NOTHING BUT THE BEST REQUIRED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20127, 21 April 1928, Page 15 (Supplement)

NOTHING BUT THE BEST REQUIRED

THE FILMING OF “TARANGA” Among the orders that Mr Alexander Marky, the director for Universal Film?, has placed in connection with the big Maori picture, “Taranga, ” is one for 1,000 tia-haa-s, the equivalent to the Maori spear. These weapons will bo brought into use at the big Maori gathering which Sir Apirana Ngata. AI.P., is arranging | to be hold in the Urewera country later in this month. Tt is anticipated that j at least 3,000 Maoris will be present.

Some of the biggest “shots” will, of couj.-e, be taken during this meeting. There will also be a notable gathering of Maori canoes on this occasion. Canoes are being obtained, with Government assistance, from all parts of the Island. Princess T e Puea Herangi, Chieftainess of Waikato, promisi <1 Mr Marky several of Ngaruawahia’s best examples. An attempt is also being made by Mr Marky to obtain the big war canoe in the Auckland museum.

Though several of the principals for the all-Maori picture have been selected, the cast is not yet completed. “I have taken a number of tests, some of winch have been quite satis--1 act-ory,” Air Marky informed a Universal representative, “but 1 am still in search of the perfect Maori screen type. 1 consider this picture so important that I will be satisfied with nothing but the best.”

Air Reginald Newson, who plays the parts of Detective Inspector Wembury D.S.O. and the Chief Detective in “The Ringer” and “The Terror” respectively, knows Egypt and the East quite intimately. During the war period he saw’ service in Egypt ami Palestine. an,d after the armistice he toured the East—lndia, China, and Japan—lor two years. Returning to England he played leading parts, inHuding that of Wembury in “The Ringer. ’ Air Newson is an Australian by birth.

Nat Aladi-on (with the Aloscovifch Dramalic Company, now in New Ze;,land), though born in New A’urk, made his first stage appearance in England

—w.'lli a nigger minstrel show at Seaford! “ -'Twas a hard life” he says, with a reminiscent smile, “the only compensation for the generally black outlook was the fresh air—and believe me. we got plenty of that! No. dad didn’t learn of my boyish adventure until long after!”

Benno Aloiseiwitch, the famous pianist, coming under the J. and N. Tait management, will open his New Zealand season at Wellington Town Hall on Thursday, Alay 24.