Gerry Atkins
Dancer. The Adventures of David Crockett; Atkins and Brandon. Can Can; Catlin’s; digs; Folies Bergere; Roger Stephanie; The Tivoli Circuit; touring; Palace Theatre, Westcliff; The Windmill Show; Zip Goes A Million. |
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Jean Barbour
Variety artiste. Auditions; agents; backstage; The Barbour Brothers; Peter Barbour; Roy Barbour; comedians; dancing; The Dancing Years; Bernard Delfont; digs; dressing rooms; The Ed Sullivan Show; The Grade Organisation; Francis Laidler; Emile Littler; music; pantomime; rehearsals (band calls); Beryl Reid; Cliff Richard; Speciality Acts; Stars in Battledress; Summer Seasons; stilt dancing; Theatre Clubs; touring abroad; touring (UK); Arthur Worsley. |
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Sue Barbour
Variety performer. Actors’ Church Union; audiences; being the child of variety performers; Roy Castle; digs; Sir Lew and Lesley Grade; Music Hall; pantomime; Pier productions; Cliff Richard and the Shadows; standing at the side of the stage; travel; Variety; variety acts; variety traditions; Zip Goes a Million. |
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David Berglas
Magician. Auditioning; Kenny Baker; BBC; Burton Brown; Roy Castle; digs; Elizabeth and Collins; Carroll Gibbons and the Savoy Orchestra; Lew and Leslie Grade; hypnosis; Dean Martin; Meet David Berglas; Ruby Murray; Nationwide psychological experiments; Picture Post magic stunt; The Three Hellos; touring; Dickie Valentine; visits South Africa; Ronnie Waldman; Windmill Theatre. |
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Claudi Cairoli
Child of Variety players, Variety. The Great Cingalee; circus; costume; De Vere dancers; Val Doonican; illusionists; learning acts; Paula Lee; Roy Lester; living arrangements; music; pantomime; Summer Seasons; stars; touring. |
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Charlie Cairoli
Clown, Variety. Agents; Gordon Blackie; Tower Circus, Blackpool; Charlie Cairoli senior, digs; employment; family involvement; pantomime; Cliff Richard; Second World War; touring; This Is Your Life. |
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Tommy Cannon and Bobby Ball
Comedy double-act. Agents; audience; Batley Variety Club; Cabaret Clubs; costume; digs; Charlie Drake; magicians; Stan Moore's trio; Night Clubs; pantomime; television (LWT); touring; Working Men's Clubs. |
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Duggie Chapman
Comedian and Producer, Variety. Agents; BBC radio; Collins Music Hall, London; The Cure for Love; digs; Dudley Dale; Carol Levis; Mid-day Music Hall; music; orchestras; pantomime; Summer Seasons [Jersey, Skegness, Blackpool]; touring; travel. |
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Shelli Cingalee
Magician, Variety. Russ Abbott; agents; backstage; digs; The Great Cingalee; Paula Lee; relations with other acts; touring |
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Barry Craine
Variety artiste, Comedian. American theatre; band calls; The Bathroom; Collins’ Music Hall, Islington Green; comedy routines; costume; digs; Fred Karno’s Army; Tony Hancock; North-East Clubs; originality of material; The Three Hats; touring; variety billing; Max Wall. |
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Michael Grade
Chief Executive of ITV, Variety. ATV; Billy Cotton and his Band; Blackpool variety; Bernie Delfont, Baron Delfont; Delfont and Toko; dressing rooms; Foster's Agency; GAC (Buddy Howe); Lew and Leslie Grade Ltd; Leslie Grade; Lew Grade, Baron Grade; The Grade Organisation; Laurel and Hardy; London Palladium; Billy Marsh; Moss Empires; Val Parnel; running orders; Richard Tauber; Bob Williams; Cissie Williams. |
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Peter Hudson
