ...

... AUBREY RICHARDS Aubrey Richards was born in Swansea on June 6, 1920. Having served in the RAF during the Second World War, he started his acting career in The Brothers Karamazov, directed by Alec Guinness at the Lyric Theatre. He joined Laurence Olivier ...

... continued to sing throughout his life as a baritone and bass. When Temple Church was hit by an incendiary bomb during the Second World War, Lough and his fellow members of the fire service were forced to watch it bum due to an inadequate water supply. His ...

... Rita, Bettina Richman. In 1937, the act toured for 11 weeks as part of the Fred Collins revue Giggles and Girls. The Second World War brought things to a premature end. Percy died in an Italian prisoner of war camp while Cyril, after being demobbed in ...

... Cathedral on the West End stage and abroad, and gave lessons at the Italia Conti stage school. At the outbreak of the Second World War, she was turned down for the WRNS on medical grounds, and later diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Spells as a radio ...

... 100, was one of Britain's best-known baritones in all fields opera, concert, oratorio and recordings during the pre- Second World War years and for some time afterwards. By the early fifties, he had retired from performing to concentrate on teaching after ...

... Poldark (1975). Born in Peterborough, he made his television debut shortly after transmissions resumed following the Second World War. One of his first appearances was in a Sherlock Holmes serial in 1951. Among other projects were The Life and Death of ...

... Weybridge, Surrey, he attended Beaumont School in St Albans before joining the Daily Mail as a gossip columnist. During the Second World War, he rose to the rank of major, and was awarded the Military Cross for outstanding bravery while serving in Greece. Encouraged ...

... name by Gluck and Offenbach. Young was a Londoner, whose studies at the Royal College of Music were interrupted by the Second World War. He was 28 by the time he made his professional opera debut at the Edinburgh Festival in Ariadne auf Naxos and it was ...