Donald Wilson

[…]e all this on paper Donald Wilson  24:52never some invitation to the walls the big window shopping list. popped up that 16 ruling the other dancers with an iron and really that age. Dolan was supposed to be organising it or renting Do you hardly ever appeared and Windows is a system did al[…]

Una Bart (Jennings)

[…]t was too limited and he wanted to get up to London. He answered an advertisement for a professional ballroom post and became a professional ballroom dancer and judged competitions. A friend of his got him into the film business and he got in as a crowd worker. Subsequently he was spotted by Captain[…]

Elizabeth Furse (née Wolpert)

[…]ry and we married. And I went then on making, worked. We went to Paris in 1936 because he wanted, he finished Oxford and he wanted to become a ballet dancer of course. We were old friends with Margot and people like that, you know. And he wanted to go to a professor to, to dance, you know, to a Russ[…]

David Attenborough

[…]c. And then there was a chap called Michel xxx who did ballet for beginners at that time and I persuaded Michel, god knows how he had become a ballet dancer, he was only about 3ft 9 as far as I remember with a beard and his girlfriend to do this. And we had a stylised xxx. So anyway we did the short[…]

Peter de Normanville

[…]t of catastrophe, actually, because the star of Sara's film Rom de Parr, sued Shell, because, in fact, the contract to get him to do his job, and his dancers, apparently specify for non theatrical use. And Shell offered him a very generous sort of sum sort sorted out, but he was greedy, and got 5000[…]

Muriel Box (Gardiner) (née Baker)

[…]le : Was she British?Muriel Box : Oh yes,Sidney Cole : Oh I know, she did 'The Stranger Left No Card'.Muriel Box : That's right.Sidney Cole : She was dancer, she also did 'The Seven Days of Christmas' - Wendy Toye!Muriel Box : That's right, she was there. They gave me an awfully nice time there, the[…]

Bill Cotton

[…]the Georgia Brown, we stopped at Copenhagen, we'd chartered an aeroplane becausethere were so many of us and the plane had broken down and one of the dancers hand phoned her father and said she was frightened and he phoned the director general. We were kept at Copenhagen and Georgia went into the re[…]

Jimmy Wright

[…]rther in Ireland and it was felt that the schools needed to know that some dancers was an ongoing concern and that it wasn't just servicemen and women who […]

Harold Myers

[…]xtreme variety ease that you ever composed yourself?Speaker 2  17:55  Oh, that's a tall one. Well, one that comes to mind reviewing a belly dancer as the big old night club. And I said she makes, she makes with the hips, and telling you, I really don't remember, but it all comes fairly nat[…]

Denis Forman

[…]nectionwith Highland dancing and Highland balls and Highland regiments, during the Cambridge period Iwas President of the Caledonian Club and I was a dancer, I danced a lot, Highland dancing. So myfriends were all going into the Argylls and I thought I would like to go into the Argylls and I gotinto[…]
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