THE CRICKET MATCH OF THE CENTURY

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STARS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO GIVE AUTOGRAPHS FREE
Autographs can be obtained at the Stand by the Enclosure, PRICE 6d. EACH
S O S
(Stars Organisation for Spastics)
Presents
for the second successive year
THE CRICKET MATCH
OF THE CENTURY
" THE JESTERS "
V
" THE THESPIANS "
•
Sunday, 22nd July, 1956 at 2.1s p.m.
at
The Lyons Club, Sudbury Hill, Middlesex
*
THE SECOND sANN UAL S.O.S. BALL
will take place at
GROSVENOR HOUSE, PARK LANE, W.l. i
on Monday, 26th November, 1956
PROGRAMME 1/(MINIMUM)
DANCING - SUPPER - TOMBOLA - ALL STAR CABARET
in aid of the
Tickets are £3 3s. each Inclusive of Supper
NATIONAL SPASTICS SOCIETY
Inquiries to : Hon. Secretary, Stars Organisation for Spastics,
28, Fitzroy Square, W.l (Euston 5651)
28 FITZROY SQUARE, W.l
BOOK EARLY!
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Helpers
at the Cricket Match...
Helpers
at the Cricket Match
&
Harry Secombe
V
Dora Bryan
Brian mx
Jill Adams
Tony Hancock
Avril Angers
G?
•
Shirley Bassey
Cyril Stapleton.
Alma Cosan
Paul Carpenter
Frances Day
Dickie Henderson
Jon Pertwee
Alfred Marks
David Knight
Jacqueline Ellis
Spike Milligan
Kim Parker
Patrick Allen
Sandra Dome
Joy Webster
Nigel Stock
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Patrick Doonan
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Helpers
at the Cricket Match ...
1
•s
o
*s
TARS
* *
RGANISATION FOR
PASTICS
*
Presents
"THE
Fay Compton
Bernard Lee
Hy Hazell
Kclric Conner
Maudie Edwards
Ben Lyon
Eric Robinson
Tommy Cooper
Vera Lynn
"THE
JESTERS"
v
THESPIANS"
Captain:
Captain:
TONY HANCOCK
STANLEY BAKER
PAUL CARPENTER
TOMMY COOPER
LARRY CROSS
HARRY FOWLER
DICKIE HENDERSON
LAURI LUPINO LANE
SPIKE MILLIGAN
PETE MURRAY
ANTHONY NEWLEY
CARDEW ROBINSON
HARRY SECOMBE
JIMMY THOMPSON
NORMAN WISDOM
DIGBY WOLFE
BERNARD BRADEN
TONY BRITTON
GEORGE COULOURIS
DONALD HOUSTON
TREVOR HOWARD
SYDNEY JAMES
BILL LAWTON
BERNARD LEE
GARY MARSH
LLOYD NOLAN
JON PERTWEE
BRIAN RIX
NIGEL STOCK
DERMOT WALSH
and, we hope, one or two Test players. Eleven-a-side field, as many as
possible bat.
Umpires:
ARTHUR ASKEY - SAM COSTA - ROBERTSON HARE
BOBBY HOWES
WILLIAM KENDALL
BEN LYON
TERRY-THOMAS and others
General Custodian:
Bebe Daniels Lyon
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Donald Houston
Diana Hart
Ex-Chief Detective Inspector ROBERT FABIAN
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1
Why let a lovely child
grow up like this
THE
MISSES :
FROM THE FATHER OF A SPASTIC CHILD
Because a few years ago few facilities existed and
few people knew about the problem, a handful of
parents like myself came together because we were
determined to give our children every possible chance.
We feel, some would say with a sublime faith, that
with long and patient treatment and training most of
our children can be helped a great deal. Well, for
some of our children it is going to mean years of
continuous treatment, but we know from experience
that treatment and training does help. It is an
unlucky accident of nature and we are helping nature
to try and put right this accident.
Your sympathy and wonderful help has sustained
our faith and the courage of our children. There is
much more we have to do, and I know that you will
help us.
May I on behalf of parents of spastic children and
adult spastics everywhere say, very sincerely, thank
you.
//Mrs
, .^
Chairman, National Spastics Society.
TO ALL WHO
LOVE CHILDREN
THE
AND
The National Spastics Society sincerely thank
the following members of the Theatrical and
Entertainment professions for their help this afternoon
For John and thousands of Spastic
children like him it is a desperate
race against time. The State can't
help quickly enough
ALL THAT we parents have been able to do for our
children and older spastics—treatment centres, schools,
medical research—has only been made possible because
of the heartening support people like yourselves up and
down the country have given us.
Most children learn to eat, walk, talk, sit down and
stand up without any trouble. Such acts are easy for
them because their muscles work together.
Their
muscles do what they want them to do because they
have control of them.
But our children, born with cerebral palsy, do not
have control of all their muscles. As a result they
often find it difficult to do some of the most simple
acts of everyday life.
