[…]ta in Carnival”. He said “Oh, you do, do you? Well you’d better send me some photographs.” So, from The Call of the Sea, I had been playing a Spanish dancer in that, a Spanish gipsy dancer and I looked rather Mediterranean and as Simonetta in Carnival is Italian I sent those pictures and the moment […]
[…]ally want is jazz. And I love jazz, so my production exercise then was a thing called “High in a Basement” [?] which was a little jazz band and dancers. So that was my production exercise.DARROL BLAKE: I seem to remember that the contract at that time for the training course includ[…]
[…]al, a discussion on stage of what they were going to do, what music they were going to play, in the pit was a pretty ropy old band, and they had four dancers one of whom was Jimmy Logan's first wife, who had no choreography or anything. And they would just go on and do the show and it would be a bit[…]
[…] school at 14, he entered the entertainment industry as a dancer, before establishing a talent management company. The business grew […]
[…]nt, yes that’s a short name, I’ll have that.I: You’ve leapt into the Gainsborough days; can we go back to more or less to the beginning? You’d been a dancer for some time?JK: Oh yes I was at the Palladium for some time; we started at the Holburn and got bombed out of there. I did various revie[…]
[…]e wore the trousers in the family. I went on tour with the Kentucky Minstrels, the original cast, plus a lot, many variety acts, comedians, acrobats, dancers, and chorus. It was a big major show on the Moss Empire circuit. And they taught me to play jazz, which I loved. And this was at the age of si[…]
[…], irresponsible, lovable genius of his way. And you had him a genius, well, in a way, because he had that sort of light comedy there. And was a great dancer and quite a great comedian. He and his brother Claude Herbert were then amongst the sort of typically EnglishRoy Fowler 43:22 Claud[…]
[…]uppose,Speaker 2 1:32 so really, but she didn't want me to go into the profession. But somehow I got in. I went into the theater. I was a dancer and showUnknown Speaker 1:42 girl. When did you do that?Speaker 2 1:45 I worked at the Prince of Wales Theater in Londo[…]
