MEN OF NOTE
SUBJECTS SELECTED FOR ACHIEVEMENT NOTICEABLE MODERN TREND OF FILMS It is good to note a different attitude in the screening of "Private Lives," remarks Herbert Harris in a recent issue of "Film Weekly." Reallife characters have frequently been brought to the screen in recent times. But the value of the characters selected has not mattered, provided their lives have been colourful and lent themselves to cinematic treatment. Now there is a tendency to select real-life people whose names at once suggest achievements. Ido not mean pet history-book achievements, which have been dimmed by time, and have little connexion with contemporary life, but achievements of a later date, sociological and scientific, which are closely linked with the present-day world. / Warner Brothers promise to give us the story of Louis Pasteur, tentatively entitled "Men Against Death." Founder of the famous Pasteur Institute, Louis Pasteur undertook work of an incalculable benefit to mankind. His achievements as an. eminent bacteriologist have permanent value. The story of Lord Robert Clive is in production already. Here again we have a "private life" that matters. Clive added India to the British Em-
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21387, 1 February 1935, Page 5
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