[…]ly believe very strongly in education for girls, I think. So, he rather vetoed this idea. My mother because she cared very much about the theatre and films and so on, had given me elocution lessons07:01 so I did rather well at those and got a few gold medals and things and thought that I[…]
[…]e morning, red white and blue on the table, schnapps and lager, it was a wonder I got up on the organ. Now the organ there was the same as the Warner Theatre, it came up in a circle, I did three broadcasts while I was there, spoke in Danish. Having a person with you was fun, you could go into night […]
[…]from Whitby across to Blackpool roughly and up to the border. We covered all sorts of programmes in those days, pier concert parties, spa orchestras, theatre organs, Kern suppers when the farmers pulled in their wheat and so forth, all sorts of things in the North East of England. And in no time at […]
[…]we filmed I think in about a fortnight filming which I really enjoyed, we filmed at Alexandra Palace, at Stoll studios, we shot in the Sadler's Wells Theatre with the Sadler's Wells ballet company, we were doing Facade and we were told we could go in after the matinee which was about 5 o'clock but w[…]
[…]lms and it completely took hold of me and in my head deciding, atthe age of 15 deciding what to do when I left school there were threechoices, films, theatre or the BBC. Not acting, appearing but on theproduction side. Films where always favourite. theatre was a lot of nightwork which I didn't fancy[…]
[…]icture with Dean.SC: Not really, except going back a long way, Imy first contact with the film industry was when I was still at the LSE. An assistant theatre director, who had worked with Dean, directed a production at the LSE of Hans Toler's 'Masses and Man' that I played in. When Dean was making t[…]
[…] colour, and they shot it in the studio...in the Crown Theatre... Alan Lawson: Oh yes? Cyril Page: The Crown Theatre […]
[…] of programmes in those days, pier concert parties, spa orchestras, theatre organs, Kern suppers when the farmers pulled in their […]
