"I'M NOT NEWS!"
Colin Tapley Back in New Zealand
HE loud-speakers on the troopship were busy with instructions and. information as the troops, with kit-bags and suitcases, began to move. Threading our way along a crowded deck where nearly everybody was in
khaki, navy or air force blue, we bumped into a civilian, wearing a brown jacket and grey slacks. "Aren’t you Colin Tapley, formerly .of Dunedin?" we asked. He was. So. we mentioned the New Zealand Listener, and suggested an interview. But then Trpley destroyed the tradition that al! HollyWood film people go to any lengtis for the sake of publicity. "Look here," he said, "I am not news! This is war heroes’ day, and surély you don’t want to interview me." |
."But weren’t you in the Royal Canadian Air Force?" Yes, he had been a member of the R.C.A.F. and he joined up in Ottawa in 1940. He had been away from New Zealand twelve years, doing film work mostly, but lately as a member of the flying control staff. Four months ago he was demobilised in England but his present anxiety was to get his wife and two children out from England. Did he intend to go back into films? , Like many ex-members of the fighting forces, he was quite vague as to his future. "I feel delightfully indefinite," he said. "I haven’t the faintest idea what I shall do next, and I’m not ‘worrying about it." We talked briefly about the film industry. "It is going ahead tremendously in England," said Tapley. "They have made great strides there during the war years and, from what I have seen, I would say that the prospects for British films are very bright." Hollywood artists had made a good contribution to the fighting forces, he added, for many had dropped their careers for the far more serious. business of helping the Allied cause.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 342, 11 January 1946, Page 15
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314"I'M NOT NEWS!" New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 342, 11 January 1946, Page 15
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