This may be a tentative lead but...Brighton History Centre holds in its collections a set of illustrated magazines from the early 1920s titled 'Brighter Brighton'. I have used them a great deal for background detail for my thesis on interwar suburban Brighton. They are a curious mix of articles...think 'Hello Magazine' linked with 'The Economist'!

Sorry, can't help re Philip Darien, but my grandmother, whose stage name was Nellie Banks, was a singer, dancer and comedienne and a member of Easter & Vernon's Brighter Brighton Concert Party, and of various other seaside entertainment troupes on the South Coast, during the 1920s and early 30s. I have a number of professional postcard pictures of Easter & Vernon's Brighter Brighton Concert Party dated 1924 which I've been intending to use to create a page on MyB&H for ages, just never found the time yet. These feature, inter alia, my grandmother and another lead called Syd Leslie, and also make mention of one Uncle Harry who may have been the photographer. There appear to have been multiple Brighter Brighton troupes, and I guess my grandmother's was a different one to the Costume Concert Company illustrated above - certainly, she isn't the lady in the above photo. Sadly, she's no longer with us to ask. This has given me an incentive to get the promised page created, which I'll do as soon as I can - watch this space!

Hi, Walter Easter was my Great Grandfather and look forward to seeing your pictures. Rosa Wiggins was my Dad's aunt.