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...would not be needed for at least 30 days. Only other Britishers on the active reserve list (liable to immediate call) were John Loder, Sir Cedric Hardwicke and the Earl of Warwick, whose Hollywood name is Michael Brooke. Only volunteer to turn up at the Consulate was Actor Alan Mowbray, 43, who was put to work listing other British subjects in the movie colony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shellshock | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

Chief Proprietor John Walter III (grandson of the founder) ; sturdy, gregarious Editor John Thadeus Delane; shy, lettered Manager (managing editor) Mowbray Morris. During those years The Times made itself the paper of every middle-class Englishman's breakfast table by vociferously championing the bourgeoisie that was climbing to power on the shoulders of a decaying aristocracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Thunderer's Triumvirate | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...soldierly Duke of Gloucester, best rider-to-hounds in his family, broke his collar bone when his horse slipped on mud after ably taking a fence near famed Melton Mowbray. Result: he got out of going to Queen Maud's funeral and smooth Brother Kent had to go instead. Still rooting for the underprivileged, the Duke of Windsor asked a British workingman & family to spend a jolly Christmas with him and the Duchess at their Château La Cröe, near Cap d'Antibes, French Riviera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 12, 1938 | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...There Goes My Heart (TIME, Oct. 10), one of the principals was an erratic subway motorman who took mail-order lessons in chiropractic, practiced on his wife. Last week the American Bureau of Chiropractic sued Producer Hal Roach, Cinemactor Alan Mowbray, Writers Eddie Moran, Jack Jevne and Ed Sullivan for $100,000, for ridiculing the profession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Items | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

Merrily We Live (Brian Aherne, Constance Bennett, Billie Burke, Alan Mowbray; TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

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