New Director For Cinesound

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 12821, 16 August 1939, Page 6

New Director For Cinesound

■ln line with the progressive poIW scheduled for Cinesound as -a result of the recent Government legist tion favouring local production. Mr Ken G. Hall announced last that he had assigned Mr WiM 4lll Freshman to the direction of C* D6 ' sound’s feature comedy, starrng Will Mahoney. Work on the which is tentatively titled ’Como® Smiling," has commenced. In Cinesound’s eminently success ful career, during which sixteen P* tures have been made in «igb.t this is the first which. Mr Hal not personally direct. He will, ever, maintain close personal ®nP® vision of the entire production, well as plan ahead for a group o a bitious films headed by H*® awaited "Robery Under Arms. "With such advance be done, it was essential that point another director to ligb ten load," said Mr Hall this weekreason of his diversified overseas perience, Bill Freshman is th ® e cal choice, and I know that, in Up Smiling,” he will turn ih a j°b.’ ' Mr Freshman, an Australi went to London at the age of has a great number of Bngli s _ to his credit. He has written acted as associate producer on British International Pictur® 3 :. well as having had expert Holland, Vienna and BerlinJust pi'ior to his departure London three months ago, V » i urnhp LflSl duced his own play, trS< the Ladies," at the Apollo with Athene Seyler, Nicholas nan and Charles Heaslop ih cipal roles. , ... * hiS " With him in Australia is who under her maiden naDl€ ' os j o’ Hayward, is among the foreffl English scenarists.