[…]as a very brilliant woman. The result was that when I did go to a school - St. Mark's College in Chelsea - for about a year, I was top of the school, head of the class in every way. So, obviously she was a better teacher than I could have found anywhere else. That was all. At fourteen I gave up ever[…]
[…]gate. And as I walked down the hill from the Monument Station, the very first morning, in my lovely gear, a fish porter who had a pile of fish on his head...you know they used to carry them on these corked hats in those days. He walked right up behind me and just tipped the thing so that all the jui[…]
[…] him to retire from the sea. And subsequently, by what steps I don't know, he became a brewer. And from the earliest time that I remember him, he was head Brewer at Meux's Brewery Limited in in London, which was practically on the site where the British Film Institute later was in in the corner of g[…]
[…] years ago to have it rejigged up at the King’s Head. SC: Oh yes. DM: Called Meet Me at the […]
[…] for about a year, I was top of the school, head of the class in every way. So, obviously she […]
[…] fish porter who had a pile of fish on his head...you know they used to carry them on these corked […]
[…] lot of people in the studio. And, I'm trying to think what happened. Oh yes, and, and went over for a while to Two Cities Films, who, that was their headquarters at the time, with, with a lovely man called Giudice.Y es.7Mary Harvey Tape 1 Side AG-I-U-D-I-C-E. And, and, and I worked for a little whi[…]
[…]encies but usually they let me sleep through it. And on the very I went up knocked on all the doors all the studios I went up to see is it D C Sewell head of sound. The time they were producing the wicked Lady 1946. Mason & Grainger to Ealing. I didn't even get an interview at Ealing. The […]
[…]ast, where my mother who had been a teacher in Victoria College Belfast, a big girl's school over there, resumed her old job and very soon became the headmistress of that school which she remained for 25 years.Td: What was the date of your birthAlexander Faris : 11 June 1921.My mother was an absolut[…]
[…]at you hadn't overspent. Before any film at Ealing started there was a meeting called in the restaurant there, which had a big round table, and every head of every department had to go there with your budget made out and presented and had to justify it. And it was incredible, you'd go there and you'[…]
