[…]ou can hear him so at the end of the thing I was sitting in the car, and a big meeting, I think they got everybody out of bed, I had a meeting in the manager’s office, and I don’t know what happened, but eventually I went to the Adelphi, in the Strand, which was a cinema then and spent six weeks, an[…]
[…]and if somebody made a film, any film renter would buy perhaps two or three copies and they'd send them out to the different cinemas and these wicked managers - I suppose their bookkeeping was so haphazard, the whole industry was haphazard, you cannot possibly imagine really - and they didn't send t[…]
[…] in the wardrobe of theatre or an ASM [Assistant Stage Manager] . And I knew that it was going to […]
[…] I used to go up, and Mr Sparrow was the Manager who took pity on me and he used to […]
[…] Lawson: Yes that's right. Leonard Harris: Well he was studio manager then and of course that was a pretty big […]
[…] Fowler : What, in the box office? Or in the manager's office? Ella Mallett : She was the - used […]
[…] yes. Bill Girdlestone: And he got a job as Lab Manager at London Films, you know, William Jury's company, who […]
[…]m business?RENÉE GLYNNE: Entertainment business, behind stage. I really wanted to be, probably, in the wardrobe of theatre or an ASM [Assistant Stage Manager]. And Iknew that it was going to be theatre and I hadn’t really ... I went to cinemas andsaw films, but I never yearned to do movies.DARROL BL[…]
[…] I think it was the Dorchester or something I can’t remember, to come down and cook lunch - so we - we go in to - er - to have lunch and the catering manager is there with a tray of drinks - and champagne and stuff and he comes across (phone rings) no don’t - don’t answer it it’s a recording machine[…]
