In a cutting from the Daily Mail, actress Miss Evelyn Laye explains that she met Dennis King when they were very young in Edinburgh and over a cup of coffee they vowed to each other that they would become stars. It is highly likely that this was in 1920 when Dennis, who was appearing in Monsieur Beaucaire, was 22 years old*.
They went as far as making a bet on who would reach the top first and when meeting up years later Evelyn had to concede defeat because Dennis had already made his first talking picture.
Although the scrapbook cutting is undated it was probably published around 1930 when Dennis was in London appearing as d'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers.
* It turns out that Evelyn Laye and Dennis were in a musical together in Edinburgh, at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, three years before this! The production was "Oh Caesar!" and it ran from 23rd December 1916 to 20th January 1917. Evelyn was right, they were young, Dennis had just turned 19. I might have missed this because Dennis's name appears as "Denis King" in Glasgow University's online catalogue. As we will see in a later post this follows on neatly from his last appearance on stage at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre.
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