[…]le," you see, the war was still on. So he said, "What we're going to do, we're going to give you a pass that says you can be away from your duties on special service - special duties - and you can be allowed to wear civilian clothes." That's how I started, about six months before I was demobbed, on […]
[…]ally, took off But the trouble with with the with the union is that on , this is the fifth day of shooting and the continuity girl I think was especially the somebody rather too young to director film he, I mean, I was printed, printed to any Losye that was very young to be doing a filmi[…]
[…]became a Captain. I was a lieutenant at that time.TD: You came back to the Royal CollegeAlexander Faris: Yes, I came back to the Royal College. I got special leave to go and do the entrance exam for the Royal College which was a piece of cake. I did it, because I was advanced beyond the stage say re[…]
[…]g outside and the Brothers Band used to collect all the props for the studio work. Your brother the brother did that as a transport. So it was in one special studio or the creative studios. And I was sitting there and they're doing the general stuff and MasterCard and the candidates. Would you win t[…]
[…]London with the Ambassador and I transferred to the Head of Chancery, the First Secretary, who was sent to Italy, to Bari, to try and deal with SOE – Special Operations Executive – who were a bit out of hand and giving gold to all the wrong people, like the communists in Greece and the communists in[…]
[…]oper: Well - Russia - that area was not...had not organised the whole question of birth certificates.Sidney Cole: What I meant is it wasn't something specially directed against Jews - the Jews weren't...?Charles Cooper: This was directed against Jews...Sidney Cole: No, I mean the lack of birth certi[…]
[…], and I was put into the typing pool, which was a wonderful way to learn to type, because all one did - for some unknown reason, undertakers got very special treatment! [general laughter]Sidney Cole: Perhaps they were anticipating the worst in terms of air-raids!Kay Mander: And there were masses of […]
