SHADOW IS SUBSTANCE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11826, 6 January 1933, Page 3

SHADOW IS SUBSTANCE

- BRITISH FILMS IN LIMELIGHT,

HAW-HAWS OUT! LONDON, Dee. 27. "British films are conquering the world,” says the “Evening News,” featuring an interview with Mr. John Thorpe, overseas manager of the GaumoJit-British pictures. The “Evening News” declares that, in. addition to the local British triumph, British films are generally favored in Australia if they are good. i, Europe, also, is largely booking British films. Continental theatres are tired of the sameness of Hollywood films—the gangsters and cuties —and prefer British comedies. Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia have banned the American productions. E-rita-in is even successfully challenging the Germans throughout the Continent, and is also progressing in Canada, despite the strong American grip there.

The chairman of British International Pictures, Ltd. (Mr. J. Maxwell) says that the objections of the Dominions to- the exaggerated Oxford accent have been mot by the elimination of “haw-haw’’ actors.

Overseas managers have grown to appreciate the knowledge that most people like pure English GamnontBritish Pictures and expect a £12,000 profit in Australia alone.