... began as a rider and gymnast but eventually concentrated on clowning, work ing for the Royal Italian Circus before the Second World War and then with Sir Robert Fossett's and Chapman's circuses. During the war he was called up for the Army and later performed ...

... 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- ...

... appointed as its first pro ducer/director of drama and opera. The range of shows he directed up to the outbreak of the Second World War was very wide, and also encompassed ballet. During the war he worked for the Ministry of Information, mak ing propaganda ...

... Cecilia From Sicity. In 1929 he returned to variety, and in the early thirties appeared in several films. During the Second World War the legitimate theatre claimed most of his time, and he took over the lead in Fifty-Fifty at the Strand theatre from ...

... productior for which he was musical directoi was Bow Bells at the Hippodromi in 1932. He retired at the outbreak of ihe second world war, bui emerged to tour with Rio Rita in 1943. He married Delia Hunt who was on tour with him in th ...

... finishing his schooling at Christ College, Brecon, he joined the BBC as a recorded programme assistant towards the end of the Second World War. He then went to Worcester College, Oxford, after which he taught English in South America. In the early fifties, he ...

... producer and entertainer Jack Lewis, who died last month in his late seventies, was in a sense a pioneer of the great Second World War drag shows that later spilled over into variety tours dur ing the fifties and early sixties. Such names as Bartlett and ...

... she moved into straight theatre, playing leading parts in a series of seasons at Newcastle and Birmingham. During the Second World War she played leads in a succession of musical revivals Florodora, The Belle of New York and Chu Chin Chow. She was in ...

... the first of a considerable number of London roles, interrupted by six years service in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. On his release he joined the company at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon- Avon, where he spent two seasons ...

... Ernest Shackleton, the explorer, Irene Van- brugh, Mrs. Brown Potter and many other well-known personalities After the second World War he took the pantomime Little Red Riding Hood to the Channel Islands, the first professional show after the German ...

... his grandfather, the first literary agency in the world. After leav ing Oxford he joined the family business before the Second World War, adding Robert Graves, W. Somerset Maugham and P. G. Wodehouse to such writers as his firm were already representing ...

... uated to the box office at the Adelphi. Having been in the Territorial Army, he was called up at the beginning of the Second World War and was with the 18th London Regiment throughout the entire conflict, including the Battle of Cassino. On demobilisation ...