[…] out of the Army early because that way I was able to get a job, I mean, I had no money and no background, nothing. And I wrote to every single newspaper in the country and abroad…I: Can I stop you a second? Why newspapers? R: Well I…yes, why?&nb[…]
[…]me in our life, we loved it. We didn’t sort of get into theatre, but it was, well, all the music hall stuff and we became terribly blasé, knew all the jokes. And either would say, oh isn’t he terrible, or isn’t that terrible, what a dreadful singer. I mean at the age of nothing. But […]
[…]. And I couldn't sync it, I didn't know how to sync it. I had to wire the actual motor speaker for the disk you know, but it was television, it was a new and exciting thing. It really got to me. A little while later, I was about thirteen I suppose then, a little while later my parents took me to the[…]
[…]portunity for working people: only 5 out of 100 children at state schools in Staffordshire went on to secondary education in 1910. But in that year a new Director of Education was appointed in Staffordshire, who was a Scotsman and he very quickly latched the County onto the opportunities offered by […]
[…]ou were a UCL graduate? CJ: Yup, I am.MW: For some reason I had it in my mind that you were a Cambridge person, because I thought you knew Christopher Frayling very well –CJ: Oh, only latterly. But I tried to get into Cambridge, but unfortunately my school qualifications weren’t […]
[…]ere you are, who you are, where you come from, your childhood days, anything about your early life?Margaret Thomson 0:25 Yes, I come from New Zealand. My parents came from New Zealand as well. And my grandparents went out to New Zealand in the very early days of the colonisation of New Z[…]
[…]nts being the property of the landlords. So that - as a matter of fact his story is that he had come out of his 'haider' - Hebrew classes - and they knew that the kidnappers were around and he hid himself in a pipe. Then he heard a voice saying to him in Yiddish that he should come out of the pipe, […]
[…] M3 When were you born where I was born on November the. 2nd 1915 at a little place called Ruislip in Middlesex My mother and father had a lttle newsagents and tobacconists shop which is still there to this day. And. Ruislip then is a little village I mean there are a few shops by the station. […]
[…]lot of the pictures.EB: Well it was a special treat for me on a Sunday night, to go and see, but Father was offered a job in a very tough district in New North Road, where they objected so much to the pianist that they threw a bottle on his head, and he was in hospital.SC: Why did they do that?EB: W[…]
[…]mous amount of information you can give us, but you can tell us your career in the film industry, the film business?Ella Mallett : Well I went to the New Gallery, was interviewed by Terry Siskin[?] and Louis Levy in the May of 1914, just before the first Great War. Of course I carried on with the mu[…]
