"ON OUR SELECTION"

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21278, 3 September 1932, Page 10 (Supplement)

"ON OUR SELECTION"

AUSTRALIAN FILM'S SUCCESS THEATRICAL BUSINESS IMPROVING " The most outstanding success in Australia to-day is the Australian-made picture ' On Our Selection," said Mr. F. G. Mumford, of Auckland, who returned from Australia by the Monterey during the -week. " This special feature, -which has broken all previous attendance records where it has been shown, is made from Steel Rudd's fascinating book of oat-back life. The characters "of * Dad,' ' Mum,' ' Dave ' and all the others are faithfully portrayed, and Mr. Bert Baily as'" Dad " is a character never to be forgotten. Australian bush atmosphere has been caught, to the life and some of the ' shots ' are beautiful in the extreme. The whole of the production was made by

Cinesound experts, who are Australians, and the cast is also entirely Australian."

Mr. Mumford said that the entertainment business as a whole was improving in Australia. The public, however, was demanding entertainment of a varied and superior kind, and stage presentations were occupying a prominent place in programmes at the larger theatres, while large orchestras were again returning to vogue. In addition to playing the overture and entr'acte, in many theatres they supplied a cleverly-ananged accompaniment to the news reels. " On Our Selection " will be released in New Zealand by British Empire Films, L'mited, who have appointed Mr. Mumford as their representative for their productions in the Dominion.