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THE.. HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11,

1937.

Hollywood "Forgot" Sir Cedric,

His

Made Him Spell Out His Name

"TREATED LIKE STOCK ACTOR'

Hollywood.

SIR CEDRIC HARDWICKE, angered by being

treated as a "small-time" stock actor by film studio doormen, and tired of being "Hollywood's forgotten star," was preparing his immediate departure from the film city recently.

He says he found the script unprepared and that the produ cers "appeared to have forgotten that they had signed me up.”

He surprised the Metro officials two months ago by arriving to start on a six months' contract to play in Kipling's "Kim.”

Sir Cedric emphasised that his departure was not n "walk-out"; he salt an "amicable release" was being arranged under which he re- ceives cash compensation and agrees to play the part at some future date If his commitments permit.

Sir Cedric said "It's not my place 10 criticise Hollywood business

methods, but I think my arrival here in the first week in September sur- prised the studio. Production was still months off.

MONTHS WASTED

3 MO

"I feel the past three months have been completely wasted. Cooling; my heels all this time I found rather irksome.

And consider this; I still have lo spell my name to the doormen when entering the studio.

"I was given a stock actor's pass, but after a week or two, an I felt

Widow Of

Four Hours

Dies Of Grief

Called to Douglas Hospital, where her husband and childhood friend, Sir Frederick Clucas, Speaker of the House of Keys, had undergone (LR) operation, Lady Clucas was told that | he had just died,

She collapsed; the sume night she. also died at the hospital.

Sir Frederick's operation for ap I had raised myself above that rat-

HIS ing, I threw the pass away, and pre-pendicitis took place on Oct. 28. ferred

to spell out my name cach condition became so serious later that Lady Clucas was sent for. time.

teally."it is simpler for a well-She was taken to hospital by her bro- known London actor who has been ther and the news was broken very

Buckingham gently.

knighted to enter Palace than the sanctum of Hollywood studio head. "Hollywood no longer appeals to

an established English netor from the financial standpoint alone, and

I'm not getting any younger.

"Out of

of every shilling I earn here pay roughly ninepence in taxes and commissions.

"I hope now to appear in a play

either in New York or London."

COLLAPSE IN HOSPITAL Doctors rushed to her old when it was seen how severely the news had affected her; she was put to bed in the hospital, but died four hours later, says the Daily Mail.

Sir Frederick was of Manx parent- age, though he was born of Repton,

Derbyshire, where his father, the Rev. G. P. Clucas, was foundation master 67 years ago.

Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Britain's most distinguished actor-knight ap- peared, with Anna Neagle in the Lady Clucas married Mr. Arthur famous "Nell Gwyn" film which Moore, a Manx barrister, who became America's purity campaigners Speaker of the House of Keys, and banned,

who died in 1900.

Miss Ivy Itussell who is competing in the world's weight- jlting championship is seen here putting in some practice.

Swastika - Branded Student Swears Vengeance

for

Ragging of freshmen at Dela-nitrate, returned to hospital ware University has been banned treatment.

"DRASTIC ACTION." for ever by the student council, shocked at the branding of a The student council, frightened by swastika sign on the face of a Dean George Dutton's threat to haund Jewish undergraduate, Joseph branders out of the university, voted to abolish all "rat rules," under which Holzman, reports the New York freshmen are, initiated by a baptism of correspondent of the Daily Ex-are to secret clubs and fraternities.

press.

their

Dean Dutton, who is in charge of University officials pushed

the faculty investigation, said he had Heizinan, his face swathed in band-graduates who engineered the brand- Inquiry into the branding 5 discovered the names of the under- ages, swore vengeance from a hos-ings, and promised drastic action

pital bed,

within few days.

Doctors sold they feared he would

The Jewish Club at the university be marked for life with the swastika.

Ray Hecht, another freshman, who held a long meeting and voted action was marked on the face with silver on their own account.

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