[…]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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Anne V Co[…]
[…]bsp;of London Manor Park. And. At that time. My father who had been in the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War had gone back into the Royal Air&n[…]
[…]night, in the car, with all her fans. And she used to come out of her dressing room, in full evening dress...Roy Fowler: They used to live quite royally, didn't they?Joan Kemp-Welch: ...and step into the car, with Willie Graham-Browne kissing her hand, andsat in the car. Of course, the aud[…]
[…]arving on them and so on. Butfrom after being welcomed by the mayor and possibly getting more Garland's and so on, they then went on their way to the Royal Palace. And by this time it is pretty dark, but obviously Rory and I was at Raleigh, Raleigh and I sorry, we didn't want to be left out. So we w[…]
[…] ask is whether you have received any awards in the conducting of your job and work and so on.ANNE HANFORD: Well I suppose I am a Fellow of the Royal Television Society. I think that’s probably the only one you could describe as an award.SUE MALDEN: Any honours yet?ANNE HANFORD:&nb[…]
[…]ril 17th, 1923 in Bangalore, South India in the military hospital, I think. My father was in the British army in India, the Queen Victoria's Own, the Royal Engineers. My mother was half Scottish, her mother was Scottish and her father was English. She was born in South Africa and had met my father i[…]
[…]ave phoned me or I would have phoned you. (Yes) And there are still people around Alan who say and I sometimes meet them er at some I don’t know, the Royal Television Society some some (yes) senior executives says to me “I used to be a production manager with ..... “ Basic Films or World Wide or som[…]
[…]nk Hitch liked his dry humour.RF: Was Dolphin Square terribly smart in the ‘30s?VG: Yes, it was. It was one of the new blocks. In the beginning Mount Royal was a very smart place, as rooms, more people lived there. A lot of people lived there, Will Hay lived there for a long time, I lived there. The[…]
[…]ong. And Hitler was the Saviour of the world. But we said no, thank you very much and went on, went on the Middle East, and I got posted to the first royal Tank Regiment, which is then refitting near car. And this is a 9040 to 3042. And we trained with these new American tanks called grants and hone[…]
