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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 SOS (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 PROGRAMME 1/- (MINIMUM) on Monday, 26th November, 1956 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!

PAGE EIGHT McCorquodale, London, N.W. ) Helpers Helpers at the Cricket Match at the Cricket Match...

& V Harry Secombe Dora Bryan Brian mx Jill Adams Tony Hancock Avril Angers

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Shirley Bassey Cyril Stapleton. Alma Cosan Paul Carpenter Frances Day Dickie Henderson

• Jon Pertwee Alfred Marks David Knight Jacqueline Ellis Spike Milligan Kim Parker

Nigel Stock Patrick Doonan Patrick Allen Sandra Dome Joy Webster

PAGE TWO PAGE THREE 1 Helpers at the Cricket Match ... • s TARS * * oRGANISATION FOR * s PASTICS *

Presents "THE "THE Fay Compton Bernard Lee Hy Hazell JESTERS" v THESPIANS"

Captain: Captain: TONY HANCOCK STANLEY BAKER

PAUL CARPENTER BERNARD BRADEN TOMMY COOPER TONY BRITTON LARRY CROSS GEORGE COULOURIS Kclric Conner Maudie Edwards Ben Lyon HARRY FOWLER DONALD HOUSTON DICKIE HENDERSON TREVOR HOWARD LAURI LUPINO LANE SYDNEY JAMES SPIKE MILLIGAN BILL LAWTON PETE MURRAY BERNARD LEE ANTHONY NEWLEY GARY MARSH CARDEW ROBINSON LLOYD NOLAN HARRY SECOMBE JON PERTWEE JIMMY THOMPSON BRIAN RIX NORMAN WISDOM NIGEL STOCK Eric Robinson Tommy Cooper Vera Lynn DIGBY WOLFE 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 Donald Houston Diana Hart Ex-Chief Detective Inspector ROBERT FABIAN

PAGE TOUR PAGE FIVE Why let a lovely child 1 grow up like this THE s.o.s. AND The National Spastics Society sincerely thank For John and thousands of Spastic the following members of the Theatrical and children like him it is a desperate Entertainment professions for their help this afternoon MISSES : Jean Lodge Patrick Doonan race against time. The State can't Vera Lynn Denholm Elliot Ilona Adams Bebe Daniels Lyon David Evans help quickly enough Jill Adams Jacqueline McKenzie Errol Flynn Joy Adamson Adrienne Marsh John French Daphne Anderson Carol Marsh Ben Gage Julia Arnell Jeann Marsh William Gargan Winifred Atwell Anna Massey Hughie Green Hermione. Baddeley Jill Melford Philip Green FROM THE FATHER OF A SPASTIC CHILD Shirley Baker Andree Melly Peter Haigh Shirley Bassey Conchita Montes Charles Hawtrey Susan Beaumont Stella Moray Benny Hill ALL THAT we parents have been able to do for our Linda Bell Libby Morris John Hollingshead children and older spastics—treatment centres, schools, Audrey Bishop Peggy Mount Patrick Holt medical research—has only been made possible because Ann Bowry Dandy Nicholls Ian Hunter of the heartening support people like yourselves up and Katie Boyle Joy Nichols Anthony Ireland down the country have given us. Beverley Brooks Geraldine Page Noel Johnson Most children learn to eat, walk, talk, sit down and Georgia Brown Kim Parker Maurice Kaufmann stand up without any trouble. Such acts are easy for Dora Bryan Maureen Pryor David Knight them because their muscles work together. Their Shirley Burnstein Louie Ramsey Esmond Knight muscles do what they want them to do because they Therese Burton Anne Rendall Lee Lawrence have control of them. Phyllis Calvert Beryl Reid Humphrey Lestocq Leslie Caron Joan Reynolds Ronald Lewis But our children, born with cerebral palsy, do not Sandra Caron Doreen Rider have control of all their muscles. As a result they Harry Locke Carol Carr Edana Romney Denis Lotis often find it difficult to do some of the most simple Annie Ross acts of everyday life. Cyd Charisse Richard Lyon TO ALL WHO Alma Cogan Thelma Ruby Humphrey Lyttelton Cerebral palsy means a weakness or lack of LOVE CHILDREN Fay Compton Marigold Russell Alfred Marks muscular control due to damage to the brain. This Adrienne Corri Joan Sims Tony Martin damage may result because some part of the brain THE NATIONAL SPASTICS SOCIETY Hazel Court Dorinda Stevens was formed in 1952 by a group of Arthur Mason did not grow or develop before birth as it should. Wendy Craig Marianne Stone Glen Mason Sometimes the brain is damaged while the baby is parents who were fighting for the Joan Crawford Hazel Sutton future of their children, who are born Stanley Maxted being born. Junia Crawford Pauline Tooth Edward Mulhare with half a birthright, determined to Jacqueline Curtis Claudine Tyson Because a few years ago few facilities existed and give them a chance in life. Al Mulock few people knew about the problem, a handful of Nansi Davies Virginia Vernon Peter Noble In four years the Society has grown Frances Day Joy Webster Ronan O'Casey parents like myself came together because we were to over 120 groups of parents in determined to give our children every possible chance. Vera Day Esther Williams Wally Patch England and Wales with a member­ Brenda de Banzie Ann Wilton We feel, some would say with a sublime faith, that ship of over 5,000. This just begins Lee Patterson with long and patient treatment and training most of Sandra Dome Yakity-Yak Girls Tyrone Power to show how large the problem is. Shirley Eaton Yana Danny Purchess our children can be helped a great deal. Well, for There are thousands of more spastics some of our children it is going to mean years of Maudie Edwards Eric Robinson who need help. Vera Ellen Zachary Scott continuous treatment, but we know from experience In its comparatively short- life the MESSRS. : that treatment and training does help. It is an Jacqueline Ellis Alan Simpson N.S.S. has set up: Shirley Ann Field Patrick Allen Donald Sinden unlucky accident of nature and we are helping nature 24 local treatment centres. to try and put right this accident. Joan Greenwood Robert Arden Cyril Smith 3 special residential schools. Jane Hardy Max Bacon Cyril Stapleton Your sympathy and wonderful help has sustained I residential home and shel­ Hy Ilazell Clive Baxter Stan Stennett our faith and the courage of our children. There is tered workshop. Jan Holden Dick Bentley Donald Stewart much more we have to do, and I know that you will A five year £45,000 medical Freda Hollingshead Jack Bentley Eric Sykes help us. research programme. Renee Houston Harold Berens Gordon Tanner These are worthwhile achievements Hattie Jacques John Blyth Mel Torme May I on behalf of parents of spastic children and and fill an urgent need. But they are adult spastics everywhere say, very sincerely, thank Jennifer Jayne Hugh Bryant Jack Train you. not enough. Harriet Johns Gerald Campion James Walker Much more needs to be done if we Barbara Kelly Ronnie Carroll Sam Wanamaker are to give Britain's spastics—children Patricia Laffan Edric Connor Richard Waring and adults—the chance of a place Elizabeth Larner James Copeland Jack Warner in life. And money is needed to do Delphi Lawrence Billy Daniels Naunton Wayne it—ONE MILLION POUNDS Dilys Laye Derrick de Marney Paul Whitsun-Jones //Mrs Every donation received brings the Junita Lemarr Jerry Desmonde Gerry Wilmot , . ^ target nearer and hastens the day when every spastic child will have and others whose names were received after going to press. Chairman, National Spastics Society. his chance. 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. PAGE SIX PAGE SEVEN