ACTORS MEET CRITICS

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 May 1936, Page 8

ACTORS MEET CRITICS

MR. DONAT’S THANKS. LONDON, March 23. Actors met dramatic critics at the annual dinner of the Critics’ Circle at the Savoy Hotel last night. Mr. Robert Donat, ■ who with Miss Peggy Ashcroft, replied for the players to the toast of the Guests, said he welcomed the opportunity to express thanks to the critics for their too gracious and friendly picking of his bones since he came tO' London. “I was then a poor provincial ham, hung up to cure for 10 years in the provinces,” he said. “The awful truth about me is that. I am the sort of actor who, after a first-night, walks up and down Fleet-street waiting for the first editions. If I have a good notice, I buy twelve copies and send them to my mother.” Miss Pegev Ashcroft, addressing the critics, said: “Although we may look on you as a mixture of schoolmaster and bogey, really you are bur friends, and unite with us in mutual love of the th’e&tre.”