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December 1, 2004
TT: Almanac
"Laughton belonged to that generation of Englishmen to whom the nature of English social existence in the twenties and thirties was essentially false--pompous and restrictive. Sex had something to do with it--but language, customs, rubric were even more oppressive. ‘I was the guest of the Savage Club in London, and Sir Austin Chamberlain made a speech. I was sitting next to Nelson Doubleday the publisher. Sir Austin was polite and imperturbable. At the end of the speech Nelson Doubleday said to me, "Charlie, however thin you cut it, it's still baloney," and I suddenly wanted to get on a boat and go back to New York so bad I could taste it.'"Auden or Isherwood might have said the very same thing."
Simon Callow, Charles Laughton: A Difficult Actor
Posted December 1, 2004 12:10 PM
