DEMAND FOR QUALITY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17437, 8 April 1931, Page 8

DEMAND FOR QUALITY

I PUBLIC AND THE TALKIES | “The public is sick ami tired of the I I song and dunce films and is looking tor | stage presentation pictures in which I really eond art (..Is take pari," raid Mr g. C. U. Jv.U-il, managing director of ( ni--4! versa 1 Films. X.V., IJd.. who lelurnod a 1 In Wellington by the Manilla from 3 ; Sydney. Mr. Eskoll s.ri! the reaction of the | ppbib' for better Hass pie!urea was duo 'j to i!ie Improvement brought about by 3 j Hie freer n; • of English diet ion. The | public was tired i.f slang, and his coin - fl pa.itv was specialising in pictures of jjt rfago plays with Gage artists, who had E a sonml knowledge of the stage. Ills I, company had made Tolstoy’s “Rcsur- ; reetion.” which lent itself wornler- * j fully ll sound. Another big picture ju as ‘ l l trace la. ’ ’ “We are striving to get something I different in the way of pictures,” said I Mr. K-ikell, “because pimple are so d j tired of the song and dam-e things, -j In Australia 1 lie public is looking for a i a good orchestra and music with stage n | presentation films. That is what is ’ coming—pictures of stage presenta- * tious with really good artists,”