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ENGLAND
By William Lynch Vallee
friend and wired home. The day after that, when funds arrived, I took the boat for England. That's right,. Iwas ^oing to get what they wanted — an English accent !
"I chose Harrowgate as being most suitable for my research which I promptly started, with both ears wide open. I changed my name from Kies to Lindsay and, as time progressed and I acquired an accent, I let, it be known that, given the proper inducement, I could be persuaded to accept an engagement in the American theatre." Miss Lindsay told me this over her shoulder, as she rounded the turn on the smorgasbord table and started down the home stretch.
An American producer finally nibbled and she arrived in this country — for the first time. The play that he was working on fell through and it was for this reason that she accepted a substitute offer, a part in the movie "Cavalcade," which was made up of an all-British cast.
Let's peek at her background to better understand how she had the courage to do all of this. She was born in Dubuque, Iowa, September 19; no year given. Her sole reason for schools, from kindergarten to National Park Seminary, Washington, D. C, was to engage in whatever dramatic activities they afforded. She particularly enjoyed the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, because
they made no nonsense about cluttering up the curriculum with other subjects. The Academy people said Miss Lindsay was bound to succeed:
"Like fun," she said. The smorgasbord were finished and soup was on. "The New York producers wanted English actresses, not American ones. Speak with a Mayfair accent and you didn't have to know the first thing about acting. I could act, really I could, but, before going to England, when I spoke, Dubuque, diluted with Washington and New York, came out. They laughed," she grinned, "when I salt down to read a part."
Here there was an understandable delay while Miss Lindsay started at a gigantic mutton chop, a baked potato and a smattering of green peas. She also said hello to Ivan Lebedeff, the movie actor, calling him "Ee-varn."
"So you see I had to get what they wanted. And I went, alone to England so— I could concentrate on the matter at hand. I lived at small hotels mostly, because there I (Continued on page 64)
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