"Battle of Waterloo" Repeated by Mobs of Girls and Admirers: New Chapter in British Films Under circumstances more fantastic than the gala progress through the streets of Vienna in "Congress Dances," a young Hollywood film star, Robert Taylor, has arrived in England to make a picture, wi ites C.A.L. to the "Sunday Observer.
For fourteen days his life has Hopi a series of hysterical mob encounters. They wept in Hollywood when he geң for his six months' "exile." They mobbed his "plane, 6000 strong, at a landing field in Texas. When' he boarded the Berengaria in New York they stormed the ship, invaded his cabin, even kissed. it is reputed, the gangplank.
At Southampton detectives guarded the docks, but as his train steamed out of the station hundreds of girls ran along the platform waving, shouting, singing. pressing (or autographs, struggling to shake his hand through the carriage window.
At Waterloo the mob was between eight and 10,000 strong. They got out the mounted police. The arrival platform was railed off as it for royalty.. As the train pulled into the station Mr. Taylor prepared himself for the ordeal. "I was ready to go through with it" he says. "It's part Of the job." But the police were taking no chances.
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