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CALL TO LONDON GIRL THEATRE PRODUCER'S RUSE [from our own correspondent] LONDON, May 14 An 18-year-old London office girl) Miss Sheila Cunliffe, was walking along Baker Street this week when she saff a group of people staring upward a* a passing aeroplane which carried a? advertisement streamer. She looked "P and to her astonishment read the message: "Will Sheila Cunliffe tele* phone Gerrard 4841." To the girl the message meant too chance of a lifetime. Gerrard 4841 is the number of a well-known theatreThere, manager and producer had been waiting anxiously for the result or t" unusual inquiry. "In the middle of rehearsals for our next show one of my girls with a key part dropped out," explained the producer. "I immediately thought o. Mi Cunliffe. Unfortunately we had neither her address nor her telephone number. My aeroplane S.O.S. idea workei. Within an hour Miss Cunliffe was the telephone."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23053, 2 June 1938, Page 10
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152MESSAGE IN SKY New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23053, 2 June 1938, Page 10
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