[…] manager of Columbia Pictures and was based in London. So, of course, he brought the family down and he stayed with them for a while, then he went to British Lion as assistant managing director to the late Sidney Myers, another character in the business, and then in his latter years of his career he[…]
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[…] people thatI knew, people got bombed out came and stayed, in the end I was cooking for sixteen people .[30:48]Mm, oh.Because of course, not having a British father and mother in those, during the war youwouldn’t perhaps remember all this, you’re not old enough to but you had to have aBritish father[…]
[…]formation but information. And during this on one of my holidays I scrounged a visit to, I've forgotten the dear old publicity man's name, at Gaumont British in Lime Grove, can't remember his name, anyway I went and found the studio and there they were, they were shooting one of the Aldwych farces a[…]
[…]of events, but I certainly at some point along the line there, I did some work for, I think it was called GB-I. What was that...Stephen Peet: Gaumont British Instructional.Philip Leacock: Yes. And they were very anti-union. Now that's the first thing I really remember, it was recruiting ACT members […]
[…]im in 1936. So this is why I presumed he could still remain a form master. Father could see what was happening. He had very good connections with the British Embassy.John Legard: And, of course, by then I mean Korda was over here by then.Teddy Darvas: By this time, Korda was famous.John Le[…]
[…]both down. So somehow, how we did it I don't know, I wasn't quite the size I am now. So we got down, that was one of those things.We also went out to British Columbia to a small holding, there which was on the edge of the Pacific Ocean, and he had an orchard and a small field with some cows and he h[…]
