[…]ghts and also enable anyone interested in the theatre to work in Scotland without having to come to London. And he was looking for an assistant stage manager who was from Scotland. So Kenneth Barnes summoned me into the office and I met John and John was ex flying as well, and the fact that I was ex[…]
[…] know. And fortunately for me, one of my aunts became an ice cream sales girl and usherette at the Savoy cinema in Acton. So, she had a word with the manager and at nine years old I got to make my first visit to a cinema projection room. And when I saw the projector, I have never forgotten it was a […]
[…]as just a producer and a, and a secretary and you did everything, you did the costing and the, you did everything. You, you, although you had a floor manager on the day, the people like Jacko and, you know, who was, Leslie Jackson.Yes.Father of the now famous Paul K. Jackson, who’s dropped the ‘K’, […]
[…]ain, through my father and some solicitor, we managed to get a contact to Sir Gordon Craig, I think it was then, who was Managing Director or General Manager of Movietone, and a director in Fox -20th Century Fox - films, and eventually I think we got to see Tommy Scales, who gave me the job, who was[…]
[…]p;rnan called Bill Able, and our ultimate boss was Tim White , he was chief production manager, and he controlled the making of the films being made by Independent Producers, Independent […]
[…] cinema in Acton. So, she had a word with the manager and at nine years old I got to make […]
[…] town, and you’d be met at Waterloo by the Stage Manager, given a letter, ‘ That’s your cards’. Secretly they’d […]
[…] and finally = had to make friends with the vault manager at Rank – who was a very strange man […]
[…] you did everything. You, you, although you had a floor manager on the day, the people like Jacko and, you […]
