I was at brunch on Sunday with my father and two friends of his generation. One of them, when she was a young woman, was vacationing on a beach in France, and Leslie Howard and his wife were at the same beach. How about that!

That's wonderful! Thank you for passing on the story to me. One of my mother's clients a few years ago had acted with him in Hamlet on Broadway; apparently he was easy to corpse, so any time Hamlet had his back to the audience, all the spear-carriers tried.