[…]cadilly Circus. The other anecdote I’ve got about it is – I think it was the early part of the war - a man called Wendell Willkie who was a potential president of the United States, he was a Republican. He came over here obviously to get publicity and so on, he did London, and one of the things that[…]
[…]d.SPEAKER: M3And those rushes had been put on a ship and sent back to Hollywood to be processed and well now lying at the bottom of the Atlantic. And President Roosevelt called and said could he see the film of the American forces landing on the North African shores. This caused a little embarrassme[…]
[…]election as Shop Steward. Which was enjoyable. It wasn't hard work. I used to go to General Council meetings, and I met Anthony Asquith again. He was President. You remember Sid Cole and Alf Cooper, Charlie Wheeler, Max Anderson, Ivor Montague, Ralph Bond. A phalanx of the Left. But right in the mid[…]
[…], that famous production. BBC linked that production to the Command Performance that we gave at the Royal Opera House in ’39, a state performance for President Lebrun (the French President). I think the performance we did on television, the Sleeping princess was preceded by a newsreel of the State v[…]
[…]nbsp;holiday to Cannes when I picked up the the magazine the short magazine the president believes it is in short form digest. Yes I picked up the Digest and&nb[…]
[…]her films in Ethiopia. Gain all lost. I did a similar thing for Liberia, again, an unknown country, and I made a film which was virtually the life of President tutman, which included trips to America, where he went to see his steel mines in Bethlehem in America, not Bethlehem Israel, because that is[…]
[…]tish side and tried to stop the film being made or have it altered, and the ACT right wing or the ordinary ACT members there were up in arms, and our President was directing it; Anthony Asquith was directing it, and I think he resigned over that because I’ve got a feeling General Council came down o[…]
