GRADUATE WASHING DISHES
" HIS NAME. IS SORRELL " Captain Sorrell was an educated man, an Army officer, an M.C. He could find no work when the war was over. At last he found a job—as general handyman at an, hotel. , ■ That was the Captain Sorrell of fiction —hero of Warwick Deeping’s best selling novel, and the two successful films made from it. The Captain Sorrell of real life walked into the ‘ Sunday Express ’ Office lately— Captain James Sorrell, M.C., Cambridge graduate. He told his story. He has been in poverty for the past two years. He left Liverpool, where he had been sleeping in a Salvation Army shelter, and tramped to London. Captain Sorrell went to a restaurant of which he was a regular customer in pre-war days. Ho asked for a job. He got one. He will •wash dishes. He will get 15s ,» ■week and his food. He is happy.
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Evening Star, Issue 21747, 15 June 1934, Page 1
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150GRADUATE WASHING DISHES Evening Star, Issue 21747, 15 June 1934, Page 1
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