EX-M.P. PRODUCER “WOULD DO ANYTHING!”
LOOKING FOR A JOB “Ex-M.P., aged 29, cannot get work; Oxonian; exceptional record and qualifications; highest references; willing to work in any capacity. Captain Shipwright, ‘Waimarama,’ Wosley Road, Esher, Surrey.” THIS advertisement appeared in a person column of a London newspaper. Captain Shipwright, who was Conservative member for the Penryn and Falmouth division, after his defeat in the 1923 election, went to Portuguese East Africa for a sisal development syndicate, and later to the West Indies as an assistant film producer. The last job he had —assistant producer of the “Battle of the Somme” film—came to an end last June. He told a Press representative (according to a London correspondent): I was at Lille University when the war broke out. I was 16 then, and I came over to England and enlisted as a private in the Royal West Kents, giving my age as 18. I was transferred to the Flying Corps as a mechanic. I got a pilot’s certificate, and was promoted to the rank of flight commander when I was 19. Captain Shipwright said that he crashed on the Somme, and then, after the war, read law at Oxford. It was while he was at Oxford that he was invited to contest the Penryn and Falmouth constituency.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 206, 19 November 1927, Page 23 (Supplement)
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214EX-M.P. PRODUCER “WOULD DO ANYTHING!” Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 206, 19 November 1927, Page 23 (Supplement)
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