[Tech1] RECOLLECTIONS REQUIRED

[patheigham]

Well, Barry, I remember being there, and definitely the Town Hall.
Just couldn’t remember which troupe of delicious ladies it was.

On a slightly different story – my old school held a Centenary ball, with the quad marqueed over and two dance floors. It happened that Cliff Michelmore’s son, Guy, was currently a pupil, so CM was chairman of the organising committee. He arranged for the dance band of the Grenadier Guards to play before dinner, and Ray McVay from the Hammersmith Palais, complete with singers, after.
Mike Bentine was the cabaret, and I was delighted that his act was exactly his warm-up routine for Square World (including the Gool-iE
joke!). Oh, there was also a disco in the library and a Champagne & Oyster Bar in the dining hall, with a steel band.
Later, I was working in Tunisia, on the edge of the Sahara, and Cliff arrived on our set, taking a trip from his travel programme, to visit us on The Little Prince, directed by Stanley Donen. Cliff recognised me from booming on Tonight, which was nice, but didn’t know I was an old boy from his son’s school = good memories all round.
Pat


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From: Barry Bonner
Sent: 28 March 2020 23:00
To: Graeme Wall
Cc: patheigham; Dave Mundy; tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk
Subject: Re: [Tech1] RECOLLECTIONS REQUIRED

	
	Sorry, not the Town Hall but Hammersmith Palais. Tony Millier used to organise it and later I took over the job from him along with Mike Roberts. (Pictured below with one of the Bunny Girls)

	I managed to get the Bunny Club to provide 4 Bunnies to mingle with the crowd and force money out of them. 

	Shame I had to pick them up in my car from the ‘Warren” in Park Lane though. The perfume was intoxicating!
Barry.
				



Pan’s People were indeed booked for the Annual Staff Dance at Hammersmith Town Hall.
Barry.



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