Yes, Admiralyou, Last Ten Days wasn a very good film, so perhaps I was well out of it.) If you get a chance to join Garrick at a convention, please come. Il do my utmost to make sure he there, and that he does many more. It looks, by the way, as if wel be doing a movie together this summer. Chaos, great part for me: Duggan, a crusading vicar, and a super part for Garrick: Carter, a police inspector. I now like to tell you of one of the strangest evenings of my life. It all began with a phone call. r Sheard�es.�ood afternoon, my name is Polly. I was hoping I could ask you to do us a small favour.�f I can. What sort of favour�ell, we need a judge for our beauty contest. There are two sections, one for the seniors and one for the juniors. We be so grateful if you could come along. We intend to appoint three or four other judges. Perhaps your wife might like to accompany you�r, yes, she might. When is this to be�Thus began the bizarre event. Talk about jungle. Hell, Ie judged talent contests where the chosen, worthy, winner was not the choice of the girl who came second, and certainly not of number two parents, who endeavoured to have the contest declared null and void. But this was gigantically worse. Dearly B. did join me as a judge, thank heavens, and there were three others. One was a holiday camp entertainment officer, who was going to offer the senior winner a summer season. Then there was a guy from the local radio station, and a rather toffee-nosed matronly type, who was connected with the company who were staging the event. Before I continue, I really must mention that:122
