Interview with Margaret Dale (choreographer, ballet dancer, television producer)The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History project.Interviewer Norman SwallowRecorded on the 21st January 1992. DISC 1 Side One Track 1NS: First of all Maggie, when and where were you born?[…]
[…]ng to do with show business at all.LW: What first attracted you to that?WT: It was really my mother so wanted to do it herself, she so wanted to be a dancer, being a very very brilliant lady, she somehow or another got in touch with all the right people and did all the right things, so that by the a[…]
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[…]) ran the Windmill Theatre in London from 1932-1960
CB: And an American singer sang the songs ‘Ain’t she sweet’ and ‘Drifting and Dreaming’ and I danced around in the background and I didn’t say anything but I just danced and there were shown in some funny little cinemas, they were on, they were[…]
[…]t was it was all a bit rough you know, for these super musicians who arrived for a special concert here in Hamburg. We used to do everything from the dance band staffers programme engineers to the Berlin Philharmonic. I remember going on OBs down in Brunswick, Braunschweig in Brunswick for a Berlin […]
[…]... Sara Luzita, now that's interesting, only the other day there was a, I read an obituary for Tutte LemkowMm.Who, in those days was a, was a, had a dance act with Sara Luzita. Now we, this was a good one, we did a, we did the first ever, it's called Give us a Clue now, in terms of televi[…]
[…] Who, in those days was a, was a, had a dance act with Sara Luzita. Now we, this was a […]
[…]as always at the end of the first half, the wonderful things came down from the ceiling and flowers and things grew up from the ground and the ballet danced, this was always the great transformation scene. And I remember so clearly this pantomime, because it had bluebells, great arcs of bluebells th[…]
[…] on me and made a great thing - song and dance, about how good I was. And I got this […]
[…]re that I saw, the Coventry Dramatic Society. So that aroused my interest and from then on really all I ever wanted to do was go on the stage and be adancer, singer, and used to put on either Joan’s costumes or my mother’s clothes and work out routines in front of the mirror and sing all these […]
