LANGUAGE STUDY

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1038, 31 July 1930, Page 17

LANGUAGE STUDY

VALUE STRESSED BY PRODUCER

Anyone starting out in life should faster at least two languages besides hl ® own. Knowledge of languages is 'doming increasingly more essential almost every line of endeavour, and

particularly so in the motion picture industry. That is the opinion of Mr. Jesse L Lasky, vice-presi-dent of Paramount Pictures, who has just returned from a trip to Europe, where he made an intense study of foreign conditions. “The man who knows French and

-- -asKy Knows C reuwi tofflish is twice as valuable to his coni•iatiy as the man who speaks only Eng‘sh. ’ this executive contends, “A of French, English and Punish triples his worth.

. pegging letters to screen stars are n ,® ra *fied in every idea except the apfor money. In a single day Lon '-•*aney go t \ n hia ma u a n appeal fox oney to buy a piano, another asking ,' m . to start a man in the furniture ur,“ • one askin g him for funds to Ranise a jazz band and one asking iJ, 1 ’^ n °ogh money to enable her husto buy a car, a new outfit, and L ‘l* some left over so he wouldn’t Uk%o t° worry about a job I”