Wednesday, 24 February 2010

THE THIRTIES

Under the brown fog of a winter noon


Mr. Eugenides, the Smyrna merchant

Unshaven, with a pocket full of currants

C.i.f. London: documents at sight, 210

Asked me in demotic French

To luncheon at the Cannon Street Hotel

Followed by a weekend at the Metropole

Thursday, 18 February 2010

hill garden

waiting for godot

Waiting for Godot (pronounced/ɡɒdoʊ/, GOH-dough) is an absurdist play by Samuel Beckett, in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait endlessly and in vain for someone named Godot to arrive. Godot's absence, as well as numerous other aspects of the play, have led to many different interpretations since the play's premiere. It was voted "the most significant English language play of the 20th century". [1] Waiting for Godot is Beckett's translation of his own original French version, En attendant Godot, and is subtitled (in English only) "a tragicomedy in two acts".[2] The original French text was composed between 9 October and 29 January 1949 1948.[3] The première was on 5 March 1953 in the Théâtre de Babylone. The production was directed by Roger Blin, who also played the role of Pozzo. what a gas if hill had made this set in the title of this post

Sunday, 7 February 2010

home guard

Mannering still marches on as the reruns of Dads army on T.V are constant. One cannot know why Hill did the Homeguard but they did. My Grandfather who was an ex Connaught ranger said they were not worth a light but hey ......
but the homeguard were also done by others such as Ford metal soldiers taken over by Ventura and as their sculpturer a crtain Broadbent

Quo Vadis and Taylor

Taylor was the pin up of the 50's. Hill got into the action and sold many of the Quo Vadis sets
The film was one of the most sumptuos ever made and was responsible for immese cinema queues outside local cinemas such as the then very upmarket odeon in holloway rd London
it was here that a doodle bug fell in the 2nd world war and destroyed then then state of the art cinema where in the 30's Tyrone Power had appeared outside on the balcony to recieve the applause of the crowd

Wednesday, 3 February 2010

ROYAL FLYING CORPS

The first operational RFC airfield was here in Montrose.crescent

hill