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Mowbray and Diana Wynyard in 'Where Sinners Meet', 1934. It may be on TV. Hollywood, dangled an interesting sum in front of Alan and convinced him of the cultural values accruing from life in New York. And a good thing too. Colonel Hum¬ phrey Flack looms as one of the real TV sleepers of the season. Mowbray, whose normal expression is one of complete despair for the fu¬ ture of the race, is the survivor of some 293 movies of obviously varied quality. Most of these featured him as some sort of unmanageable churl, a type he portrays with peerless ease. He has played a butler in only five of these films, yet continually finds him¬ self identified as “the guy who plays the butler.” The only explanation Alan can offer is “those people must have bad memories, or else I make a darned good butler.” Fact is, he does. The Colonel Flack part is a meaty one. It’s based on an old “Saturday Evening Post” series about a Colonel with a vast capacity for larceny, com¬ bined with a love for his fellowman which he nourishes by splitting his questionable gains with less fortunate fellows. As a TV show, this comes off beautifully. Mr. Mowbray, who really only looks waspish and can deliver a line to match, has been in the acting dodge for about 35 years. A British citizen, he became an actor through a mixup at a theatrical agency. While waiting for a friend at the agency, he was spotted by the man running it and promptly dispatched with a traveling company of an American play called “The Cinderella Man.” ‘Wake Me At 8:00, Officer’ In 1923, he came to New York, where he established residence in Central Park, an interim arrangement until U.S. producers became aware of his presence. This took three months and finally resulted in employment with a Theater Guild road company. Shortly thereafter he was nabbed by the movies. In the grand old tradition of the acting profession, Mowbray qualifies as a genuine character. A friend of such established imbibers as the late John Barrymore and night club comic Joe E. Lewis, Mowbray has hosted some of Hollywood’s most memorable parties. One particularly memorable was co-hosted by Alan and Lewis. The occasion was the freeing of Chiang Kai-shek by some Chinese bandits who had kidnapped him. Though none of the merrymakers had ever even seen Chiang, it still seemed just cause for a celebration. The party’s peak was reached when all hands spoke to As Lord Hamilton in 'That Hamilton Wom¬ an', one of more successful of his films.