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THE HONGKONG .........TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1937.

Hollywood "Forgot" Sir Cedric, King George IV

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."

Ile 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 a "walk-out"; ; he muid an "amicable release" was being arranged under which he re- ceives cash compensation and agrees to play the part at some future date

it his commitments permit.

Sir Cedric snid "It's not my place to criticise Hollywood business methods, but I think my arrival here In the first week in September sur- prised the studio. Production was isliti months of.

3 MONTHS WASTED

Widow Of

Four Hours

Dies Of Grief

Called to Douglas Hospital, where

"I feel the past three months have her husband and childhood friend. been completely wasted. Cooling my Sir Frederick Clucas, Speaker of the heels all this time I found rather House of Keys, had undergone

Irksome.

"And conalder this: I still have operation. Lady Clucas was told that

to spell my name to the doormene had just died.

when entering the studio.

She collapsed; the same night she

"I was given a stock actor'y pass, falso died at the hospital.

it after a week or two, as 1 telt

I had raised myself above thot rat-

Sir Frederick's operation for ap-.

ing. I threw the pass away, and pre-pendicitis took place on Oct. 20. His ferred to spell out my name each condition becaine time.

for.j..

Miss Ivy Russell who is competing in the world's weight-

ifting championship is seen here putting in some practice,

Swastika - Branded Student

Swears Vengeance

so serious Interi

sent that Lady Cluens was

Ragging of freshmen at Dela-initrate, returned to hospital for "Really, 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 ware University has been banned treatment. knighted Lo enter Buckingham Eently, Palace than the sanctum of a Hollywood studio heal.

"Hollywood no longer appeals to

an established English actor from the financial standpoint alone, and I'm not getting any younger.

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

"I hope now to appear in s play elther In New York or London."

Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Britain's most distinguished actor-knight ap- peared with Anna Neagle in the famous "Nell Gwyn" Blm which America's purity campaigners

banned.

for ever by the student council

"DRASTIC ACTION.” COLLAPSE IN HOSPITAL shocked at the branding of A

The student counell, frightened by Docters rushed to her old when it swastika sign on the face of a Dean George Dutton's threat to hound was seen how severely the news had Jewish undergraduate, Joseph branders out of the university, voled affected her; she was put to bed in Holzman, reports the New York freshinen are initiated by a baptism of (to abolish all "rat rules," under which the hospital, but died four hours later, correspondent of the Daily Ex-fire to secret clubs and fraternities. says the Daily dfall.

Sir Frederick was of Manx parent-

| presse

Dean Dutton, who is in charge of age, though he was born at Repton. Inquiry

University officials pushed their the faculty investigation, said he had Derbyshire, where

branding

discovered the names of the under- Holzinan, his face swathed in band-graduates who engineered the brand- ages, swore vengeance from a hos-ings, and promised plat bed,

within a few days.

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

Lady Clucas married Mr. Arthur Moore, a Manx barrister, who became Speaker of the House of Keys, and who died in 1009.

into

the

Doctors said they feared he would

drastic action

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