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TO-DAY
THE
"FRANCIS"
London.
was starting to build the bug HIS HEADACHE
gest group of investment trusts
In Britain, He was Boss One of the millions.
was the
mon trusts,
by Frederick Ellis
There are 20 m
Tel. mako
If you must quarrel-keep the stars out
By Leonard Mosley
London. the stars themselves),
t
-T' is no part of a critic's this racial issue extends it- job to get mixed up in self to the casting of pic- a row about the na- tures-and you have to tionality of a film. I par have. British passport to. |sonally don't care whether a star in a British film, or un picture is British, Ameri- American accent to play in can, French or Tibetan so Hollywood. long as it is either good art or good entertainment.
That in what some of the dunderhewls on both skten So, in the current quarrel of the Atlantic are actually about whether "The Mud proposing. In an inluen- lark" is really a British tial Ameriena cinema trudo picture and should there- paper last week the editor fore qualify for this year's wrote: SO the British Royal Film Show, I ar don't like Irene Dunne mak- hiding in a corner with my ing pictures in their cuun- fingers in my cars.
try. All right, bring her
All I hope in that this will home. be purely
a row between film producera, and that the actors and actresses from Britain and America don't get themselves involved.
I can imagine nothing more disastrous from the point of view of you and me as filmgoers (as well as for
when
intact,
But do something
else, too. Send the Britisir stars and feature players back from Hellywood, and give their jobs to nerdy Thespians on the home lot.""
We started it
Now this is dangerous twad-
elle. But let't be honest Fabinit it. We are to blame. The anation about foreign stars started in Britala, int I can well understand the irritation it is provoking in America
apses of
For ever since the days of Lily Langtry. the US, bar get task: Keeping his empire opened its arms and its heart to
and British stars,
there has There are some in the City never been any real grumbling who are nodding their heads when they have taken important but Drayton is unworried. Like Jobs from under the
home-grown talent, his predecessors his risks are spread.
Chaplin, Colmon, Ida Lupiny, Tough and decisive, Drayton, the
late Sir now 45, still looks the farmer's Greer Garson, Niven, Sidney Aubrey Smith, hoy, with resy, cheeks.. He keeps Greenstreet, the Laughtons, touch by telephone, which have all had a generous wel- rings constantly. He Gets come from Hollywood. ads of work in a day. but is rarely through a tremendous amount
in the City after 5 p.m. And most week-ends he goes down
the to
where country,
he
farms,
London
constant
Fine actress
170
com-
one objceted when Ray- mond Massey played Lin-
home મ in Grosvenor
som
portrayed
an
He gol the job, became the Drayton's succes, like
the for among other things he boss's secretary. his confidant, sweess of his predecessors, lies time to boss Korda's British and finally the buss....with all in choosing the right man to Lion group. Man of millions the power that goes with £75,- help him, "For British Electric he ወንጌ be-bu it is your 000,000.
Traction he
able hna
John money he juggles with in this Suncer Wills, now in the early business.
Ile has one You go back to the 90's fut fortier, who once ran the buses the birth of his empire. Then a Hull. Now he runs the lot.
From 1h4> Guverrunent's pinion apart from his wife the Brst Viscount St. Davids
Notional Film Corporation,
his pipe, which la seldom out of coin or when Sir Ralph Richard- American British Lim hay borrowed his mouth.
fother in "The Heiress." So why £3,000,000-anos than half the
on earth should the acting pro- HIS BOATER - - -
fession scream NEXT in ne are the lavest money the corporation had to
when Irene It went to help Korda 20-odd fliras, including fashionable
Dunne plays an English Queen? His closest associate. Jolm more of them, with a balance the world-beating Soames Austen,
un sheet total of around £30,000, Man," and now "Seven Days to Square. And one thing makes
"The Third
Anyway, surely it is for you and me to deckle, as the paying who took on office-boy Drayton. 000, Drayton is chairman of
Noon." When St. Davids died in 1838 a dozen. They have interests in
hire angry-when he is described customers, whether It was Drayton Was appalled
wise choice. Austen became Pass Two of the practically evory
by a millionaire. Like the men
Miss Dunne in a Industry in Wardour Street's financial ideas, he fallowed, who left modest fine actress, a lovely perron, n millions. By then he had Britain.
With this pool of millions bo. He quickly summed the Industry fortunes, he plays the Invest-warm friend of Britain, But already made Drayton his heir- presumptive, for Drayton bad hind him, Drayton Is prepared British films east too much, ment game with other people's her portrayal of Queen Victorin
Diuntly he ordered: "Drastic millions.
For the money is owned by Investment. He economies and I mean drastic.
thousands of investors up and HIS REWARD down the country-he is merely
the held marshal of the mil- of Drayton's Blous, with a load of responsi- IE all-mark
survet, Mogy was the day
bility. the Mand Bark
Once he dabbled made hiru
with poli- a director. For to be a bank as a Liberal. But he soon diretor is virtually the City's golf, but gave it up in 1937.
dropped out. Once he played highest civcoration, is United Newspapers, Drayton's years
Emperor hint.
Now they say his hobby is Ltd., owning a chain of provin- have been comparatively easy has his liosyncratics-wearing-
Y cloubt it. But he Since then Draying hay eliss pewed millions like a
Bevan tiul new papers stretching from for most of the time markets
South London to Edinburgh. wers rking and profits easy to a Straw bouler in the City chemist handling prescriptions.
Apart from Bullin's (Bahamas) make. Now with stock markets during summer is one of them. Millions from Argentine's his biggest headache is films uncertain Drayton fares his big-
London Express Service) President Peron, who chipped. the Argentine railwayg off the
utwork....
become his confidentin? scere
ry.
