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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 100, was one of Britain's best-known baritones in all fields opera, concert, oratorio and recordings during the pre- Second World War years and for some time afterwards. By the early fifties, he had retired from performing to concentrate on teaching after ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... guitarist, and Theresa (Tern) Quaye, a singer of distinction and also a notable percussionist. At the outbreak of the Second World War, Quaye was playing at the Paramount Ballroom, Tottenham Court Road, with Ivor Kirchin's band, and then joined Ken 'Snakehips' ...
... the less glamorous position of staff accompanist, and then chorus master, with the infant BBC Television. During the Second World War, he conducted the Radio-France Symphony Orches-tra, and worked in intelli gence, being invalided out after four and half ...