Your greatest.
When did you know that you wanted
to become an actor yourself?
When my mother and T were living abroad because it was cheaper, and mother's family had run out of money and we didn't know quite what to do, and somebody offered me a job!_____19_____It was a job at Paramount Pictures to play in a film called 'Stephen Steps Out' for which I got $ 1,000 a week for two weeks.
Your role as Rupert of Hetzau in 'The Prisoner Of Zenda" was one of
It was a wonderful, wonderful part. ______20____. Then I had this offer to come back and do 'Prisoner Of Zenda'. I thought I'd belter stick with this new company I'd started. My father was around and he said,'Do not be a fool, you have got to back,
give up everything and play in "The Prisoner of Zenda". It's the best part even written. And that decided me so I said, 'Yes, I will!'
Do you like the films they're making
today?
The films themselves are all right.________21___________There are still some very fine films that are being made, Your role as Rupert of Hentzau in but some of them are of questionable
taste and I blame the public. Being a business and an industry, producers produce what people buy. If the public don't like it, they won't go, and the films will stop being produced.
| A The same talents are there, it's the public that has changed. B He was always very nice to everybody he talked to, and he didn't have to pretend. C That is when I decided! D It should have been better. E But it didn't make the jobs any easier, in fact it probably made them harder, because they expected more than I was able to deliver at a young age. F We didn't quite know how to show it, | G I think it's a great work of art, and although a lot of people are credited with having a hand in it, everybody did more or less as my father wanted. H In fact I did not know whether to accept it or not, because I'd been struggling for years to have my own company in Europe and I was just getting started on that. I Only my father was in the business, and it wasn't brought home. |
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& ? 30. Read this text and decide which of the four alternatives best fits each gap.