Harry Loman

How did it start? [How did you get into the theatre?]

Well, my father was a steward of a club, and one of the members was a clog dancer, and he had a young brother about my age, and he taught the two of us, so we started as a double act round in clubs and concerts and all that sort of thing, and one thing led to another.

Charlie Chaplin, who was in one of his troops. Did you work with him?

Yes, I only once. I worked with Charlie in a show called London Suburbia. He didn't do much, he just came along there with a cube sugar box and a rag bottle of bone there. But the way he said it was so different to what anybody else would say it that I said to Carno, I said, 'You're quite quite a good boy that, mister.' He said, 'You think so?' [I was] sure of it, and I'm not a bad judge of [talent], I'll tell you.

What were you doing in the Carno sketches? [Were you] clowning?

Oh, yes, everything, you know, whatever's going — principal parts and all kinds of parts, you know. I mean, you had to do what you what was given to you.