General Chat

Island ...........

you sure you don't want me to specify 2 women, 2 men, or 1 man and 1 woman?

I didn't do that either!

Sylvia..... 'two different people' would have been fine.

Aah, but I didn't go back and re read the posts - I just decided to stay confused. :-D

nameless, and anyone else

I apologise for not making it clear that I was talking about 2 young ladies.

In re-reading what I wrote before posting it, I thought (to be honest still think) it was clear, obviously not.

Island

I apologise, I thought it was clear what I wrote.

Yes, I did know that actors use and have many different accents ........ in my mid-teens I was just surprised at hearing that young woman change of accents within15 minutes of being on stage, to meeting public.

Clear??

I apologise for being stupid enough in my teens to be surprised. I should have been more aware of course, as I had been lucky enough to go to theatres almost weekly form the age of 8 or 9.

Thank you for clearing that up Sylvia. I have to admit I had also got confused but admit to not having gone back to re read the posts.

Sylvia...

No, it was not 'pretty clear' to me - why did you think I asked. So you could be rude????

Oh btw.... you do know actors need to use different accents?
Is that clear enough?

Island ..........

I thought it was pretty clear

There was one young lady with a Brummie accent in Europe within the last 20 years who surprised me because she was so beautiful that I thought she was a model or actress

and I then compared her with the young actress who had a "BBC" accent on stage but a broad LANCASIRE accent off-stage in the 1950s in my home town. That had also surprised me.

Is that clear enough

Sylvia...... Just to clarify, are you talking about two different young ladies?

She was often an announcer on Children's TV in the early fifties.

She was just starting out when we saw her almost every week on stage in a new play at the Rep ............ it would have been around 1956-59.

I think she was born in the mid-1930s wasn't she? I seem to remember her being in her early 20s.

Like all Reps in those days, they worked in series of 3 weeks but overlapping.............. there was a new play for the audience every week but at the same they were rehearsing the play for the next week and reading for the play the week after!

Gawd, I’ve just goggled her - still alive and 82. She divorced MT and remarried. Lovely pic of her online.

Yes … thanks Ann. Mel Torme - brain’s going into overdrive - he was a singer?

Was it Mal Tormay or something

That’s her. She married Mel someone and lives in the USA I think but not heard anything about her for years.

Janette Scott. She used to live in a neighbouring village, as did her mother.

Janette Scott?

I remember Sylvia. Janette or Jeanette something, wasn’t she.

I thought she was pretty too.

I would like to say two things ......

One, I'm glad to see the OP back.

2. What so struck me about the young lady I wrote about was not her accent vs her colour, but her accent vs her extreme beauty.

I had thought she was a model or an actress, and that was the strangeness!


Though again, I shouldn't have been surprised ...........there was an excellent repertory theatre in my home town that we went to regularly. There was a young beautiful actress who had a really good voice .............. on stage.

I met her outside the theatre, and she had a strong Lancashire accent.

She happened to be Thora Hird's daughter, if any of you remember that name ;-)

Good.

University challenge was interesting last night. The Asian chairman for Kings obviously went to a very good public school - he was a beautiful speaker.
On the other team was someone called, Darius. I could not understand a word he said. I have no idea where he came from or what he studied. I think he answered at least one question - shame I’ll never find out what the answer was.