... valuable asset to any panto mime, often guest starring as robbers with a front cloth spot. Their love of music hall also made them welcome guests at music hall societies throughout the country. Cosmotheka were recently seen at Wimbledon's Studio Theatre and ...

... NICK NISSEN Nick Nissen, who has died in Brinsworth House, was one of the most capable performers in variety and music hall, a comedian and acrobat who excelled in both media. A stalwart for many years in summer shows for the Bunny Baron Organisation ...

... voice coaching and singing. She was also a well-liked act in touring music hall shows, working for Jack Seaton on many occasions as well as appearing regularly for the British Music Hall Society in the eighties. Her signature tune Fly Home, Little Heart ...

... The following decade saw Roberton working as booking agent for the Golden Years of Music Hall show, produced by Audrey Lupton and Arthur Lane. It included music hall legends such as Sandy Powell and Nat Jackley, and enjoyed a very long run in Britain ...

... Regulars on the Moss Empire circuit, they were favourites in pantomime for many years and on radio shows such as Saturday Night Music Hall. In the fifties, Riscoe started his theatrical agency supplying artists to television and what was left of variety. Among ...

... SYDMARX Accomplished and successful, comedian Syd Marx embodied the spirit of the heyday of variety and music hall. Fair-haired and jovial, his was an act that proved popular with audiences of all ages. His billing matter, once a comic's important trademark ...

... precursor of rap. But he was rather more than that. Like the Kinks' Ray Davies before him, his songs often had a suggestion of music hall and were distinctively English and, more particularly, London inspired. His subjects were creations of his own, like Clever ...

... Newcastle-upon-Tyne, saw her in the 1946/7 run of Jack and the Beanstalk, teamed with the late Dave Willis, Glasgow's legendary music hall funnyman. In fact, Jackman had a happy link in comedy sketches with the popular Scottish line-up of comedians like Willis ...

... age of 65 following a serious illness which he fought bravely, came from a highly theatrical family. His father was the music hall artist and stage cowboy Tex McCleod, while his mother Marjorie danced as a Tiller Girl. After schooldays at Lancing College ...

... his wife Jessie, early in her career she worked for Chapman's Circus, famous for its two units which played the British music hall circuit, the Robert Brothers' Circus and Don Ross' Royal Imperial Circus. She made her debut with the lions at the age of ...

... Theatre. Price appeared as her dancing partner for My Heart Stood Still, which stopped the show. More recently, he toured in music hall productions for the Traverse Players. For the last 25 years of his life, he shared his London home with two close friends ...

... freelance, however, appearing in many of the light entertainment programmes of the forties and fifties, such as Mid-Day Music Hall. But she eventually retired to the house she had bought in Buxted, Sussex. She never married. Peter Heppte ...