The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 31, August 3, 2003, Article 8

BOB HOPE

  Entertainer Bob Hope died this week at the age of 100.
  An article on Hope in The New Yorker mentioned a
  couple numismatic references to him:

  "I feel very humble," he said to President Kennedy when
  he was awarded a Congressional Gold Medal in 1963,
  "but I think I have the strength of character to fight it."

  "In "Welcome to Britain," a 1943 instructional film for United
  States troops in England, ... he explains English coinage to
  Burgess Meredith only to shortchange him ... Hope enjoyed
  playing the impostor who admitted his larceny but still happily
  practiced it."

  http://www.newyorker.com/archive/content/?030804fr_archive03

  A web search found this reference to the film:

  "A Welcome To Britain (1943) was made to explain funny
  money, warm beer, driving on the wrong side of the road,
  and other British customs to apprehensive young GIs
  arriving in war-time Britain.

  ...   features a hilarious sketch with Bob Hope trying to
  explain pound shillings and pence... "

 http://www.panamint.co.uk/war.html

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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