PLENTY OF "FRIENDS"
TOM WALLS' LETTER-BAG. Mr. Tom Walls told representatives of all branches of the film trade who entertained him to lunch at the Savoy Hotel that since April the Fifth had won the Derby be bad received between four thousand and five thousand letters, more than three thousand of them begging letters. They asked for sums varying from ten shillings to £looo—the highest amount asked yet. Had he acceded to all requests he would be minus about £150,000. A typical and true specimen was this: "I hope you will pardon the liberty I am taking. I do not know you personally, but I know you very well on the films. Could you lend me £SOO to open a fried fish business?"
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3401, 2 August 1932, Page 6
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123PLENTY OF "FRIENDS" King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3401, 2 August 1932, Page 6
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