INTERNEE MISSING

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 September 1940, Page 2

INTERNEE MISSING

IN “GOODBYE MR CHIPS.” / LONDON, August 10. Walter Heller, the internee who was reported missing this week appeared in the film “Goodbye. Mr Chips.” He was a tall schoolboy who stood out because of his irrepressible smile among the O.T.C. boys. ! “The film director who picked him out said he was a typically English boy,” his mother said. Walter was taken away with his father on July 1. The father was sent to the Isle of Man and the boy to an unknown destination. Mrs Heller’s last word from her son was a postcard dropped from a train on July 10, saying: “They are taking me North. Hope to see Daddy.” Walter gained five distinctions in the school certificate at Highgate School,' London, which he attended for three years, and he was a member of the school O.T.C. Twice he won first prize at the London Music Festival, for his ambition is to be a composer. Mrs Heller, a Hungarian, distressed because she does not know where her boy is, struggles to keep together her husband’s export busiriess, ’’