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Anita Martell was a famous juggler. Her name on her marriage certificate is down as Nita Janette Davidson her father was John Davidson stage name Jack Martell. Most likely he was a Music Hall Artist as well but was never as famous as his daughter. She was a juggler and told jokes during her act. She was in shows in Australia, America and the UK. She married twice once in 1940 to Len Young and then in 1951 to Roger Price they got divorced in 1951 she was on his radio show called "How To" during 1951. She appeared in two films called: The Private Wore Skirts or Never Wave at a WAC (1953) Botany Bay (1953). She came back to London in 1957 and was planning on staying for a year but i can't find anything about her after her arrival or even if she went back to America. Source: www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=586489.0#:~:text=....

Anita Martell (birth name Nita Janette Davidson) was an English talking comedy juggler in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. She was the daughter of the English Music Hall comedian Jack Martell and Irish singer Mona O’Leary. She appeared in two films called ‘The Private Wore Skirts or Never Wave at a WAC’ (1953) and ‘Botany Bay’ (1953). She also appeared in a British Pathe film, which you can view below. She was a cousin of Veronica Martell, who was also a juggler. Source: www.juggle.org/11-more-female-juggling-stars-of-the-past/

The location previously operated as the Wintergarden Theatre cinema complex from 1924 until it closed in 1973 and was demolished in 1981.[3] The original building was designed by Ballantyne and Hare of Melbourne. Hall and Prentice in Brisbane provided local design assistance. The theatre featured a Wurlitzer pipe organ which could be raised and lowered from the orchestra pit. In 1929 the rival Regent Theatre opened in Queen Street 1929.[4] With the transfer of ownership of the theatre to the Kern Corporation in the 1970s, and plans for the construction of the Queensland Performing Arts Centre at South Bank, the Her Majestys Theatre building next door to the Wintergarden was also marked for demolition and inclusion in the proposed new Wintergarden shopping center. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wintergarden,_Brisbane

REX THEATRE (Fortitude Valley) aka Town Theatre / Hoyts Rex / Rex Valley (1936-ca. 1974) Wickham Street (between Gipps and Brunswick streets). Although best remembered as a cinema, the Rex Theatre’s first lessee, Graham Mitchell, operated it as a vaudeville house for some 14 months. The building, situated on the northern side of Wickham Street, dated back to the late 1900s when it served as a warehouse. At the time of its purchase by E. Craft and A.J. Carter (Crafti’s Investments Pty Ltd), it was owned by Foy and Gibson. The basement was remodeled into a theatre, with the remainder of the building converted into three shops. The Rex was used for occasional live productions up until its closure. Sinbad the Sailor (featuring Peggy Ryan) was produced there in 1950, for example. Graham Mitchell’s Jesters opened the Rex on 9 May 1936. The feature artists were Nat Hanley, Syd Beck, and Len Rich. Source: ozvta.com/theatres-qld/2/ __________

Peggy Ryan worked hard for a living. She danced, she sang, she took her clothes off when required. She worked on stage and under canvas, entered competitions, opened dance schools, and directed. She helped out her father, an illusionist and character actor, and she was as versatile as all get out. And she was not, as one magazine put it rather brutally, A Star. In a human interest story in People in 1952, 26-year-old Peggy was described like this: “She is not a star; she never could be. Her stocks in trade are a warm, sometimes strident, voice, a pair of nimble feet, a stimulating smile, and a figure of considerable merit. Yet without her, and other backstagers like her, entertainment as we know it would collapse overnight. She is the indisputable unit of which a show is made, the foil, the prop, the silk-and-tinsel background against which the star gleams his brightest.” Source: www.slq.qld.gov.au/blog/hoofer-soubrette-and-nudie-cutie-...