[…]nfrequent on sides four to seven. DS.Please Note: Dennis Main Wilson’s interview is not strictly chronological and contains strong views on politics, World War Two and – of course – comedy and light entertainment.Dennis Main Wilson Side 1Alan Lawson 0:00 The copyright of this recording i[…]
[…]an the whole length of the frontier between Germany and France. And the French kidded themselves that this was impregnable, that ever since the First World War, that they just now needn't worry about anything at all. They rather, sort of kept their armaments at a minimum for that reason, thinking th[…]
[…]not non denominational, and it was not a, it was not not so much a religious gathering as a gathering of me, because this is sort of candy. Was First World War. And I was a babe, almost Yes, sent away. Sent away during that time, down to mid Ted, actually. But he was, you know, terrific. I. A man of[…]
[…]cinema in Baker Street at that time. Latterly we had screenings at Britannic House (BP). Most units knew each other. The Transport lot knew Shell and World Wide.John Legard: It was quite a big club.Rodney Giesler: Indeed. We used to meet at the Highlander, now called the Nellie Dean. I was telling S[…]
[…]rse I wasn't going to argue at that stage.Alan Lawson : Oh no. No, no.Gordon McCallum : And when that was done, we worked with Thorold on 'Men of Two Worlds', we dubbed that. And I think the next one must have been - was probably Mickey. I don't know, I can't remember now exactly, but Mickey came in[…]
[…]an advertisement in the paper saying, "Wanted, very bright secretary,very ladylike..." very this, that and the other, every sort of speciality in the world...Sidney Cole: Everything you had in fact?Tilly Day: Oh yes, and I had it... I thought! [Chuckles]. And so, unknown to my parents, bec[…]
[…] couldn't find a Latchworth. But eventually they got Israel first off. Anyway, my father left the army as an unemployed subaltern and after the First World War, and eventually got a job to my mother's employer was seminal gluckstein. In gluckstein, relatives firm Joe Lyons, which he didn't like, and[…]
[…]e got through Cambridge, aB.A. at Cambridge without ever passing a single exam. What a lesson to them all.Taylor/Peet: How conscious were you of' the world outside Cambridge?Denis Forman: I was conscious, much more than most of them. I was conscious of world politicsin the sense of Central European […]
[…]in. [LAUGHTER] And I won money on the race. But the trouble was the manager of the theatre, Frank Boare, quite a character in the theatre world in those days, he heard about it and he said, “Now then, you either stop this or get out”. So I stopped it. [LAUGHTER]ALAN LAWSON: […]
[…]mes of the pictures were 'Happy' 'Wishes’ 'Freedom of the Seas' 'Lost in the Legion' ... Leslie Fuller 'Girls will be Boys', 'My Song Goes Around the World’, Sir Richard Tauber, 'The Old Curiosity Shop' and 'La Boheme'. That was with Douglas Fairbanks Jnr. Those are my immediate recollections of tha[…]
