[…]ng back a little bit to Shepherd's Bush, in the last period ofShepherd's Bush was when the union ACT became active, Les Wilde was working hardfor the ACT. And gradually, also we thought we might ought to have some overtimewith these extended evenings, they were getting more and more popular drifting[…]
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 160[Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: 2003-08-29Interview Date: 1990-10-15Interviewer: Margaret Thomson and John TaylorInterviewee: Charles WilderTape 1, Side 1Margaret Thomson: ACT History Project number 160, Side one. We're interviewing Charles Wilder whose […]
[…]e having as much as 20 pounds paid to them to clear their own personal debts and monetary worries apropos outside of any union fund contribution from ACT. We were organising factory gate meetings at the factories in the area around the within a five mile radius of the Technicolour plant, and indeed,[…]
BEHP transcript DisclaimerThis transcript has been produced automatically using Otter, https://get.otter.ai/interview-transcription/.It provides a basic, but unverified or proofread transcript of the interview. Therefore, the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for[…]
[…]azy Gang.BE: That's rightBA: And they were playing, Allen was the boss and Flanagan the prop man. Once or twice they worked in the Flanagan and Allen act.BE: Yes, because they had established acts that they used to, they’d say shall we put the racehorse act in here, yes, oh they were wonderful to wo[…]
[…]r: Yeah. Roy Fowler: Right. Was that when you left or had you left before? Andy Worker: Um no, then, as I say, I went to Sydney Box on contract. Roy Fowler: Had you known Sydney before this? Andy Worker: Not really but - then The Bush was closed. Roy Fowler: Right, excuse me[…]
[…]rge, more referral and the heart of the matter. Oh, yes,Unknown Speaker 34:12 dear old George, yes. Tell us. Tell us about him. He was an act. He was an actors director, wasn't he really Yes? Rather like Carol Reed. HeUnknown Speaker 34:25 just wanted you to get on with it an[…]
[…]peaker 12:41 I remember doing some several days up.Unknown Speaker 12:47 And then, of course, this really brought us into contact. Brought me into contact with them, with professionals, you know, I mean, we thought we were doing it professionally, where we were getting paid f[…]
[…]rell did “Hasan”, which was an immensely ambitious thing to do but it came off superbly and he also did a wonderful production of “Journey's End” in fact.Alan Lawson 13:52 I know you've talked about doing an OB from the Phoenix. What was it like working on early OBs?Dallas Bower […]
[…]nbsp; What did you say the name of the school was?ANNE HANFORD: Mundella. He was the architect of, I think it’s the 1871 Education Act. He came not from Nottingham oddly but I think he came from Leicester the great rival of Nottingham. But the grammar school because of[…]
