“NABOBS OF THE SCREEN”

Evening Star, Issue 19725, 28 November 1927, Page 6

“NABOBS OF THE SCREEN”

AMERICAN PRODUCERS CRITICISED

ONLY IN INDUSTRY FOR PROFIT,

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.

SYDNEY, November 28. (Received November 28, at 11.25 a.m.) Giving evidence before tho Film Commission, Miss Beatrice Tildosloy, a member of the Good Films League and tho National Council of Women, said that what impressed her in comparing tho regular theatre and the films, where two dealt with the same subject, was almost the invariably marked inferiority of tho films. This was duo to the standards and the methods of production at Hollywood, whore the controlling' interests were in tho bands of men who looked upon them purely as commodities for sale—men without artistic ideals and natural taste, and many of them without ordinary, decent education. She added : “tjum6_ofthe.se nabobs of the screen have gone into the movie industry with exactly the same enthusiasm and the same aim ol high profits as actuated them when they dealt in cheap clothing. They are, in fact, wholesale clothiers who have extended their energies from purveying “ reach-me-down ” suits_ to providing ‘ drag-me-down ’ entertainment.”