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Shaw knew an actor when he saw one. Within twelve months Laughton appeared in eight West End plays, and kept on climbing. In 1929 he married Elsa Lanchester, who had played his secretary in Arnold Bennett's Mr. Prohack. Elsa, a redhead, was the toast of the Bloomsbury intellectuals. She had danced with Isadora Duncan, was part-owner of a hole-in-the-wall nightclub, and was getting tired of being called "elfin." In her elfin book, Charles Laughton and I, Elsa says they first became interested in one another when they discovered that, though ordinarily gabby, they were...
...solicitor's clerk. His first published piece was How a Bill of Costs is Drawn Up; his second appeared in the late great Yellow Book. Says he: ''I write for money." He makes a good income. Some of his books: Clayhanger (pr. "Clanger"), The Old Wives' Tale, Mr. Prohack, Riceyman Steps, The Grand Babylon Hotel, Milestones (a play...
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