Singer and comedian, Variety. Agents; auditions; The Bill Shepherd Singers; Concert Artists Association; Tommy Cooper; digs; Equity; Cyril Fletcher; Frank Loesser; London Management; The Most Happy Fella; The Music Man; opera; Michael Parkinson; Pontin Circuit; television; touring; Max Wall; C. Daniel Warren; Mike and Bernie Winters. |
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Jack Kodell
Magician. Agents; audiences; Chaz Chase; digs; Grand Order of Water Rats; Sid and Max Harrison; Leslie MacDonnell; magic on ice; Mary Naylor; props; Marvyn Roy (Mr Electric); touring |
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Jack Kodell and Mary Naylor
Magician and musician; Variety. Agents (Cecil Buckingham, Foster’s Agency); George Black; Belita; bill matter; Blackpool theatres (North Pier, Opera House); Champagne on Ice; Kirby Wires; Dave Morris; Vic Oliver; Tesse O’Shea; Dick Richards; training birds. |
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Marion Konyot
Variety Performer, Variety. American variety; Hal Monty; Will Hammer; Robert Konyot; Pardon Our French (Hellzapoppin'); Terry's Juveniles; theatre education; Lawrence Wright; Florenz Zeigfeld. |
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Maggie Little
Variety artiste. Blackpool theatre-scene; chaperones; digs; Franklin’s Musical Act; Sam Newsome; pantomime; Sherman Fisher Girls; Terry’s Juveniles; touring; Florence Whiteley’s Zio Angels; Lawrence Wright; Anne Ziegler and Webster Booth. |
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Gillian Lynne
Dancer and Choreographer. Acting; David Albery; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; BBC; Broadway; Rudolph Cartier; Cats; choreography; Cone Ripman School; Bernard Delfont; digs; Five Past Eight; Errol Flynne; Margot Fonteyn; John Gilpin; Pauline Grant; Robert Helpmann; jazz ballet; Molly Lake; Jacques Lecoq; Andrew Lloyd Webber; London Palladium; Leonide Massine; David Merrick; modern dance; Dudley Moore; musicals; opera; Peter and the Wolf; repertory; revue; Sadler’s Wells Ballet; Symphonic Variations; The Three-cornered Hat; Dame Ninette de Valois; variety |
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Albert Mack
Theatre-goer and amateur actor. Variety. Billie Bennett; Bernard Bresslaw; Roy Castle; Harry Champion; Charles Dennis; The Empire, Nottingham; Will Fyffe; Horace Golding; Arthur Hindley; Jimmy James; Lupino Lane; Me and My Girl; monologues; Nottingham theatres; pantomimes; Scott Sanders; Wilson, Kepple and Betty; Brendan Woods. |
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Mary Naylor
Singer and Musician, Variety. American artistes; The Band Wagon; Black and White Minstrel Show; Sam Browne; costumes; cruise ship entertainment; digs; ENSA; Henry Hall; Lena Horne; Jack Hylton; Nat Jackley; Jack Kodell; London Palladium; Archibald McIndoe’s burns patients (World War Two); Brian Micky; George Moon; Eric Morcambe; Theatre Royal, Nottingham; Tessie O’Shea; pantomime; radio; Royal Command Performance; salary; television; touring; Tommy Trinder; Ernie Wise; World War Two and theatre; Youth Takes a Bow. |
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Billie Roper and Rex Roper
Variety Artistes. Accommodation; casinos; Rex Grey Dancers; The Hansa, Hamburg; the Knife Throwing Denvers; military shows; Edith Piaf; rope tricks; Sheriff Danny Arnold; touring; Two Gun Rix; Boy Rex; variety (UK); variety (Germany and France). |
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Audrey Worsley
Actress, Variety. Roy Barbour; George Black; Wilf Crew; ENSA; Get a Load of This; Charles Henry; Hoopla; Ali Khan and Rita Heyworth; pantomime; Variety; Arthur Worsley; Lawrence Wright's On With The Show, Anne Ziegler and Webster Booth. |
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Michael Worsley
Son of Arthur Worsley and Audrey Hewitt, Variety. Animal Acts; digs; dressing rooms; Jimmy Gaye; Frank Ifield; Alan King; musicians; Bob Newman; Sunday Concerts; Sunday Night at the London Palladium; television; Vogelbein's Bears; working practices; Arthur Worsley. |
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