draft typed letter signed frenchman de gerald wynne rushton army officer (1 résultats)

English army officer and agent in the film business. Long and informed summary of 'the necessary points of our conversation'. Begins with description of Indian film industry: 'I have checked with India House these figures, and discovered that my sources of information are far more up to date than the Government's'. He encloses (not present) one of the stories he has found to 'make into Arabic films': 'Enslaved' by the Poet Laureate John Masefield. 'I have his written permission to make it into an Arab film'. Concludes: 'don't forget, that an extremely inferior American poet wrote, in very bad blank verse, a poem called "The White Cliffs of Dover" which was made into a very successful film. I am sufficiently English to hope that France will make a fine film of a poem by the English Poet Laureate; because it has never occurred to English firms to bother about the riches that are lying on their book shelves (if any).' Signed in pencil 'Gerald | G Wynne Rushton'. Discoloured by rust from paperclip.