SID FIELD  Sid suddenly became a star in 1943 with the west end revue, Strike A New Note. Initially the production, performed at the Prince of Wales theatre, wasn't designed as a starring vehicle for anybody but after just three weeks word of mouth had got round and Sid's name was up in lights. The show ran for an amazing eighteen months and was quickly followed by two more Sid Field revues, Strike It Again and Piccadilly Hayride. He was born in 1904 in Edgbaston but died at an early age in 1950 whilst in London. Perhaps his most celebrated sketch is the Golfer, with his dim-witted novice trying the frustrated patience of teacher Jerry Desmonde. However, his finest comic moment came as Slasher Green , the spiv-styled black market salesman who ambled onto stage in a huge black overcoat and charmed the audience with his crafty cockney attitude.

INFORMATION RECEIVED Some may remember Flash Harry - George Coles imitation of Slasher Green who appeared in the St Trinians films.                                       Guy Robinson.

I saw Syd Field many times in Music Hall. His sketch of the spiv in the long over coat  etc was brilliant. In this sketch he employed Alfie Bass whom he used as a feed from the circle. For another of his sketches as a busker he used about 20 assorted mongrel dogs. He came from Small Heath in Birmingham and I believe that his father was a whip maker in that district. He made a couple of disastrous films including Cardboard Cavalier both of which were dreadful as his act was totally unsuited to that media. He had to have a live audience and he "worked" them brilliantly .He possessed the Max Miller  ability to capture an audience by just looking at it and was compared with Chaplin by the critics. He had rave reviews wherever he went but unfortunately he had a weakness for alcohol and died at the height of his fame robbing his audiences of years of laughter without using foul language or innuendo. John d'Espiney.

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