... Jack Lindsley, well known in the North of England as an orchestra leader, died, at the age of 61, on December 3, at Darlington. He was the former musical director of the Embassy. Peterborough, and for several years, from 1932. was musi cal director for Bertram Mills's Olympia Circus. ...

... GEORGE ZUCCO GEORGE ZUCCO, the actor, died in Hollywood on May 28. aged 74. Born in Manchester, he was a clerk in a stockbroker's office before turning to ihe stage, making his first appearance at Regirva. Sas katchewan, as the Bishop in Whai Happened to Jones in 1W8. He spent several years in Canada and Ihc U.S.A.. appearing on the New York siage in a vaudeville skeich. After the 1914-18 ...

... jUSSI BjORUNC JUSSI BJORLING, ihe Swedish tenor, died on September 9 at his summer home on an island near Stockholm, at the age of 49. Born at D.ilarna in Sweden, he made his earliest appearances in public as a member of the Bjorling Quartet, consisting of himself, two brothers and his father all tenors. They toured America with great success, but later Jussi Bjorling relumed to Sweden to ...

... George G. Moulding, one of the directors of the recently formed Harrogate White Rose Theatre Trust, and a member of the coin- mi tee of the Harrogate Theatre Club, died suddenly last week while on holiday with his wife at Windsor. He was 49. Annie Hester Lloyd, widow of Edward Lloyd, die tenor, died on April 23, aged 89. James Melton, former leading tenor of the Metropolitan Opera, New York, ...

... FOR thirteen years chairman of the Morecambe Publicity and Entertainments Committee, Aid. H. R. V. Addenbrooke (79), died on April 25-- only six days after it had been decided to con fer upon him the Honorary Freedom of the Borough. Aid. Addenbrooke was the first manager of the Floral Hall at Scarborough and afterwards became manager of the Tower Theatre and Ballroom in Morecambe, remaining ...

... BARRY WOOD Barry Wood, leading baritone saxophone player with Buddy Rogers Orchestra, with whose outfit he appeared in London, in the 1930s, and also with Vincent Lopez Band, died, on July 22, aged 62, after a heart attack, in Miami i Beach, Florida. ...

... Nesbitt dies LEGENDARY producer Robert Nesbitt has died in Paris aged 88. Nesbitt (pictured right) was acclaimed by colleagues as probably the finest light entertainment producer of his generation. Together with the late Lord Dclfont, he was responsible for staging more than 20 Royal Variety Performances. A full obituary will appear in a later edition of The Stage and Television Today. ...

... Theatre Royal, Newcastle should be credited after the RSC Regarding Amanda Lilley's letter (July 17, page 9) suggesting that the Grand Opera House was the first to issue a Visa card. This may be true, but the Theatre Royal, Newcastle- upon-Tyne issued its own credit card (at 0 per cent APR) in 1982. I believe, but am happy to be corrected, that this followed the RSC in having its own credit ...

... Waltz become of dancer Angela? I am trying to trace a dancer called Angela Lambert, whose last known address in the fifties was 1 8 Frognal Lane, Hampstead. She is of English-Irish decent, and was a petite red head. Her age now would be around 69. She worked mostly in music halls, and sometimes on the continent. An American friend would dearly love to know of her whereabouts. A Lambert 5 ...