Learning on ScreenCamera Interviews: M. de Groot
Series
- Series Name
- Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 5
- Section Title
- Camera Interviews
- Summary
- Pathe Intertitles - "Millions of listeners-in have heard with delight M. de Groot and his famous Piccadilly Orchestra, but only comparatively few have seen him playing. We found him at home practising ..."
""One problem is to deal with my ever-increasing post," said M. de Groot, as his little boy brought in another basketful."
""Although I have a number of violins, my favourite is one I secured over twenty years ago -""
""Every year my beloved violin grows sweeter in tone and though I’m sorry to spoil an illusion, it is not a "Strad!" (Normal and slow-motion views contrast the rapid fingering.)"
""Playing on Sundays is one of my happiest moments. Through the wonderful microphone my audience increases from a few hundreds to many hundred of thousands."" - Keywords
- Music and dance
- Written sources
- D. Gifford ‘Entertainers in British Films’ (Westport, 1998) p62.
Pathe Eve 170-210 Boxfile Issue sheet
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