... HOWARD DE COURCY died on March 9, 1990. De Courcy was born in Switzer land in 1914 and came to Egnland the following year Having trained for the hotel profession, attending the re nowned hotel school at Lausanne in Switzerland, he then became interested in magic and learnt the art under the auspices of Will Goldston. His first professional performance was at the Windmill Theatre. He then ...

... Sir Ian Jacob LIEUT-GENERAL SIR IAN JACOB, GBE, CB, Director-General of the BBC from 1952 to 1960, died on April 24 at the age of 93. Son of a distinguished soldier, Field-Marshal Sir Claud Jacob, he was educated at Wellington and the Royal Military Academy and was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1918, later obtaining a BA at King's College, Cambridge. He served in India for five ...

... ARNAUD D'USSEAU has died in New York aged 73. after a complication resulting from surgery for stomach cancer. He was the co-author with his fellow American writer, James Gow, of two highly successful political dramas, Tomorrow the World, which ran at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York for 500 performances in 1943/4 and at the Aldwych, London for 398 performances in 1944/5, and Deep Are the ...

... Richard Lewis RICHARD LEWIS, regarded as the outstanding British tenor of his day, has died aged 76. His training at the Royal Manchester College of Music, situated in his home town, was interrupted by service in the Royal Corps of Signals in World War II. He began his career while he was still in the Army, appearing in concerts in Norway and Denmark, and made his British debut at Brighton in ...

... Wilfrid Hyde White t who died on May 6, aged 87, was in a sense part of the international and British theatrical furniture. However good or bad the play or film was you want to see it because he was in it. He was always the same, a perfect light comedian, a great character actor and above all Wilfrid Hyde White. And that's the way the public wanted it. Born in 1903 in Bourton-on- the-Water in ...

... A Service in Memory of BARRY DAVIS will be held at St Paul's Church Covent Garden on 29th November at 1 1 30am RON BADDILEY 29th November 1986 Remembered always with love Noreen, Francesca, Nicole Ramon, Emma Ramoncito ...

... Bernard Finch BERNARD FINCH (1939 -1990). I first met Bernard in the rather tatty green room of the Delaware Pavilion Bexhill on Sea; Yes we were Penguin players! There he was in his chukka boots (remem ber them?) yellow socks and turtle- neck sweater, hands cutting the air before him illustrating every thought. He was the rather off beat, iconoclastic 'juve,' and I a mere ASM. I was ...

... Rudolf Nureyev By ANN NUGENT The death of Rudolf Nureyev at 54 is a tragic end to a life as celebrated in its rise as in its decline. His unique combi nation of gifts and theatricality com bined to make him the most widely known of any dancer this century, and at the height of his fame he seemed unstoppable. But the same demon that pulled him to the realm of superstar- dom, and turned him into ...

... KEN CONLIN LEADING Scarborouah musician has died followina a short illness. He was a percussion ist who learned to play drums before he was a teenager. Ken was just 12 years old when he took a summer vacation job as the drum mer on board the Scarborough pleasure steamer Royal Lady accompanying the ship's accor dionist George 'Pedro' Oxford. He was still in his teens when he became the drummer ...

... on December 7 in Melbourne at the age of 69. She studied as a child in London with Edward Espinosa after winning a scholarship and returned to Australia at the age of 15, almost immediately joining the J.C.Williamson organisation, a major force in Australian theatre. From the midfifties to the seventies she was con nected with every one of the company's productions, and appeared in the classic ...

... period of ill-health. He was born in Calcutta of Scottish parents, arriving in Britain when he was 14 and taking up the saxophone while at school in Cambridge. Like so many musicians of the post-war years, he learned his trade in the forces as a musician in the Grenadier Guards and on his release found ready employment in the big bands of the period, originally as a tenor saxist but switching ...

... Sandy Sandford HOW the world is going to miss his jokes and his greeting: How are you dear boy? SANDY SANDFORD was as full of laughter offstage as on, a beloved man who particularly endeared himself as an entertainer on stage, radio and televi sion and as Entertainments Director at Vauxhall Holiday Park, Great Yarmouth where he worked with his wife Mary. Everyone he met found him enthusi ...