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Picture Show Annual 113 to Talk Some Adventures of an Inter- viewer amon£ the Stars of Sta£e and Screen. AS I look back upon more than two hundred interviews with celebrities of the stage and screen, none stands out more clearly in my mind than the first. It was with George Robey. Not only had I no interviewing experience, but also no appointment! I had nothing, save a little note-book, in which I had carefully written several questions, and a grim, unshakable determination to get those sam# questions answered. Mr. Robey was playing at the London Hippodrome, and I shall not waste further time by saying how much I wasted outside the stage-door of that building, waiting for him to appear. When at last he arrived for the matinee he was in such a hurry that I barely had time to catch hold of his coat sleeve before he vanished beyond recall. However, I did catch hold of it, and he did stop (a thing he could hardly avoid doing), and I did get my interview. That it was of brief duration—about three minutes—was, perhaps, a disguised blessing, since during that time I was-to the swing doors of the stage entrance what ham is to a sandwich, and therefore hardly at my best. The mam thing was that I got my questions answered. Years later I interviewed Mr. Robey again, this time by appointment. As before, he was in a tremendous hurry, and though he supplied the essentials, he did not, as it were, add trimmings. In the midst of so much hustle, the large box of roses he carried struck an incongruous note. Perhaps they were for some interviewer who had met an untimely swing-door death. There is a story to the effect that George Robey was once caught resting, but personally I think it is just one of those silly yarns that get about. A Gladys Cooper " Hold-Up " My first meeting with Gladys Cooper also was more of a hold-up than an inter- view ! Though the famous star had made several screen appearances, at that time she was not playing in pictures or contemplating further film work, and on those grounds declined the interview I requested. I was sorry about this, as I knew Miss Cooper was a prize greatly desired by the Ivor Novcllo.