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...Stonyhurst, England...
Just a Job. Last week Farm Street got a new boss. Tall, spindle-faced Father Leo Belton, 63, is a shy scholar who has spent 24 years in the capacities of teacher, chaplain and headmaster at Stonyhurst, a Jesuit school for boys. Though he is almost painfully reserved, Father Belton seems to have no qualms about his new role as head of his order's most active newsmaker. He accepts it as one more opportunity to fulfill his vow of obedience...
...Stonyhurst College, Charles landed a part in a school play. His first press notice read, in its entirety: "We hope to see some more of Mr. Laughton." Others hoped to see less. A Scarborough neighbor described the adolescent Charles: "He was one of the most ungainly schoolboys I ever saw, very fat, with a huge head, and a little cap. We should dearly have liked to have kicked...
...After Stonyhurst, Charles was sent to London, to learn hotelkeeping at Claridge's. He spent most of his spare time, and all his money, at the theater; he managed to see Chu-Chin-Chow 13 times. In World War I, Laughton was a private by choice ("Something told me I might not be the kind of fellow to take command of men under fire"), was gassed and invalided home. He spent the next five years in Scarborough, ostensibly working in his family's hotel; actually, he was hanging about amateur theatricals. His persistence paid off. His family gave...
Questioning disclosed that Mr. Devlin was educated at Stonyhurst and Oxford and appeared in several productions for the Oxford Dramatic Society. Except for those productions and an occasional visit by a touring company, Oxonians have less opportunity to see first-rate plays than do Harvard students, he says. "I'm amazed at the ambitious and thoughtful plays these people at Brattle have been putting on during the past two years...