AUSTRALIAN FILMS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 184, 5 August 1940, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN FILMS.

NEW ZEALAND ACTORS. The arrival in New Zealand of Mr. T. H. Wynne-Lewis, chairman of directors of Argosy Films, Limited, of Sydney, is of interest to New Zealanders not only because his company has caused a revival of the film industry in Australia but also because of the "fa«t that in the two pictures which the company is at present making wellknown New Zealanders are playing important parts in their production. Mr. Wynne-Lewis states that Argosy Films is now completing "That Certain Something," a picture directed by Clarence Badger, in which the leading comedienne is Miss Georgie Sterling, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Sterling, of Wellington, her father at one time being general manager of the New Zealand railways. The other picture which Argosy Films has in production is "The Power and the Glory." This picture is being directed by Xoel Monkman, of Dunedin, who has already made himself famous for his scientific films of Australia. Mrs. Monkman, who was Miss Kitty Gelhor, of Wellington, looks after the continuity of her husband's film. Another New Zealander is Eric Bush, well known stage player, who enacts the role of juvenile lead in "The Power and the Glory." "The Power and the Glory" is a romantic drama of espionage surroundi ing the Royal Australian Air Force and it stars the famous Czech actress 1 Katrin Bosselle, who came to Australia a couple of years "ago to star in "I Married an Angel" for J. C. Williamson, Limited. Mr. Wynne-Lewis said that it was essential that all British countries should make every endeavour to produce films as the siege of Britain was certain to result in greatly diminishing the number of pictures produced in Britain or even entirely eliminating their production. "We have to look ! ahead," said Mr. Wynne-Lewis, "and it i would be extremely unfortunate for J Australia and other British countries ! to lose ground won with difficulty in the film production industry. Good films are not the monopoly of any particular part of the world and New Zealand should not lose an eye to the exploitation of her unique backgrounds and the possibility of these being of intf- At .throughout the. world."