[…]p of a hat. I've even worked on films. I worked on a Jesse Matthew films when I think we started in the morning at eight or 830 and went right around two or three o'clock in the morning with no I mean, you've got you've got some sort of extra money so much for now, but it was very small, like five s[…]
[…]o 42 Union terrace, which was the Offices of James left Donald Aberdeen cinemas, and also the head office of the Aberdeen picture palaces, which were two companies that had amalgamated into the same family, the Donald family, who were four brothers, who of whom two of the brothers ran, the cinemas t[…]
[…]yway, that was the end of production briefly, but very briefly. All the pictures went, rapidly, into other studios and we kept going in some - one or two lines in British International Pictures. Some at Rock, some at Whitehall I think it was called, wasn't it?Alan Lawson : Yes...Gordon McCallum : J […]
[…]terrible. He said, Can you write lyrics to it? And of course, I'm writing lyrics. Well, I'd been writing comic poems for the paper as well for years, two to three years every week. And so he gave me the songs and I took them back to the strand Palo Santo, one dinner night. At night, and I wrote four[…]
[…] got interested and fell in love with films.p.1John Legard: He doesn't recall what the film was?Teddy Darvas: No, it was some one-reeler or two-reeler [in about 1908]. And when Robert Rush, the BBC producer, that did the programme about Korda, he asked my father to go and tell this story b[…]
[…]the film that was in production when I arrived there was Jack Buchanan and Betty Balfour, and I can't remember the name of the film but they were the two stars of the day. And from 1924 until 1927 we did a film at Stag Lane aerodrome with Sir Alan Cobham [NB The Flight Commander] and the er...John T[…]
[…]really ... I went to cinemas andsaw films, but I never yearned to do movies.DARROL BLAKE: Was that in your family at all?(TIME 02.00)RENÉE GLYNNE: My two uncles were in very well-known bands. And my mother, who was the sister of the English brother, used to take me all the time to his performances. […]
[…]oedean in Brighton, which was a famous girl's school. But unfortunately I - well, my elder sister was there at the time and my family couldn't afford two of us at Roedean, which was very expensive. And a rich uncle paid for me, but unfortunately, when I was sixteen he died, without leaving any money[…]
[…]e in, obviously 1923 and then the next station was with Birmingham, and they had a strong tradition of broadcasting in Birmingham into the national network. I mean, then we took up the only two cities that produce broadcasting in any way well, London and Birmingham originally a number of years, whic[…]
[…]nd went out in the big world. And my first real job was with a Harley Street Consultant.Can you remember what you were paid?Oh yes, it was a big sum, two pounds, ten shillings a week, it, that was because I was highly qualified.Which, what year was this?That was 1937 I think. Yes. And, end of 1937. […]
