[…].But those are mostly pre-war weren’t they?AL: Yes they were actually.22Vivienne Collins Tape 1 Side AYes, they were well known. We were working on a variety of things, I think we were working on a film about trains, sponsored films.Mm, sponsored film makers, yes, mm.And then I went on to work on a […]
[…] money. Yes. So in the main I suppose the overall memory is the tremendous variety of the sort of job one had to do. For example I was in a recor[…]
[…]l gravy train. He I'm told that he wasn't particularly good at his job, and as a freelance sound recordist, was not very popular. So he belonged to a variety of committees, which emanated through ACTT in the Royal Society of Arts and the British Standards Institution, and a Tuc committee here, and s[…]
[…]ning. There was a review. looked it up? I think there was a review.Unknown Speaker 11:21 He got the job was because it was formed to be a variety of back variety shows, and he'd had the experience of theUnknown Speaker 11:28 music or the musician, but it's worth checking chro[…]
[…].” The News. As they had to. Alvar Lidell. And there they were. I remember the Monseigneur Theatre, they did a series of things, like radio plays and variety shows, and I remember seeing Jack Train at the Monseigneur, and I thought “Bloody hell …He’s nice” and it had a big effect on me; anyway to go[…]
[…]s?A Studded. You know they were very fashionable - they were up to about here - and you laced them and there were studs - you’ll see them in the variety girls and so on, the old time music hall. And that was one time when we really looked well off, you know, so beautifully dressed. Then as[…]
[…]sit for me. I was PA to both of them on this programme called Telebox. As I said, it was an hour a week live, a play, which was a children soap opera variety items, Mick and Montmorency again, Jack Edwards and Charlie Drake, and more custard pies and buckets of slush in the studio. And we were[…]
[…]he copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History ProjectUnknown Speaker 0:10 Harold Myers, film journalist, correspondent for variety, interviewed by Sid CO on the 23rd of July, 1989 at his home in rotting Dean side one.Sid Cole 0:35 Tell me, when have you got a i[…]
[…] the bridge.SAMUELSON: So, and then I’d been involved in, of course lot of charitable events that had been done for the Industry. Some ofthem through Variety Club but it was my brother Michael who was the Samuelsons Variety Club representative. And he was at one time the Chief Barker. But I....used […]
[…]that's the kind of thing that happened. And you see, you've got the boys. Jimmy gamble was a pass master. So was they all were. I've seen them at the variety, all in broken head, often for a bit of fun. She if you were going to cover the Grand National, everybody was involved. Was the one time where[…]
