MR. GEORGE ARLISS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 228, 26 September 1931, Page 18 (Supplement)

MR. GEORGE ARLISS

A PERSONAL TOUCH INTEREST IN FILM-MAKING There can be few great actors so thoroughly interested in their work is George Arliss. Now that he is a film star as well as a great actor (the terms are by no means synonymous), Mr Arliss is not content merely to appear in pictures and leave it at that. He is I interested in every department of filmmaking. He is also a true friend of the filmgoer in that he is willing to spend quite a lot of his time and I energy in endeavouring to find ways of ] improving the cinema entertainment. In life, Arliss is the same courteous. I kindly gentleman who is known so well 'through his film characterisations. “I 1 do like to have a film with a central 'idea.” he told me. “In ‘The Million--1 aire’ the underlying theme was the question of premature retirement from business by a man who is not too old to work. My next picture will discuss the problem of a rich man who finds his wealth a barrier between himself and his family.” “Which film actor do you admire most?” be was asked in a recent interview. Without hesitation he replied, “I admire Charlie Chaplin more than any other screen actor I have seen. He can say more with his eyes alone ' than the inajoriy of actors can express •with the aid of voice and gesture.” Mr Arliss is to make three films this , season instead of two. The first is definitely fixed, and he has two others lin mind. He spent a week in Paris ' doing a round of the theatres before Ihe returned to Hollywood this month. TOP