NOVELIST “SOLD"

Taranaki Daily News, 1 June 1935, Page 20 (Supplement)

NOVELIST “SOLD"

HOLLYWOOD CONVERTS WALPOLE. — TO RETURN TO STUDIOS NEXT YEAR From a tolerant disregard for motion pictures, Hugh Walpole, the novelist, has become so thoroughly “sold” on Hollywood that he is going back to the flbn capital as soon as his private work permits. This was his parting word in the last interview he granted before his departure not long ago for his native England. Walpole admitted that. he'. came io Hollywood “with marked reluctance,” believing it to be a city of superficiality and < sham, but added that he had been thoroughly “converted” in his six months at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. “The thing that impressed me most of all was the tremendous earnestness of the producers,” Walpole said. "Never have I seen such careful regard for tiny detail Nothing is acceptable unless it is correct in every possible regard. Just to watch this going on around me, and to be a part of it, was a /liberal education. “Hollywood, and particularly the motion picture studios, are not at all what I had supposed them to be. My experience here has thoroughly ‘sold’ me on motion pictures. I shall not only see every one I can, but I shall be back in. the studios next year to go further with this work. It is astonishing, and it is intensely interesting.” „„„„