MONEY FOR PATRIOTIC FUNDS

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21206, 31 August 1940, Page 13 (Supplement)

MONEY FOR PATRIOTIC FUNDS

FILM ACTORS IN HOLLYWOOD ORDERED TO BRITAIN

HOLLYWOOD, Calif., July 8 Great Britain has called home its motion picture actors between the ages of 18 and 31. Other British subjects in the Film Colony temporarily will aid their homeland in other ways. Richard Greene said he would go to England as soon as possible. His studio had several picture assignments in view for him, with the first scheduled to start in about a month. Like most of the other British actors here, Mr Greene volunteered his services several months ago but was instructed to remain in Hollywood until further notice. Other younger actors affected by the call included Richard Ainley, Hugh Green and Robert Coote. Past the age requirement are such figures as Laurence Olivier, Cary Grant, Ray Milland, Errol Flynn, Louis Hayward, Brian Aheme and Herbert Marshall. Sums for War Funds Mr Grant is donating 150,000 dollars, his salary from his new film, “ Philadelphia Story,” to British war

I charity. Charles Laughton for some time has earmarked all of his radio earnings for war relief and Red Cross. Ronald Colman and others have made similar gifts. A committee working under Dame May Whitty and Boris Karloff has arranged to bring to California 60 children from the British Actors’ Orphanage in England. A special film appeal by Anna Neagle already has raised 100,000 dollars for the Red Cross. Grade Fields soon will head a group of British celebrities on a tour of Canada in quest of 500,000 dollars for war relief. On Active Service David Niven, English Reserve Officer, joined his regiment last October and is in England. * The American-born Robert Montgomery recently returned from ambulance service in France. Basil Rathbone, who himself won decorations in the last war, has sent his 23-year-old son, Rodion, off to Toronto to offer his services.