Hylda Baker’s new role

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33487, 19 March 1974, Page 4

Hylda Baker’s new role

One of British television’s best-known comediennes, I Hylda Baker, has won the; title role in a London Week-; end comedy series, "Not O»| ;Your Neliie.” f \ The series is set in The; Brown Cow, a pub in Tul-, ham. Nellie Pickersgilf (Miss ; Baker) takes over the man- 1 agement from her ailing; father. But she does not' understand Londoners; and nor does she really approve; of drinking. Being the eldest of fivt children, Hylda Baker had to! take over the breadwinning i role for her family at the! .age of 16. after her father, a; music-hall comic, fell seriously ill. . i Since then she has worked l

hard at her chosen career touring the principal varietv] J halls in Britain with her act.] (which consisted of singing. I dancing and sketches, and I (running her own show. She] (produced it, staged andi (wrote the sketches, designed! ithe costumes and scenery, made the props, and even! i conducted the orchestra! (when there was no-one else (to do it. I Television was a logical: (target for Hylda’s now established brand of comedy. The double act with her "tall thin friend, "Cynthia,”! (was a big hit. When it made] ■the transition 1 to television ■in “The Good Old Days” it was an instant success and Hylda Baker became a 'household name.