Val Guest

[…]hink it was. I remember Maurice Ostrer said take her out for an evening, teach her something, I though I'll take her to the Olympia and Bertram Mills Circus and Funfair. Outside Poole Street, Islington, the kids were real horrors, not horrors, they were earning their pennies, “look after your car fo[…]

Joan Kemp-Welch

[…] of York's with Lucie Mannheim and Marius Goring. I think it was called something Fanny [N.B. Lady Fanny ] but I can't remember what it was. It had a circus in it and I know I had to learn to ride a stripped bicycle up and down the alleyway in between the theatre, a bicycle that went backwards and f[…]

Joan Kemp

[…] but I can't remember what it was. It had a circus in it and I know I had to learn […]

Roy Fowler

[…]ther was a Romani princess. That he was born in Mongolia and raised in a walled palace outside Peking and at the age of 12 he ran away and joined the circus in Paris and was the darling of Jean Cocteau and Bebè Bérard.And I've seen pictures of Yul when he was 16 with shoulder length hair believe it […]

Jonathan Balcon

[…]Balcon  7:18  Hal's real name was not Mason at all it was Tinkler. And his family were a family, were a troupe of acrobats in the circus. And he came from a circus family, how he got into the film industry I do not know but my God he was an efficient studio manager he ran a very […]

Anne V Coates

[…]ittle rider about, it was of particular interest to me because my father was in the RFC in the First World War, and was in fact shot down by Göring’s Circus as they called it. Y es. Yah. And, so you know, that kind of flying and things was interesting to me. Y es. He flew a Camel actuall[…]
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