Council Meeting report
The following year I was Betty Blunders - one of the four children in Where the Rainbow Ends - less makeup! I think I have a battered script for that somewhere. I’ve kept this Harrow Observer review and photograph of the cast for Listen to the Wind; which was the year after ('59).
"Where the Rainbow Ends was originally a stage play with a great deal of incidental music; it was then turned into a book, and a very attractive edition was produced in the early 1920s, published by Hodder and Stoughton, with illustrations by Leo Bates.
"The play was first performed at the Savoy Theatre in December 1911, and a young Noel Coward was in the cast.
Following the success of the play - which ran every Christmas, professionally, until 1959 - the producer of the children, Italia Conti, was persuaded to set up a stage school, which still exists.
"Many of the stalwarts of the British acting world - Jack Hawkins, Clive Dunn, and many, many others - appeared in ‘Rainbow’ at some time or other. It was staged at the Holborn Empire until that theatre was bombed during the war, and it toured extensively." - VL
If there are any general questions about‘Rainbow’, Valerie, an authority on the subject, will be delighted to answer them - "Contact me".
(who procured the Programme from eBay)
In recognition of their efforts at Blackwell, a few pupils chose a book that they wanted and the school purchased them [as gifts]. The book I chose, which was presented to me at the end of term, probably 1961, by Mr Olphin (or guest speaker?), was: 'Gas Turbines and Jet Propulsion’. Inside the front cover was stuck this: label
The 'Effort’: I taught myself enough chemistry to be entered for - and to pass - O' Level at grade 2.
The 'Service' was probably because I was a prefect for a year."
The Blackwell School Magazine
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1961 July (Vol 1)
Pages:
1,
2-3,
4-5,
6-7,
8-9,
10-11,
12-13,
14-15,
16-17 (GCE results),
18-19,
20-21,
22-23,
24-25 Byron House,
34-35 Team Photos,
36-37,
38-39,
40-41,
(photographs c. 400KB)
Pages: 0-1 (Staff list and Editorial), 2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9, 10-11, 12-13, 14-15, 16-17, 18-19, 20-21, 22-23, 28-29 (Netball Team), 34-35 (Basketball Team, GCE results), …
Front and back pages, centre page.
A report on the ‘Car Driving’ tuition experiment.
