£30,000 A YEAR
GEORGE FORMBY’S EARNINGS LAUGHTER AND SYMPATHY They say that what with one thing and another George Formby makes £30,000 a year. Strange to say, he deserves all that money—yes, more than £SOO a week —because he earns it, says a London writer. Since Harold Lloyd gave up making pictures the gap he left has been shouting for an occupant. Not a funny man wisecracking at life, byt a shy bloke who continuously finds himself mixed up in comedy situations. Neither Harold Lloyd nor George Formby goes for your laughter with witty lines (ever realised that?). No, they just get into difficult jams charged with drama and then escape at the last moment. Theirs is always a once-upon-a-time theme calculated to command your laughter—and sympathy.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21206, 31 August 1940, Page 13 (Supplement)
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127£30,000 A YEAR Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21206, 31 August 1940, Page 13 (Supplement)
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