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Naturally they don't serve it at the smart Mayfair spots, so Ray had to drive to dingy bomb-battered Camden Square. Just as he was blissfully cramming his mouth, quick Cockney eyes identified him. He escaped with nothing worse than a torn necktie but his jacket was completely covered with greasy finger-prints — everybody else had been eating fish and chips, too! Ray was sad because fish and chips have nostalgic associations for him. A paper-full was his cheap evening meal when he clerked in an optician's office as a teen-ager, near the little town of Neath in South Wales where he was born. Later in London, struggling desperately as an unknown actor, it was often the only food he could afford in a day. "I only went into movies because I was hungry," he says, recalling his first, day in a studio making "The Informer." He was hired simply because he happened to be a good shot, not even appearing in the picture but just standing off-set firing a gun at a target behind the cameras. "It's a good thing to remember your early days," Ray declares, abandoning his usual gay manner for a few minutes. "It preserves your sense of balance — I'm always afraid of growing conceited, and I've told Mai ever since we married that if I should let slip any pompous remarks about acting, she's to take a pitcher of ice-water and empty it right over my head." But whether seeking fish and chips or just fresh air, Ray quickly found the London fans would inevitably recognize him. One morning when the unit was shooting exteriors in Queen Mary's favorite rose garden in .Regents Park, Ray slipped away for a short walk, imagining the crowd's attention was completely occupied with Ann Todd before the cameras. He disappeared happily among the trees but girls in the khaki uniform of the British Army suddenly recognized him. "I thought they were just taking Commando training," Ray laughs, "until they closed in and marched me up against the garden wall for inspection." Because he admires the war service record of the women's corps, he invited the girls to his Mayfair hotel for tea and gave them flowers as well as his autograph. Ray says he was sincerely surprised at the warmth of his British admirers. "I've never seen anything like the way people cheer you as you enter the theater for a West End gala premiere. It couldn't haye happened to any star in Britain before the war. I think it's the influence of the vast number of American servicemen who passed through London during those years. They broke down a lot of that old coldness and reserve, I'm sure. Now it's gone for good." One reason why the British fans mob Ray is because they recognize his type. With his dark good looks, his mobile mouth, his quick temperament and the vein of seriousness, surprisingly deep, that underlies his bright surface flippancy, he's the romantic Celt from Wales who has always been popular and attractive with British women. Ray became a star in Britain when he made his first big picture, "French Without Tears," in London in 1938. One Kentish girl has written to him regularly every four weeks since. Missing his home background in London, Ray persuaded his wife to follow him and bring young Danny. That meant an intensive search for an apartment, finally secured in a house in Grosvenor Square, opposite to the American Embassy and right next door to the building that was General Eisenhower's wartime H.Q. Now Danny runs out to romp with his dog in the little Square gardens over which Old Glory flies, where the President Roosevelt Memorial statue will be erected by the Britons next spring. With the labor shortage in Britain, Ray was despairing of ever finding a maid when one of the studio plasterers sent his sister along. (All the Denham technicians like the star — he hands round his cigarette pack and never omits to praise a piece, of good work.) When she assured Ray she could cook fish and chips she was hired on the spot, and turned out a dishfull for the first family meal. Served with plates and table silver because Ray thought Mai might not want to be too traditional! Fortunately Danny proved to share his father's approval of the mixture. On Sundays when Ray isn't working, the three Millands have all had grand fun visiting the sights, the Zoo and the ancient Tower of London and colorful Petticoat Lane market. Weekday evenings were chiefly spent at home, with a few friends to dinner and bed-time at half-past ten, except for an occasional film premiere or a night at the ballet or the opera. Ray possesses all the Welsh national love for music and he has a habi.t of singing softly to himself while he's making up and dressing ready to go on the set. Strangely enough, neither Ray nor Ann Todd had ever met Geraldine Fitzgerald in Hollywood, so Hal Wallis had to perform the introductions at Denham. Gerry loves working in England for she can fly over to Dublin every Saturday evening and spend Sunday with her relatives and friends in Eire. She has a strong role in the film as Susan Courtney, from whom Ann, as the infatuated widow, Olivia Harwood, secures money which she gives to her fascinating artist lover, Mark. Ray was shown how to hold his brushes correctly by Ann herself. Descendant of the famous Scots painter Hogarth, Ann has executed some striking seascapes and bird life studies during her holidays at her ancient stone house on the Cornish coast by St. Colomb. It's belonged to her husband Nigel Tangye's famliy over eight hundred years. Ann often says she would have turned professional painter if she had failed as an actress. 82 SCREENLAND