Bessie Bond (née Span)

[…]rty woman who lived in Grays Inn and she had uprooted herself, she still had her flat there, and went to live in Finland when I think she married the Secretary or lived with the Secretary of the party there and she said to Marjorie that if she knew any nice people who could take over her flat while […]

Tilly Day

[…] was an advertisement in the paper saying, "Wanted, very bright secretary, very ladylike..." very this, that and the other, every […]

Roy Lockett

[…]n too, structurally the BETA was, was much more a command structure, you know, was built quite carefully like that, you know, and there was a General Secretary and an Executive and they would kind of that’s the way it went, you know what I mean, that was the authority as well. ACTT was much more fre[…]

Angela Allen

[…]jobs that I hated, in commerce, I was pretty awful. And then I had a job in a theatrical agency, film rights and then I heard about someone wanting a secretary and I was I think about 17 and I went down for the job and it was sort of very glamorous and I got this job for Marcel Hellman who was quite[…]

Lois Singer

[…] 1:15  And what did you do after school? Did you go into some sort of training, Lois Singer  1:19  I became a secretary. I had wanted to go to university and hadn't quite made it academically. My education at King Edwards had been interrupted during the war by[…]

Sheelagh Rees

[…]e billing thank God because that was another hazard. So there was an awful lot of responsibility up there with the girl who was called the producer’s secretary. And I remember a very unhappy episode, not to me thank God, there was a nice girl called Mary Bassett, she worked for Robert Barr and in th[…]

Jill Langley

[…]ality of these transcripts and would welcome any voluntary offers to proofread this and/or other interviews. If you want to help, please contact BEHP Secretary,  sue.malden@btinternet.com.Unknown Speaker  0:00  the copyright of this recording is vested in the British entertainment his[…]

Ronald Neame

[…]ality of these transcripts and would welcome any voluntary offers to proofread this and/or other interviews. If you want to help, please contact BEHP Secretary,  sue.malden@btinternet.com. Ronald Neame Part 1 Roy Fowler  0:00  The copyright of the following recordi[…]

Daphne Ancell

[…] Mr Allen.No.I mean he was always very nice to me, but Pulley God.Allen then was the Company Accountant wasn’t he at that time?Mm, he was the Company Secretary.Company Secretary, that’s right.Pulley was the accountant, he was the one who was so anti.Yes. He ultimately became the Managing Director of[…]
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