... and became an active part of ENSA, providing touring variety shows for the Far East and classical concerts. After the Second World War, he studied music at the Royal Academy in London and on gradu ating became a singer using the name Paul Manning. As his ...

... South Shields, and his studies at the Northern Studio of Dramatic Arts were brought to an end by the outbreak of the Second World War. He served originally with the West Africa Frontier Force, but eventual ly became stage director for ENSA in Bombay for ...

... 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 ...

... er for Lilian Baylis and Lena Ashwell He toured with companies in almost every part of the British Isles. During the Second World War he was director of the Byre, St. An drews, and kept the little theatre alive. Until his last illness he regu larly visited ...

... to become a shining light in the Leningrad Ballet, but in 1944 moved over to the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow. After the Second World War, when the company began to tour, she was acclaimed throughout Europe before she made her London debut. Ulanova remained ...

... MADELEINE GORMAN Madeleine Gorman, who died aged 96 on August 8, was one of the great stalwarts of showbusi- ness during the Second World War. As head of artist welfare for ENSA in the Middle East from 1944 until 1949, she was responsible for looking after some ...

... The Brains Trust, died last week. He was 77. Thomas began his career as a journal ist and then in the early part of the Second World War joined the BBC. In the three years with BBC radio he directed and produced some 500 programmes and also introduced Vera ...

... Denham Ballet Russe company's Spanish Fiesta. Shortly afterwards she had a leading dramatic role in Days of Glory, the Second World War drama which was the film debut of Gregory Peck. The next year she married the film's producer Casey Robinson, but the ...

... American actress Betty Amman. After serving as a flight lieu tenant in the intelligence section of the RAF during the Second World War, he returned to Newport to run the family busi ness, reviving live entertainment when the popularity of films began to ...

... television, Dorothea Brooking died on March 23. aged 82. She originally trained as an actress at the Old Vic, before the Second World War, where she played a variety of sup porting roles before joining the Ministry of Information in 1939. She was sent to ...

... for several years thereafter. She spent virtually all of her dancing career with the Rambert, though shortly after the Second World War she did leave the com pany to dance Frank Staff's choreography in the West End productions of The Tales of Hoffmann at ...

... years. She also toured with Bud Flanagan and Chesney Allen and was in popular demand by many impresarios. During the Second World War she again entertained the troops as a member of ENSA and then decided at the end of the war years to start her own school ...