GEORGE SANDERS.

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 58, 5 September 1940, Page 18

GEORGE SANDERS.

Depression's dark cloud had a silver lining for \ George Sanders. It made an actor out of him. If the world-wide business slump hadn't come along, he would most probably be following a hum-drum career in some British textile mill. Instead, he is gathering honours and a goodly supply of shekels by. playing such screen roles as that of Jaffrey Pyncheon in Universal^ "The House of Seven. Gables" which is shortly to be released. Sanders was born in what was St. Petersburg, Russia, when his father was in business in the days before Lenin. The revolution made refugees of them, and the family fled home to. England.' Always interested' in science, Sanders prepared at the Duhhurst and Beadles Schools, and at College at Brighton, for a technical career. He found a job in South Africa—and along came the depression ■ and lie went home to England. With business and manufacturing in a comatose state, he couldn't find another job. An uncle suggested that he try to become a ■singer. George took the advice and landed a place in the review "Ballyhoo." He was an instantaneous success and in rapid succession he-, obtained engagements in other English stage productions.- His first picture was "Strange. Cargo." After -he ■ had appeared .in : a number of British-made ■ productions, he went to Hollywood.

In the latest Hal Roach Laurel and Hardy comedy "Saps at Sea" there is a scene in which Stan Laurel, playing the trombone in. a small boat cabin, sticks the slide out of a porthole. It gets stuck, and when he finally pulls it in, he finds a sea-gull hanging to-it. It seemed like a perfectly simple gag to operate, but when the director tried to find a seagull, he was informed by the Fish and Game Conservation warden that the birds were wards of the State, and a permit was necessary to capture one of them. Suppliers of wild birds were therefore engaged for

the scene,