GEORGE ARLISS IN SCHOOLROOM
Production of “His Lordship” at the Gaumont-British studios must have coincided with intelligence tests set to pupils in schools, . judging from numerous examples of “howlers” in such tests sent to George Arliss by amused school masters. A Weybridge master had been talking on the canonization of saints and asked, in connection with honouring of Sir Thomas More, “What great man is it intended to make a saint.” A solitary hand went up. “Saint George Arliss.”
“What was the Duke of Wellington called before they made him a duke?” was asked in a Liverpool class room. “George Arliss, sir” was the reply. An essay written by a small girl contained the information that Disraeli was a great English statesman who afterwards went into the movies. And in a New Zealand examination, to the question: “Who was the man who purchased Britain’s shares in the Suez Canal?” came once again the answer: “George Arliss.”
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Southland Times, Issue 23179, 21 April 1937, Page 9
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