... The VARIETY Stage NATIONAL INSURANCE AND THE B.B.C. is the subject of a circular from the B.B.C., and the following extract therefrom is of interest to the profession:-- Arrangements for adjusting Insur ance contributions between July 5, 1948, and the ...

... Variety Stage THE FULL-BELLIED LAUGH in British music halls is fast dwindling to an uneasy snigger, Eve Chapman wrote in the Daily Mirror last week. For sex is the spice of life and variety has had it. Miss Chapman visited two well-known music halls ...

... in I his Can I Come In? pro gramme last week, that her stage career started when, as a result of answering an advertisement in The Stage, she was auditioned by Vivian Van Damm, who as Miss Harris put it took her on as a risk. Formerly a hairdresser ...

... present series ends on January 23 (repeated on January 27). These four boys, Norman MacLeod, John MacLeod, Alan Harvey, and Joe Ross, have several more broadcasts lined up, including a Workers' Playtime from Tipton on January 24. There are fine examples ...

... Variety Stage FIGHTING TALK always makes an appeal, and there is plenty of spirit in a letter we have received from Eve Lynnae, of London For some months Miss Lynnae has been saddened on hearing that the theatrical profession, particularly the variety ...

... them for their en tertainment efforts in the Middle Fast Garden Party The third News Chronicle Stage and Radio Garden Party will take place on Tuesday, July 22, in Stanley Park, Blackpool. As usual, an elaborate programme is being printed and the event ...

... but then I wasn't so well off. Even then I had a warm wel come; there was a lot of pepper in the soup at the digs. On January 5 Miss Fields sails for America for a three-month concert and television tour, returning to Capri for the summer. Then she hopes ...

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... Variety Stage STRANGE as it may seem, the big. spirited. hard-working, vital variety profession can take almost anything--knocks, disappointments, success, praise, slumps, fires back-stage, long railway journeys under trying conditions, long or short ...

... Variety Stage THE RATS' REVEL SOCIETY presented their twentieth Revel, Coronation Cavalcade, at the Victoria Palace last Sunday, artists and audience (welcomed by King Rat Charlie Chester and Queen Ratling Renee Roberts) braving the fog in order to make ...

... of the stage at Collins's Music Hall, with red car nations representing the curtains, was laid on the grave of Chris Row lands, stage manager of Collins's, at his funeral at Abney Park, Stoke Newington. on Friday. The wreath was designed by stage hands ...

... Author* can stage Productions o Try-outs at Irving Theatre. 17. Irving St.. Leicester -q. W C 2 WH1. 367* FIRST-CLASS CONCERT PARTY fo Ipswich Fete. Saturday. July 3, 1 994 Full details to Lewis. JH. Carr-street Ipswich- GOOD Shows wanted from January JC Intimate ...