[…]e plays during that time. I must have been writing at night most of the time. Anyway, I wrote three plays, and in 1927 - by that time I was acting in London and doing rather well too - but in 1927 I had my first play produced, a play called 'The Return', which got wonderful reviews, but never made a[…]
[…]licity. He would give me the job and as a time when the compliment allowed two juniors to be taken on he was as good as his word. And in 1938, I left London I lived in digs at  Blackheath, I was paid two pounds 10 a week and was a bit mortified that Jack Lee the other boy Jack had almost paid t[…]
[…] 16th.Sid Cole: When were you born and where.  Betty Bachelor: I was born the Rhonda, 1908.Sid Cole: Same year as me. When did you come to London?Betty Bachelor: I came to London November 11, 1908, and I met Bert in Hyde Park in August 1929.Sid Cole: Was that at a demonstration?Betty Bach[…]
[…]re and when where you born?HARRY MILLER: 1904, November the 25th 1904.ALAN LAWSON: What kind of schooling did you receive?HARRY MILLER: I was born in London, by the way. My schooling was a Catholic Church school, we were Catholics our family were Catholic. In Macklin Street, I went to on[…]
[…]f production at Lime Grove or Shepherd's Bush Studios. And I managed to get from him an introduction from Chan Balcon, he agreed to see me. I went to London. I went to Lime Grove, a wonderful studio, a sort of Hollywood to me then, little page boys with page boy hats, commissionaire at the entrance,[…]
[…]ut before you actually suggest somebody, because they can't have any of that walking on a Tudor set.Ray Pascoe  1:58  And were you based in London? Lesley Gogarty  2:01  I used to be based in London in the days where everybody was office based, the place to be, in central Lo[…]
[…]was when I left school and when I was about sixteen I got a job with an American filmmaker called Alan Forbes. Alan made documentary films. He was in London and he taught me about editing, and about camera operating, and about sound, and basically was a very committed filmmaker. And, God, I was luck[…]
[…]e, I think it was the first film here. Was probably the jazz singer, but it was, I would have thought, probably two years after it was first shown in London. Derek Threadgall  22:15  So the other jazz singer was the first sound, yeah, for most first cinemas at the time, but […]
