RETURN TO FILMS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21344, 19 November 1932, Page 10 (Supplement)

RETURN TO FILMS

REX INGRAM'S PLANS ROLE IN OWN PICTURE How odd the vicissitudes of film fame can be has just been proved by Rex Ingram, the famous British director of " The Four Horsemen of tho Apocalypse " and other pictures that made screen history. An elusive, independent man, with a passion for Arabia and Africa, Ingram retired from film production some years ago, and has been living at Nice with his beautiful wife, Alice Terry. Recently he decided to try his fortune with a talkie, " Baroud." Unable to get a leading man, he decided to play the part himself—apparently with such success that, after a private view, the American director, Clarence Brown, has offered him a contract to star in Hollywood as an actor. Mr. Ingram says that, given time, he will accept and return as a star to the city he visited .as a penniless emigrant in 1914. " Ingram," says Mr. Brown, " is betterlooking than many of Hollywood's foremost male stars to-day. Better still, he has real ability, a splendid knowledge of pictures, and I am positive he would be a sensation should he ever devote his time to appearing in American films."

But one wonders how the very individual creator of strange studies of Arab life will fit into the vast mechanism which is Hollywood.