... Mor gan, and also with Harry Gordon and others. She was a special favourite at the Glasgow Pavilion in its heyday as a variety theatre. Her husband was the late Arthur Roynon, musical director in Scottish theatres. ...

... TV celebrity of the popular Can You Top This? programme. DAVIS One of the best-known personalities in the Scottish variety theatre, PETE DAVIS, who waa associated with the music-hall and performers in Scotland for many years, has died in London at the ...

... truly gifted piano player with an enormous reper toire and he was fortunate to employ his arranging skills at a time when variety theatre was at its most lavish and successful. He is survived by his wife Grace and their two daughters, Carol and myself. Wendy ...

... several other films, including Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Up the Junction and Oliver I But her career in the variety theatre had begun in the early twenties, for she was a leading lady in revue at the age of 14 and for many years produced her ...

... OBITUARY WORTH CLAUDE WORTH, 74, one of the best-known variety theatre producers in Scotland over a long period, has died in hospital at Leith, near Edinburgh, after a lengthy illness. A native of Burnley, Lancashire, he kept his Lancashire accent despite ...

... recently published by the Scottish Music Hall Society, he revealed his long-time interest in the great era of the Scottish variety theatre, declaring that it had a wide variety of ethnic sources to draw upon. He was the author of two plays. The Original John ...

... death, and retained him under contract when other man agements showed interest. He had the task of marketing a popu lar variety theatre at a sensitive time when long-running resident seasons were slowly giving way to shorter runs and one-nighters as TV developed ...

... Frutins built the Granada Theatre, Parkhead, Glasgow, and the Tudor Cinema, Giffff- nock, Glasgow, and ran the Metropole variety theatre in Glasgow for many years. The funeral at Glasgow was attended by many representatives from theatre, cinema and allied ...

... sk ill and enterprise as a provider of pub- lio amusement was expended long before the music-hall had merged into the variety theatre. Of his lengthy and honourable connection with the Middlesex the Old Mo,*' as it was affectionately called there is little ...

... he became the owner of the old Panoptican theatre, then known as the Britannia Music Hall, said then to be the oldest variety theatre in Glasgow. He later turned to cinemas and property. CLIFFORD TURNER I AMES CLIFFORD TURNER, J the voice teacher, died ...

... on their debut the act made history and remained in Europe right through the World War. They played almost every known variety theatre in Great Britain as well as in pantomime, revue, cabaret and even circus and fulfilled a record number of engagements ...

... concert pianist who emerged as a bill-topping comedienne, partnering her late husband Colin Murray, in the music hall and variety theatre double act of Clark and Murray at theatres in Scotland, Belfast, and the Isle of Man. They were sometimes dubbed the George ...