THEIR MAJESTIES DO NOT DESIRE A SCREEN CAREER
rpHOUGH King George and Queen Mary have made many
appearances on the screen, they have declined a definite “engagement!” Mr. R. Washburn Child, former American Ambassador to Italy, arranged for famous people, including the
Queen Mary King and Queen af Spain, Signor Mussolini, Marshal Foch, and President Coolidge to make movie “tone” films in connection with a recent secret American inven-
tion. King George The company was most anxious to secure speeches by King George and Queen Mary, and shipped recording equipment aboard the Aquitania, intending to send it to Balmoral, hoping that the King would speak for reproduction at a West End cinema when the official film of the Battles of Coronel and Falkland Isles was exhibitedTheir Majesties declined.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 140, 3 September 1927, Page 23
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