... Theatre Royal, Newcastle should be credited after the RSC Regarding Amanda Lilley's letter (July 17, page 9) suggesting that the Grand Opera House was the first to issue a Visa card. This may be true, but the Theatre Royal, Newcastle- upon-Tyne issued its own credit card (at 0 per cent APR) in 1982. I believe, but am happy to be corrected, that this followed the RSC in having its own credit ...

... jUSSI BjORUNC JUSSI BJORLING, ihe Swedish tenor, died on September 9 at his summer home on an island near Stockholm, at the age of 49. Born at D.ilarna in Sweden, he made his earliest appearances in public as a member of the Bjorling Quartet, consisting of himself, two brothers and his father all tenors. They toured America with great success, but later Jussi Bjorling relumed to Sweden to ...

... FOR thirteen years chairman of the Morecambe Publicity and Entertainments Committee, Aid. H. R. V. Addenbrooke (79), died on April 25-- only six days after it had been decided to con fer upon him the Honorary Freedom of the Borough. Aid. Addenbrooke was the first manager of the Floral Hall at Scarborough and afterwards became manager of the Tower Theatre and Ballroom in Morecambe, remaining ...

... Andrew Young, for 43 years stage-manager at the Gaiety, Ayr, died at his home in Ayr on December 12. He was known to hundreds of performers who played the Gaiety. He retired 18 months ago. During the First World War he served with the Royal Scots Fusiliers and was awarded the Military Medal. ...

... Grahame-White, one of the Gaiety Girls of the nineties, known as Birdie Suther land, died last week-end, aged 81. ...

... GEORGE ZUCCO GEORGE ZUCCO, the actor, died in Hollywood on May 28. aged 74. Born in Manchester, he was a clerk in a stockbroker's office before turning to ihe stage, making his first appearance at Regirva. Sas katchewan, as the Bishop in Whai Happened to Jones in 1W8. He spent several years in Canada and Ihc U.S.A.. appearing on the New York siage in a vaudeville skeich. After the 1914-18 ...

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... The Ba-Ta-Clan. Paris, has been reconstructed as a cinema-music- hall with 1.250 seats. The first half of the programme, of about an hour's duration, will consist of news- reels and music-hall turns, to be followed by a full-length film. The programme will be changed every week or, in certain cases, every fortnight. Wimpcy't Lecture Tour Wimpey, the acrobatic clown, is on a five-month lecture ...

... Geoffrey Wilkinson, a well-known Shakespearean and film actor, who retired to Bournemouth, was killed in a car accident at Poole on Decem ber 5. He was 66. He was on the stage most of his life. He was with Guy Newall in The Flag Lieuten ant in the early 1900s and played all the Shakespearean clown rdles. He played for seven seasons at the Memorial Theatre. Stratford-upon- Avon, and later with ...

... We regret to announce thai Frank Stayton, the author and dramatist, died on Monday at the age of 76. He wrote his first play, The Dispatch Bearer, in one week, and produced it at the Rich mond Theatre. Other plays were The Inferior Sex, a success in New York; The President. with Charles Hawtrey; The Joan Dan- vers; Threads. adapted from his novel; Mixed Doubles; The Hour and the Man, ...

... Nesbitt dies LEGENDARY producer Robert Nesbitt has died in Paris aged 88. Nesbitt (pictured right) was acclaimed by colleagues as probably the finest light entertainment producer of his generation. Together with the late Lord Dclfont, he was responsible for staging more than 20 Royal Variety Performances. A full obituary will appear in a later edition of The Stage and Television Today. ...

... Waltz become of dancer Angela? I am trying to trace a dancer called Angela Lambert, whose last known address in the fifties was 1 8 Frognal Lane, Hampstead. She is of English-Irish decent, and was a petite red head. Her age now would be around 69. She worked mostly in music halls, and sometimes on the continent. An American friend would dearly love to know of her whereabouts. A Lambert 5 ...