Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chips makes economical use of local actors, notably 300 students of Repton School who acted as extras during their vacation. Besides Robert Donat, Goodbye, Mr. Chips employs only two performers who are likely to mean much in Hollywood. One is Terry Kilburn, 12-year-old son of a London bus driver, who made a hit as Tiny Tim in last season's Christmas Carol, and who functions in quadruplicate as a four-generation student of Mr. Chips. He is under long-term contract to MGM, which hopes to make him a second Freddie Bartholomew. The other is Greer Garson...
Green-eyed, redheaded, Irish-born Greer Garson travelled 12,000 miles for her first cinema role. Hired by Louis B. Mayer after he saw her on the London stage, hustled to Hollywood, she was tested for a role in Dramatic School, instead spent her time in California having an appendectomy and weathering a siege of influenza. The flu proved lucky, since Dramatic School was a flop. MGM's present plans for her, barring illness, are, first, a part in Susan and God, then the lead in Myron Brinig's May Flavin...
Margaret Webster finds Broadway much more exciting than London, though she protests that Broadway still reveals "an awful hangover from what the Shuberts did in 1910." Her favorite U. S. directors are Guthrie McClintic (Mamba's Daughters), Herman Shumlin (The Little Foxes), but she. has no desire to be, as they are, a producer as well. Acting, directing, adapting plays, writing a book about her family keep her pleasantly occupied...
Died. Mrs. George Anthony Reginald Williams, 43, the former Lady (Sophie) Mary Heath, famed flier (first woman commercial pilot, first woman to loop the loop, first woman to fly solo London-Cape-town) ; of a broken head after a fall down the steps of a double-deck bus; in London...
...medium in a room where she could not hear what he asked the spirits. Once he put a lollypop in her mouth so she could not talk for them. The spirits squeaked on. Garland conversed with ghosts of Henry Fuller, an old friend, Conan Doyle, Mark Twain, Jack London ("Why not Columbus?" asked one irritated ghost). Violet Parent and an assortment of dead Indians, padres and conquistadors, who told him where more crosses could be found. When they were not, the voice of Henry Fuller took charge. Result: 16 new crosses, found mostly under loose rock and bushes. Five museums...