[…] his stuff packed and he didn’t come back again. [LAUGHTER] And I won money on the race. But the trouble was the manager of the theatre, Frank Boare, quite a character in the theatre world in those days, he heard about it and he said, “Now then, you either stop this or get out”. S[…]
[…] we put a year on this? I know we're now coming up into the early 50s. Because IRoy Fowler 30:45 was curious about what happened when the Rank Organisation came close to collapse in 48. Because prior to that, when you came back at least two years, it was very boy and industry.Dennis Kimb[…]
[…]e other ballets I did at the Palladium and things like that, they were all a bit of a gimmick because I was so young. But this was a serious work by Frank Bridge that Ninette asked me to do. And it really was a great honour. I don't think I came up to her, I think I probably did with that ballet, bu[…]
[…]ing and Callander and places like that. I remember the fall of France sitting in the mess and oneof these old dead-beats, the Colonel, a chap called Frankie Elliot, in the dead silence after the newshe said "Ah" he said "so the Frogs have packed it in bloody good thing too"! That was the sort ofappr[…]
[…]ssful at that, and I thought sales would probably be more interesting and more exciting. So I elected for the sales and went into the office. I mean frankly there wouldn't have been any difference between an office junior in sales and an office junior in accounts because both were equally boring and[…]
[…]sp; Do you think do you think you were rather on your own in that?Philip Donnellan: It's awfully difficult to know some of the lads some of the other ranks took to holding up opium dens with their I mean everybody had guns we were all used to handling guns and it's the most natural thing in the worl[…]
[…]e been done by the by the RAF Film Unit. The RAF film Unit,s head is that chief Derek Twist, who was a senior film editor and he would have the rank of Wing Commander.Interviewer 2:22 Would you care to offer up your memories of these various people the Boulting twins and Derek Twis[…]
[…]what are you going to do?' I said, 'Well, what's the offer?' He said, 'Well, the trouble is I've got so many productions going through, as far as the Rank productions are concerned, they’re fixed, I've got to do them.' But there were a lot of independent people who were causing a bit of trouble. Wel[…]
[…]nbsp;came I served in Italy and came back again after the war I joined the rank organisation. So as much as to Lord Archibald at that time if I had no[…]
