[…]p Time at the Alhambra, the last show at the Alhambra, I shared a dressing room with Betty Bascombe and my mother always came with me, she was in the theatre all the time, I said to Betty one day couldn't you ask the stage management to say that my mother had to leave at the half hour which everybod[…]
[…] never went to a concert, or a, a, the only theatre experience I had was to go to Cheltenham once […]
[…]m, got all his stuff packed and he didn’t come back again. [LAUGHTER] And I won money on the race. But the trouble was the manager of the theatre, Frank Boare, quite a character in the theatre world in those days, he heard about it and he said, “Now then, you either stop this or get out”[…]
[…]ts. NS: You were in BurnleyMD: Yes well we weren’t, the headquarters were. We were constantly on the move. I mean we had no base. Sadler’s Wells Theatre had been taken over by the borough of Finsbury, as a shelter for local people. For quite a while Guthrie had the office there because that was[…]
[…]Edgar Wallace’s Art Director, the only lady art director at the time. She was very talented, when she wasn’t working for Edgar Wallace, mainly in the theatre,LH: Edgar Wallace, apart from being a writer, was presumably a film director-WR: Well for some time – I was so young Les that I don’t really k[…]
[…]red Ryan, later known as Ted Ryan. He became a dubbing mixer and he had a heart attack in Wardour Street. He just came out of his dubbing theatre in Wardour Street and just went and that was about four years ago. Fred was the one that I was mostly assistant to. The mixer was […]
[…] alive I did sta ge sets for local left -wing theatre. I did win dow displays, I did posters for […]
[…]try, St Joseph’s, Coventry, in the infants there. And it was good for my father because through Birmingham BBC they started doing broadcasts from the theatre of the Coventry Hippodrome orchestra, MD’d by my father and he became quite well known. In fact, John P, you remember that don’t you?JPH:[…]
[…]verybody. But we didn't have any more, that was it. We had all sorts of peculiar places as studios in Bangor, we moved from Penryn Hall to the County Theatre. Now, it was still there about four or five years ago. looking very decrepit. I went up, strangely enough I went up to give an interview for H[…]
[…]yhow, now you’re in this play, West End play…Jean Anderson: Yes, and what is interesting is that during that year that we were on tour, all the theatres – what were they number one dates in bigger towns – all because of the success of this new thing called “the talkies”, they lost their theatr[…]
