UNWILLING PASSENGER
CLERK ON QUEEN MARY SOUTHAMPTON, Sept. 11. Robert Oliver, (ho 18-year-old clerk who, two hours out of New York, re-
ported to the purser of the Queen Mary that be had just discovered that the ship was at sea, was refused permission to land; when the Queen Mary reached Southampton this afternoon.
He will return in the* Queen Mary on Wednesday. A cable was received during the. day intimating that Oliver’s return fare would be paid. Oliver told the purser that, ho bad been sent to the ship by hisi employer, Mr. Chamberlain Brown, of New York, to deliver! the script of a play to a member of the crew to be handed to Mr. Lawrence Olivier. “It was all a mistake,” said Oliver. “I had no wish to come to England, as I have a good job in New York. I wandered about looking for the man to whom I was' to deliver the script. I could not find him anywhere, and eventually I found that, the ship was at sea.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 November 1937, Page 3
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