[…]John Taylor: Scottish pantomimes must have been quite something in those days.Jimmy Gilbert: Well it was the Howard and Wyndham Circuit. They had the Kings, the Lyceum, the Theatre Royal in Glasgow, the Alhambra, the Queen's, the Pavilion, what is the Citizens' Theatre which was the old Princess The[…]
[…] fine. But to give you an indication of what the place was like at that time also, I mean, how unprepared Alexandra Palace was. The night King George V died, or the morning King George V died, I mean, the announcement was delayed until the morning, if you remember he died at Sandringham…[…]
[…] talking pictures had just started, and it was a George King picture called 'Leave it to Me' with Robin Irvine. […]
[…]935 for The Mystery of the Marie Celeste. She joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service during WWII and subsequently returned to the film industry, working for Rank and Hammer studios among others. Her final film was One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing (1975). SUMMARY: This interview, conducted by Alan L[…]
[…]One.Can, can we ask, first of all when and where you were born?I was born in Maidstone, Kent, in 1927. And, but from Kent I moved over for a short to King’s Lynn in Norfolk because my father was in banking, and then eventually I went to the West Country, to Ross-on-Wye, when I was about six I suppos[…]
[…] but from Kent I moved over for a short to King’s Lynn in Norfolk because my father was in banking, […]
[…]t. And also I was my colleague. I was doing gigs.Roy Fowler 4:41 Were they called gigs?Unknown Speaker 4:43 Yes, I was called King. Were they called?Roy Fowler 4:47 Right? We're talking now, what, sometime in the late teens, but you're stillSpeaker 1 4:58 &n[…]
Chili BouchierChili Bouchier (1909-1999) was a British film actress, after working as a model for
Harrods, she won a Daily Mail competition to become a film star. Her films included Shooting Stars (1927), The Return of Carole Deane (1938) and Dead Lucky (1960).
I: 29th of May 1996 we are at BECT[…]
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[…]4.0:45 NS: And what about education?0:48 DMW: Luckily, it was before the war and not now. In the late [19]20s, early 30s. We were working class family. Dad was an engineer. And one went to primary school, run by the local council. Standards were very high, discipline was very strict[…]
