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1871, and \yas seventy-five years old when he appeared as the Earl of Lostwithiel in Fame is the Spur, the film of the lxK>k, having just completed a five-year tour of Africa with his wife. Incidentally, the Boulting brothers, who made the film, were also responsible for the film he made just before he left for Africa— Pastor Hall, in which he played an anti-Nazi German general. He is also author of a lxx>k of reminiscences, " Vintage Years.” Sir Aubrey Smith is well named the Grand Old Man of the Screen. He is, in fact, eight years older than Sir Seymour Hicks, having been lx)m in London in 1863. He was made C.B.E. in 1938, and received his knighthocKl from our present King in 1944. His connection with the films goes back much farther than Sir Seymour’s, for it was in 1915 that he made his film debut in Builder of Bridges. He appeared in one or two early British talkies, but scored his first real success in the Hollywood film. The Bachelor Father, which was also his first American film, and it is in Holly- wood productions that he has since appeared continuously, although on occasions he has made a trip to England to make a film and enjoy watching cricket, as he did for An Ideal Husband. Cricket is his lifelong passion, and it still enthralls him. He played for Charter- house and Cambridge, captained Sussex, went to Australia in 1887 with the English Test team, and captained the English team against South Africa the following year. Even in Hollywood he would not be without his game of cricket, and he round^ up the Britishers there and foimded the Hollywood Cricket Club. It was in 1892 that he began his stage career, at Sir Ralph Richardson. Right: With Robert Donat in "The Citadel,” in which he played the disillusioned doctor. Bottom right: Sir Cedric Hardwicke. In circle: The Eve of Traf- algar—as Lord Nelson in the early silent film, “ Nelson." Bottom left: With Lucille Ball in “ Personal Column.” in which he played a homicidal maniac Ralph Richardson, as Karenin, with Heather Thatcher and Mar- tita Hunt in " Anna Karenina."