[…]on movies. So, I was able to stay. I mean as soon as I was there, people started offering me jobs there, and I never came back, I never came back for two years.
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[…]ff I went, and wrote to every single newspaper, well not every…I wrote to about a 100 newspapers in this country and some abroad, and there were only two favourable replies. This was 1940…I: 6?R: …6. I was 21. And the two favourable replies were […]
[…]. I always used to think as a child “Well that’s not very good coming fifth, if you come first in England. ...”However, when you realise that perhaps two thousand young accountants take that exam I suppose to come fifth was quite good. So he must have been pretty brainy. His other brother Laurie Wyl[…]
[…]hich was in existence, even in those days. And it was sold out right for 70 pounds. My father photographed it directed it, and with the aid of one or two colleagues built the sets. And that was really the beginning. Roy Fowler 6:49 Do he sell all the rights in it? Ron[…]
[…]mber doing at school, I used to sneak down very early in the morning, to the masters’ common room where there was an old typewriter and I slowly with two fingers learnt to type and typed out odd stories.RF: So writing was an early motivation.VG: Yes.RF: Was also acting?VG: No.RF: Not even in school […]
[…]theoretically, I wasn't interested in science, but I got interested in science when it became mathematical. I was interested in it when you could mix two chemicals together and they either change colour or blue up one or the other. And, but it's the moment I got into science in school, which there w[…]
[…] class. But she was a wonderful pianist; she changed to light music and jazz and was very successful with that. Before the war she had her own trio – two pianos and a singer – and they played at the Berkeley and the Savoy in London, all over the place. And that’s really how she earned her living; sh[…]
[…]r I left drama school, Jimmy Logan was a great friend of mine because the Logan family, there was another one they had number one theatres and number two theatres even in Glasgow and the Metropole was a theatre in the Gorbals, and that was twice weekly and the Logan family was there then, there was […]
[…] fact in 1996, if my mathematics are correct, Mick would have been 105. He had he was the, with his sister Nettie, he was the youngest of five he had two other brothers and an older sister. His two older brothers, Chan, of course, who was a regular soldier to all intents and purposes and had been to[…]
[…]ou that one of the most important things in the formative years was the fact that my grandfather a big fish in a small pond actually owned shares and two of the three theatres that we had in the town at the time. And when I was ten years old gave me a pass to these theaters where I could take myself[…]
