Another notable success came in 1948 when he devised the make-up that Alec Guinness used to portray Fagin in David Lean's film of CharlesDickens' OliverTwist.
Within hours of landing, I had sat at the organ upon which George Frideric Handel played the London premiere of "Messiah, " stood in the poky little room where CharlesDickens wrote "Oliver Twist, " and accepted my award upon the very spot that the residence of Lord Peter Wimsey had once stood, at 110A Piccadilly.