IN FOND MEMORY

HILDA COLLINS (d. 1988)

Hilda Collins, who died recently at the age of 92, joined The Questors with her late husband Bill in 1943, and immediately became involved with the work of the Wardrobe Department. She was one of a small band of largely anonymous workers ("Costumes by the Wardrobe Staff"), who did show after show, producing costumes of the very highest standard. Only perfection would do for Hilda: on one occasion she sat up half the night, labouriously unpicking the machine-stitched hems of three very full skirts, returning them the next day immaculately and invisibly hand-sewn.

Her last production in overall charge as Wardrobe Mistress was The Ghost Train in 1973, but she continued helping with costumes until well into her eighties and her happy presence was always enjoyed by her fellow workers.

As a small acknowledgement of her unique service, she was elected an Honorary Life member of The Questors in 1974.

A.E.J.E. and B.E.
[QUESTOPICS 300 June 1988]

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Hilda Collins at The Questors 

1949 Candida 1949 The Little Dry Thorn 1949 Othello 1950 Paradise Street 1950 Shadow and Substance 1950 The Tinsel of Athens 1950 The Winter's Tale 1951 Asmodée 1951 By Further Request 1951 Two Gentlemen of Verona 1952 You Can't Take It with You 1953 Major Barbara 1953 Thieves' Carnival 1954 Jig for a Gypsy 1955 The Three Honourable Gentlemen 1956 Getting Married 1956 Gilgamesh 1956 Sacrifice to The Wind 1957 The Far-Off Hills 1957 The Miser 1957 Pygmalion 1957 The River Line 1958 Julius Caesar 1958 The Long Spoon 1958 The Voice of Shem (Finnegan's Wake) 1959 The Birthday Party 1959 The Cave Dwellers 1959 The Knight of The Burning Pestle 1959 Questrionics 1959 The Scythe and The Sunset 1960 Christopher Columbus 1960 The Lesson 1960 Professor Taranne 1960 The Tempest 1960 Three Sisters 1961 Ghosts 1961 The Living Room 1961 Sergeant Musgrave's Dance 1962 Death of a Salesman 1962 Lysistrata 1962 Month in The Country, A 1962 Next Time I'll Sing to You 1962 Twelfth Night 1963 Antigone 1963 The Fire Raisers 1963 TheMalcontent 1963 These Cornfields 1964 Brand 1964 Dandy Dick 1964 Dark of The Moon 1964 Hindle Wakes 1964 Sweeney Todd 1965 Let's Get a Divorce 1965 Major Barbara 1966 Arms and the Man 1966 A Night Out 1966 The Other Son

1966 The Red Velvet Goat 1966 Ring Round the Moon 1967 The Beaux' Stratagem 1967 The Flying Dutchman 1968 Edward II 1968 The Laughing Willow 1968 Romeo and Juliet 1968 The Shaughraun 1969 Black Eye'd Susan 1969 The Comedy of Errors 1969 Peer Gynt 1970 The Disorderly Women 1970 The Fall and Redemption of Man 1970 Henry IV Part 2 1971 A Delicate Balance 1971 The Duchess of Malfi 1971 The Italian Girl 1972 Alchemist, The 1972 Candlelight and Babylon 1972 Catsplay 1972 A Doll's House 1972 The Seagull 1973 As You Like It 1973 The Ghost Train 1973 Heartbreak House 1974 The Ancestor 1974 The Friends of the Friends 1974 Old Times 1976 Agitator 1976 A Flea in Her Ear 1976 Pride and Prejudice 1976 Three Sisters 1977 Toad of Toad Hall 1978 The Ride Across Lake Constance 1978 Vatslav 1979 The Ghost Sonata 1979 Light Shining in Buckinghamshire 1979 The Vampire 1979 When We are Married 1980 Cinderella 1980 Macbeth 1980 The White Devil 1981 Knickers 1981 The Winter's Tale 1982 Arsenic and Old Lace 1982 Equus 1982 The Relapse 1983 And a Nightingale Sang... 1983 Period of Adjustment 1983 The Third Great Coarse Acting Show 1983 Waldo and the Wonderful Web 1984 Lark Rise 1984 Sherlock Holmes