GREAT BRITAIN: Cut That!

To see himself in 50,000 ft. of cinema Edward of Wales sat up one night last week in the private theatre of Gaumont-British Studios at Shepherd's Bush.

"Cut that!" he cried incessantly, for the 50,000 ft. of newsreels had to be reduced to a 6,000-ft. patriotic feature: The Prince of Wales.

"Hold that!" was His Royal Highness' cry when he wanted a choice bit run through a second time. Bits dated as far back as 1910, when this Edward became Prince of Wales on the death of Edward VII. Good bits: a springing...

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