PURITY OF ENGLISH.
EFFECT OF AMERICAN FILMS.
RESTRICTION SUGGESTED. (Received February 5, 8.55 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 4. Sir A. Knox, Conservative member for the Wycombe Division of Buckifighamsfiire, suggested in the House of Commons that in the interest of the protection of the English language the importation of American talking films should be. restricted.
The President of Ihe Board of Trade, Mr. W. Graham, said these films were admitted under existing legislation, and he was not prepared directly -to restrict American talking films. Mr. E. Thurtle (Labour)': Would you accept a Scotsman as an authority on the English language ? Mr. Graham (emphatically): Certainly. (Laughter.)
OPINION OF COMEDIAN. SILENT FILIVIS SUPERIOR., LOS ANGELES, Jan. SO. Charles Chaplin, the film producer and star, has refused an offer to make a talking picture. He said: " A good talkie is inferior to a good stage play, while a good silent picture is superior to both. Ho has already spent £200,000 on his latest silent comedy.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20482, 6 February 1930, Page 11
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