CHEVALIER’S MENAGERIE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 January 1939, Page 10

CHEVALIER’S MENAGERIE

CATS, CANARIES AND CANINES.

During the shooting of “Break the News," the new Rene Clair production showing at the State Theatre next Tuesday, Maurice Chevalier, who is co-starred with Jack Buchanan, lived at the beautiful country club which adjoins the Pinewood Studios. It was the first time he had come into contact with the English countryside, and although he seems the personification of | the “gay Parisian,” Maurice Chevalier is at heart a very simple fellow with most unsophisticated tastes. On Sundays and other days when he was not

wanted on the set he would drive over to a nearby golf course, play a round, and then, with some congenial spirit, explore the lovely country lanes of Buckinghamshire, His greatest delight was to come upon some old inn, the more oft' the beaten track the better, where he would chat with the innkeeper over a tankard of ale and some bread and cheese, happy in the knowledge that the old fellow would not produce an autograph book or start talking “shop.” Maurice Chevalier is very fond of animals. On his magnificent estate in the South of France he has five police dogs, three cats and four canaries. The dogs have a job in life. They guard the grounds, and woe betide any stranger with felonious intent! I