... the problems being encountered in the rebuilding of the city of Plymouth following the devastation suffered during the Second World War. Craigie was subsequently widely acclaimed for Blue Scar (1948), a drama set in a South Wales mining village, but there ...

... Cathedral on the West End stage and abroad, and gave lessons at the Italia Conti stage school. At the outbreak of the Second World War, she was turned down for the WRNS on medical grounds, and later diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Spells as a radio ...

... regularly 'cleaned up' at the local drama festivals. Walk- ons with the Court Players and Nottingham Playhouse before the Second World War drew her into the stage as a profession. While serving in the ATS she became a member of Stars in Battledress and (as ...

... trombone players, Ted Heath, offered Moira a lift home. Within two weeks he had proposed, and they were married in 1933. The Second World War was well under way, and Heath had moved to the Geraldo Orchestra, when Moira suggested he set a poem she had written ...

... voice, which was brought into action when the BBC Variety Depart ment was evacuated to Bristol at the outbreak of the Second World War. The Cavendish Three went with it and for a time contributed the musical interludes to ITMA. Cavendish also had some ...

... in 1938 (Duchess) with a cast that included Williams him self and Sybil Thorndike. It was an overnight success. In the Second World War he joined the Gordon Highlanders, served in France and was awarded the Territorial Decoration. He was made a major at ...

... Bryanston and Jesus College, Cambridge, where he studied languages. Invalided out of the Intelligence Corps early in the Second World War, he joined the BBC French Service. After the war, he became a radio producer but transferred to television in the mid-fifties ...

... continued to sing throughout his life as a baritone and bass. When Temple Church was hit by an incendiary bomb during the Second World War, Lough and his fellow members of the fire service were forced to watch it bum due to an inadequate water supply. His ...

... act Bob and Alf Pearson acted as ushers. World-famous magician Robert Harbin was also in the Ayr company. During the Second World War, Saunders toured with ENSA concert parties in Europe, the Mediterranean, Africa, the near East and the Far East, ft was ...

... Rita, Bettina Richman. In 1937, the act toured for 11 weeks as part of the Fred Collins revue Giggles and Girls. The Second World War brought things to a premature end. Percy died in an Italian prisoner of war camp while Cyril, after being demobbed in ...

... name by Gluck and Offenbach. Young was a Londoner, whose studies at the Royal College of Music were interrupted by the Second World War. He was 28 by the time he made his professional opera debut at the Edinburgh Festival in Ariadne auf Naxos and it was ...

... insisted on playing the final two acts much to the perplexity of the audience. When Brixton Rep was bombed during the Second World War, she joined the Red Cross, rising to become the organisa tion's superintendent for North Wales. After the war, she contin ...