"Ronald Whistance-Smith" <rwhistan@compusmart.ab.ca> wrote... > Although I had no relations involved with theatre I do have a long-standing > love affair with same. For those interested in what life in the theatre was > like, or may have been like for some in the years following WWII, the > following is probably from first hand experience. > _ Twice brightly_ by Harry Secombe. -- London : Robson Books, 1974. It was > also published in New York in 1975. > > If you can locate a copy you will, I'm sure, enjoy it very much. It takes > place in a "northern" city.> AND we surely must not forget perhaps the most classic "theatre story" of them all, The Good Companions, by Bradford's very own literary master J B PRIESTLEY, published in 1929. This, the delightful story of a touring music hall concert party, was also made into a film which occasionally crops up on the box. Roy Stockdill (Editor, Journal of One-Name Studies) Guild of One-Name Studies:- www.one-name.org Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History:- www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html Never ask a man if he comes from Yorkshire. If he does he will tell you, if he does not why humiliate him? - Canon Sydney Smith