[…] went to a series of schools, where I was left during the holidays as a rule. So I had no kind of upbringing at all, in fact I only remember spending two or three holidays with my mother, and she was apt to send me away in the middle of the holidays back to school, to be alone.Interviewer (unidentif[…]
[…]. And so I was sent off to theNancy Tbomas DRAFT Page 2administrator who said, ‘Now, let’s see, what, you speak French and German and that’ll be two pounds five and a penny’. So I said, ‘Lovely, thank you very much’. And I went home and said to my mother, ‘I’ve got a job in the National Gallery[…]
[…]he end of last century. Apparently, nevertheless, although I have all those relatives, we actually had very little to do with any of them, only about two brothers that we had anything to do with.SF: What about school?[04:58]Well, school of course during the war was an elementary school and again, mo[…]
[…]rupt. Can you tell the story of the German you captured.Alexander Faris: My prisoner. Yes it was a Strange Story Of the thing that can happen between two people in the middle of a World War. We entered a town called Walkenswaard, anyway it was on the way to Arnheim where we were trying to get to and[…]
[…]hen were you born?DA: October 1915. I went to school in Calgary and then I went 2 year’s school in Vancouver Island and then I came back and went for two more years in Calgary, and then I went down to London, Ontario, to University for a year because my grandmother lived down there and every summer […]
[…]s around, pass it down, you know. [Laughter]Sure. Have you any idea of the quantity of production at that time? I mean was there a play every week or two plays every week?Oh yes, yes. There was, well the big offering, I don’t, I don’t, I don’t think we had terribly generic titles in those days but I[…]
[…]RF:  Who was running Denham then. CH:  Denham was a film studio which housed a number of production companies, the two principle ones in my time was Two Cities Films and IndependentProducers now Jimmy Sloan was the general ma[…]
[…] my penultimate film, called ‘A Century of Coal’) – simply because it was hidden. Well it was a revelation to me, and I tried for 50 years to get a network of some description to make a film on this extraordinary phenomenon of the Kent coalfield. Because coal – if you wish me to expand on that I wil[…]
[…]r had not been long out of the First World War. He had been in the trenches with his brothers. He went through a large part of the war in France with two brothers. They looked after each other. They survived; I think he was only eighteen. Northumberland Fusiliers.NS: Sounds appropriate.MD: Towards t[…]
[…]ecame an eminent sculptress. But we got this job with a director, I mean an impresario you could say, who sent out first tours, who was notorious for two things; paying the lowest salary and going after the ladies in his office. I can remember my first interview with him. I was so innocent, you know[…]