HIS CREED
ROM a large, sparsely furnished oak-panelled olice in Old Broad Street, the very heart of the City, Harold Charles Dray-
USTEN died in 1942, feaving ton, the financier, watches A Dayton nut only in control At 2.30, 5.15, the last-minute altempts to or tin's hinnest group of me
salvage the Butlin's (Baha- vestment trusts, buf alo P.M.
mas) vacation village pro- country home, Plunion Hall, ject..
the Bury St. Edmunds,
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For Dayton, ruặng king o the Caty ncis mo, hus, with h.. interesi ank £900,000 in the village-the largest Make,
Bitty Butlin, the behing campa revillis
onen- ha dislike fer Boxes expressed But he
hertil vea or spot for Drayton-ter he it was whe
Even as bors of an investment network estimated to be worth
£75,000,000 Drayton is not the man to throw away puud money. So with £950,000 in the too.
other
has
look at most things that may make.
a good but £137,000 into Dreen Record Company, Last year he put part of the £300,000 salvage
cy to help Richard Crith and Co. the heating engineers,
on their feet again,
But his biggest postwar in restment has been newspapers Khugpin in this £5,000,000 in
toys!
Thi The Mudlark" strikes the wrong note, well, we will do the objecting and it will be our objections which will persunde America not to repeat the ex- periment. Not, knowing Mins Dunne's talents, that I think we shall have any complaints,
Contrast
WHAT makes me angry (and
attle ashamed, too) is
the contrast between the acting profession's reception for Irene Dunne over here and the adula- tion which Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh are at the moment getting in Hollywood.
Seeing the U.S.A. with C.V.R. Thompson The arrival of these two Bri
NEW YORK.
of Congress
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come
down
Millions more from Vive So-| taved off the Bahamas finatelehall Government for electri- cristy with # £450,000 Joar et.... per.... transport,
fish stars (both of them schedul- earlier this your,
But what he has he holds, for
in the November him Secretary of the Navy. c to
play strictly American most of the cash has beenPACK from a year's study elections, are out for President F.D.B. sen, started out in public roles) has been on the edge of
invest in British public schools, fanelled into
mere Assistant the fantastic. They have been
received like gods Chester Apley and Marshall
from
Olympus, Not a voice has Leen raised to objeel that they und actresses are taking jobs from Americans. and TV pro- So, for heaven's sake, to mat- be asked by ler how much the producers vate ht about the nationality of a am, please don't let us start an argument about the nationality of the actors.
Bahainas venture
Truman's blood now.
life
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Chief strategist Guy Gabriel- insisted that the President on not relieve himself responsibility for Korea
on radio Aving his Cabinet Ministers. grammes will "We Said he: "Responsibilly
for their union споп
Secretary of the Navy.
of SIX ACTORS
work
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Biggest and weren't allowed to talk to or resta squarely on the President's ban
unpreparedness and bunging whether or not they favour
i tires
on Communists. If they yote Yes. the union will set up a trial board and summon before it all doubtfuls.
All his file Drayton har bern Rutter, two 18-year-old New brought up on the simple creed Yorkers, complain that it
ver Laviny all your egIT anxiously awaits the outcome int one basket, That is the was all work and no fun. of the village saga.
motif of all investiment Trusts - Says Chester: Outside the Cit
the City this Titan or su
spreading riski, millions is barely known. Who's the tr
Drayon
yon date girls. It's too bad we shoulders." Who mores him, Bur wned firmament is Austen's old cum- men need monty - big mong pag-ilah Electric Tanchun, didn't get to know the Eng- --Drayton's is almost certain to which could be mosierty valued lish girls as well as we got be the rst name natkneu. of mound £30,000,0un.
to know the English boys" falo's" City Council: Find an- Should this system be suz- Drayton Harley to his 10-
It operates a chain of nearly tinuates is a utm-seript 100-
Discipline in English setionls, other same for Kremin alley, ressful, Hollywood unions wit 10000 husei, Down in Devon, they said, is maintained by the Said counch president Will follow suit to innke the enter- cers story of the uitlee boy who along the const, up in the Mid-ne becure boss.
the Cretly: "Buffalo can get along tainment business "Communist- Herr
the
s street At 2.30, 5.15.yop..
of that name, proof," even though 1 has become 7.20 & 9.30
just a mean lttle oliey." p.m.
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HIS START... BORN the son of a Lincoln.
shire farmer,
Drayton 18- plied to a newspaper advertise- inent for a City office bog. Wages; a few pence under £1 a week.
REQUEST
lands and in Yorkshire. Some eller boys leeping the youneer with
of the rod," with
1.500 million people travel the check. Drapion was every
year,
received by Bat-
13.
But they added that they saw
THREE LEADING Republic- British Eletric Traction owns some
Justifleation for ths Pumiles in Lonton and Set-practice,
Including Senator Hubert "because boys start YOUNG Franklin Delano Taft, decided to vote against land, it pipes radio to thousands elementary school
was frozen out by the
of General nt homes
younger Rausevelt Through Broaden there,
appointment and often need to
be New York's political boggés Marshall as Secretary of De- Relay Service. It has O
disciplined."
from a chance of winning His fince. *Their reason: "Put- Interest In Skyways, the world-
father's old Job, the governor ling a military man in the post wide air churice frin that filter) REPUBLICANS, stepping up ship of New York. But Premis the bankruptcy for a profit.
their enign to win contral silent Truman may Loon make civilian leadership."
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The export and Import of cal players is the most invalu- able trade of all. It is a trade in Internationut understanding, and long may it remain so.
Therefore, while the Royal Film Show quarrel goes on, will
members of the
profession please stuff up their ears and Jun me in the corner?
*Made by an American company with an American director and star,. but fitment in England with a rilish. Repporting cost.
-(London Express Service)
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