[…]aching way down in the South West ofCornwall, near Land’s End, and that's where I grew up. I went to the grammar schoolat Penzance and then on to The London College of Secretaries, in Grosvenor Place, where I worked very hard and went out in the big world. And my first real job was with a Harley Str[…]
[…]sed to have to go through to Northhampton most of the time, to a professor there who carried on the teaching that was started at the Royal Academy in London. But in 19 In fact, in 1939, I was the leader of the junior Symphony Orchestra at the Albert Hall, played at the Albert Hall. dad wanted me to […]
[…]ks' engagement starting at Christmas that year, like two weeks after the competition.Alan Sapper : Competition.Lew Grade : At the Piccadilly Hotel in London, which is now the Meridian.Alan Sapper : Meridian, yes.Lew Grade : Fifty pounds a week...Alan Sapper : in those days...Lew Grade : ...dancing f[…]
[…] 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[…]
[…] in 1927 - by that time I was acting in London and doing rather well too - but in 1927 […]
[…] Cole: Same year as me. When did you come to London? Betty Bachelor: I came to London November 11, 1908, […]
[…]ver. And within a year, I was promoted to camera. And I worked quite well on that at the very first film was a documentary about Chinese community in London. That's when there were very few Chinese restaurants around very few. And things like that. Gradually went on to think did a big big documentar[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] a maximum of a year, and we stayed here ever since.SC : WHy was thatGC : My father was connected in business to a cousin of his who had an office in London, a rather large office representing italian manufacturers and my father was the link in Milan. And this cousin of his died of a heart attack su[…]
