[…]e of Wight, when I went on tour in 'Young Woodley'. And we opened in the Isle of Wight, and I played Cope, the 'fag' in it. And I was assistant stage manager as well. And that was quite an opening because in the Isle of Wight in those days, you played - Monday night you opened in Ryde, then Tuesday,[…]
[…]icality side, no.Sidney Cole: So you went up to Birmingham...Jack Rockett: Yes.Sidney Cole: ...and how long did you stay in Birmingham? You were Area Manager?Jack Rockett: No, I went up to Birmingham as a stock taker, going round, operating from the West End Cinema, Birmingham. Mr Russ was the divis[…]
[…]other 18 Johns years ago. But John started life in broadcasting with the BBC in radio in programme engineering, eventually became a studio manager and eventually a producer of radio, moved to the north to Manchester, did some television there, returned eventually to London to Lime Grove, […]
[…] see a line all the way around the theatre, a queue. And I thought, Well, I do really don't want to queue up for ages. So I went in and asked for the manager. And I said, Look, I didn't want to get in for nothing or anything like that. I want to pay but but You think I could avoid the queue? And I w[…]
[…]hese coach people and certainly in my father’s case they did that and he went bankrupt.Q: Em, er my, I remember my father was saying he had a crooked manager?00:06:0600:06:1700:06:5900:08:0500:08:3600:08:56SAMUELSON: It may well have done. My father er was a wonderful trusting man, and the result of[…]
[…];up through the the the management the lower management ranks he got to general manager with Bob Dibley was probably was the M.D. after more Bob I mean Bob […]
[…] paid on Fridays you see in, in real money.Yes, yes.And I wasn’t paid by cheque until 1955 when I became a, what was called a PA in those days, floor manager. I was paid in cash all the time.You were on the...I didn’t even have a cheque book.You were on the staff, BBC staff?I was on the staff. I was[…]
[…] got me the jo b at Kay Laboratories where the manager at that time was, mm, Reg Dace [Pause] who […]
[…] a, what was called a PA in those days, floor manager. I was paid in cash all the time. You […]
[…]on the film, too. I got a job as second assistant director on that film, for which I was paid. I wanted nine pounds a week and there was a production manager on it, a Swiss chap called Theo Lageard that spelt T HEO, and his surname was la G eARD, he would not pay me nine pounds a week, he would pay […]
