... operas. He joined the US Army and became a captain, serving with distinction in action earning decorations from France and America. Later in Britain he received the OBE. He recorded six arias with the RAF Symphony Orchestra and with the support of Sir Thomas ...

... GEOFFREY CORBETT Many singers, dancers, and musi cians, not only in this country but also throughout Europe and America will be saddened by the passing of Geoffrey Corbett on April 18. The cremation took place at the Marylebone cremato rium and was attended ...

... combined with a shock of flowing black hair, he endeared himself in a rather strange way to huge audiences, both here and in America, with his high falsetto voice and ukelele playing. The songs were mostly forgotten hits from the twenties although his rendering ...

... entertainer, commanding huge fees for appearing in Las Vegas and with a television series that attracted massive audiences in America long before the days of Michael Jackson or the Bee Gees. Martin was no stranger to Britain and regularly appeared at the London ...

... obsessed with ballet. Back in the States he devoted all his ener gies to dance and in 1933 per suaded Balanchine to go to America, promising him a school, a company and a theatre. Inside a year, the pair had set up the School of American Ballet, the company ...

... That lasted for two years before moving to ATV, and when King became the first British per former to have his own show in America, the writers went with THE STAGE, JULY 25, 1996 him (a young American writer named Mel Brooks was deputed to help them!). ...

... including concerts with John Pritchard, Pierre Boulez and Georg Solti. She travelled extensively throughout Europe and South America, singing repertoire from the baroque to the contemporary. She appeared twice at the Aix en Provence International Music Festival ...

... days and nights of practice, the magical world was his oyster. Soon he was invited to appear at prestige functions here, in America and Australia, and then the ultimate to mysti fy the top card men in Las Vegas. He entertained the Harlem Globetrotters, and ...

... to appear at the Old Vic, where she played the part of Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night's Dream, which later toured in North America. The Old Vic became part of her life and while in her early thir ties she played many classical roles there such as Lady Capulet ...

... Ballet, working as ballet master in Helsinki and Naples and enjoying a freelance career for long spells both in Europe and America. He remained a specialist in Fokine's ballets, reproducing them throughout the world. Despite being in his eighties, he continued ...

... toured Russia in Paul Scofield's Macbeth, went to Poland with an Arts Council tour playing Anna in Old Times and twice toured America, coast to coast, lecturing and playing in Shakespeare and modem plays forACTER. At the National Studio, Heather was in Long ...

... appeared in himself. The most successful of these was Old Herbaceous, in which he featured in venues all over Britain and in America. He joined The Archers in 1979 to play the part of John Tregorran and then Sir Sidney Goodman, before settling into the role ...