[…] public wrong moments. I look back with alarm at what I was doing. But I have had proper jobs. And I was a stagehand at Leeds Empire Theatre, because Johnny, GM, one of my mentors, the stage manager, heard I was having a bad time and offered me a job as a stagehand. So, that really got me into the a[…]
[…] at Merioola for a period; JR talks about the journey from Australia and her arrival in London during times of austerity; JR talks about photographer John Deakin and theatre designer Loudon Sainthill. 00:35:15 – 00:43:30 By 1950, JR is still painting; she talks about some of the paintings sold […]
[…] terrible outbursts. It was a very rich woman that liked to be recorded. Don't you remember?Margaret Thompson 15:42 I remember, Amy Johnson.Frances Cockburn 15:45 Was I don't remember her.Margaret Thompson 15:46 I think well, it was one of those women flyers[…]
[…]n't have enough so we had there a whole lot me, but they were all made on the budget. And then I thought we better have a carpet. I got in touch with john lewis or something like that to come up and said, You know, I told him I said, Look, we want to carpet, that gave me a car. So we got a telephone[…]
[…] something. Anyway we were all, he was stage manager and John Hart Dyke and I were the two ASMs and […]
[…] The BBC Librarian, she was a great friend of Sir John Reith, and she told me in no uncertain terms […]
[…] Russell Hunter who you people will probably know played I think it was the chief minister or something. Anyway we were all, he was stage manager and John Hart Dyke and I were the two ASMs and we both had parts in the play. So there were points in the play when there was nobody in the book [Laughter[…]
[…]teen going on ten really. And I was interviewed by a formidable lady called Florence Milnes, who was The BBC Librarian, she was a great friend of Sir John Reith, and she told me in no uncertain terms there was no sort of job going in Broadcasting House, which I found very dashing because Broadcastin[…]
