J. B. Priestley wasn't alone in mourning the lost empires of music hall and variety. By 1973 work was very thin for a vaudeville comic and a song-and-dance man. But Tommy Trafford and Ronnie Parnell didn't hang up the tap shoes - they set up their own company.
This summer Chris Stuart toured the seaside shows of an empire on which the sun has still not set. Producer KATE FENTON BBC Wales
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