THEATRE 'CABBY’S' LIFE
THEME FOR NEW PLAY LONDON, Dec. 2. A London taxi-driver, Bert Jenkins, aged 65, leaned back in his seat in the front-row stalls at London’s Art | Theatre and watched his own life story unfold on the stage. Jenks, as he is popularly called, is , theatreland’s own special cabby. The ! stars he has driven in his cab in the past 40 years haven’t been fares: they have been his intimate friends. Among the notes he always carries in his- pocket is one from Beatrice Lillie, ; thanking 'him for the flowers he sent j while she was-in hospital. Another, froxp C; B. Cochrane, thanks him for jhis “good, job during the blitz.” Yet another note is from Hermione Gingold. Olivier’s Friend The list of his friends also .includes Vivien Leigh, Sir Laurence Olivier, Terence Rattigan and Emlyn Williams. Jenks was practically born in the theatre. His mother was a wardrobe mistress who had lived next to the Tivoli Theatre in the Strand. The playwright, Harry Herbert, has used his life story as the theme for Cupid and Mars, at the first night of which Jenks was the management’s .guest.-
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22510, 13 December 1947, Page 2
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