A Gown, A Mortar Board & No Clothes
Trevor Howard, spending a day in Glasgow to help local university students raise money for a collegiate fund, returned by night train to Leeds. He boarded the train still wearing a mortar board and scarlet gown given to him by the students. He went to bed, instructing a sleeping car attendant to tell him when the train was approaching Leeds, so that he might be ready to change for Harrogate, where he was to spend § holiday. During the night he was awakened by the attendant, to be told that they were about to leave Leeds. “I had no time to get into my clothes,” says Trevor Howard. “While the attendant pushed my things into a suitcase, I put my
scarlet gown over my .pyjamas, and, wearing the mortar board, hustled out on to the platform as the train began to move. The few sleepy people who watched me hurry through the station seemed little surprised to see a professor in his pyjamas. Apparently they thought I must have been one of the absentminded variety.’’
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 47, 28 January 1949, Page 3
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181A Gown, A Mortar Board & No Clothes Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 47, 28 January 1949, Page 3
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