Leslie Howard's Views

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19623, 5 May 1938, Page 8

Leslie Howard's Views

THIS will certainly be news to the great film companies, who pay such enormous salaries to Greto Garbo and Norma Shearer and all the rest of the starry hand. No less strange is it to find Leslie Howard, one of the most able and popular of film actors, expressing the view that there is little in film-acting to commend it to the actor, for it is to the films, which he entered eight years ago, that he owes his pres-

ent wealth and world-wide reputation. Among those in which he has appeared are "Berkeley Square," "The Scarlet Pimpernel," "Petrified Forest," and "Romeo and Juliet": and his acting has given pleasure to millions of people.

Nevertheless, he prefers the "livin drama," in which one speaks one's line right on, and there is direct contai with the audience, rather than th screen play, the scenes of which ar "shot" in fits and starts, one to-da and another to-morrow. On the other hand, accepting the (ill as a separate medium of expressio: Lionel Barrymore tells us the nc technique is fascinating to learn, am when learned, a valuable and worth equipment, developing the actor alon new lines and enlarging the scope < his abilities.