[…]s must have been quite something in those days.Jimmy Gilbert: Well it was the Howard and Wyndham Circuit. They had the Kings, the Lyceum, the Theatre Royal in Glasgow, the Alhambra, the Queen's, the Pavilion, what is the Citizens' Theatre which was the old Princess Theatre and then there was Her Maj[…]
[…]e got to carry on. It's your chance now you go down there and get and I finished the film. I can't remember the name of it, and me had been one of my royal films. I know the American director. His name called Pratt, I think, or something like harmony big, he looked like a big gorilla, and he has dis[…]
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[…]e her first child pupil. Her name was Nellie Potts and she went on to become, probably I won’t say the most famous, but a very famous examiner of the Royal Academy of Dancing. Your sister will know of Miss Potts. NS: You were in BurnleyMD: Yes well we weren’t, the headquarters were. We were con[…]
[…] of what was about to happen. We were doing a Royal Command Performance thing and always at the end of […]
[…]mething round about then. So I carried on at the Square for a long time, or it seemed to be. Stage shows, everybody used to wear tuxedos if there was royalty in the place. I didn't - only if you went to the theatre did you have to. Parnell used to come in looking like a penguin, you know. We had som[…]
[…];A Sense of the Past programme? I did one with him in a cinema in Leeds, but with Pebble Mill, Stephanie Silk was the presenter, I think. We did royalty, films about royalty, films about advertising, one or two other themes like that, with me on camera.34I remember Scott’s – you can edit this o[…]
[…]gain we’re talking about a very small television audience, because television didn’t really take off until 53. We did it a lot at first, we did Royal Ascot that had never been televised before, we did the State Opening of Parliament, you’ve got to remember the Order he came later. The re[…]
[…]llet dancing, acrobatic, Greek, tap. Mainly ballet. I was quite good at ballet actually, I passed several exams. And they were considering me for the Royal Ballet School, only it was called Sadler’s Wells Ballet School then or
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[…] from the college of art somewhere. MW : :e was. Royal College of Art. CJ: :e was lovely. Terrible painter, […]
