[…]actors who played William.He was offered £40 a week on the main variety circuit, it was just going so well, when his call-up papers arrived. When his national service was over he felt the [variety] theatres were closing and the night clubs were a bit unsavoury. [His national service was mainly in en[…]
[…]d I went on a crammer course in London. And eventually I got, I think on the second take. So I now was qualified, about 21 or 22. And now I had to do National Service because it's been deferred. And those days it was the fag end, although it was just coming to an end although it hadn't officially at[…]
[…]ston: So yes...we finished about mid December 1932 and then the next one...Roy Fowler: Can you paint us a picture of BIP [N.B. British International Pictures] in that period of time? The atmosphere in the studio and the people you were with.E.M. Smedley-Aston: Well, the atmosphere in […]
[…]It would be interesting to see that film wouldn’t it if we could dig it out. I wonder what it was called? I’d like to see that film.AL: Well probably National Film and Television Archive will have it.Yes, they’ll have it, mm.Yes, yes, yes.If we could find the title somehow.Yes, yes, yes.So anyway wh[…]
[…] What, the Regent Street? JG And I did, that’s right, and I did a degree in economics, and then I was supposed to go in the army, because it was national conscription, but I was grade 4 cause I had a perforated eardrum, from that, you know when I was about 3 or 4, and I thought I had two years […]
