[…]ck (1942) (Directed by Roy). Their film production company Charter Film Productions was set up in 1937.5 Vivian Van Damm (1889-1960) ran the Windmill Theatre in London from 1932-1960
CB: And an American singer sang the songs ‘Ain’t she sweet’ and ‘Drifting and Dreaming’ and I danced around in th[…]
[…]he got into the place. How he ever kept a job down I do not know. He knew nothing about the newsreels. He sat in the morning in the theatre and looked at the rushes…didn’t understand what the rushes were. And the people who made the newsreel were, in order of priority, Dick C[…]
[…]Howell’s School, Llandaff. And we did an enormous amount of… we did a play, a Shakespeare play every year for a week, for the public. And the Cardiff theatres provided the scenery. And we were very fond of acting, we had a very good choir, and a good orchestra. And still have I believe.SC: And did y[…]
[…]ole: Having done that, how much were you involved in the sort of pictures that were being actually shown in the cinemas? After all these were circuit theatres, weren't they?Jack Rockett: Yes, that's right.Sidney Cole: So that you didn't really have - the people in charge didn't have much say in what[…]
[…] year. It was an extraordinary cast because you see the Theatre Royal are allowed to call upon the Brigade of […]
[…] many, many showmanship certificates. And I remember, I rang the Theatre Controller on the Sunday night, a thing I'd never […]
[…]w Date: 1972Interviewer: Jim ShieldsInterviewee: Maurice AskewTape 1, Side 1 Jim Shields: This is a recording made in 1972 at the Gate recording theatre at Elstree, of Maurice Askew, who was the dubbing mixer there - and a very find dubbing mixer too. [break in recording]... You know, just when[…]
[…]icult person to work with too.RF: Yes I worked with him too. Nice guy, well-meaning but lost.VG: Jack when he was doing his reviews at the Vaudeville Theatre and the Adelphi and things like that, they did all those Clowns in Clover with Cis Courtneidge, he used to rehearse the chorus girls solidly t[…]
[…] journalism. And before that =’d wanted to be in the theatre. Originally as an actor, but = soon discovered at […]
