Leader Magazine
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Leader Magazine was a weekly pictorial magazine published in the United Kingdom by the Hulton Press. It was disestablished in Spring 1950.
Contributors included Stephen Potter
(editor), Kay Dick (literary critic), Anthony Carson, Orson Welles
, Edgar Lustgarten
, Lesley Blanch
, Leslie Illingworth, Eric Partridge
, cartoonist Vicky
, Stephen King-Hall
. Theatre critic John Barber
was also sub-editor at one time. Another drama critic was Herbert Farjeon
Other contributors included Susan Garth, Gordon Beckles, Charles Stuart, Laurie Lee
, Barbara Cartland
, Hayden Church, Walter Hingston, Ruth Miller
, Geoffrey Sharp, Denzil Batchelor
, Hugh Newman, Prof. D. W. Brogan, Eric Williams
, John Maytime, Jean Paul Penez, and Robert Lantz. Kaye Webb
was theatre correspondent from 1947-49.
Contributors included Stephen Potter
Stephen Potter
Stephen Meredith Potter was a British author best known for his mocking self-help books, and film and television derivatives from them....
(editor), Kay Dick (literary critic), Anthony Carson, Orson Welles
Orson Welles
George Orson Welles , best known as Orson Welles, was an American film director, actor, theatre director, screenwriter, and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television and radio...
, Edgar Lustgarten
Edgar Lustgarten
Edgar Marcus Lustgarten was a British broadcaster and noted crime writer.His books included crime fiction, but most were accounts of true-life criminal cases. The legal justice system and courtroom procedures were his main interests and his writings reflect this...
, Lesley Blanch
Lesley Blanch
Lesley Blanch, MBE, FRSL was an English writer, fashion editor and writer of history....
, Leslie Illingworth, Eric Partridge
Eric Partridge
Eric Honeywood Partridge was a New Zealand/British lexicographer of the English language, particularly of its slang. His writing career was interrupted only by his service in the Army Education Corps and the RAF correspondence department during World War II...
, cartoonist Vicky
Victor Weisz
Victor Weisz was a German-British political cartoonist, drawing under the name of Vicky.- Biography :...
, Stephen King-Hall
Stephen King-Hall
Sir William Stephen Richard King-Hall, Baron King-Hall of Headley was a British naval officer, writer, politician and playwright. -Life:...
. Theatre critic John Barber
John Barber
John Barber is a former racing driver from England. Before his racing career he was a fish merchant in London....
was also sub-editor at one time. Another drama critic was Herbert Farjeon
Herbert Farjeon
Herbert Farjeon was a major figure in the British theatre from 1910 until his death. He was a presenter of revues in London's West End, a theatre critic, lyricist, librettist, playwright, theatre manager and researcher....
Other contributors included Susan Garth, Gordon Beckles, Charles Stuart, Laurie Lee
Laurie Lee
Laurence Edward Alan "Laurie" Lee, MBE was an English poet, novelist, and screenwriter, raised in the village of Slad, and went to Marling School, Gloucestershire. His most famous work was an autobiographical trilogy which consisted of Cider with Rosie , As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning and...
, Barbara Cartland
Barbara Cartland
Dame Barbara Hamilton Cartland, DBE, CStJ , was an English author, one of the most prolific authors of the 20th century...
, Hayden Church, Walter Hingston, Ruth Miller
Ruth Miller
Ruth Blanchard Miller was an American artist.Miller was born to Kempster Blanchard Miller and Antha Miller in Chicago, Illinois...
, Geoffrey Sharp, Denzil Batchelor
Denzil Batchelor
Denzil Stanley Batchelor was a British journalist, writer, playwright and broadcaster. He reported on cricket and rugby union for several newspapers, including The Times, and at one time was the sports editor of the magazine Picture Post...
, Hugh Newman, Prof. D. W. Brogan, Eric Williams
Eric Williams (writer)
Eric Williams was an English writer and former Second World War RAF pilot and POW who wrote several books dealing with his escapes from prisoner-of-war camps, most famously in his 1949 novel The Wooden Horse, made into a 1950 movie of the same name.-Capture:RAF Flight Lieutenant Eric Williams was...
, John Maytime, Jean Paul Penez, and Robert Lantz. Kaye Webb
Kaye Webb
Kaye Webb was a British journalist and publisher. She was editor of Puffin Books between 1961 and 1979, and in 1967 founded the Puffin Club, which she ran until 1981. As a journalist she worked on publications including Picture Post, Lilliput and the News Chronicle, and later edited the Young...
was theatre correspondent from 1947-49.