ABDICATION SPEECH

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 51, 2 March 1937, Page 15

ABDICATION SPEECH

" r,At Honolulu during the period .of the ex-King's abdication broadcast, not a single telephone .call was put through the telephone exchange. " This information' was given by Mr. Colin W. Anderson, ■ managing' director of Civic \ Theatre, Ltd.,' who returned to Auckland on Friday in the Monterey after a two months'' business" and health trip to California,, states, the "New Zealand Herald." $Then the speech" was finished, gramophone records, of the. speech were quickly on sale in the shops, there being an' amaz-. ing' rush.:. ..for,; theni ■ Mr. Anderson arrived .at .Vancouver .on Christmas Day,; and . conversation was general about the abdication. Throughout North. America there appeared to be disappointment that the British Government had not been able to see'a way of keeping Edward VIII on the Throne. Discussing the film industry, Mr. Anderson said the crisis •in the British industry was greatly concerning several of the: companies .in America. In America there was a feeling that, the action in-the British.. films was . not i rapid' enough', and,-that the ..lighting | could-not;-compare with that attained at Hollywood. . ' ...':.'.