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Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1938, Page 4

“This is- an age of restless and- of muss-induced thinking,” said Mr G. Arless, the well-known actor in a recent interview;.- ; “There is little conversation now—merely a repetition of' mass ideas. Mothers still have knees, but there are no children to gather round them; for the children are out and away. They go to the movies, or they sit in friends’ houses, not to talk pleasantly or to listen intelligently, but to hear the noise of the radio. When the young people go to the movies,” lie' continued, “they go by habit and indiscriminatingly with no idea whether the programme will be very good or very bad. And who can be blamed if they are very bad ? Have you ever thought-,” lie asked, “of the colossal difficulties ? At the start of the century families used to go to the theatre four or five, times, a year. Great lovers of the theatre frequented it perhaps once a fortnight., It was possible then to find material enough for the plays in the score of London theatres. Nbw, families go to the cinema three times a week. Cinemas jostle one another in town and country all over the World. There is not enough, there could not be enough, good material in the present state of the cinema world to supply so huge a market. I like to play in an absolutely firstclass story. But if I waited every time for one to turn up, I should not be able to make a film more than oilce m two years.”