Cerebral palsy means a weakness or lack of
muscular control due to damage to the brain. This
damage may result because some part of the brain
did not grow or develop before birth as it should.
Sometimes the brain is damaged while the baby is
being born.
s.o.s.
NATIONAL
SPASTICS
SOCIETY
was formed in 1952 by a group of
parents who were fighting for the
future of their children, who are born
with half a birthright, determined to
give them a chance in life.
In four years the Society has grown
to over 120 groups of parents in
England and Wales with a member­
ship of over 5,000. This just begins
to show how large the problem is.
There are thousands of more spastics
who need help.
In its comparatively short- life the
N.S.S. has set up:
24 local treatment centres.
3 special residential schools.
I residential home and shel­
tered workshop.
A five year £45,000 medical
research programme.
These are worthwhile achievements
and fill an urgent need. But they are
not enough.
Much more needs to be done if we
are to give Britain's spastics—children
and adults—the chance of a place
in life. And money is needed to do
it—ONE MILLION POUNDS
Every donation received brings the
target nearer and hastens the day
when every spastic child will have
his chance.
Jean Lodge
Vera Lynn
Bebe Daniels Lyon
Jacqueline McKenzie
Adrienne Marsh
Carol Marsh
Jeann Marsh
Anna Massey
Jill Melford
Andree Melly
Conchita Montes
Stella Moray
Libby Morris
Peggy Mount
Dandy Nicholls
Joy Nichols
Geraldine Page
Kim Parker
Maureen Pryor
Louie Ramsey
Anne Rendall
Beryl Reid
Joan Reynolds
Doreen Rider
Edana Romney
Annie Ross
Thelma Ruby
Marigold Russell
Joan Sims
Dorinda Stevens
Marianne Stone
Hazel Sutton
Pauline Tooth
Claudine Tyson
Virginia Vernon
Joy Webster
Esther Williams
Ann Wilton
Yakity-Yak Girls
Yana
Patrick Doonan
Denholm Elliot
Ilona Adams
David Evans
Jill Adams
Errol Flynn
Joy Adamson
John French
Daphne Anderson
Ben Gage
Julia Arnell
William Gargan
Winifred Atwell
Hughie Green
Hermione. Baddeley
Philip Green
Shirley Baker
Peter Haigh
Shirley Bassey
Charles Hawtrey
Susan Beaumont
Benny Hill
Linda Bell
John Hollingshead
Audrey Bishop
Patrick Holt
Ann Bowry
Ian Hunter
Katie Boyle
Anthony Ireland
Beverley Brooks
Noel Johnson
Georgia Brown
Maurice Kaufmann
Dora Bryan
David Knight
Shirley Burnstein
Esmond Knight
Therese Burton
Lee Lawrence
Phyllis Calvert
Humphrey Lestocq
Leslie Caron
Ronald Lewis
Sandra Caron
Harry Locke
Carol Carr
Denis Lotis
Cyd Charisse
Richard Lyon
Alma Cogan
Humphrey Lyttelton
Fay Compton
Alfred Marks
Adrienne Corri
Tony Martin
Hazel Court
Arthur Mason
Wendy Craig
Glen Mason
Joan Crawford
Stanley Maxted
Junia Crawford
Edward Mulhare
Jacqueline Curtis
Al Mulock
Nansi Davies
Peter Noble
Frances Day
Ronan O'Casey
Vera Day
Wally Patch
Brenda de Banzie
Lee Patterson
Sandra Dome
Tyrone Power
Shirley Eaton
Danny Purchess
Maudie Edwards
Eric Robinson
Vera Ellen
Zachary Scott
MESSRS. :
Jacqueline Ellis
Alan Simpson
Patrick Allen
Shirley Ann Field
Donald Sinden
Robert Arden
Cyril Smith
Joan Greenwood
Max Bacon
Jane Hardy
Cyril Stapleton
Clive Baxter
Hy Ilazell
Stan Stennett
Dick Bentley
Jan Holden
Donald Stewart
Jack Bentley
Freda Hollingshead
Eric Sykes
Harold Berens
Renee Houston
Gordon Tanner
John Blyth
Hattie Jacques
Mel Torme
Hugh Bryant
Jennifer Jayne
Jack Train
Gerald Campion
Harriet Johns
James Walker
Ronnie Carroll
Barbara Kelly
Sam Wanamaker
Edric Connor
Patricia Laffan
Richard Waring
James Copeland
Elizabeth Larner
Jack Warner
Billy Daniels
Delphi Lawrence
Naunton Wayne
Derrick de Marney
Dilys Laye
Paul Whitsun-Jones
Jerry Desmonde
Gerry Wilmot
Junita Lemarr
and others whose names were received after going to press.
THE COMMITTEES OF THE S.O.S. AND OF THE NATIONAL SPASTICS SOCIETY
are grateful to The Directors and Staff of J. LYONS & COMPANY LIMITED
for making their sports ground available for this event.
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