... Obituary bHvcnuDH KITTY CAVENDISH. former music hall star and one of the first artists to appear on television, has died at the age of 89 Her speciality while touring the halls in the hey-day of music hall was a comedy routine while dressed as a midshipman ...

... Artistes Ladies Guild. He was also a leading mem ber of The British Music Hall Society, where he made many per sonal appearances, and was presi dent of The Derby and Nottingham Music Hall Society. Former King Water Rat Wyn Calvin said: He was a one-off ...

... held for the last six months. RAWES The death has occurred in Norwich of a former Durham Music Hall pro prietor EDWARD RAWES, aged 88. who ran the Palace Music Hall which opened in 1903. ...

... In 1923 she married JIMMY LYNTON, a versatile music hall performer who had also a wealth of experience as a tour actor, they formed a popular thought reading act, as THE LYNTONS, alternating their music hall dates with their own touring dramatic company ...

... OBITUARY WAYMAN The death has occurred of ANNIE LILLIAN WAYMAN, well known in music hall circles as a member of a celebrated shooting act. Mrs. Wayman started her music hall career as a child and at the early age of ten took part in a world tour with her ...

... DOROTHY COURT pLARA DOROTHY WOOD.pro- fcssionjlly known as Dorothy Court, the music hall, musical comedy and concert vocalist, died, at the age of 73, on March 8 in the Middlesex Hospital. London. She was born in Liverpool and trained at the Royal College ...

... CISSIE SANGER One of Britain's oldest theatre/music hall musicians, Cissie Sanger, has died at the age of 87. Cissie, was the eldest daughter of Carlton Adam and Beatrice Sanger of music hall and circus fame, and as a child musician toured with GB Chapman's ...

... cats. Peter Heppie Peter Sandeman, general manager of City Varieties Music Hall, Leeds writes: I had known Geoff Mellor for the past 11 years, since I came to the City Varieties Music Hall in Leeds. Geoff was a great supporter of the 'Verts' and looked forward ...

... bon. who has died, two weeks before his 88th birthday, was a great lover and scholar of the music hall, being architectural adviser to the British Music Hall Society, an enthusiastic member of the BMHS Study Group and a mem ber of the London Concert Parties ...

... JO BLAKE JO Blake, who has died aged 77, was a stalwart of the British Music Hall Society for many years, editing its magazine The Call Boy for over 20 years until incapacitated by a stroke, though he retained a keen interest in the society's activities ...

... at the Chapel Royal, Savoy Hill, he began his long and varied theatrical career in Victorian melodrama. He then went into music hall, toured with Fred Karno and Maurice Chevalier in Mum ming Birds, when he taught Chevalier the English words of their duets ...

... ed by the pro ducer Audrey Lane, who billed her in the long-running show The Golden Years of Music Hall. This was an extraordinary show made up of music hall legends includ ing Bob and Alf Pearson, Elsie and Doris Waters, Nat Jackley, Sandy Powell and ...