Sunshine and the glamour of Miss Lauren Bacall broke through the fog at Hemel Hempstead yesterday.
The American actress, widow of Humphrey Bogart, had groped her way through the fog to reach the site of Hemel Hempstead’s new cinema-to-be at the corner of Combe Street and Marlowes.
There, after being welcomed by the Mayor, Miss Bacall sent a bottle of champagne crashing against the side of the bulldozer that is now engaged in preparing the site for the first Rank Organisation cinema to be built in Britain since the war.
Before leaving, Miss Bacall told the Press how thrilled she had been with her visit to Hemel Hempstead. With her she took a replica of the Armada dish which, with other silver from the Armada, had been buried at Dartmoor in 1645. It was presented to her by Mr Wells on behalf of the Corporation.
[From the Watford Observer of January 30, 1959]
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