[…] And that was the whole tenor of the location. We had some very strange characters, some of which disappeared, there was an assistant director called Newman disappeared, and there was a script writer called Bettison, I always remember him, very gentle and he was was known as Betty poor chap, and the[…]
[…]'s because the food was so marvellous and very, very plentiful. And it was my father who took Korda to see his first movie- there's a cafe called the New Yorker in Budapest which was where all the journalists and actors and writers met and they owner of that cafe got a projector and put up a sheet a[…]
[…]s very different now but it was awfully nice then.LW: Did you come from a show business background?WT: No, there was nobody in it at all as far as I knew that was anything to do with show business at all.LW: What first attracted you to that?WT: It was really my mother so wanted to do it herself, she[…]
[…]at, in '27, I went to Stowe School, Buckingham.  I had been meant to be going to Harrow but my headmaster at Boxgrove was very keen on this new school, Stowe, which had been founded in 1923. I got sent there and I was very glad about it, Roy Fowler  1:17  Right.&nb[…]
[…]coot, and there may have been other motives here.JS: This was when?RA: I was born in 1917 and say I was 18 at the time, this would be 34/35 . Nobody knew what to do with me and my piano teacher said why don't you go to the Royal College of Music. I put this forward, I'd always written music but I'd […]
[…] social purpose or political purpose in terms of what you were trying to do?  No, not, not in that sense. It was again a matter of whom we knew, who was available, mm, whom we liked. Mm, I suppose to some extent a judgment of their contribution. You talk about celebrities, well, obviously […]
[…]my intention to stay at strand, I got a father figure of three years. And at that age, three years is a long time. Anyway, so I set about introducing new equipment. And fortunately, there was a man who liked you using it as new equipment. And there were these beam lights or pageant landers, as we ca[…]
[…]nemployed musicians - unemployed because of the coming of sound, strangely enough, people who played in the pits in cinema - and that was called 'The New Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra'. And I was one of four, the youngest of four. There was a big gap between me and the other three, something like […]
[…]ith my mum. I went with my mum to see Kess when I was 13, and I remember seeing it at the ABC in Edinburgh and being completely knocked out by it. I knew her. I knew who Ken was before. You know, when I was 13, I knew exactly who Ken was and I and the other thing about Ken as well was when I was at […]
[…]o there. So we used to use that in the afternoon. And then I mean, what the younger generation are missing now is the fact we used to get the evening news and they got these great big lists of films and variety theatres, you know, quite big piles of them. And you can say we're gonna see tonight we g[…]
