... PHILIP WADE Philip Wade, whose death last Sunday, at the age of 54. we regret to record, was a versatile character actor and playwright who will be greatly missed, particularly in broad casting. He joined Sir Frank Benson's company at the end of the first world war. and also made several appearances in London. He made his first broadcast in 1925, and was for long a valued member of the B.B.C. ...

... 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, ...

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... The death is announced from Hollywood of Leon Errol. al ihc age of 70. He was bom in Sydney, New South Wales, and made his first appearance there at the Stan dard, in 1896. under lh ...

... George L. Cruikshank, composer and arranger, also known as George L. Zalva, died in Sevenoaks Hospital on October 14, aged 56. He had been musical editor tor Chappell and Co., Ltd., for many years, and before that held a similar position wilh Francis, Day and Hunter, Ltd. George Zalva was best known for his concert arrangements of popular music, in the introduction of which he was a pioneer. ...

... 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 ...

... 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. ...

... 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 ...

... Paul Van Kcmpcn, the conduc tor, has died in Amsterdam, aged 62. Born in Holland, he becamc a naturalised German in 1933 and was appointed conductor of the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra. During the German occupation of the Netherlands he took his orch estra there and gave concerts, but after his return to Amsterdam in 1945 his application for re- naturalisation as a Dutchman was rejected. ...

... Jack Lindsley, well known in the North of England as an orchestra leader, died, at the age of 61, on December 3, at Darlington. He was the former musical director of the Embassy. Peterborough, and for several years, from 1932. was musi cal director for Bertram Mills's Olympia Circus. ...

... 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 ...