AMERICAN FILM ARTISTS.
PARTY FOR AUSTRALIA. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON. Monday. The film actress, Eva Novak, has arrived here by the R.M.S. Tahiti, en route for Australia, where she will play the lead in a film adaptation of the story "For the Term of His Natural Life." She is accompanied by her mother, her husband and baby daughter. "A prison,'with torture chambers and the other ,buildings necessary for the sets, is being built from the old ruins on the original sites in Tasmania," said Eva Novak, "so that we shall be working on the actual scenes of the novel." Mr. George Fisher also arrived by the Tahiti. He will play the part of Rufus Dawes ia the forthcoming production, for which he is growing a beard. Other members of the party are Stephen Murphy, another bearded "convict,"' who will piay Vetch, and Catherine Dawn, whoso husband will direct the film.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19396, 3 August 1926, Page 6
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