[…]k I did the holiday relief work twice. Because at the end of the fortnight, I certainly enjoyed it, and at the end of the fortnight they said, “Will you come back again?” I said, “Yes, whenever you ask me.” And somehow I managed to get some other holiday, some leave from Pathé, and[…]
[…]mall nucleus of big stars who were earning an enormous amount of money, people like, the times that I went which was in the 30s were people like Dave willis who was my personal favourite, and Will Fyffe who had gone into films of course by that time, and Harry Gordon, the Laird of Inversnecky, there[…]
[…]ce], it was packed, like Piccadilly Circus. The other anecdote I’ve got about it is – I think it was the early part of the war - a man called Wendell Willkie who was a potential president of the United States, he was a Republican. He came over here obviously to get publicity and so on, he did London[…]
[…]led with this serial, partly because I think the pianist used to give it a lot of um, tremolo and that sort of thing, and play the old overtures like William Tell, and you know, she brought it to life for me. Then one evening I went in and to my horror there was no piano and this Houdini who had bee[…]
[…]When I was coming up for 10 coming up for nine actually, andUnknown Speaker 7:26 not have been the year after that. I then started at Sir William Perkins.Unknown Speaker 7:32 That sort of teenage things. I wasn't a very good teenager to be honest. I wanted to do what I'm supp[…]
[…]Nellie Potts and she went on to become, probably I won’t say the most famous, but a very famous examiner of the Royal Academy of Dancing. Your sister will know of Miss Potts. NS: You were in BurnleyMD: Yes well we weren’t, the headquarters were. We were constantly on the move. I mean we had no […]
[…]ainst each other, you know, there were two first cameramen and Rene Guissard had a very nice Bell and Howell and Jack Cox had a weird camera called a Willard which was an American sort of sewing machine with wooden boxes on top and I had been used to carrying Guissard's Bell and Howell about by the […]
[…]ow,Speaker 1 1:30:20 just enough time to do the beginning of playing. Yes, exactlyMike Dick 1:30:26 20 minutes. Yeah, okay, I will.Transcribed by https://otter.aiMike Dick 0:00 There. Okay, right. The copyright of this recording is vested in the British entertainm[…]
[…]roject - Interview No. 381 [Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: 2001-07-24Interview Date: 1993-08-12Interviewer: Rodney GieslerInterviewee: L.P. WilliamsTape 1, Side 1 L.P. Williams : It's not always easy to remember these things.Rodney Giesler : Could you tell me when you were born, and s[…]
