... L'Oiscau de I eu. Iha company was never quite the same after Damlova. Toumanova and Massine broke away just hefnre the Second World War. In 1947 do Ba il made a come-back, bringing Riubouchinska and Lich ne to Coven i Garden, where they had en joyed such ...

... 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 ...

... unfortunately pre vented her from continuing her stage career here. She never lost her love of the stage and until the Second World War appeared occasionally in Emilio Colombo's CaK Colette for the B.B.C. She was for many years a regular producer of plays ...

... first lessons, died in London on December 30, aged 50. Born in Leningrad, he came to London from Hong Kong after the Second World War and conducted his dancing school at Cambridge- circus. Almost every dancer of note passed through the school, and many ...

... 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 ...

... theatre under the successive managements of Rich Waldron and Harry McKelvie for 23 consecutive years. During and after the Second World War he toured with James Shirvell's companies, and managed Mr. Shirvell's tour of June Mad. He also toured the Scottish ...

... New Zealand with Percy Hutchc- son's company, and appeared in many repertories and tours in this country. During the second world war she worked with ENSA and did an Arts Council tour of the Welsh valleys. She retired in 1949. after 40 years in the theatre ...

... 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 ...

... Shrew. In 1929 he became founder and director of the Malvern Summer Festivals, running them lilt 1937. Just after the second world war he became a director of the Strat- ford-upon-Avon Festival Company and of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. He was also ...

... be studied at the Royal College of Music, and in 1935 joined the Carl Rosa Opera Com pany as conductor. Following the Second World War he joined the Sadler's Wells Company, where he did distinguished work, particularly as a sensitive interpreter of Verdi ...

... his own particular sphere, and in return theatre people all over the world benefited from his friendship. During the second world war he was able to ensure that those en gaged in forces entertainment were equipped with most of the require ments for reasonable ...

... a( New Cross and was later at Newcastle and Sheffield. He was managing director of Southport Hippodrome and after the second world war joined the Terence Byron organisation, becoming resident manager of Worcester Royal. Later he managed the New, Crewe ...