[…] when you left there?Erica Masters: Yes.Sydney Samuelson: What happened then?Erica Masters: After Jamaica I went back to Hamburg and I wanted to be a dancer, and I went to Hamburg. And the family situation was very bad, my father had married again, my mother had died when I was five years old, and I[…]
[…]f course, all the musicians, all the tip top musicians were members, you had to be a serious musician, straight music. I was told Ted Heath the dance band man couldn’t get in because he wasn’t an orchestra, but anyway, I wanted to join this because I wanted to use the club, so Doc Mathieson pr[…]
[…]k to India to make... leave, you know, I hadn’t been back since I was a child, and they asked if I’d make a film there and I made Lord Siva Danced with RamGopal. Again, totally outflanked, you know, I mean I hadn’t directed anything, I’d beenan assistant to various people going and sh[…]
[…]ording somewhere. So let me look back on some of the other things I wanted to make this a fox, that's right. Then Polanski came into my life with the dance of the vampires, which was very exceeding. It was an interesting thing to work on. We had those wonderful sets, huge there. So that was shot at,[…]
[…]ways used to come over at Christmas time. And we would all get together in the family, the family Christmas, which was Christmas Eve, was just an abundance of laughter, hilarity. And, yes, little going over the top and I have to say, I think for me, they were so extrovert so large, that I probably w[…]
[…]the BBC, he worked on productions including Hamlet (1947) andMacbeth (1949).4 Patricia Foy (1922-2006) was a British producer and dance for programmes including The Magic of Dance(1979) and The Margot Fonteyn Story (1989). I: And were you still living at […]
[…]ennett had taken precise notes of every change of tempo, each new requirement of rhythm and dynamics. They were making a small song number into a big dance routine. The rehearsal ended at 1 pm and there were 480 bars of new music. When do you want it asked Bennett. 10, tomorrow morning, replied Jero[…]
[…]s girls through the market, through Covent Garden market every night after the show to the tube station, for protection. They were lovely men, and we danced with them every night. And they played the band, you see.SC: Were they different guardsmen from time to time, or the same ones?DM: I don’t reme[…]
[…]es I probably did.Alan Lawson : Tommy BentleyPeter Birch : Yes that's right, it's a long time ago. My memory goes to hell.Alan Lawson : Then you did "Dance Pretty Lady" with Tony Asquith.Peter Birch : That's right, yes.Alan Lawson : Can you remember working with Tony?Peter Birch : Yeah I remember To[…]
