The Enid Blyton Society

Source: Weekly Magazine published in 1954

They all look quite old for 4 children.

The cast from the stage play, I guess!

Funnily enough, I always imagine the Famous Five to be mostly early - mid teens anyway!

Grazina Frame (misspelled as Grazyna), now aged 75, made several records for HMV between 1962 and 1964. She also appeared in a few films in the early 1960s. In 1954 she would have been 12 or 13 years old.

so is it 1956 or 1954, Pete?

I wondered about the date too. If it was 1956, Grazina Frame would have been 14 or 15 years old. She was born 6th November 1941.

Here is some information about Grazina Frame:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grazina_Frame" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Check out the posts on the following thread, 'Who was the first George (performer)?', for more information:

http://www.enidblytonsociety.co.uk/foru ... =22&t=5561" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

It certainly looks from that as if the clipping above is for 1956. I would say she does look about 14 or 15 years old in the photo.

Rob Houghton wrote:so is it 1956 or 1954, Pete?

The sales description has got me puzzled too now Rob??

1956 Enid Blyton Famous Five Gordon Gardner, Pat Garwood,

Interesting News clipping of the day.....

Source: Weekly Magazine published in 1954

Original Item - not a modern copy - great reference piece for your collection! Unrelated text to the rear.

A "one-off" for your Archives...

The grid on the backgound of the Item is a 1" (One-Inch) (2.5 cm) square, so very easy to compute the dimensions.

Good condition - (check Image).

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1956-Enid-Bly ... 1438.l2649" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Apologies, Pete - I thought maybe you'd just made a typo on your original post - but I see now that it's the seller's mistake. Confusing! I guess it has to be 1956 rather than 1954...

Lots of information about Grazina Frame, but what might have escaped even Eddie was that she was a speaker at the Centenary Enid Blyton Day in 1997. I got to know her partner, Robert Dallas, who was the composer of the Famous Five musical and he also spoke at the Day. We actually had eight speakers on that day with some just doing ten-minute slots, including Jemima Rooper and Gary Russell. Those were the days!

Incidentally she was Grazyna in the programme for the Hippodrome Famous Five - did she perhaps change it as an adult?

Thank you for an additional information, Tony.

Sadly, I didn't attend the Centenary Enid Blyton Day, Tony. I hadn't realised that Grazina Frame had been a speaker on that occasion until I found out from reading 'Who was the first George (performer)?' thread earlier today.

Tony Summerfield wrote: Incidentally she was Grazyna in the programme for the Hippodrome Famous Five - did she perhaps change it as an adult?

I'm guessing Grazyna was the original spelling and she may have changed it later — she was from a Polish family and "Grazyna" looks like a more authentically Polish spelling than "Grazina". Maybe people were constantly mispronouncing her as "Gra-zye-na" instead of "Gra-zee-na" (which it would be) and so she changed it to be more phonetic?