PICTURE FILMS.
POSSIBILITIES IN USE. GREATER VARIETY URGED. (Received November 19, 5.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z. LONDON, Nov. !9. Increasing attention is being paid by leaders in literary circles in Britain ,to the possibilities of motion picture films. Mr. Bernard Shaw, speaking at a trade exhibition, said exhibitors were obsessed with what they called sex appeal. "Where," lie asked, ''is the sex appeal about Dean Inge's sermons, yet crowds go to St. Paul's to hear him preach 1 Crowds also listen to lectures and political speeches. Where is the sex appeal about Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford, yet some is often injected into their films, usually toward the end ? "In spite of my ago I would not be averse to kissing Mary Pickford, but I would find it extremely tantalising to sec another man kissing her." He stressed the need of greater variety. He commended the British films dealing with nature studies.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19799, 21 November 1927, Page 9
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