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HOLLYWOOD PRETENSIONS

CRICKET AND RUGBY EFFORTS LATTER'S " TYPICALLY AMERICAN TECHNIQUE " Hollywood appears to have the happy “knack of trying anything—once. Rugby and cricket are not beyond the realm of its endeavours, but tire former has not progressed beyond the infancy stage. Cricket is on rather a better footing, and is something ol a hobby among local celebrities. An ex-Otago man, writing to a Dunedin friend, has sumo pithy remarks on both subjects. “ I played Rugger for a couple of rears, but my bad knee forced me to quit,” ho writes. “The grounds arc just like concrete. Before going on to the field we had to tape our ankles thoroughly—to prevent sprains and breaks—and also use knee-pads to prevent getting what amounted to a gravel rash. Unfortunately the American boys taking up applied typically “ American football technique to the game, with the result that the Rugby was the roughest football 1 have ever had the misfortune to play. The standard is really very poor. Anyone with a good grounding in Rugbycan make the local boys look pretty silly. 1 still blush when I think of the newspaper publicity we used to g e t_‘ New Zealand Star Plays or Hollywood To-day.’ Me, mind you, who never rose above third grade Rugby in New Zealand. I sent some cuttings to Wellington, for a joke. They 7 tell mo they all had hysterics! “ Cricket has a good hold ' here amongst the English colony. In Dos Angeles the%e are some 45,000 Britishers or cx-Britishcrs, to say nothing of about 100,000 Canadians. C. Aubrey Smith, the movie actor, is the leading spirit our cricket activities, and is well supported by such others as Nigel Bruce, H. B. Warner. Henry Stephenson, and! a lot of lesser-known actors.

“ I kidded Colin Tapley into playing for our team. He enjoyed quite a few p;ames before lie decided to go up to Canada and enter the Air Force. Wo have about nine teams in the California area, so have quite a fair competition during the season,” concludes the writer.

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Evening Star, Issue 23701, 8 October 1940, Page 6

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340

HOLLYWOOD PRETENSIONS Evening Star, Issue 23701, 8 October 1940, Page 6

HOLLYWOOD PRETENSIONS Evening Star, Issue 23701, 8 October 1940, Page 6

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