Page 22 - Colin Wheeler's Memories

Redditch Heritage My Palace Theatre and other Memories

During my lifetime, it has been a pleasure and a privilege to have either known,

or shared a stage with many of the local talented entertainers of yesteryear, I
will name a few, some who went professional, and in advance apologize for any

omissions,

Mavis Bennet, Millicent Phillips, Alan Styler, (Doyle E’Carte), Eric Grier (Charlie
Chester Company), Eddie Crumpton, Cliff Field, Bert Bate, Muriel Griffin (who
embarrassed herself on the Wilfred Pickells broadcast), Lilian Beale, Heather

White, Don Hughes, John Emms, Cosmotheka, Monte Banks, Reg Dixon, Peter
Jennings (the George Mitchell Singers) Jack Dillon, and the following were some

of my colleagues at the Redditch Stage School, Colin Stowe (Jack Carden
dancers at the London Palladium), Mary Clarke (Television Toppers), Margaret
White (Macari’s Dutch Serenaders), Mervyn Francis, (with the Duggie Chapman

company), Barbara Rowbottom (one half of the MacAndrews and Mills dancing
act), Betty Berry (my tap dancing partner), Clarice Saunders, later known a Joy

(ballerina who later had her own dancing school in the old fire station in Red Lion
Street) Leslie Clarke (professional ballerina)

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