Alice Toen

During their school days, Alice Toen and her sister Maddy were both in the school choir, so they knew a number of songs. Alice was in the sopranos and her sister in the altos. Singing without an instrument wasn't easy, so she bought herself a ukulele; it was cheap. Ping, ping, ping. Then they met Bobbejaan Schoepen, and he felt they couldn't achieve much with that little instrument, and he said he still had a guitar. And so she bought that guitar, which she still has today. Both could perform as 'De Toentjes' but received no money, only things in kind such as flour and vegetables. Their mother was happy with that, so she didn't have to queue for food.

I often had a relationship with a fellow actor. When the play we were performing in together was finished, the relationship fizzled out. It was a natural course of events; I didn't make a big deal out of it. And later, relationships ended because the men died. My last love, a pianist, too. I was eighty by then, he was two years older. But what a beautiful body that man had.