SILENT FILMS.
WILL NEVER DIE. MORE TO BE MADE. “ The talkers have not triumphed. This year we have made some silent films. Next year we shall make more. And the year after that still more. The silent film will never die." Mr Samuel Goldwyn, the American film producer, made this statement at Southampton on his arrival from New York. He went to England with the primary purpose of presenting his film " One Heavenly Night,” in which the English actress, Evelyn Laye, makes her debut in singing-films. Among his other statements were: Eiglish artists are the best in the world. Evelyn Laye is going to make films in Spanish and French for me next year. She is a great artist. No one could have played her part in “ One Heavenly Night,” as she has played it. I spent £IOO,OOO on tiic picture. Frederick Lonsdale is the only man who has mastered the job of making the perfect script for the talking-film. He was always a great dramatist, but the stage limited his appeal. The talkers will give him fame with every class of people. Mr Goldwyn added that Hollywood producers will bankrupt themselves if they go on putting quantity before quality. “ The public Is laughing at them."
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Waikato Times, Volume 109, Issue 18247, 7 February 1931, Page 17 (Supplement)
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