[…]the BBC and thought ‘let's see if we can use the press here.’ So I met a guy, met this bloke… for lunch called Robin Stringer, who was then the media correspondent for The Standard. And then there was a guy with him, Brian Attwood, who ended up being the editor of The Stage. And I said to them, “Thi[…]
[…]irty fight. And I've really no idea who won it. I was only thankful that nobody ever asked me for my deposition.SPEAKER: M16Be interesting to look up variety and read the accounts and. I was curious about David Putnam's manner of leaving what he did was he just not there one day or did he make a gra[…]
[…].” 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[…]
[…]ought the band in free of charge it was in their own interest of course of all the Hilton productions own interest because they put some of the early variety shows in there not least of all was a an old time music all day show called the Jubilee show, directed by Peter Croft and starring many people[…]
[…]dcasts but by and large it was a theatre a week plus sometimes 2 Sunday concerts. They worked very hard in those days. One period I remember the Cine Variety, my father was doing 7 shows a day between the Dominion, Tottenham Court Rd., and the Elephant and Castle, starting at midday and going on unt[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] past master, they all were. I’ve seen them at the Variety Hall in Birkenhead for a bit of fun, if […]
[…].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[…]
