... COLLEANO WINNIE COLLEANO, Internationally famous vaudeville and circus acrobat and trapaze performer, died, recently, at tho ago of 72, in USA. She was wall known in Grant Britain, where rfia made numerous appearances in Variety and in London and Btadcpool circueee Her speciality was a sensational trapeze performance but she also ap- peered at the London Pelledium, Coli seum, Al ham bra and ...

... HELYER JACK HELYER. former well known cinama organist. and. latar. housa manaaar. died, at tha aga of 70, on March 6, al his homa in Bournemouth Starting a lengthy professional career, t the age of 14. aa relief pianist at the ELECTRIC Cinema. Bournemouth, he became organist at the County, Sutton fallowed by the Regal. Bristol. Leices ter Square Theette. the Regal. Golder's Green and at other ...

... RASPINI ORESTE RASPINI, heed of the famous International Circus end Variety family, died, recently, at hie home in Italy. He hed retired six years ago. The Raspinis, whose talents ranged from juggling to acrobatics and unsup ported ledder feats, were well known in Great Britain. They eppeered extensively in British Variety theatres and for several seesons were prominent at BERTRAM MILLS ...

... McKERNON RON McKERNON. 27-yur-oM toad tingar and guitar and harmonica playar with the GRATEFUL DEAD group, was found dttd in his spsrtmsnt in San Francisco, California, Tha Gratafii Daad racantly fulfilled English sngagamants ...

... GERTRUDE JOHNSON GERTRUDE JOHNSON, who died in Malbourne on March 28 of a stroke at the age of 78. was a one-time opera singer who established the Australian National Theatre Move ment in Victoria Born in Melbourne, she was a protege of Nellie Tvielba. who sug gested she trained as a coloratura soprano She joined Covent Garden Opera Company in 1921 and there sang Marguerite in Faust, both ...

... ZOLA BABS ZOLA, brother to CLAUDE ZOLA, and a well known figura in tha Circus World for naarfy 60 yaara. died, recently, at hia homa in Clapton, London. For many yaara ha waa clown and ringmaater with SIR ROBERT FOS- SETT'S CIRCUS. Ha alao appeared aa clown with LORD GEORGE SANGER'S and HENGLER'S CIRCUSES aarly thia century, m and, mora recently, with the BLACKPOOL TOWER CIRCUS. ...

... CHIPPERFIELD JOHN FREDERICK CHIPPERFIELD, of the CHIPPERFIELD BROTHERS, of Circus and Fairs fame, died, recently, following a long illness, and wasburied at the Abbey Cemetery, Redditch. Owing to illness he retired from the family circus some three years ago. His wife died in 1971 and their only child, a daughter of twelve, was killed in a road accident in 1 954. John Chipperfield is survived ...

... FREDERICK S. BROMWICH i THE DEATH at 68 of Frederick S Bromwich, President of the Theatrical i Management Association and Senior Director of the London Contemporary e dance Theatre, deprives the theatre of one o> its uniquely professional administrators Born into a family with s theatrical associations reaching back several generations, his parents were actor-manager F Dudman-Bromwich. MBE, ...