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Light Entartainment News: BEAMING BACK TO THE THIRTIES

... BEAMING BACK TO THE THIRTIES A picture to jog some memories. Back in the thirties the BEAMS BREEZE BABES (above) were a troupe of some of the sweetest young things in show business. The girls, who regularly trod the boards in London theatres, split up before the war. But now one of the members Doris Langdale is trying to arrange a reunion. Any former babes who would like to join in a get ...

Published: Thursday 06 November 1986
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 83 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: photograph 

Making forties music sound at home today

... Poll winning jazz drummer ALLAN GANELY presenting the Kenny Clare drum prize to 14-year-old CHRIS DAGLEY from the Midland Youth Jazz Orchestra, this year. ...

Published: Thursday 06 November 1986
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 31 | Page: Page 32 | Tags: photograph 

The fourth London New Play Festival takes place this year at the Old Red Lion from May 20--June 7. Over

... 300 scripts were submitted from which 15 full-scale productions will be staged. The LPNF has established itself as one of the country'smost exerting platforms for the development of new writing. An international edge has been added this year with new plays from Canada, America and Australia. 1992's subjects are diverse, ranging from a look at life after a long prison sentence to a children's ...

Published: Thursday 07 May 1992
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 131 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: photograph 

Following on from the success of her Easter Vegas Show at Blackpool Pleasure Beach's Horseshoe venue, AMANDA ..

... a hit with her ice show for Europa Park in Germany. Europa On Ice will run until October 18 with a 40 minute programme. The Netherlands will also host a Blackpool Pleasure Beach ice show produced by Thompson, at the De Efteling theme park. Blackpool Pleasure Beach has been producing shows since 1937 with a team which can make the ice surface anywhere in the world. With Gloria Gee's Hot Ice ...

Published: Thursday 07 May 1992
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 105 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: photograph 

BAFTA award-winners VIC REEVES and BOB MORTIMER will make their BBC debut next year in a new television series. ..

... six-part, 30-minutes series, provisionally titled Reeves And Mortimer, will be made by independent production company Channel X, which was responsible for two series of Vic Reeves Big Night Out shown on Channel 4. Although the BBC deal is not an exclusive one, the duo is unlikely to retain its links with C4, although the channel will still show The Weekenders, a one-off situation comedy made ...

Published: Thursday 07 May 1992
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 100 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: photograph 

Kenneth Williams, left, being filmed for a new series of the BBC's Comic Roots, in which comedians go back to

... the scenes of their youth and trace the development of their humour. Here, filming near St Pancras in London, near where Kenneth Williams grew up, are, from the left after Kenneth Williams, producer/director Peter Lee-Wright; second assistant cameraman Jeremy Read; Howard Westwood, first assistant cameraman; lighting cameraman Fred Hamilton, and grips Ian Buckley. Transmission of this ...

Published: Thursday 04 August 1983
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 84 | Page: Page 19 | Tags: photograph 

Burr comes up for air from 'Underground'

... RAYMOND BURR, who Is starring In Underground at the Prince of Wales Theatre, pictured when he opened the Redgrave annual garden party In Farnham. Michael Dennison, Dulcie Gray, Patrick Cargill, June Whltfleld. Francis Mathews and Jack Douglas were among the theatrical personalities who supported the event which made a record profit of almost £5.000. Sir Michael Redgrave was also present. ...

Published: Thursday 04 August 1983
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 67 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: photograph