BIG ADVANCES MADE IN BRITISH FILM INDUSTRY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19268, 3 January 1931, Page 22 (Supplement)

BIG ADVANCES MADE IN BRITISH FILM INDUSTRY.

Substantial evidence is forthcoming of the advances being made in British film production. Taking the activities of British International Pictures’ studios at Elstree during the past six months 13,420,597 feet of film have been developed, 2542 miles all but a few yards. Out of these miles of films have come twenty-five productions including shorts, featurettes, and such features as “Murder,” “Atlantic,” “Young Woodley,” “ Flame of Love,” “Compromising Daphne,” “ The Man From Chicago,” and “ The . Middle Watch.” The staff needed for such productions is necessarily large and means that the seven fully equipped studios going at full pressure utilises the services of between six and seven hundred employees. Feature productions now in preparation at Elstree include Bernard Shaw’s “ How Fie Lied to Her Husband ” and “ The Happy Husband,” by Harrison Owen. These will be followed by Galsworthy’s “ Skin Game,” “ Potiphar’s Wife,” “ Hawley’s of the High Street,” and “ The Bridegroom’s Widow.” In connection with “ How He Lied to Her Husband,” which, by the way is played in the period of 1892-3, and “ Skin Game,” Edmund Gwenn, who plays the leading part in both productions, has appeared in several Shaw and Galsworthy plays and in the case of the latter, created the part of Hornblower and played it at least 500 times. Tom Mix’s Daughter. Ruth Mix, daughter of Tom, of silent screen fame, is to be leading lady in six Westerns. m in m ® m m mm @ m in m @ m m ® in m