... Champion was first an actor, then a cabaret dancer With his wife Marge he became one of the best and most popular dancers in America, but even- tually abandoned this work for direc ting and choreography He was ex tremely sensitive to varying moods in a production ...

... Helier they appeared on programmes with George Robey and John McCormack in the halcyon days of the music hall both here and in America Following nearly 25 years of retire ment. I started a new career. Clara Evelyn used to say. when in 1 973 she played the ...

... Players, which brought English-speak ing theatre not only to Paris but to many other parts of Europe, the Near East and South America It proved impossible to reopen the Pans theatre after the Second World War and they concentrated on broad casting and writing ...

... in Wigan. Lancashire, and had considerable ex perience as a dramatic actress in Lon don and the Provinces before going to America In 1910 she married August Bel mont. the millionaire banker and In dustrialist She quit the stage and became a well known ...